Eat Like a Girl: 100+ Delicious Recipes to Balance Hormones, Boost Energy, and Burn Fat

I have been IF for a while.As a menopausal Crone, recently diagnosed with type 2 ( it’s 20 years of eating my feelings) I have found this book invaluable.I have adopted this now as my new lifestyle.The book explains what the body does, how it reacts, what you can expect and the different types of fasting which you can utilise depending on your age/cycle etc..The recipes are not ‘woo woo’ which can sometimes happen.You know what I mean…Thankfully 1 tablespoon of marinated heavenly varksquark from the planet Rinron on a Tuesday with a waning moon, is not an ingredient request.If you are serious about tackling your health niggles and your body jiggles and you don’t want to be a western statistic, then this book is for you.Peer reviewed and well written.

Amazing book and information

I love this book and have tried a few of the recipes straight away and they're delicious. I first came across Dr Mindy Pelz on the Feel Better Live More podcast where she was talking about her book Fast Like a Girl. I followed the advice in that book on intermittent fasting and eating for your hormones which has helped me stabilise my menopausal hormones and brought me well out of pre-diabetes. This book is a great addition going more into the food side of things so you know how to eat to support your hormones and blood sugar levels. It has recipes for plant based and meat so suits both diets. I'm plant based and love the recipes I've had so far.

I’ve been fasting for a while now this book has good tips and the author is great very impressed with this

Really excited that my book arrived today! This book should be called "At last, an answer to my prayers" Page 'xiv' in the Introduction, it says that "too many of us accept the "there's nothing you can do" . I was literally told this by my GP during a visit when I was feeling very low, my GP said " look, there's nothing we can do about your age, there's nothing we can do to change the fact that your a 57 year old woman, but we can do something to boost your mood with antidepressants". I was lost for words & walked out ( without taking the prescription). I've been fasting for 4 months after reading Fast like a Girl, ive lost 13lb & I feel great! This is exactly what us woman need! Professional guidance to help us take control of our own health & destiny.

A book everyone should read and have in their home

Really great recipes and very informative book. Recommend

My friend recommended this to me and I thought I'd take a look. Well, I don't think there's a cost of living crisis in Dr Mindy's World (she lives in California), the focus is on organic food, grass fed meat (wouldn't even know where to look), and organic nut milk. What I find astounding is the use of maple syrup and agave syrup as sweeteners - both are extremely unhealthy and agave has been linked to cancer. It also makes the body hang onto belly fat. You would think a nutrition expert would know this stuff? As for the 17 hour fasts - yeah, about that. I'm an amateur athlete training between 2 and 5 hours a day. Not going to happen on a smoothie and some egg white. There are some valuable insights in the book and some good recipes although I question her portion sizes - I don't think I could stretch one tin of tuna and 4 tomatoes round 4 people as a meal. I don't care how many chia seeds I flung on it. But some of it is questionable when it is met by real life. This isn't a book for people short of time or money, but I will take some of it on board - eating more protein, less sugar, more natural carbs.