Kim Kardashians Body Guru Has a Liquid Diet for Middle America

Trainer and nutritionist Harley Pasternak, of 5-Factor Diet fame, can regularly be spotted in the background of tabloid shots of Katy Perry, Hilary Duff, and Amanda Seyfried mid-workout, still adorable in leggings, sweaty baseball caps, and no makeup. (Stars: They’re not at all like us.) But Pasternak’s latest fitness program, the Body Reset Diet, was designed with a less photogenic cohort in mind: middle America. Pasternak got acquainted with the demographic last year, when he was a host on ABC’s The Revolution. “It took me away from living in L.A. and exposed me to the other 99.999 percent of women and men across the country with a more traditional lifestyle, concerns and goals,” he says. “I realized that the slow-and-steady message I’d been espousing is not a real world solution for everybody. People don’t want to wait 30 weeks, dropping a half a pound a week, to look and feel better.” He knew they didn’t want to wait because he saw them all turning to juice fasts, master cleanses, and diet pills. “I thought I’d give them a healthier solution to rapid weight loss and immediate health improvement.” So while it’s not as drastic — or as expensive — as a juice fast, the fifteen-day, smoothie-based diet does involve more liquid meals than middle America has seen this side of jaw surgery. The Cut caught up with Pasternak about the new diet, the shoes to go with it, and the couple client known as Kimye.

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