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MenuPause: Five Unique Eating Plans to Break Through Your Weight Loss Plateau and Improve Mood, Sleep, and Hot Flashes by Anna Cabeca DO OBGYN
More than 125 detoxifying and hormone-healing recipes to reduce the symptoms of perimenopause and menopause, from the bestselling author of The Hormone Fix and Keto-Green 16 “Dr. Cabeca shows us how to take charge of our health in midlife, using the power of food to start feeling better—and find optimal weight, improved mood and more energy along the way!”—Izabella Wentz, PharmD, New York Times bestselling author of Hashimoto’s Protocol A major hormonal shift in every woman’s life, menopause heralds a time of new freedoms, potential, and empowerment. But this necessary shift often also brings with it uncomfortable symptoms like brain fog, reduced libido, joint pain, constipation, and hot flashes. And even while eating and exercising as usual, most menopausal women also experience frustrating weight gain—in and of itself a symptom that can make the other symptoms worse. We seldom make the connection between what we eat and how it affects our hormones. But food is a direct hormone regulator, so when hormones shift, we must shift as well. Choosing ingredients wisely is the best way to reduce all your symptoms, including that frustrating weight gain. Drawing inspiration from the cuisines of countries where women experience fewer menopausal symptoms, Dr. Anna Cabeca offers five unique, six-day eating plans that put a “pause” on the use of symptom-exacerbating ingredients. Depending on your health goals and the symptoms you’re experiencing, choose from these five plans: • The Keto-Green Extreme Plan pauses inflammatory foods but includes stomach-soothing alkaline ingredients for an overall reduction in menopause symptoms. • Keto-Green Plant-Based Detox pauses animal proteins to stoke your fat-burning metabolism, ease hot flashes, and reduce brain fog. • The Carbohydrate Pause puts a temporary pause on all carbohydrates and sugar to help you break through a weight loss plateau, sleep better, and combat bloating. • The Keto-Green Cleanse briefly pauses solids to gently restore and energize you at the cellular level, leading to greater energy, less joint pain, and less constipation. • The Carbohydrate Modification Plan is the perfect feasting plan, allowing for the reintroduction of healthy but gluten-free carbohydrates to reduce restriction fatigue and maintain metabolic flexibility. With more than 125 delicious recipes—many of which fit more than just one eating plan— MenuPause is your guide to a more comfortable menopausal transition, and ensures you won’t go hungry in the process! Read more
If you are looking for a book to help you lose some weight quickly, are stuck on a weight loss plateau, or just want to explore how changing your diet for just under a week can make you feel, you have come to the right place! In MenuPause, Dr. Anna Cabeca, a triple board-certified OB/Gyn and functional medicine doctor provides a beautiful book with 5 unique eating plans plus information that helps you to understand which of the plans is right for you. There is a plan that eliminates all the major allergens, one all-liquid plan with smoothies and bone broths, and a plan containing healthy carbs. Dr. Anna also includes a plant-based plan and its opposite: a carnivore plan. You can choose one or two of the plans or cycle through all of them. Every plan has a potential benefit: even if you don't want to go vegan, for example, Dr. Anna explains that just about everyone can benefit from taking a short pause from animal products by following the plant-based plan. And this is also a great opportunity to try out the controversial carnivore diet; Dr. Anna explains that a short-term version of this diet can have great benefits! The book contains lots of recipes, many with big, beautiful color photos. The recipes are tasty, with an international flair. I have tried almost 50 of the recipes and they were ALL very good! The ingredients are mostly simple; although there may be a few vegetables and spices that you haven't used before, this book will not require you to go out and purchase a whole bunch of "strange and unusual" items. This is a whole-foods, quality food approach that will be familiar to those in the Paleo, whole 30, and whole foods communities. Even if you aren't interested in the individual eating plans, the book will give you hundreds of recipes that you can mix and match for an entire month of healthy food! The real question here: do the eating plans work? I have cycled through all of them (I had an advance copy, but this is an honest review and I have not been paid for it) and saw benefits from each eating plan: I lost 3 pounds in 6 days on three out of five of the diets. On all the diets, I saw a small reduction in belly fat and overall body composition. It's amazing to think that 6 days made it easier to zip up my jeans! I had more energy on all of them and I felt better overall. Dr. Anna does say that you can do some of the diets twice and that you can cycle them back-to-back. If I do that, I would expect that the benefits will increase. And since I have Dr. Anna's other two books: The Hormone Fix and Keto-Green 16 (which I highly recommend for weight loss and hormone balancing), I can move onto one of those eating plans after the following the MenuPause plans. In short, I think anyone following these diet plans will see very positive changes in just 6 days!
Publisher -> Rodale Books (April 12, 2022) Language -> English Hardcover -> 304 pages ISBN-10 -> 0593234499 ISBN-13 -> 978-0593234495 Item Weight -> 2.41 pounds Dimensions -> 7.73 x 1.09 x 9.43 inches Best Sellers Rank: #8,421 in Books (See Top 100 in Books) #4 in Menopause (Books) #11 in Gluten-free Diet #20 in Ketogenic Cookbooks (Books)
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