PRACTICAL ADVICE FOR HEALTHY EATING HABITS
THE 12-STEP MIND-BODY-FOOD RESET JESSICA SEPEL Pan MacMillan Review: Orielle Berry
THIS book couldn’t have come at a better time – being stuck at home, not knowing what the future holds, it’s best to capitalise on our time with new regimens that at the very least will make you feel better in body and spirit.
This beautifully-presented and user-friendly book is now kept on my bedside, into which I dip in regularly. Whatever age you may be, there are always ways to challenge your belief systems and make small but significant changes in your life.
Clinical nutritionist and health blogger Jessica Sepel has helped tens of thousands of people alter their health by improving their relationship with food and their body. At the moment she offers tools not only on creating feel-good food, but importantly, how to look at yourself and understand and manage your belief systems – in other words how to set up strategies to reset your mind. Important when spirits are flagging during the lockdown...
Through her own experiences and those of her patients and online audiences, Sepel knows that the most reliable path to creating sustainable health habits is to address the emotional component first. She offers a wholesome, balanced way of eating, relaxing and exercising that allows women and men to reconnect with their bodies and minds and shut off the noise of fad diets and mixed messages.
In her 12-Step Mind-Body-Food Reset, she shares a dozen pieces of practical advice for conquering disordered eating, achieving weight balance and creating good habits for life.
You can learn how to speak to yourself with kindness; set up a nourishing morning and evening routine; spend an hour prepping for a healthy week; manage your stress so it doesn’t manage you; and focus on your overall health (mental and physical), not your weight.
Each chapter contains a single principle that seems to be simple, achievable and self-contained, allowing readers to focus on one issue at a time, one step at a time, one day at a time.
So you’ll find savvy advice on how to combat sugar cravings for life, focusing on your health and NOT your weight, and thus achieve a good balance through it all; how to indulge moderately without the associated guilt, and also to bear in mind that there are no rules – only those you make yourself as you adapt them…
There are fabulous charts which help you achieve your new means, and a daily planner as well as a nutrition guide.
At least a third of the book is made up of feel-good recipes and offers healthy, varied cooking methods, from stir-frying to creating raw food dishes and how to “seal and heal your gut”.
Grilled veggies never looked so good; neither did a chicken and broccolini dish with a quinoa pilaf, or how about char-grilled beef with a chilli pesto dressing. Desserts can still be a decadent delight, but without the guilt – how about a carrot cake slice with vanilla cashew cream or baked pumpkin pie doughnuts?