Lee Holmes - Fast Your Way to Wellness: Supercharged Food

Lee Holmes is a holistic nutritionist, yoga and meditation teacher, wholefoods chef and author of the bestselling Supercharged Food series, which includes Eat Your Way to Good Health; Eat Yourself Beautiful, Eat Clean, Green and Vegetarian; Supercharged Food for Kids; Eat Right for Your Shape; and Heal Your Gut. She runs four-week and two-day Heal Your Gut programs on her website, www.superchargedfood.com. Lee is the healthy eating expert for the Lifestyle Food Channel as well as a columnist for WellBeing and Naturally magazines. Her articles have also appeared in leading Australian newspapers and journals, as well as The Times, The Telegraph and the Daily Express in the UK, and in the US on The Huffington Post, Mind Body Green and Food Matters. In 2013 her blog won the overall prize in the Bupa Health Influencer Awards, as well as the Healthy Eating category. When not in the kitchen cooking or creating recipes, she spends time with her family and friends and teaches yoga and meditation.

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Lose weight, supercharge your energy and feel great

The health benefits of intermittent fasting are powerful and well documented. Dramatically reducing calories on two days per week not only kick-starts weight loss, but also rejuvenates the bodys systems, repairs cells and restores vitality.

With fasting options to suit different lifestyles, tips for staying on track, varied meal plans and delicious low-calorie recipes that are easy, satisfying and nutritious, Fast Your Way to Wellness offers all the tools you need to succeed and thrive on your voyage towards wellness and weight loss.

INTRODUCTION

Welcome to a sensible, simple and sustainable approach to intermittent fasting, featuring balanced meals made using nutritious unrefined wholefoods to boost your energy. Wholefoods typically contain fewer calories and more nutrients than other foods, which means you can pile more onto your plate and still maintain both your fast and a healthy diet.

Intermittent fasting is a scientifically proven approach to achieving health, longevity and sustainable weight loss. It involves reducing your calorie intake from time to time (for example on two days each week) to around 500 calories (2090 kilojoules) for women and 600 calories (2510 kilojoules) for men. If youve been looking into intermittent fasting for a while, Im sure you will have spied the many available fasting recipes for puddings, bakes and cakes that comfortingly have the right number of calories but sadly are low in nutrients and sky-high in processed and refined ingredients. These arent the best types of foods to feed your body if youre seeking lifelong health. Im here to show you that fasting can be healthy with the right food and ingredient choices, and with recipes that not only taste fantastic but put you on the path to good health and increased longevity. Im also here to delight you with the added bonus of hitting the magic number on your bathroom scales.

Including wholefoods means you dont have to drink copious amounts of water and peck on birdseed, or live on low-calorie junk food on your fasting days. Instead, youll be able to eat well naturally and with a sense of abundance. Youll also meet your nutritional needs on your fasting days and derive the maximum amount of nutrition from every meal.

This book contains 85 fasting recipes to take you all the way from breakfast to dinner. Theyre all suitable for the intermittent fasting plan, which means you dont have to be a fully qualified calorie accountant to enjoy them. Fear not: you wont have to approach every meal as a maths assignment. All the hard work and measurements have been delegated to a select team of expert number-crunchers, allowing you to focus on your gastronomic choices and the deliciousness of the recipes. Crunch food, not numbers!

Youll discover several different fasting methods, so you can choose one that fits best with your lifestyle. Youll find information about the science of fasting, what it is, how it works and the enormous health benefits associated with it. Youll uncover tips on how to start your first fast, incorporate exercise into your routine, and monitor results and adjust as you go. Theres a list of calorie counts that doubles as a shopping list, which will help you if you want to add certain ingredients to recipes or mix and match.

Flip over to the recipes now and have a look at all the yummy and easy-to-make creations youll be enjoying with this book. Then head back here and be inspired to get started on your new voyage to wellness and weight loss.