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© Alice Liveing 2016
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CONTENTS
For those of you familiar with my story, you’ll know that I spent the majority of my teenage years buying in to dangerous quick-fix diets.
This entailed restrictive eating, cutting out food groups and believing that slogging away on a treadmill was the only way to keep fit and lose weight. The world we now live in constantly encourages us to believe that we need to make drastic changes and restrict ourselves in pursuit of a healthy physique.
The food industry is full of conflicting statements that can leave you totally perplexed as to what is actually good for you and what isn’t. If you believed every report written, it’s likely you’d end up allowing yourself a controlled list of foods you could count on one hand. Having been there, and been baffled by the amount of confusing information there was, I know how hard it is. Every ‘diet’ has a different angle, whether it is ‘cutting out carbs’, ‘low-fat’ or ‘juicing’, and I was left searching but failing to find anything that simply promoted a sustainable, balanced and inexpensive approach to achieving a year-round healthy lifestyle. The key for me was to find a way of life that allowed me to eat delicious, easy-to-make food all of the time. The emphasis had to be on fresh and accessible ingredients and dishes that worked for everyday life, be it quick lunches on the go, post-workout breakfasts or simple but delicious dinners. What I wanted to showcase were all the physical and mental benefits of being healthy.
In my first book, I shared how I began on my own journey, developing a way of eating and a lifestyle that meant I no longer found myself going round and round on the diet ‘roundabout’, which messed about not only with my body but also with my mind. Those of you who have followed me through Instagram will know that that is simply not the case any more. I have transformed both mentally and physically, becoming