If you are a woman and over 35 years of age, you may have noticed some differences in how you look, how you feel, and how you gain weight. Some time during our later 30s or early 40s, our hormones change and our bodies change with them. That sexy svelte body starts to turn soft and round.
Does this sound like you? If so, "The Goddess Diet" just might be the book you need to learn how to regain your youth and sexy figure.
Women, Hormones, and Carbohydrates
In the first part of the book we are given some excellent and easy to understand explanations of why women gain weight as we age. Basically, our hormones change and we need to change our diets along with those hormones. If we don't make changes, we may start to get the "buddha belly" that not only makes us look less attractive, but is also bad for our health. The author also notes that women process carbohydrates differently than men. While men are more likely to use carbs for fuel, women are more likely to end up storing carbs as fat.
The Goddess Diet
"The Goddess Diet" includes proteins, low glycemic carbohydrates, healthy fats and avoids sugars and starches. The author gives us the ratios of carbs, proteins and fats that women should follow and helps us to determine how many "mini-meals" we should eat per day, rather than following the traditional way of eating three large meals per day.
No diet book would be complete without some recipes that follow the diet, and the recipes in this book are dynamite. Even if you are familiar with low-carb diets, you will enjoy the book for these great tasting and healthful recipes. My favorite is the halibut with artichokes, zucchini and tomatoes.
Extra Resources
Larrian Gillespie finishes "The Goddess Diet" by offering suggestions for exercise, stress relief, nutritional supplements, plus some tools and charts to help us on path to great health. Her list of nutritional supplement needs for women include nutrients that all women need to make sure they are protecting their health. She also offers resources for products like sea salt, exercise equipment and tasty spices.
About the Author
Larrian Gillespie graduated from UCLA and practiced urology and urogynecology for 15 years. She has been published in medical journals and has written several books. Her writing style is fun to read and easy to understand, and she backs up her work with pages and pages of references.
I highly recommend this book for women who are sneaking up on 40 and who want to be healthy, fit and youthful.
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