Your Holistically Hot Transformation: Embrace a Healthy Lifestyle Free of Dieting, Confusion and Self-Judgment

by Marissa Vicario

Overview

Your Holistically Hot Transformation (Holistic Health and Nutrition)

Are you tired of fad diets and all-juice cleanses? Confused about all the conflicting nutrition information available? Over feeling guilty for your nutrition slip-ups? Finally learn to trust yourself to make slimming, nutritious and energizing choices without dieting, confusion and self-judgment! Award-winning Health Coach and Women's Lifestyle Expert, Marissa Vicario, wasn't always as healthy and happy as she is today.

There was a time when her diet had more macaroni and cheese and G&T's than broccoli and green smoothies. It wasn't until she hit rock bottom that she realized something had to change, and it was in that moment that she vowed to make her physical, mental and emotional well -being a top priority. Your Holistically Hot Transformation follows Marissa's wellness journey from unfulfilled corporate professional to purpose-driven women's lifestyle aficionado committed to making healthy, fit and balanced (aka Hot), less intimidating, more approachable and totally attainable to women regardless of where they are on their own path to a healthy lifestyle.

You'll find advice for making healthy living a habit, tips for stocking a healthy kitchen, guidelines for understanding the hunger and fullness cues your body sends you, simple ideas for self-care you've never tried before and a sprinkling of fast, fool-proof recipes and motivational mantras.

Smart, honest, and actionable, Your Holistically Hot Transformation is the most relatable health and nutrition book of its kind.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780692662403
Publisher:	Marissa's Well-Being and Health
Publication date:	05/15/2016
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.57(d)

About the Author

Marissa Vicario, AADP, is an award-winning, board-certified Integrative Health and Nutrition Coach, healthy living blogger and Women's Health & Lifestyle Expert. As the Founder of Marissa's Well-being and Health, she is passionate about teaching women to trust themselves to make nutritious, slimming and energizing choices without resorting to fad diets and all-juice cleanses. Her tips, recipes and expertise have been featured on The Dr. Oz Show, The New York Times, Entrepreneur Magazine, Glamour and Next Generation TV among many other women's lifestyle publications.

After spending a decade and a half as a junk food vegetarian and raging sugar addict, Marissa Vicario discovered whole foods and the way they made her look and feel. Her desire to live a cleaner, healthier lifestyle was so strong, she broke out her hand-me-down pots and pans and dull cutting knives and taught herself to cook in the kitchen of her Manhattan studio apartment. In the process, she learned that food changes everything and single-handedly transformed the trajectory of her life from the inside out. It wasn't long before she decided to study holistic nutrition and make it a career.

When she's not teaching workshops and cooking classes or coaching clients in her private or group programs, you can find her traveling with her husband, David, running with the New York Road Runners or experimenting with flavorful, healthy recipes.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Foreword
Introduction
Part 1: Holistically Hot Ideology
Chapter 1: What Is Holistically Hot?
Chapter 2: Why Diets Don't Work
Part 2: How Your Bod Works
Chapter 3: Food is Fuel
Chapter 4: Digestion: You Are What You Absorb
Chapter 5: Immunity: Acid, Alkaline & Inflammation
Part 3: Small Changes, Big Shifts
Chapter 6: Finding Your Fuel
Chapter 7: Carbs that Count
Chapter 8: Drink Up
Chapter 9: Superfoods
Part 4: Cooking at Home
Chapter 10: Simple Techniques for Simple Food
Chapter 11: Stocking a Healthy Kitchen
Chapter 12: Cook More with Less Stress
Chapter 13: Meal Planning in Minutes
Chapter 14: The Daily Detox
Part 5: The Food-Mood Connection
Chapter 15: Listening to Your Body
Chapter 16: Understanding the Crave Wave
Chapter 17: Reversing the 'Sugar Shock'
Chapter 18: Conscious Eating: Fullness and Hunger
Part 6: Beyond Food
Chapter 19: Changing Your Relationship with Food
Chapter 20: Upgrade Your Day
Chapter 21: Sustainable Self-Care
Chapter 22: Exercise & Movement
Chapter 23: Conscious Living
Part 7: Real Life Application
Chapter 24: Dining Out
Not the End, the Beginning
About the Author

Editorial Reviews

Publisher's Weekly: Written for fans of glossy magazines, Vicario’s book rolls out a well-integrated, holistic lifestyle plan based on what she touts as her successful personal transformation. She left a successful but stressful PR job and abandoned her unhealthy eating and drinking habits, and is now a health and nutrition coach. It’s easy to jump on Vicario’s bandwagon; she uses strong salesmanship techniques (asking questions that can only have one answer), serves up plenty of encouraging words, and shares personal details about her transformation to great advantage. (Once she found her “purpose” in health coaching, the rest of her life fell into place, she explains.) In addition to self-help narration, the book includes healthy food choices and a sprinkling of recipes. “Client Story” sidebars illustrate successful practices and brief “Put It in Action” summaries at chapter ends are useful reminders of small and manageable changes to incorporate into one’s life. In addition to nutrition, Vicario covers the well-stocked pantry, “stress-free” cooking, exercise, relationship tips, and a few out-of-the-ordinary subjects (tongue scraping, mask treatments). Lifestyle change “doesn’t have to be complicated,” Vicario insists, and for determined readers, this book may well be the impetus for transformation. (BookLife)

Review Rating: 5 stars Reviewed By Mamta Madhavan for Readers' Favorite Your Holistically Hot Transformation: Embrace a Healthy Lifestyle Free of Dieting, Confusion and Self-Judgment by Marissa Vicario is an uplifting book that increases readers' awareness of health and wellness, and speaks about embracing a lifestyle that is free of dieting, yet at the same time healthy. Food changes everything and the author gives good tips and techniques on what to put in your body, how to take care of yourself, so that we all can live inspired and connected lives. Everyone struggles with health issues and this book will help to resolve issues one has with eating and an approach to food. For all those who are health conscious and want to maintain a healthy lifestyle, this book is helpful and will guide them in a simple way that is relatable and can be practiced without much difficulty. The author handles a relevant topic methodically. Marissa Vicario connects well with readers with her personal experiences of living alone in a big city, working, and trying to maintain a healthy lifestyle. Her personal stories are encouraging and will motivate readers to adopt a positive outlook towards leading a healthy life. The book also speaks about why dieting doesn't work and why there is no need to count calories when one is eating healthy food. There are a few recipes included, which are useful and will guide readers to make healthier choices in their food habits. It's a good guide for everyone who is looking for health and wellness transformation.

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