Lose Weight: Doctor’s Orders!

If you plan on looking slim in your bathing suit this summer, consider making this your new mantra: “Eat. Cheat. Defeat.” That line is straight out of the pages of Dr. Melissa Hershberg’s book The Rebel Diet. With nearly four years of experience coaching clients in preventive medicine and nutrition, the 32-year-old Toronto doctor has developed a weight-loss plan that ditches traditional diet rules—rules that often include banning alcohol, sugar and fat.

Here are three pieces of her weight-loss wisdom: