The Fast Diet Recipe Book

Name: The Fast Diet Recipe Book
Brand: Hachette Aotearoa New Zealand
SKU: 9781780721873
Price: 39.99 NZD
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150 delicious, calorie-controlled meals to make your fasting days easy

By Mimi Spencer

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Summary

The Fast Diet Recipe Book by Mimi Spencer offers a collection of delicious and easy recipes designed around the 5:2 intermittent fasting diet. It features a range of meals under 500 calories to support dieters on their low-calorie fasting days. This book aims to make dieting both enjoyable and sustainable, with recipes that are filling and satisfying.
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Format: Paperback / softback

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If you're exploring ways to integrate healthy eating with intermittent fasting, this book offers a variety of delicious and easy-to-prepare recipes. It may appeal to you if you're looking to embrace a balanced approach to dieting while enjoying flavourful meals that fit within your lifestyle.

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FOLLOWING THE NO 1 BESTSELLING FAST DIET, this fabulous cookbook offers 180 carefully crafted, nutritious, low-calorie recipes to enable you to incorporate the 5:2 weight-loss system into your daily life.

Description

Following the No.1 bestselling Fast Diet, this fabulous cookbook offers 180 carefully crafted, nutritious, low-calorie recipes to enable you to incorporate the 5:2 weight-loss system into your daily life.

The recipes range from simple breakfasts to leisurely suppers; all are expertly balanced and calorie-counted by Spurs and Chelsea nutritionist Dr Sarah Schenker. They are designed to fill you up and stave off hunger.

There are also detailed menu plans and plenty of encouraging tips, including kitchen-cupboard essentials, the latest nutritional advice, and a whole section of speedy meals for busy days.

This book offers a groundbreaking companion guide to the Fast Diet. You will never have to worry about planning your fast days again.

Book Hero Magic summarised reviews for this book. While it's new and still learning, it may not be perfect - your feedback is welcome! HOW HAS THIS BEEN REVIEWED?

The Fast Diet Recipe Book by Mimi Spencer is lauded as a significant dietary revolution, with comparisons to the Atkins diet by the Daily Mail and hailed as a health revolution by the New York Times. The Daily Telegraph praises it as an ideal choice for those who find strict long-term regimens challenging, offering a more manageable approach.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781780721873

Publisher: Octopus Publishing Group

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 02 May 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Short Books Ltd

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 16.0mm

Width: 188.0mm

Height: 244.0mm

Weight: 700g

Pages: 224

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Cook Books & Recipes Cooking & Food Gluten-free & Special Diets Cook Books Health & Fitness Health & Wellness Mimi Spencer Non-Fiction Self-Help & Personal Development

About the Author

Mimi Spencer has written about body shape, diet and food trends in national newspapers and magazines for more than 20 years. She co-authored The Fast Diet (Short Books, 2013) with Dr Michael Mosley and wrote The Fast Diet Recipe Book (Short Books, 2013) and Fast Cook (Short Books, 2014).

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