The Virgin Diet Cookbook: 150 Easy and Delicious Recipes to Lose Weight and Feel Better Fast

by J. J. Virgin

Overview

The companion to the New York Times bestseller The Virgin Diet brings the groundbreaking health and weight loss program into your kitchen.

With more than 150 delicious and practical recipes, The Virgin Diet Cookbook is designed to show you how to incorporate anti-inflammatory, healing foods into your diet to reclaim your health and reset your metabolism, while avoiding the 7 foods that are most likely to cause food intolerance.

These tasty, easy-to-make recipes are free of gluten, soy, dairy, eggs, corn, peanuts, and sugar and artificial sweeteners. With mouthwatering suggestions for breakfast, lunch, dinner, dessert and snacks, you'll lose weight fast while enjoying what you eat!. The Virgin Diet Cookbook will also help you to stock your kitchen, provide delicious substitutes for common ingredients, and offer easy swaps for eating out and on-the-go.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781455557035
Publisher:	Grand Central Publishing
Publication date:	02/09/2016
Pages:	416
Sales rank:	419,468
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.20(d)

About the Author

J.J. Virgin, CNS, CHFS is the New York Times bestselling author of The Virgin Diet and The Virgin Diet Cookbook. An internationally recognized expert in weight loss, Virgin has appeared on The Doctors, the Rachael Ray Show and Today, among many other programs, and blogs frequently for the Huffington Post, Prevention magazine, and Livestrong.com.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction: Drop 7 Foods, Lose 7 Pounds, Just 7 Days xi

Part I Drop 7 Foods, Feel Better Fast

1 Food Intolerance Is the Hidden Cause of Weight Gain 3

2 Top Swaps and the Virgin Plate 29

3 Toss and Shop for the Virgin Kitchen 59

Part II The Virgin Diet Recipes

4 Shakes/Breakfasts 87

5 Wraps, Salads, and Sandwiches 99

6 Snacks 117

7 Mains 131

Beef, Pork, and Lamb 131

Poultry 141

Fish and Shellfish 154

Meatless Mains 163

8 Soups and Stews 169

9 Sides 185

10 Sauces, Rubs, and Dressings 209

11 Desserts 219

Part III Three-Week Virgin Diet Meal Plans

12 The Basics 227

13 Fast Weight Loss 241

14 Vegan and Vegetarian 255

15 Diabetes and Pre-Diabetes 271

16 Paleo/Low Carb 287

17 Family 313

18 On the Go 329

19 On a Budget 343

Appendix: Restaurant Guide: Travel and Dining Out 359

Resources 369

Further Reading 381

Metric Conversion Chart 383

Index 385

About the Author 399

Editorial Reviews

PRAISE FOR THE VIRGIN DIET COOKBOOK:

"The Virgin Diet Cookbook shows readers that eating healthy and losing weight can be easy, delicious, and fast." -Mark Hyman, MD, author of the New York Times bestseller The Blood Sugar Solution

"A book with a powerful message... many people spend their lives wondering why they are tired, sick, or overweight, when the solution is as close as the food choices in their refrigerator or pantry. The Virgin Diet Cookbook's wonderful and delicious new recipes can become an integral part of a program for health and slenderness without deprivation." -William Davis, MD, author of the #1 New York Times bestsellers Wheat Belly and The Wheat Belly Cookbook

"In The Virgin Diet Cookbook, JJ is takes the guesswork out of food preparation and planning by offering up delicious, healthy recipes and meal plans that all pass the test. -Diane Sanfilippo, BS, NC; New York Times bestselling author of Practical Paleo and The 21-Day Sugar Detox

PRAISE FOR THE VIRGIN DIET:

"Eliminates the 'healthy' foods that are actually holding your health hostage so you can lose weight quickly and permanently." —Mark Hyman, MD, #1 New York Times bestselling author

"A foolproof, science-based plan to lose weight, boost your metabolism, and reclaim for health, for life.." —Daniel G. Amen, MD, author of Change Your Brain, Change Your Body

"Food sensitivity is a hidden epidemic— this eye-opening book will change the way you think of food so you can lose weight for good." —Frank Lipman, MD, author of Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Start Living Again

"You must read this book if you think you're doing everything right and still struggling to lose weight!" —Suzanne Somers, bestselling author of 23 books, including Bombshell

From the Publisher

11/18/2013
Bestselling nutrition expert Virgin (The Virgin Diet) offers 150 recipes in this companion cookbook. While it’s helpful to understand the reasoning behind Virgin’s premise—that so-called “healthy foods” may cause weight gain and that food intolerances can be identified by a process of eliminating certain foods and then reintroducing them—readers can go straight to shopping lists, meal plans, and recipes, diving head first into a program that Virgin claims will lead to fast and effective weight loss without deprivation. Her plan cleverly provides “lateral shifts” to help readers navigate what may for some be a whole new way of eating. For instance, in her “top swaps” list, corn chips give way to kale chips, pasta morphs to spaghetti squash; white potatoes are replaced by sweet potatoes. Virgin also advises going organic when possible and staying away from genetically modified foods. With concluding chapters on the diet for diabetics, vegetarians, and vegans, paleo-low carb followers, and “on a budget,” “on the go,” and family meals, Virgin broadens her message to address the needs of a wide audience. Still, one must be willing to think (and eat) outside the box (i.e. lasagna noodles are replaced by packaged chicken slices; one shopping list calls for wild caught squid). Readers ready to cut to the chase will welcome this straightforward yet inventive cookbook. (Feb.)

Publishers Weekly