The Sirt Diet Cookbook

The Sirt Diet Cookbook
Jacqueline Whitehart

The SIRT Diet shows how to incorporate tasty SIRT superfoods into your daily routine and how these foods can help burn fat, increase muscle definition and boost health.

The world of nutrition has been revolutionized by the discovery of a chemical compound naturally found in certain fruits and vegetables called ‘sirtuins.’ These chemicals control the way our bodies deal with fat and sugar, helping to reduce hunger, burn fat and boost anti-ageing health.

Not only do these sirtuin-activating foods – or, SIRT foods – aid weight loss, but they also help build muscle without any additional exercise. People incorporating SIRT foods into their diets have found their bodies get skinnier, leaner and fitter without the time-consuming and hefty price tag of a gym. The best part is that transforming your body is really easy as lots of everyday, tasty favourites are SIRT foods – like olives, tofu, blackcurrants, kale, cocoa and green tea.

Best selling diet expert Jacqueline Whitehart presents a selection of SIRT food rich recipes, meal planners and useful shopping tips to help you transform your diet and find a quick and easy way to lose weight, replacing flab for muscle definition. All the while still eating delicious favourites like dark chocolate, apples and red wine!

The SIRT Diet jumpstarts your fat-burning genes by restricting to 800 calories for the first two days of the week, and then allowing 1,500 SIRT-rich calories for the other five. Jacqueline provides an easy to follow four-week meal plan with over 100 feel-good, calorie-counted recipes packed with these superfoods, from grilled chicken with lemon and olives to pomegranate cheesecake.

So what are you waiting for? Get ready for a whole new you!

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An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.harpercollins.co.uk (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk) This edition published by Thorsons 2015 FIRST EDITION Text © Jacqueline Whitehart 2015 Photography © Tom Regester 2015 Food stylist: Becks Wilkinson Prop stylist: Wei Tang Cover layout design © HarperCollinsPublishers 2015 Cover images © Shutterstcock.com 2015 A catalogue record of this book is available from the British Library Jacqueline Whitehart asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books. Find out about HarperCollins and the environment at www.harpercollins.co.uk/green (http://www.harpercollins.co.uk/green) Source ISBN: 9780008163365 Ebook Edition © December 2015 ISBN: 9780008163372 Version: 2015-12-10

Contents

Cover (#u512c1b44-9e9b-550f-b038-bc5a22c600d2)

Title Page (#u73ff6127-9079-5a15-9ceb-b28d6ba9a8f9)

Copyright (#ue495a7d6-cf48-5902-8cac-7dcf68a9ebdf)

Introduction (#u7e1d738c-d922-5199-8b32-6415a505d930)

Real Food, Real Recipes and a Diet that Really Works (#ud15a41e6-d9a9-5473-8560-f6a2b1bcd609)

My Journey (#u8872a57c-ac0c-5b8e-a111-a4b6d30e459c)

What Are SIRT Foods and Why Are They Special? (#ud6575271-b2da-571a-a253-8fe760f3a84e)

SIRT Foods (#ucb6d1cf1-cc96-5640-a186-f2fccdb67f41)

The SIRT 5 a Day (#u5c785ff1-60bc-5e70-805b-cf8e9f4ee23b)

The SIRT Diet Plan (#ue1220da6-e6f3-553c-86ae-e670ba8162d6)

Top Ten SIRT Boosters (#ua1cda46a-bded-5da8-8bb3-57f393b6df77)

The Red Wine Question (#u38fcd5c1-80f8-5a44-b944-425844d0958c)

What about Exercise? (#uc635af4b-8679-5fbf-9fa5-3dbb0bb67559)

The Jump-Start (#u23164510-9cce-5821-94ac-ff2c621baacf)

SIRT Diet Days (#u7165f0de-d7e2-513d-84f9-5d4ac947bc1a)

Living the Diet (#ube510bc9-9fc1-53bf-afd3-e0a9b1ca9f54)

Top Tips for SIRT Dieting (#litres_trial_promo)

Shopping for the SIRT Diet (#litres_trial_promo)

When You’re Out and About (#litres_trial_promo)

Top SIRT Foods: Quick Reference (#litres_trial_promo)

Complete Four-Week Plan (#litres_trial_promo)

The Recipes

Breakfast Choices (#litres_trial_promo)

Simple Snacks (#litres_trial_promo)

Quick Fixes (#litres_trial_promo)

Super Salads (#litres_trial_promo)

Soups and Broths (#litres_trial_promo)

Speedy Suppers (#litres_trial_promo)

Main Meals (#litres_trial_promo)

Desserts (#litres_trial_promo)

Cakes and Baking (#litres_trial_promo)

Index of Searchable Terms (#litres_trial_promo)

Acknowledgements (#litres_trial_promo)

Author Bio (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

INTRODUCTION (#u70b99a6d-b990-5942-9eee-5e819a7391b7)

Welcome to a new style of diet, which is first and foremost about eating more of the right foods and less of the wrong ones. The SIRT Diet Cookbook is chock-full of diet-friendly advice, planners, tips and fantastic recipes, with everything you need to start eating right today.

I’m just your average working mum, juggling child commitments and a haphazard career. Along the way I have experimented with many diets: some good (for a time); some disastrous from day one. I genuinely know how diets work because I’ve truly been there … I feel like I’ve tried them all! I know how you start the day with good intentions, feeling virtuous with a low-calorie breakfast, but are hungry by lunch and ready to scream by teatime. Finally, you sit down at the end of the day with a drink in one hand and a cake in the other, wondering where it all went wrong.

I have ended up with a new outlook on dieting and the diet industry. If a diet is all about cutting back and restrictions, it’s difficult to keep it up for long. One day your willpower just disappears, you crash and burn, and end up feeling like a failure. This diet is different; it’s all about the superfoods. SIRT superfoods really do boost your metabolism, converting body fat to energy and breaking the cycle of feast and famine by naturally reducing your cravings for junk food.