Synopses & Reviews
“The intermittent fasting trend began with body builders and professional trainers in America,” says nutritionist, Amanda Hamilton. “Then trainers started using it with their celebrity clients. It went mainstream in Britain first, but it's picking up steam here in the States.”
Eat Fast Slim is Hamilton's first solo book project. Her background as a well-established and award-winning broadcaster has given her a rare platform and profile in the health industry which extends to working with the UK government and collaborating on high-profile projects across Europe.
“What I love about fasting,” writes Hamilton, “is its simplicity. It's much easier to watch the clock than count every calorie. In essence it is also a no-cost solution to a costly obesity problem; perfect for today's climate. It's a healthy, simple answer in an industry that has become tricky, over complicated and sometimes just downright ridiculous.”
Like most intermittent fasting plans, Eat, Fast, Slim gives dieters an option of fasting for 16 hours a day every day (effectively skipping either breakfast or dinner) or adopting a lifestyle pattern of fasting for two days a week and eating normally the rest of the week. Where Hamilton departs from convention is her nutrition-based approach, focusing just as much on what you do eat as when you don't. She also explains why men and women should fast a little differently, even detailing how the female cycle impacts on results!
Uniquely, Eat, Fast, Slim also explains how juice fasting is complimentary to intermittent fasting, sharing several of her startling case studies that first brought her fasting approach to light. Indeed, Hamilton's work with fasting was the subject of more than seven TV series shown in 22 countries around the world.
“The benefits of fasting are proven in terms of health, longevity and body recomposition. Turns out those body builders are really on to something! And of course fasting has an ancient pedigree. People have used it for thousands of years to improve their well-being or as part of their spiritual quest,” says Hamilton.
The book includes:
- Four meal plans and 100 delicious recipes.
- Questionnaires to help dieters select the best type of fasting plan: the 16/8-hour plan where you skip a meal every day; the 5:2 plan where you skip two meals a day twice a week; the juice fast; or a 24-hour fast.
- Background on the scientific research supporting the healthy benefits of intermittent fasting and juice fasting.
Synopsis
Traditional diet lore dictates that we shouldn't skip meals. But amazing new findings show that short bursts of fasting, created by lengthening the gaps between eating, can lead to the ultimate fat-burning state. Welcome to intermittent fasting. Learn the secret that body-builders and top athletes have known for years. Fasting accelerates fat loss and shifts weight from stubborn areas. What's more, you'll find that you sleep better, have more energy, slow down your aging and even improve your long-standing health problems through fine-tuning your body's repair mechanisms.
Amanda Hamilton's Eat Fast Slim contains a choice of diet plans which allow you to tailor the diet according to your lifestyle and 'weight-loss personality.' You can choose Plan A, a daily fast of 16 hours (so you'll skip either dinner or breakfast), starting with once a week and working up to more frequent fasts. Or you can follow Plan B, a full day fast, twice a week, during which you'll eat one evening meal. Or, you can follow Plan C, which combines fasts with juicing and other boosting techniques.
Interspersed throughout the book, Amanda tells the story of how she found her way to fasting. She reveals the latest scientific findings that support the physical, mental and spiritual benefits of structured fasting, describes how the plans were created, and the results that the reader can expect.
Fasting harkens back to ancient spiritual practices, but it's never been more needed than right now.
Synopsis
Welcome to intermittent fasting, the revolutionary way to diet! This hot trend has been scientifically shown to accelerate fat loss, shift weight from stubborn areas, and boost general health. Eat, Fast, Slim offers a choice of plans (plus menus) so dieters can find the right one for their lifestyle, from a daily 16-hour fast to twice-a-week full-day fasts with only one evening meal, and beyond.
Synopsis
It's the revolutionary approach to dieting that's been hitting the headlines! Traditional diet lore says never skip a meal; new scientific research shows that's not true. Welcome to intermittent fasting, once the secret of bodybuilders and athletes and now becoming increasingly popular with savvy dieters. Not only does it accelerate fat loss and shift weight from stubborn areas, fasting can boost your general health, slow aging, fine-tune your repair mechanisms, and even provide spiritual benefits. Eat, Fast, Slim offers a choice of plans (plus menus) so you can find the right one for your lifestyle and “weight-loss personality.” From a daily fast of 16 hours that cuts either dinner or breakfast to twice-a-week full-day fasts with only one evening meal, and beyond, it's the key to getting in shape for summer and improving your well-being.
Synopsis
Broadcaster and nutritionist Amanda Hamilton is one of the UKs most recognised personalities in health and well-being. In demand both in the UK and the abroad, she is well known for her work on TV and in other media. She originated and presented seven health-based TV series that have now been shown in 22 countries around the world. She has a large online following through her own weight loss programme with tens of thousands of members.
A regular contributor to national press and author of two books on nutrition (Life Detox and Life-Changing Weight Loss), she is a member of the British Association of Nutritional Therapists and adviser on the Scottish Governments Curriculum for Excellence. She is a member of the Guild of Health Writers.
About the Author
Broadcaster and nutritionist Amanda Hamilton is one of the UK's most recognized personalities in health and well-being. In demand both in the UK and abroad, she produced and hosted several health-based TV series that have now been shown in 22 countries. Hamilton has a large online following through her weight-loss site, amandahamiltondiet.com, which boasts tens of thousands of members. A regular contributor to the national press and author of two books on nutrition—LifeDetox: Clear Physical & Emotional Toxins from Your Body and Your Life and Life-Changing Weight Loss: 3 Steps to Get the Body and Life You Want (both cowritten with Sandy Newbigging; Platkus Books)—she is a member of the British Association of Nutritional Therapists and adviser to the Scottish Government's Curriculum for Excellence