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From the New York Times bestselling author, a 30-day plan to a leaner body
In the follow-up book to her bestselling Gorgeously Green, Sophie Uliano reveals the secrets to getting slim while being good to the planet . It turns out that eating local, organic, foods doesnt have to be expensive, and a healthy meal can be made in 30 minutes or less, all while shedding pounds.
In her relatable, girlfriend-to-girlfriend tone, Uliano pledges that anyone can go green and lean, no matter where they live or what resources they have. Uliano recognizes that dieting and going green are big lifestyle changes and makes it easy for readers to commit to both by allowing them to personalize their plans according to their needs. The book has three diet plans-light green, bright green and deep green- that depend on how much time, travel, and money readers want to commit to going green. The three plans promise the same amount of weight loss, but the darker green the plan is, the greater the commitment the reader makes to reducing waste, going organic and staying carbon neutral.
Each diet plan emphasizes natural, seasonal, whole foods that are not only better for the planet, but better for the body. Uliano explains how over-processed, over-produced foods contain fewer nutrients, are harder to digest and are more likely to be stored as fat. With 4-week eating plans for each shade of green, she shows readers how to wean themselves off of processed, manufactured foods and onto fresh vegetables and meat. The book recommends products, brands and websites and has over 100 recipes-every tool readers need to get lean while going green.
In the follow-up book to her bestselling Gorgeously Green, Sophie Uliano reveals the secrets to getting slim while being good to the planet . It turns out that eating local, organic, foods doesnt have to be expensive, and a healthy meal can be made in 30 minutes or less, all while shedding pounds.
In her relatable, girlfriend-to-girlfriend tone, Uliano pledges that anyone can go green and lean, no matter where they live or what resources they have. Uliano recognizes that dieting and going green are big lifestyle changes and makes it easy for readers to commit to both by allowing them to personalize their plans according to their needs. The book has three diet plans-light green, bright green and deep green- that depend on how much time, travel, and money readers want to commit to going green. The three plans promise the same amount of weight loss, but the darker green the plan is, the greater the commitment the reader makes to reducing waste, going organic and staying carbon neutral.
Each diet plan emphasizes natural, seasonal, whole foods that are not only better for the planet, but better for the body. Uliano explains how over-processed, over-produced foods contain fewer nutrients, are harder to digest and are more likely to be stored as fat. With 4-week eating plans for each shade of green, she shows readers how to wean themselves off of processed, manufactured foods and onto fresh vegetables and meat. The book recommends products, brands and websites and has over 100 recipes-every tool readers need to get lean while going green.
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ALSO BY SOPHIE ULIANO
Gorgeously Green: 8 Simple Steps to an Earth-Friendly Life
To my mother, Rachael, and my little treasure, Lola
SECTION ONE
The Gorgeously Green Diet
CHAPTER ONE
Making a Difference
How many times do you wind up at the end of a day feeling burned out? Wishing someone else, for once, could plan, shop, and cook? How often have you drawn a blank when trying to figure out what on earth to have for lunch, never mind what youre going to cook for dinner? If youre time challenged and living on a tight budget, like many women, youve probably become bored and totally disillusioned with food, diets, and cooking. You know you should be preparing healthier meals, but what exactly does that mean? And how can you fit it into your already frazzled day? Many of us would love to be the perfect nontoxic mom/girlfriend with a washboard tummy and a gourmet organic dinner waiting, but reality hits. Were aching to do the right thing for ourselves and our planet, but how exactly do we go about this?
Although I try my best to lead a Gorgeously Green life, its easy to become stressed, tired, and frustrated. There are days when I wind up galloping through my day, grabbing sugar-laden snacks, barely chewing my food, desperate to get the next thing ticked off my to-do list. I realize that on these rushed days, Im only half living my life because Im missing the very tastes and textures, the details that should be bringing me joy. Its become my passion and mission to change this, because ultimately I always want my eating choices to be the best they can be. I also want to be bursting with sparkling energy. I want to celebrate my love of great food with every mouthful I take.
Food is the source of life, and yet, for the most part, we have totally lost that connection. Zipping through the grocery store, throwing garish convenience packets into our cart, has become a deadening experience. Not to mention our confusion about what we should and shouldnt be eating and, most notably, what, oh horror of horrors, will make us chubby. The irony is that, in our attempt to do the right thing, we are unwittingly eating the very foods that are making us fat, tired, and sick.
Unless the food you buy is minimally processed and packaged, unless its locally produced and organicin short, unless its Gorgeously Greenits likely to be lacking in vitamins and loaded with toxins that could inhibit metabolism and lead to obesity. Convenience food might taste good for a few seconds, but the price we have to pay in terms of feeling worn-out, sluggish, and empty is just not worth it.
Low-quality food is overstressing the planet and making it dangerously sick, too: Millions of pounds of pesticides and herbicides leach into our soil and dwindling clean water supplies, and our landfills are maxed out with obscene amounts of unnecessary food packaging. What we do to the planet, we do to ourselves, and vice versa. Its high time that we put our health first so that we can heal our worn-out bodies and our depleted planet.
Now is the moment for change, and I have a great deal of hope that we can, one day at a time, take small steps to bring our health, energy, and even our skinny jeans back, while helping to make this planet habitable for our childrens children. How we eat affects every day of our life and is the legacy we leave behind.
The other day, I was compelled to slow down as I found myself in the ramshackle kitchen of Bill Spencer on his organic farm in San Luis Obispo, California. I had dropped in on him, unannounced, as I had heard that he grew the most delicious heirloom tomatoes on earth. Bill was out on his tractor but assured me that he could chat when he was done with the field if I didnt mind watching him cook, for it was baking day. I stood waiting in his sunny living room, looking out onto grape-vines, olive trees, and apple orchards beyond. Time suddenly stood still, and all I could hear were the baby lambs bleating in his front yard and the woodpeckers stashing acorns in the massive oak tree outside.
Later, as Bill and I chatted, the aroma of his sourdough loaf, baking in the tiny oven, wafted over us, cozy and healing. We later ate it, still warm and slathered in soft, yellow butter. He handed me a slice of his award-winning Golden Girl tomato. I savored each mouthfulit would have been rude not to, for each bite brought different subtle tastes of sweet summer bliss. I know that I cant have a Farmer Bill experience very often in my crazy, challenged-mommy lifestyle, but I do acknowledge that I have to slow down more often.
Part of the problem is that eating low-quality food makes us want to rush. I sat down to eat a salad at the airport recently, and as much as I tried, I couldnt even nibble at the thick, cold slab of pale tomato perched atop a chunk of uninviting iceberg lettuce. No wonder people wolf this sort of thing down, I thought, as I guiltily shoved the plastic container into the trash. I am fortunate enough to love salads, but I need taste and texturedark green leaves bursting with nutrition, and sweet, fruity tomatoes drizzled in olive oil and sprinkled with herbs.
Strawberries say it all: When I was young, they were a precious treat that was available only in season and so around for just a couple of months a year. I remember sitting on our doorstep with a bowl of freshly picked berries still warm from the sun. Covered in thick, clotted cream and crunchy brown sugar, each bite was a delectable taste of creamy caramel, followed by thick, juicy sweetness. In comparison, if I bite into a nonorganic, grocery store strawberry in December, its watery texture and bitter tang completely fail to satisfy and leave me craving something sweet. To add insult to injury, those seemingly innocent strawberries are the most heavily sprayed fruit crop on the planet, so I probably got a good dose of pesticide residue. So did the waterways surrounding the fields, and so did everyone drinking water.
CHAPTER TWO
Your Eco-Impact
One of the most powerful ways you can make a difference is by changing your diet. This is because the way you eat involves so many different choices that directly affect the health of our planet. What is your eco-impact? Do your daily actions regarding food have a positive or a negative impact on the environment? These are questions I ask myself every day because the most powerful legacy I can leave behind is to have lived with the lightest footprint possible. Its unachievable to be the perfect Green Girl; however, I can take simple, powerful steps toward this end: You vote with your dollars, and each day you make hundreds of choices. What to buy? Where to buy it? How to cook it? The list goes on and onso why not make every single one of these choices have a positive rather than a negative impact on the environment?
The Gorgeously Green Diet takes the middle road. Its all about balance. Im not advocating that from now on you should shop only at expensive health food stores and buy everything organic. On the contrary, this diet is about taking small, everyday steps that make sense for your busy and budget-challenged lives. For many, the closest well ever get to an organic farm is a picture in a magazine. We can, however, bring elements of that farm to our own backyards and window boxes by planting heirloom tomatoes and baby salad leaves, even a little olive tree. Moreover, we can allow those glossy pictures to remind us that farming methods still exist that value quality over quantity and health over profit.
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