Fast Like a Girl: A Woman's Guide to Using the Healing Power of Fasting to Burn Fat, Boost Energy, and Balance Hormones

by Dr. Mindy Pelz

Overview

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Includes a 30-Day fasting reset that uses the power of your cycle—even if you no longer have one!

A go-to fasting manual created specifically to address women's needs based on their hormones and menstrual cycle by Dr. Mindy Pelz, a well-known expert on women and fasting, whose fast-growing YouTube channel has become the destination for women who want to learn about fasting.

Are you among the many women who feel unheard and unseen by their doctors and health professionals? Have you become exhausted by the promise of quick-fix diets that only leave you disappointed? Well in Fast Like a Girl, Dr. Mindy helps you to take back control of your health by using the quickest path back to better health—fasting.

While most fasting advice has been a one-size-fits-all approach that leaves women with more questions than answers, in this book Dr. Mindy shares the proven strategies, specific protocols to use if you are trying to overcome a condition, fasting hacks, and tools that she has used to help hundreds of thousands of women thrive with their fasting lifestyles.

Dr. Mindy will teach you:

• the rights steps on how to go from eating all day to intermittent fasting (13-15 hours)
• how to safely fast longer if you choose to do so (15-72 hours)
• how to time fasting according to your menstrual cycle (although if you don’t have a cycle, she has you covered)
• the best foods to break your fast to achieve better metabolic health

This book also includes more than 50 recipes based on the two food plans—ketobiotic and hormone feasting—she created to best support women’s hormones. And, it has recipes specifically created to break a fast such as her Coconut Cacao Chia Pudding.

Inspired by the thousands of women she has worked with who have reclaimed their health with fasting, Dr. Mindy wrote this book because, “once a woman knows how to build a fasting lifestyle around her cycle, she becomes unstoppable.”

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781401969929
Publisher:	Hay House Inc.
Publication date:	12/27/2022
Pages:	336
Sales rank:	1,671
Product dimensions:	6.20(w) x 9.20(h) x 1.40(d)

About the Author

Dr. Mindy H. Pelz, D.C is a bestselling author, keynote speaker, nutrition and functional health expert who has spent more than two decades helping thousands of people successfully reclaim their health. She is a recognized leader in the alternative health field and a pioneer in the fasting movement. Her popular YouTube channel regularly updates followers on the latest science-backed tools and techniques to help them reset their health.

She is the host of one The Resetter Podcast, and the author of three best-selling books, The Menopause Reset, The Reset Factor, and The Reset Kitchen.

Table of Contents

Foreword xiii

Introduction xvii

Part I The Science

Chapter 1 It's Not Your Fault 3

Chapter 2 The Healing Power of Fasting 15

Chapter 3 Metabolic Switching: The Missing Key to Weight Loss 41

Chapter 4 Fasting a Woman's Way 55

Part II The Art of Fasting Like a Girl

Chapter 5 Build a Fasting Lifestyle Unique to You 75

Chapter 6 Foods That Support Your Hormones 87

Chapter 7 The Fasting Cycle 115

Part III The 30-Day Fasting Reset

Chapter 8 The 30-Day Fasting Reset 133

Chapter 9 How to Break a Fast 149

Chapter 10 Hacks That Make Fasting Effortless 161

Chapter 11 Recipes 181

Afterword 267

Appendix A Glossary of Most-Used Fasting Terms 271

Appendix B Food Lists 273

Appendix C Fasting Protocols to Help Specific Conditions 281

Endnotes 289

Bibliography 293

Recipe Index 297

General Index 303

Acknowledgments 315

About the Author 319