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    Green Kickstarts!: Metabolism Boosters for Detox and Weight Loss
    Green Kickstarts!: Metabolism Boosters for Detox and Weight Loss
    Green Kickstarts!: Metabolism Boosters for Detox and Weight Loss
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    Green Kickstarts!: Metabolism Boosters for Detox and Weight Loss

    By Ulrika Davidsson and Ulrika Pousette

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    Kickstart your happier, healthier life with 80 plant-based recipes and meal plans!

    These four detailed detox plans emphasize a nourishing, low-carb, plant-based diet paired with intermittent fasting to seriously kickstart your metabolism and cleanse your entire system—allowing your body a complete reset and boosting your weight loss and long-term health changes. You'll learn to make delicious recipes that keep you full for longer, utilizing tons of fresh ingredients including broccoli, eggplant, greens (lots of greens!), carrots, kale, apples, fresh herbs, nuts, seeds, berries, onions, garlic, beets, peppers, olives, and more! 

    Would you like to eat greener food while at the same time giving weight loss and health a good kickstart? You can choose between four different programs offered: Detox, Vegetarian, Raw Vegan, and Juicing. Or, why not test several of them to see which one suits you best?

    Here are Ulrika Davidsson's greenest kickstarts, with accompanying meal schedules and more than 80 fresh recipes.
    • Detox Kickstart (2 weeks) is well worth a try if you need to cleanse your body and give it a real reboot.
    • Vegetarian Kickstart (2 weeks) is a good choice for those of you who are curious about low-carbohydrate vegetarian foods—and how this might change your body.
    • Raw Vegan Kickstart (1 week) will suit those of you who’d like to see what a raw food and vegan lifestyle might do for your weight and health.
    • Juicing Kickstart (1 week) is good for those who wish to cleanse their body, lose excess weight, and feel more energetic.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRacehorse
    Release dateJan 21, 2020
    ISBN9781631583865
    Green Kickstarts!: Metabolism Boosters for Detox and Weight Loss

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      Green Kickstarts! - Ulrika Davidsson

      INTRODUCTION

      What Is a Kickstart?

      A kickstart is all about expending a little extra energy and effort getting started losing excess weight. You’ll soon get your energy and strength back once you realize what a boost this is for your weight loss. The kickstart kicks right back! It will surprise you how much you can change your way of thinking, your needs, and the way you tackle challenges. And you’ll discover new, delicious flavors, as well as needs and feelings that will help you in your long-term health changes.

      While doing a kickstart you’re going to concentrate on following the diet schedule to the letter and prepare yourself to skip all indulgences. It’s far easier than you think, because the kickstarts in this book are long enough to show good results but short enough for you to follow them 100 percent successfully.

      What’s in a Kickstart?

      Easy-to-prepare recipes that are filling, but more importantly, delicious. You’ll get calorie-tabulated breakfasts, lunches, dinners, snacks, and desserts. The recipes are based on natural, raw ingredients and are almost all completely free of gluten and refined sugar. A diet schedule built from the chapters’ recipes that provides you with all the information about when and what you should eat over one or two weeks. The menu is built on a low-carbohydrate food menu (see p. 10) combined with intermittent fasting (not applicable with juicing), and means that you’ll be eating about 500 to 2,000 calories a day. The result could be weight loss of about 4½ to 11 pounds (2 to 5 kg).

      A KICKSTART GUIDE

      Who are you and which kickstart is right for you? You yourself will know best because there is no diet or eating plan that suits everyone. We’re all different, and we all have different needs. It makes a big difference whether you’re young or old, if you’re healthy or not, if you’re sedentary or active, and if you’re at a comfortable weight or if you’re carrying excess pounds.

      Read through the different diet schedules and take a look at the corresponding recipes. You’ll soon see which of the four different kickstarts you prefer.

      Detox is for those of you who aim to complete a two-week cleansing cure with vegetarian dishes free of gluten, dairy products, and refined sugar. The focus is on weight loss, but also on detoxing your body and providing the body’s organs with relief in order to avoid gastrointestinal problems and bodily aches.

      Vegetarian is for those of you who are curious about vegetarian dishes and want to learn how to combine a low-carbohydrate diet with intermittent fasting. The diet schedule lasts two weeks and provides the basics of vegetarian meal preparation, plus a kickstart for your weight, body measurements, and health!

      Raw Vegan is suitable for those of you who want to try raw food meals and vegan dishes. Raw means that you don’t heat food above 107.6°F (42°C). The vegan dishes are of course made without animal protein, but are also free of gluten, cow’s milk, and eggs. This is a weeklong diet schedule that will provide good insight into this particular lifestyle and the recipes that will enable you to begin.

      Juicing is for those of you who want to go through an effective weeklong body cleanse. Here the focus is on consuming smoothies, vegetable and fruit juices, and satisfying vegetable soups. This kickstart will give you a lighter body and lots of energy and is recommended for anyone who is curious about juicing and all its beneficial effects.

      A Low-Carbohydrate Diet and Intermittent Fasting

      —AN EFFECTIVE COMBINATION

      All kickstart schedules in this book are based on the popular low-carbohydrate diet—or nutritional plan, as I prefer to call it. Many have successfully lost excess weight on this diet, and it’s easy to understand why. Here I want to share experiences—my own and those of many others—to give you an understanding of why you will eat this way during your kickstart.

      After working for a long time as a personal coach as well as a weight-loss group leader, I have clearly noticed that this type of lifestyle does work wonders for most people if they consume plenty of vegetables and the right amount of carbohydrates. It is, among other things, about you as a person, your lifestyle, how carbohydrates affect you, and if you prefer more or less fat in your diet. I myself eat a relatively low amount of carbohydrates, and use both saturated and unsaturated fats as long as they’re natural.

      The low-carbohydrate lifestyle works well for me and for so many others because it increases the body’s fat metabolism while decreasing the fat cells’ ability to store fat. So, how does this work? Well, all the carbohydrates we consume, whether in the form of sugar or starch, like in bread or pasta, for example, are broken down in the intestine and converted to glucose (dextrose). Then the glucose travels via the blood into our cells to provide us with energy. Blood sugar rises to help push the glucose into the cells, while insulin is released to lower the blood sugar again. The more carbohydrates we eat, the more insulin is produced to lower the blood sugar level.

      At the same time, insulin indicates that the body now has a lot of energy, that we are well nourished. The body then chooses to save body fat for a later time when it will be needed. High insulin levels also contribute to lower fat burning, since the body is using the glucose created by the carbohydrates we ate as fuel.

      Carbohydrates are the quickest nutrient for the body to break down, and are the easiest to convert to glucose energy. Converting fat and protein to glucose energy is a far more complex process that requires more energy. If we consume lots of carbohydrates, instead of being slotted as energy into the cells, the excess glucose that is generated will be converted to fat that is stored in the fat cells. Excess glucose can also generate increased stress and raise the risk of inflammation in the body. Instead, with a low-carbohydrate diet the body starts to use stored fat. Quite simply, the body prepares itself to use a higher amount of fat for energy.

      If we live like we do today—leading a sedentary lifestyle and including a lot of carbohydrates in our diet—we’ll end up with constantly elevated blood sugar and lowered fat metabolism, increased stress, and heightened risk of body inflammation. Additionally, having a widely fluctuating blood sugar level will also affect our feelings of hunger and our temper. If we eat fewer carbohydrates instead, we will help our bodies to use the stored fat as energy and also reap the benefits of more even blood sugar.

      Good Carbohydrates

      The carbohydrates I recommend come from vegetables, fruit, and berries; greens and leaves such as arugula, spinach, iceberg lettuce, romaine, mâche, and red-leaf lettuce; and vegetables such as bell peppers, celery, asparagus, sugar snap peas, green beans, zucchini, eggplant, onions, mushrooms, cucumbers, and tomatoes.

      Cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, white and red cabbage, fennel, and Brussels sprouts are among the best vegetables you can choose, because they’re very filling and contain plenty of antioxidants. Root vegetables should be eaten sparingly, and when you do eat them, eat them in their raw state. It’s also OK to eat a carrot now and then.

      You can eat a small amount of berries and some fruits that don’t contain a lot of carbohydrates, for example, pomegranate, rhubarb, tart apples, kiwi, and grapefruit. Try to opt for organically grown, seasonal produce as often as possible, but frozen vegetables and berries are fine

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