The Plant-Based Journey: A Step-by-Step Guide for Transitioning to a Healthy Lifestyle and Achieving Your Ideal Weight

by Lani Muelrath, T. Colin Campbell (Preface by), Howard Jacobson (Preface by)

Overview

It's been proven that a plant-based diet is good for your weight, health, budget, and the environment, but the proof hasn't come with a game plan—until now.

If you've ever wanted to make the plant-based switch but felt overwhelmed about where to start, we have good news: you don't have to do it alone. The Plant-Based Journey provides the support you need every step of the way to make your transition into eating plant-based a fun and (ful)filling experience!

Award-winning teacher, transition strategist, fitness expert and dietary coach Lani Muelrath has been on her own plant-based journey for more than 40 years and has helped thousands of clients lose weight and live more healthy and plant-filled lives. Here, she brings that experience to you, backed by scientific evidence. In this comprehensive, foolproof, and accessible five-step guide, Muelrath will empower you as you make your own dietary transition:

Step 1: Awakening: Discover your "why" for eating plant-based

Step 2: Scout: Assemble what you need for plant-based eating basics

Step 3: Rookie: Increase the presence of plant foods on your plate with specific strategies and systems

Step 4: Rockstar: Take your newfound plant-based eating success on the road and to social and family situations

Step 5: Champion: Sharpen your skills for long-term plant-based living success

In addition, in The Plant-Based Journey, Muelrath explains how exercise and your mindset support dietary change, and she also shares more than 20 recipes along with meal plan templates and ready-in-minutes meals that will have you pulling together delicious and satisfying meals with ease.

Whether you're a plant-based newbie looking to shed pounds or a seasoned vegan in search of fresh inspiration and navigational skills, The Plant-Based Journey is your essential, definitive guide—for a healthier, trimmer you.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781941631362
Publisher:	BenBella Books
Publication date:	09/15/2015
Pages:	304
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Lani Muelrath, M.A., is an award-winning teacher, author, TV host, and top plant-based vegan lifestyle coach. Certified Specialist in Behavior Change, Plant-Based Nutrition, and Mindfulness Meditation Instruction, Lani has been featured on CBS TV, ABC TV, Prevention, USA Today, Huffington Post, and The Saturday Evening. Presenter for Physician's Committee for Responsible Medicine, Plant Pure Nation, The Complete Health Improvement Program, and guest lecturer at San Francisco State University, Lani is Associate Faculty at Butte College where her book has been adopted as required text. She is the author of the doctor and dietitian recommended The Plant-Based Journey: A Step-by-Step Guide to Transition to a Healthy Lifestyle and Achieving Your Ideal Weight, recognized by VegNews as Top Media Pick for 2015, and Fit Quickies: 5 Minute Workouts.

For more than 40 years, T. Colin Campbell, PhD, has been at the forefront of nutrition research. His legacy, the China Study, is the most comprehensive study of health and nutrition ever conducted. Dr. Campbell is the Jacob Gould Schurman Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Biochemistry at Cornell University. He has received more than 70 grant years of peer-reviewed research funding and authored more than 300 research papers. The China Study was the culmination of a 20-year partnership of Cornell University, Oxford University and the Chinese Academy of Preventive Medicine.

Howard Jacobson, PhD, is an online marketing consultant, health educator, and ecological gardener from Durham, N.C. He earned a Masters of Public Health and Doctor of Health Studies degrees from Temple University, and a BA in History from Princeton. Howard cofounded VitruvianWay.com, an online marketing agency, and is a coauthor of Google AdWords For Dummies. When Howard is not chasing groundhogs away from blueberry bushes or wrestling with Google, he relaxes by playing Ultimate Frisbee and campfire songs from the 1960s. His current life goal is to turn the world into a giant food forest.

Editorial Reviews

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"Lani has created a great 'HOW TO' book for every stage of your plant-based journey. We're also thrilled to see her emphasize how our food choices affect not just our own health but the health of our living planet as well."

—Suzy Amis Cameron and James Cameron

"Lani covers the plant based journey thoroughly, creatively, and with the exceptional knowledge gained from her years of teaching. When you finish The Plant-Based Journey not only will you be inspired to eat plant-based, but you will have the wisdom how to cook the food you enjoy."

—Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., MD, author of Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease

"This easy-to-follow guide will have everyone enjoying the health benefits from following a whole-foods/plant-based diet."

—Rip Esselstyn, author of The Engine 2 Diet

"You now have in your hands a trustworthy guide for how to take the journey, step to step, to a more fabulous you. You'll feel better, you'll look better, and you'll enjoy life more. If you accept Lani Muelrath's invitation, your body will thank you for the rest of your life. Highly recommended."

—John Robbins, cofounder and president of The Food Revolution Network and author of Diet For A New America

"Let Lani open your eyes with The Plant-Based Journey. She deserves your attention."

—John and Mary McDougall, founders of the McDougall Program and authors of The Starch Solution

"The journey to evolution and compassion starts with what we eat every day. Read this book and step through the gateway to a new dimension, a whole new world of guilt-free eating and joyous living."

—Jane Velez-Mitchell, editor of JaneUnChained.com and bestselling author

"Micro changes, restaurant tips, plantify your pantry....and so much more. We want the vitality, weight control, and energy that plant based nutrition offers but don't always know how to implement the plan. Lani scores a bullseye in The Plant-Based Journey by making the process so clear cut and reachable. This is a must read manual for life.

—Joel Kahn, MD, Professor of Medicine at Wayne State University School of Medicine and author of The Whole Heart Solution

"A fresh, clear, and imminently doable approach to a food-choice upgrade that you can start right now and be in love with by tomorrow. If you're even a bit curious about life on the veg side, Lani Muelrath is the perfect guide for your plant-based journey."

—Victoria Moran, director of Main Street Vegan Academy and author of The Good Karma Diet

"Lani makes leaning into your healthy transformation so doable. She takes you by the hand, and guides you every step of the (wonderful) way with her clear-headed and science-based rationale! Take this journey with her. You will be profoundly changed for the better."

—Kathy Freston, New York Times bestselling author of Veganist and The Lean

"The Plant-Based Journey is a flawless, comprehensive, easy-to-follow template for implementation and maintenance of the plant-based lifestyle....Lani provides the perfect balance of information, validation, and motivational gems."

—Richard Oppenlander, director of Inspire Awareness Now and author of Food Choice and Sustainability and Comfortably Unaware

"The Plant-Based Journey is the most productive trip you can ever make."

—Howard F. Lyman, author of Mad Cowboy

"A fantastically thorough, thoughtful, and inspiring guide for creating the healthy and compassionate life you desire."

—Colleen Patrick-Goudreau, author of The 30-Day Vegan Challenge

"Lani makes research-based information about plant-based living inspiring—not boring! She is a walking testament to health, and I am grateful to have access to her wisdom!"

—Susan Levin, MS, RD, CSSD, Director of Nutrition Education for the Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine and Board Certified Sports Dietitian

"Lani Muelrath's manifesto on healthy living should be a must-read for anyone wanting to get healthy, reach their ideal weight, and stop dieting forever....I frequently meet people who want to ditch the meat and take charge of their health, and The Plant-Based Journey is the book I will tell them to read."

—Colleen Holland, cofounder of VegNews

"In The Plant-Based Journey, Lani Muelrath delivers sound, practical, and essential advice for improving our lives—and the lives of everyone around us. Please get this book and enjoy the adventure of enlivening and awakening your best self."

—Gene Baur, cofounder and president of Farm Sanctuary and bestselling author
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