Book Review: Eat Like a Girl

Eat Like a Girl: 100+ Delicious Recipes to Balance Hormones, Boost Energy, and Burn Fat by Mindy Pelz
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

The book is a guide for how a “girl” should eat based on hormones and health goals. There is a lot of information on the power of food and fasting, in addition to how fake foods, constant dopamine hits, toxins, and more can negatively affect your health. Dr. Pelz provides tips, guidelines, and resources on navigating this world with a 30-day plan and recipes.

There are four parts: Part I: Eating for Your Hormones, Part II: Using Food to Support Your Fasting Lifestyle, Part III: The Fasting Cycle, and Part IV: Recipes.

There are many strategies throughout the book. On page 96, the checklist for accelerated fat burning is a great guide that summarizes Dr. Pelz’s recommendations: follow your hormonal cycle, try longer fasts, eat fiber and good fat with every meal, eat enough protein, avoid liver agitators like alcohol, create an exercise variation plan, walk after large meals, minimize toxin load and obesogen exposure, detox, prioritize sleep, eat during daylight hours, and evaluate stress levels.

Some may be deterred by the choices you have to make in order to personalize the plan and make it work for you. You have to (1) decide a track—omnivore or plant-based; (2) choose the intensity—beginner or advanced determine the length of fasts; (3) choose how to cycle your reset—menstrual versus moon cycle; (4) choose an accountability buddy—friend, Facebook group, health coach, Reset Academy. Also, it is a lot of information to absorb, so you may want to focus on a few concepts initially before diving all in.

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