Fast Like a Girl

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER! WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER! PUBLISHER'S WEEKLY BESTSELLER! Includes a 30-Day fasting reset that uses the power of your cycle-even if you no longer have one! A go-to fasting manual created specifically to address women's needs based on their hormones and menstrual cycle by Dr. Mindy Pelz, a well-known expert on women and fasting, whose fast-growing YouTube channel has become the destination for women who want to learn about fasting. Are you among the many women who feel unheard and unseen by their doctors and health professionals? Have you become exhausted by the promise of quick-fix diets that only leave you disappointed? Well in Fast Like a Girl, Dr. Mindy helps you to take back control of your health by using the quickest path back to better health-fasting. While most fasting advice has been a one-size-fits-all approach that leaves women with more questions than answers, in this book Dr. Mindy shares the proven strategies, specific protocols to use if you are trying to overcome a condition, fasting hacks, and tools that she has used to help hundreds of thousands of women thrive with their fasting lifestyles. Dr. Mindy will teach you:

• the rights steps on how to go from eating all day to intermittent fasting (13-15 hours)
• how to safely fast longer if you choose to do so (15-72 hours)
• how to time fasting according to your menstrual cycle (although if you don't have a cycle, she has you covered)
• the best foods to break your fast to achieve better metabolic health This book also includes more than 50 recipes based on the two food plans-ketobiotic and hormone feasting-she created to best support women's hormones. And, it has recipes specifically created to break a fast such as her Coconut Cacao Chia Pudding. Inspired by the thousands of women she has worked with who have reclaimed their health with fasting, Dr. Mindy wrote this book because, "once a woman knows how to build a fasting lifestyle around her cycle, she becomes unstoppable."

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Dr. Mindy Pelz, DC is a pioneer in the fasting movement. After studying exercise physiology and nutrition at the University of Kansas, Dr. Mindy went on to get her Doctorate at Palmer College of Chiropractic West where she graduated with clinical honors. Immediately following graduation, she founded Family Life Wellness Center which quickly grew into one of the largest family wellness centers in the San Francisco Bay Area.

On a mission to teach the world the healing power of fasting, she has become known as the go-to women's fasting expert. A three-time author, keynote speaker, nutrition and functional medicine expert, and social media influencer, she has spent more than two decades inspiring women to use lifestyle tools to reset their health successfully.

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A go-to fasting manual created specifically to address women's needs based on their hormones and menstrual cycle by Dr. Mindy Pelz, a well-known expert on women and fasting, whose fast-growing YouTube channel has become the destination for women who want to learn about fasting.

So many women feel unheard by doctors and health professionals and have become exhausted by the promise of quick-fix diets that only leave them disappointed. As someone who has been in the trenches with them, Dr. Mindy wants to help these women take back control of their health by using fasting, which she says is the quickest path back to better health. In this book, Dr. Mindy will give them a clear path to succeed by:

· Providing women the rights steps on how to go from eating all day to intermittent fasting (13-15 hours)
· Showing women who want to learn to fast longer a path to do so safely (15-72 hours)
· Laying out how to time fasting according to her cycle
· Teaching women what foods to break her fast with to achieve better metabolic health
· Laying out in detail Dr. Mindy's two eating programs that best support a woman's hormones
· Providing a visual tool that allows a woman to map her fasts and food to her cycle
· Providing an easy-to-follow 30-Day program that she can use to find her fasting rhythm

While most fasting books have taught a one-size-fits-all approach to fasting, leaving women with more questions than answers, in FAST LIKE A GIRL, Dr. Mindy will share the proven strategies, condition specific protocols, hacks that make fasting easier, and tools that she has used to help hundreds of thousands of women both thrive with their fasting lifestyles.