Cherie Calbom - Sipping Skinny: Drink Away the Pounds

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SIPPING SKINNY by Cherie Calbom, MS

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Copyright 2018 by Cherie Calbom, MS

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CONTENTS

RECIPES

I WANT TO EXPRESS my deep and lasting appreciation for Renae Roxanna, Taisa Efseaff Maffey, and LouAnn Hoxeng, who helped me with writing and research for this book.

A sincere thank you goes to my editor, Debbie Marrie.

Much thanks to my agent, Pamela Harty, for her help, guidance, and listening ear. How blessed I have been.

Finally, my deep gratitude and continued appreciation to my husband and official sipping tester, Fr. John, and to my heavenly Father, who has always guided my life and healed my body and soul.

HAVE YOU TRIED just about every diet known to man (or woman)? If youve worked with all sorts of plans and nothing has been successful, hold your chin up. You need look no further. I want you to succeed not just in losing weight but in gaining health. Sipping Skinny isnt just about melting away fat; its about getting to the root of why you gained weight or why you have trouble losing weight.

If you have hit roadblocks, chapter 6, When Weight Loss Plateaus Happen to Good People, is for you. I want you to have tools that can take you through life without bouncing from one diet to another. I want you to have a lifestyle you can count on to keep you trim and healthy. Thats why I have included a chapter on exercise, a Sipping Skinny Exercise Plan, and a chapter on the importance of water. I also have a chapter on metabolism boosters so you can choose foods that really do help you sip away the pounds.

Heres a quick tip: include watercress in something you sip during each day. It truly does take away the appetite. Ive discovered this firsthand, and so has my husband. In fact, he just said today that when he blends the watercress soup, he doesnt feel hungry at all after eating just one bowl. And I have plenty of recipes that include watercress, along with a variety of other options to keep your taste buds free from boredom.

Are you ready to change your internal landscape? I know you can. In July 2017 I had fifty-five volunteers in my Watercress Soup Diet who did just that. For three weeks they sipped a watercress berry smoothie for breakfast and watercress soup for lunch and ate a low-carb dinner. They lost weight and gained a boatload of good health. Some of the ladies improved their thyroid health. Others got rid of pain; two ladies lost their plantar fasciitis. Another two ladies experienced an impressive drop in blood sugarone from 359 to 116, and one from 200 to 141. People gained muscle mass and lost their unhappy mood. Energy increase was the number-one benefit. I have compiled the statistics from that study, and Im excited to share them with you.

I saw 51 percent lose between four and six pounds in the first week on the diet. By week three nearly half of the participants had lost between six and nine pounds. The study was specifically aimed at women for whom no other weight loss programs have worked. (The Watercress Soup Diet is featured in my book, Souping Is the New Juicing, along with other souping recipes and insights that enable weight loss, internal cleansing, healing, and renewed energy.) It was also the cover story of the September 18, 2017, issue of Womans World magazine.

Sylvia and Michell were both featured in the Womans World article. Sylvia lost nineteen pounds in three weeks and dropped a size. She was ready to go on medication to lose weight because nothing had worked until she volunteered for the Watercress Soup Diet. Michell lost twelve pounds in the same time period and twenty-one inches. She dropped two sizesfrom a 1618 to a 1214. Her plantar fasciitis also cleared up. This diet worked when no other diets had worked before. She said she had so much energy she felt like she could jump to the moon.

The good thing about watercress is that it provides nutrients without a significant addition of calories. Considered the top superfood, this aquatic plant is one of the most nutrient-dense vegetables known to man. I believe this is one of the reasons many of the women who participated in my Watercress Soup Diet said they were not hungry after eating a bowl of this soup. In fact, many of them said cravings just disappeared. (See chapter 8 for watercress recipes.)

Here are the outstanding results of my Watercress Soup Weight Loss Study:

Positive changes in skin81 percent

29 percent, very noticeable changes

52 percent, noticeable changes

19 percent, no change (NC)

Positive changes in hair57.9 percent

8.8 percent, very noticeable changes

49.1 percent, noticeable changes

42.1 percent, NC

Positive changes in nails49.2 percent