I run five weight loss clinics. My clinics are busy! Who is coming to see me? Everyone: men and women; millionaires and teenagers; cancer survivors and athletes. What do these fantastic people have in common? They want to eat clean but drop weight as well, and they want to talk to a specialist, me.
In this Breakfast book you will find:
* Real food from normal ingredients. You don't need to Google bizarre ingredients
* Recipes that are delicious, clean and proven to help my clients get weight off
So what sort of food will you be eating? What about:
* Black Forest Smoothie or Ginger Zinger Muffins
* Toast from home made High Protein bread
* Ricicle Peanut Power Bars or Almond and Apple Snapple Balls
* Porridge with Apple & Vanilla or Banana Crunch
* Coconut Pancakes with Forest Fruits or Stuffed Cheesy Bubbling Mushrooms
Eating Clean But Keep It Lean is the foundation of my weight loss programme: it is all I do. I have built up a war chest of advice and recipes. In this book, I share with you the best of the breakfasts. What a great place to start – at the start of the day.
Have you decided try clean eating? Is this to lose weight or just to feel better? Or both! It doesn’t matter. If you eat clean and lean, YOU WILL FEEL BETTER. If you eat clean and lean YOU WILL LOSE WEIGHT AND GET LEAN.
My job is to help you, as if you were in my clinics. Call this my virtual clinic with you as my client.
We are going to walk this path together, starting with the first meal of the day. My recipes are simple and practical. I have even thought of my measures, so the recipes are in US cups and European metric and Imperial. My recipes also contain exact counts for calories, protein, carbs and fats. Comprehensive information for you to use.
I don’t want you to get obsessed with calories. Eating clean my way means you shouldn’t have to worry about calories. But, equally, I see many clients who have tried clean eating on their own and then wonder ‘I’m eating healthy but I haven’t lost any weight!’ If this is you, the truth is you can get and stay fat eating too many and in particular the wrong balance of ‘healthy’ foods, as well as junk.
All those health food store flapjacks or home-made ‘sugar-free’ brownies can pack on the pounds if they contain too much energy. Calories aren’t the be all and end all, but they are part of the picture of what it takes to have a healthy body. So, I’ve included calorie counts to arm you with knowledge, so you can make an informed choice about what to cook and eat.
Modern convenience foods always have calorie counts on the side, of course, and some may look pretty low cal, but they do not help you eat clean or lean. Why? Because they are often packed with unhealthy additives and they are nutrient sparce. They can depress your mood with sugar lows (yes, even natural sugar) and prevent your metabolism from working properly.
Breakfast, if you leave it to chance or what you grab as you get to work, can be convenience food hell:
Sugary cereal
Pastries
Yoghurts with sweetened gloop
Porridge with more sweetened gloop
Even toast is doing you no favours, as it totally lacks protein andshoots up your blood sugar, ready to crash in an hour.
If you start your day in this way, you are going to feel sub par and you will most likely carry excess weight, particularly round your mid section.
So, take charge of the first part of your day.
Make your first meal of the day the way you begin and intend to go on, the motivator for keeping it up for the rest of the day. Let's start.
