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Contents
Real Food, Real Recipes and a Diet that Really Works
What Are SIRT Foods and Why Are They Special?
Top SIRT Foods: Quick Reference
The Recipes
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.
I have had to believe in myself to come this far on my diet journey. After becoming known as a healthy-eating expert by way of the 5:2 Diet, I