Not a Diet Book: Take Control. Gain Confidence. Change Your Life.

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I read up a few hard-to-pronounce and ultimately, remember phyto nutrients and amino acids that I would try to incorporate in my diet (by remembering the herb or plant it came from). I actually did drink homemade bone broth for 21 days and, in addition to enjoying this meal enhancement, my stomach did feel better. Kellyann Petrucci has spent over 20 years showing people how to do the impossible: take off stubborn belly fat. Boiling it down to one principal - that of creating a calorie deficit, is the stand out message of this book. He obviously doesn't spend too much time on this matter because he is selling his way of influencing people.

Armed with every tool you will need to achieve incredible results, from dieting, training and staying in shape to identifying the fads, cons and nonsense that gets in the way of progress. Then everything he talks about, it's like he is talking about how good he is and then has a come back for all the critics that are going to nay say about the thing he just talked about. But what I didn’t realise was the ingredients in there, a few of them, were really triggering me to be even more depressed. There is new info in this book, and 10 days is easy accomplish if you don’t want to do the total detoxing 21 day plan in the previous book.

Given the window of time that you get to eat, I do not see how I or anyone with a typical fulltime job could swing this diet.The book was well written and I enjoyed looking through it seeing the different broth recipes and food ideas. While you're mini-fasting, you'll never feel hungry--luscious, satisfying bone broth will quench cravings and melt off pounds, collagen-packed shakes will kick your metabolism into overdrive, and "slim-gestion" foods, herbs, and spices will fight bloat, lower inflammation, and cleanse your gut. He speaks my language, which, for the record, isn't ENTIRELY f-bombs, because my vocabulary is comprehensive and multifarious (and I obviously have access to Thesaurus. I may come back and update with my results if/when I actually do the program, but I can say now that I have family members who had great results from the 21 day version of this plan, so I suspect the formula is effective in general. Not enough women know how our hormones and menstrual cycle influence fat loss and muscle strength, which can lead to a lot of disappointment and frustration.

A fantastic book for inspiration and motivation when it comes to fitness, food, females and fat loss.James attacks a heaps of myths and fads and in doing so potentially saves you a lot of discomfort, shame and money. The Spicy Mexican Soup, which I would normally want to add chicken, cheese, and sour cream too, Chipotle Chicken Wraps, again which I'd prefer to add cheese to, and the Chicken Teriyaki with Veggies, that I'd want to add rice too.

With working full time, being a mother, and fitness instructor; this is no way I would have the energy or will power to follow this plan for even 1 day! to learn what your daily energy expenditure and calorie needs look like, and then work with those numbers to create a sensible, reasonable deficit that will result in losing fat. The diet is a combination of intermittent fasting and the Keto diet aka cut out carbs and dairy plus add bone broth. I particularly loved the chapters about Type I and Type II diabetes (even if you don't have it, someone in your life might have it or develop it if not addressed) and about female physiology and PCOS.This book is a quick read, includes some good recipes and the idea of how bone broth can help heal a leaky gut. Most of the recipes look tasty and (from my perspective as a very experienced home cook) easy to make.