Thrive! Plant-Based Diets and Whole Foods – A 3-Step Guide to Eating Healthy That Won’t Overwhelm You

By Bill Carson

Have you tried and failed to maintain a healthy diet before? You're not alone. In fact, millions of people all over the world suffer from obesity and other diseases because of poor eating habits. The problem with most people is that they don't support their desire to eat healthy with the right mindset and correct information to maintain a new diet.

This book will help you achieve your health and fitness goals in a sustainable way. It contains a three-step formula to eating healthy. First, you'll learn everything you need to know about a plant-based and whole foods diet and why it is good for you. Second, you'll learn how to change your mindset so you can develop a better self-image and focus on the bigger picture. Third, you'll learn how to gather the right ingredients, food items, and kitchen equipment for the new diet. You will also see some sample menus, and learn how to overcome obstacles once you start this journey to a healthier version of you.

This three-step formula is designed to ensure your overall success. If you want to achieve your fitness goals, Thrive! is the book for you.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Bill Carson
• Release date: Mar 23, 2020
• ISBN: 9781393042013

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Thrive! Plant-Based Diets and Whole Foods

A 3-Step Guide to Eating Healthy That Won’t Overwhelm You

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Table of Contents

Introduction: How to Replace Failure with Success

Step 1: What You Need to Know

1.1 What Is a Plant-Based Diet?

1.2 Which Foods to Eat and Which Ones to Avoid

1.3 Scientific Backgrounds

1.4 Benefits

Step 2: How to Successfully Transition to a Plant-Based Diet

2.1 You’re Only Human

2.2 Tailoring Is Key

2.3 The Bigger Picture

Step 3: Eating on a Plant-Based Diet in Everyday Life

3.1 Alternatives to Dairy, Eggs, Meat, etc.

3.2 Grocery Shopping

3.3 Kitchen Equipment

3.4 Food Preparation

3.5 Sample Menus

3.6 Recipes

3.7 How to Deal with Possible Obstacles

Summary and Conclusion

Introduction: How to Replace Failure with Success

Today, about 300 million children and 600 million adults in the world suffer from obesity. This is almost triple the number of obese individuals we saw 50 years ago. It is caused by a dire combination of two factors: the overconsumption of high-fat, energy-dense foods and physical inactivity. In our times, obesity is a pandemic, and it’s not a solitary disease. It also leads to cardiovascular diseases, diabetes, musculoskeletal disorders, some forms of cancer, and a multitude of other health complications that shorten one’s lifespan. And it concerns all of us: Without a proper diet and the right amount of exercise, we all risk developing these problems in the future.

Whether you’re trying to significantly lose weight or to simply become a fitter or healthier version of yourself right now, you’re reading this book because you want to stick to a diet that will help you achieve your health goals and prevent diseases and disorders. However, I’m sure most of you who are reading this book have one common problem: As we all did, you too have tried and failed to stick to a diet in the past. Even though you want to live a healthier lifestyle, you still find yourself going back to your old eating habits that don’t do any good for your body. You keep telling yourself, I can’t help it. I love eating. Food is my Achilles' heel.

Well, guess what? Not all food is bad. The problem is not eating itself but eating food that doesn’t nourish your body, makes your cravings worse, and prevents you from achieving your overall health goals.

I’m a firm believer that there’s always a way to achieve any goal if you really want to succeed. However, if you keep making excuses for yourself, then you’ll never be able to get where you want to go. You’ll always feel frustrated every time you break your diet, which will then make it harder to get back on it immediately. As a result, you’ll set aside your goals and forget about them for a while. You’ll keep eating as you please and satisfy every craving. One day, you’ll look in the mirror and hate the person staring back at you. Then, the unhealthy and unsustainable cycle continues.

But there is a way to tackle this problem and to replace failure and frustration with success and happiness. Failure and frustration result from targeting your goals in the wrong way. You might be trying to change too much at once, for example by forcing yourself into the diet before you’re mentally prepared, by eating the wrong kind of food for your individual body, or by doing both at the same time. And these are just two possible reasons. There are many other factors that may have contributed to your lack of success so far. So before we proceed, please take a minute and try to identify what your biggest hurdles regarding dieting has been so far? Why did you abort your diet plans before? Is there one reason or are there many? List all the reasons you can think of.

If you know why you’ve given up on eating healthy prior to reading this book, you