Kris Carr - Crazy Sexy Diet: Eat Your Veggies, Ignite Your Spark, and Live Like You Mean It!

Infused with Kris Carrs signature sass, wit, and advice-from-the-trenches style, Crazy Sexy Diet is a beautifully illustrated resource that puts you on the fast track to vibrant health and happiness. This new journey into a realm vital to anyones health comes on the heels of Carrs best-selling cancer survival guidebooks and acclaimed TLC documentary.

Along with help from her posse of experts, Carr lays out the fundamentals of her Crazy Sexy Diet: a low-fat, low-glycemic, vegetarian program that emphasizes balancing the pH of the body with lush whole foods, nourishing organic green drinks, and scrumptious smoothies. Plus, she shares the steps of her own 21-Day Cleanse, and simple but delectable sample recipes.

In ten chapters with titles such as, pHabulous, Cupcakes, Coffee & Cocktails, Tushie & Milk Mustaches, Make Juice, Not War, and God Pod Glow, Carr empowers you to move from a state of constant bodily damage control to one of repair and renewal. In addition to debunking common diet myths and sharing methods for detoxifying our bodies and psychesdrawing both on her personal experience as a cancer survivor and the advice of expertsshe provides helpful tips on self-care, stretching a dollar, navigating the grocery store, eating well on the run, and working through the inevitable pangs and cravings for your old, not-so-healthy life.

Crazy Sexy Diet is a must for all who seek to be a confidentand sexywellness warrior.

Kris Carr makes practical and hopeful suggestions as we face greater and greater numbers of our friends and family falling prey to chronic degenerative disease. I am personally inspired by her example in leading the way for people to take control of their bodies and their health.

T. Colin Campbell, PhD,

author of The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health

Kris Carrauthor, motivational speaker, and wellness coachhas written two previous skirt! books: the best-selling Crazy Sexy Cancer Tips and Crazy Sexy Cancer Survivor. She leads workshops at the Omega Institute, Kripalu, and the New York Open Center. She lectures across America at medical schools, hospitals, wellness centers, corporations, and universities such as Harvard. Carr is the founder of the awardwinning online magazine crazysexylife.com. Her television appearances have included CBS Evening News with Katie Couric, The Early Show, The Today Show, Montel, Access Hollywood, The Mike & Juliet Show, Good Morning America, and The Oprah Winfrey Show. She lives in Woodstock, New York, by her motto: Make juice, not war. Visit her at crazysexylife.com.

Cover design by Libby Kingsbury and Karla Baker

Photograph of Kris Carr by Rick Lew; photograph of Brian Clement Hippocrates Health Institute; photograph of Emily Deschanel by Jeff Vespa

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Crazy SexyDiet

Eat your veggies, ignite your spark, and live like you mean it!

kris carr

Guilford, Connecticut

An imprint of Globe Pequot Press

skirt! is an attitude spirited, independent, outspoken, serious, playful and irreverent, sometimes controversial, always passionate.

Copyright 2011 by Kris Carr

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Crazy Sexy is a registered trademark of Red House Pictures, LLC, a Kris Carr company.

The recipes for Aztec Salad, Chipotle BBQ Sauce, Roasted Tomato Vinaigrette, and Ginger-Lemongrass Miso Soup were first published in The Candle Caf Cookbook by Joy Pierson and Bart Potenza with Barbara Scott-Goodman, copyright 2003 by Joy Pierson and Bart Potenza. Used by permission of Clarkson/Potter Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc.

The information contained in this book is intended to help readers make informed decisions about their health. It should not be used as a substitute for treatment by or the advice of a professional healthcare provider. Although the author and publisher have endeavored to ensure that the information provided herein is complete and accurate, they shall not be held responsible for loss or damage of any nature suffered as a result of reliance on any of this books contents or any errors or omissions herein.

Text design and layout: Karla Baker Project editor: Kristen Mellitt Nutrition consultant: Jennifer K. Reilly, RD Culinary expert and chef contributor: Chad Sarno

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For my talented husband, Brian, you are my North

Star, my muse, and my mentor. Without your support

(and brilliant edits) this book would still be in my head.

Thank you for your endless guidance and for helping

me become the woman I always wanted to be. I will

love you unconditionally for many lifetimes.

Dr. Dean Ornish

Its not just because of what shes done, which is extraordinary. Its who she is.

Faced with an overwhelming cancer diagnosis, Kris grabbed the reins and became a voracious student of all things health and wellness. She transformed her life and became a shining example of an empowered participant in her body, mind, and spiritual health. She was able to integrate the best of modern medicine and ancient healing traditions to transform a diagnosis of death into vibrant living.

Many patients have told me, Being diagnosed with cancer was the best thing that ever happened to me. A skeptic might reply, What are you, crazy? To which they might hear, Thats what it took to get my attention to begin changing my life in ways that have made it so much more joyful and meaningful.

Not that we look for illness or suffering, but sometimes, for reasons that may be a mystery, there it is. What we do with it makes all the difference in the world. Even when we cant be cured, we can be healed, becoming more whole. When we become active participants in our healing, it may bring meaning to our suffering, which makes it more bearable. Often, our physical illnesses improve as well.