Healthy Diet Foods: Delicious Crockpot Recipes and Intermittent Fasting

By Betty Morgan

Healthy Diet Foods: Delicious Crockpot Recipes and Intermittent Fasting Finding healthy diet foods can be surprisingly challenging in a world of processed products and unsustainable diets. If you want to experience healthy weight loss that you know you can maintain, it might be time for a change. This book offers a guide to healthy eating and healthy nutrition punctuated by intermittent fasting. It'll guide you through the process of losing weight the healthy way by offering plenty of great recipes and a great guide to taking care of your body. You'll enjoy all kinds of healthy recipes designed to keep you going throughout the day, even during periods when you're giving your digestive system a break. These healthy meals include tasty options such as herbed quinoa, tomato and mozzarella sandwiches, balsamic turkey meatloaf and huevos rancheros. If you're not ready to make your healthy diet recipes fresh, there are also plenty of slow cooked options for your crock pot.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Healthy Lifestyles
• Release date: May 15, 2017
• ISBN: 9781632878489

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Healthy Diet Foods

Delicious Crockpot Recipes and Intermittent Fasting

Betty Morgan and Amanda Hernandez

Copyright © 2013 Betty Morgan and Amanda Hernandez

All rights reserved.

Introduction

The process of losing weight is relatively simple: just eat fewer calories than you burn. Doing in a way that's sustainable, sensible and healthy can be a whole lot more difficult, however. Most lose weight quick diets don't recognize this fact. They cause you to take off the pounds by restricting you to an incredibly small amount of food. Some ban you from consuming entire nutrient groups. This will get rid of the weight, but only as long as you're on the diet. As soon as you start eating again, you'll probably find that the fat comes right back.

The way you lose on this kind of diet can be bad for your health, too. Since the diet doesn't focus on providing enough nutrition to keep your muscles in good condition, your body attacks them as a source of nutrients. That means you could end up losing lean mass as much as you take off fat. Your post-diet body could be soft and flabby rather than taut and lean. It's also a lot more likely to cause you to gain the weight back even faster. After all, muscle burns more calories than fat, and it's responsible for helping you keep a high metabolism. When you lose that muscle, you harm your health and increase your body fat percentage.

Dieting this way might look like it produces great results, but those results are sadly temporary. You need a sustainable, sensible diet that relies on healthy foods if you'd really like to lose weight for good. The process might be a little slower and a bit less dramatic, but you'll be able to stick with it a whole lot longer. You'll also retain healthy muscle and be able to keep your body working correctly as well as looking good.

This book exists to help you find those healthy diet foods and use them to reduce your weight correctly. It's divided into two distinct sections. The first one talks about intermittent fasting, the process of using short fasts to encourage a healthy weight and mimic a more natural eating pattern. The second part of this book covers healthy crock pot cooking. If you're choosing a short-term, six to eight hour fast period, having a healthy meal ready when you get home from work can be a real lifesaver. While many conventional crock pot recipes are high in unhealthy fats and full of processed ingredients, these foods are made using better, more natural foods.

You'll get a good understanding of what an intermittent fasting diet really means, as well as how it helps you lose weight sustainably. You'll also learn how intermittent fasting can help you with blood sugar issues and other health problems, especially if you use it in conjunction with other healthy behaviors such as regular exercise.

Because our modern diet allows us access to high calorie food any time we want it, it's incredibly easy to gain too much weight. After all, our ancestors weren't as sure of being able to get a good meal three times per day. When they did, that meal might not contain the best or most exciting food. You can't erase thousands of years of this type of eating pattern with only a few generations of abundant, calorie-rich food. Intermittent fasting proponents suggest that this is part of why industrialized nations are suffering from unprecedented levels of obesity.

By returning to a carefully regulated form of fasting, you can mimic the feast or famine situations experienced by our ancestors without feeling like you're starving or suffering from nutritional problems. Whether you choose to fast every other day, once or twice a week, or for a few hours every day, allowing your stomach to empty and your digestive system to rest can be a very healthy activity.

If you're used to eating frequently, you might experience some disruption, of course. That's especially common for people who don't get full nutrition at every meal. When you're consuming fewer meals than you once did, it's far more important for everyone to include a wide range of nutrients. That means accompanying meat and potatoes with plenty of fresh vegetables. It also means choosing lean ingredients and healthy fats. The recipes included in this book will give you a great start on putting together meals that can help your diet be a success.

You'll enjoy great options such as savory hash browns, tomato-spinach eggs, zucchini frittata and whole wheat pancakes with apples for breakfast. Then, after a rest period of six to eight hours, you'll be ready for delicious intermittent fasting dinner recipes. Check out shepherd's pie, Edamame with grilled salmon or grilled chicken tostadas. There are also plenty of light snacks available if your fast permits them. Try out this book's apple and turkey ham salad or a serving of sweet potato fries with maple. You won't feel deprived at all.

For some of us, cooking ahead is a must, however. When your busy schedule makes it hard to prepare foods fresh, it's time to turn to the second part of this cookbook. It's full of healthy crock pot recipes that will help you keep food on the table after your fast. Try out sourdough bread in the crockpot or enjoy a steaming pot of cinnamon-laced oatmeal. Keep a warm lunch on the table for the rest of the family with slow-cooked barbecue beef or an Asian noodle bowl. You can also put meals in the crock pot when you leave for work. You'll come home to a great meal of Pakistani beef curry or tangy honey chicken wings.

Losing weight the healthy way shouldn't have to be hard. If you're having trouble dealing with diets that just don't take that into account, it's time to try something different. Check out these intermittent fasting recipes and crock pot classics to keep yourself healthy while you reduce! You'll be amazed by what a difference it makes to choose a sustainable method of weight loss.

Section 1: Intermittent Fasting Diet

What is the intermittent fasting diet?

This is a diet in which you eat during specified time frames. There are two popular versions of this diet. One being a day to day eat and fast where you eat on day one, fast on day two, and repeat until the desired weight is lost. The other version is a daily fasting, where you eat for a six to eight hour and then fast the rest of the day.

Starting out on the intermittent fasting diet

Please be aware that results from the intermittent diet vary from person to person. Much of the variance depends upon the build of the body, how much fat, and weight need to be lost and how they eat during the diet. Other factors that influence weight loss are lifestyle (do you smoke? drink? eat excessive junk food?), insulin resistance, exercise or not, and work. All these