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Keto: A Woman's Guide and Cookbook: The Groundbreaking Program for Effective Fat-Burning, Weight Loss & Hormonal Balance
Women are biologically different from men, so why follow the same dieting advice? This expanded, full-color edition of A Woman’s Guide and Cookbook —now including 35 recipes, 25 photos, and additional diagrams—presents in-depth insight into how the keto diet works with the female body, with easy-to-follow, realistic, and customizable strategies for achieving your keto dieting goals.
Women’s bodies are different from men’s in many including in physical composition, hormonal makeup, and how they metabolize fat and calories. Here, Ketogasm website and blog creator, Tasha Metcalf, breaks down the essential differences between male and female keto dieters to create an actionable plan for adapting the keto diet to your own body and needs , whether you are looking to lose weight, reverse insulin resistance and PCOS, enhance athletic performance, improve thyroid health, or balance your hormonal cycle.
The first part of this book introduces the keto diet and fat-burning metabolism , while busting common keto myths and addressing diet dogma. This sets the stage for you to confidently approach your diet, avoid the pitfalls, and put the naysayers to rest.
Next, learn exactly how female bodies respond to both diet and exercise. Find out how the keto diet and calories coexist, how the menstrual cycle and menopause affect metabolism and eating behavior , and how the keto diet can be used to bring harmony to your hormones .
Finally, put everything you’ve learning together to implement your custom keto diet with simple strategies and instructions . These and more delicious recipes make it easy to stay on track all day If you are ready to take charge of your health and transform you body, this friendly guide delivers a clear plan of action.
Women’s bodies are different from men’s in many including in physical composition, hormonal makeup, and how they metabolize fat and calories. Here, Ketogasm website and blog creator, Tasha Metcalf, breaks down the essential differences between male and female keto dieters to create an actionable plan for adapting the keto diet to your own body and needs , whether you are looking to lose weight, reverse insulin resistance and PCOS, enhance athletic performance, improve thyroid health, or balance your hormonal cycle.
The first part of this book introduces the keto diet and fat-burning metabolism , while busting common keto myths and addressing diet dogma. This sets the stage for you to confidently approach your diet, avoid the pitfalls, and put the naysayers to rest.
Next, learn exactly how female bodies respond to both diet and exercise. Find out how the keto diet and calories coexist, how the menstrual cycle and menopause affect metabolism and eating behavior , and how the keto diet can be used to bring harmony to your hormones .
Finally, put everything you’ve learning together to implement your custom keto diet with simple strategies and instructions . These and more delicious recipes make it easy to stay on track all day If you are ready to take charge of your health and transform you body, this friendly guide delivers a clear plan of action.
272 pages, Paperback
Published January 14, 2020
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November 19, 2019
Of the Keto books I've reviewed so far, this one is on the top of the list. Beautifully/simply designed with great visuals/diagrams (the breakdown of a nutrition label on keto!) to parse the information, comparison of other diets, great food photos and numbered recipe instructions, I really liked it all as a comprehensive guide. It's still a bit too much information for me to delve into (simple is better for me), but I'm excited to try some newish recipes (I haven't come across keto soups or chicken and waffle keto recipes) that will help me maintain a keto lifestyle (for the time being).
December 26, 2019
I was sent an advance reader copy of this book to read in exchange for an honest review via netgalley and the publishers.
This book is an in-depth guide to Keto, what it is, how to achieve a keto diet and is jam packed with information and is a very useful guide to read and follow. This book kind of overloaded me in information but i will be reading through it again and again until the majority of it has sunk it.
This book gives you some fantastic and different keto recipies at the back of the book which are different to the usual kind of recipies i have found in keto cookbooks before.
A must for all keto fans!
This book is an in-depth guide to Keto, what it is, how to achieve a keto diet and is jam packed with information and is a very useful guide to read and follow. This book kind of overloaded me in information but i will be reading through it again and again until the majority of it has sunk it.
This book gives you some fantastic and different keto recipies at the back of the book which are different to the usual kind of recipies i have found in keto cookbooks before.
A must for all keto fans!
January 7, 2020
For someone who doesn't typically like reading diet books, I was impressed with (1) how easy Metcalf explains things, and (2) how she infuses herself into the writing so it's not too bogged down with science. I learned a lot about how our bodies work (women's in particular), which helped put the diet into perspective. Metcalf does an excellent job cutting through stereotypes and misinformation to help you figure out what works for you. No one's body is the same and it was refreshing to have a "diet writer" acknowledge that.
June 7, 2020
This is a comprehensive, balanced book about nutrition and health, not just dieting. It spends quite a few chapters explaining the keto diet principles, as well as how women's hormones react to various eating plans. The last section features recipes made according to the dietary guidelines discussed previously.
This book does not assume any prior knowledge of this diet, and offers insights into how best to begin a keto regimen for women with various health and hormonal states, so it really seems like a good resource for any woman considering or already practicing ketogenic eating.
Thanks to the publishers and NetGalley for a digital ARC for the purpose of an unbiased review.
This book does not assume any prior knowledge of this diet, and offers insights into how best to begin a keto regimen for women with various health and hormonal states, so it really seems like a good resource for any woman considering or already practicing ketogenic eating.
Thanks to the publishers and NetGalley for a digital ARC for the purpose of an unbiased review.
April 14, 2020
Fat burning? Weight loss? Hormone balancing? Count me in. I wanted to review this book in an effort to determine if the recipes contained within would allow me to perhaps begin the Keto diet in order to corral the stated items in the title. Was this a good book? Yes. Did it convince me to move to Keto? No, it did not, but that is not because the information is not valid and easy to understand. If you take your time and read the chapters, you will find that this book has some very useful information. For a woman, it is especially helpful in that it starts with the menstrual cycle and goes through how menopause can affect women in different ways. The recipes are easy to follow, and beneficial information such as prepping is included along with servings and sizes. Substitutions are also included. All in all, I think this is a great book to add to your cookbook shelf. Thank you to NetGalley, the author and publisher for the opportunity to review this book.
July 23, 2023
Keto Diet for Women offers a comprehensive and tailored approach to the ketogenic diet, focusing on the unique needs of female bodies. Tasha Metcalf's well-researched guide breaks down the science, debunks myths, and provides practical strategies and delicious recipes to help women achieve their health and weight goals with confidence.
February 24, 2020
This book is a great guide for any woman thinking about doing Keto. While learning why our hormones can hinder our weight loss journey, you'll learn how to calculate your macros (a task that can be daunting for many). It's a very detailed and thorough guide, which includes yummy recipes.
December 31, 2023
This book is packed full of great information about how Keto works, hormones, leaky gut, etc. Really informative! This is a great book for someone just starting out on Keto.
It doesn't have a lot of recipes but I few I will try.
It doesn't have a lot of recipes but I few I will try.
June 23, 2020
If your looking for an easy “how to start keto” keep looking cause this ain’t it 😀 Repetitive, hard to understand....too many words 🤣🤣🤣 Not my thing.
January 9, 2020
4.5 stars
An extremely comprehensive primer on ketogenic diets and women. An absolute must for women out there contemplating starting a ketogenic diet. I would even go so far as to recommend this for men as well- they can skip a few chapters ; )
Being in the healthcare industry, I can confirm there really is a bunch of complex factors when discussing different dieting strategies. One of the more complicated is the ketogenic diet wherein you are switching the body's innate sugar (glucose) based system to a fat-burning system (through a process known as gluconeogenesis or GNG) wherein you convert fat into glucose due to a lack free (dietary) glucose. Further, the fact that the female biochemical makeup is different from men. Men have a static hormonal system (after puberty) they just don't change, however, a female body changes the predominating hormones bi-monthly. Some of us are more sensitive to these changes than others. Drastic dietary changes can cause adverse effects to a woman's monthly physiology as well as throw other systems out of whack (technical terms). This book describes not only the who, what, when, where, why, but also how to slowly ease into these dietary changes.
I also really appreciated the fact that the author clearly explains that this dietary switchover not only takes time (6 weeks) but that you can very sporadically dip a toe back out on occasion (Hello, Birthday cupcake!) without blowing the whole diet (once you are fully converted.
I highly recommend this book for any woman thinking about dieting to better understand the complexity of the whole female system (whether you are going Keto or not)!
*ARC provided in exchange for an honest review.*
An extremely comprehensive primer on ketogenic diets and women. An absolute must for women out there contemplating starting a ketogenic diet. I would even go so far as to recommend this for men as well- they can skip a few chapters ; )
Being in the healthcare industry, I can confirm there really is a bunch of complex factors when discussing different dieting strategies. One of the more complicated is the ketogenic diet wherein you are switching the body's innate sugar (glucose) based system to a fat-burning system (through a process known as gluconeogenesis or GNG) wherein you convert fat into glucose due to a lack free (dietary) glucose. Further, the fact that the female biochemical makeup is different from men. Men have a static hormonal system (after puberty) they just don't change, however, a female body changes the predominating hormones bi-monthly. Some of us are more sensitive to these changes than others. Drastic dietary changes can cause adverse effects to a woman's monthly physiology as well as throw other systems out of whack (technical terms). This book describes not only the who, what, when, where, why, but also how to slowly ease into these dietary changes.
I also really appreciated the fact that the author clearly explains that this dietary switchover not only takes time (6 weeks) but that you can very sporadically dip a toe back out on occasion (Hello, Birthday cupcake!) without blowing the whole diet (once you are fully converted.
I highly recommend this book for any woman thinking about dieting to better understand the complexity of the whole female system (whether you are going Keto or not)!
*ARC provided in exchange for an honest review.*
December 24, 2019
Originally published on my blog: Nonstop Reader.
Keto: A Woman's Guide and Cookbook is a tutorial aimed especially at women who want to utilize a low/no carbohydrate diet for health and weight loss by Tasha Metcalf. Due out 14th Jan 2020 from Quarto on their Fair Winds Press imprint, it's 272 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.
This book is certainly very well organized. The first 15% of the page content covers the introduction, definitions and concepts involved in a keto. The author covers macronutrients, different metabolic pathways and some layman accessible biochemistry, along with advantages and disadvantages of various diets. The author discusses some of the side effects of ketosis and benefits of getting through the initial adjustment period.
The second section covers some of the differences of female metabolism and hormonal cycles as they relate to diet and exercise. These chapters (and indeed the whole book) are layman accessible, scientifically accurate, free of outrageous claims, and reasonable. I must admit though, when reading, this book is so theory dense that I often felt overwhelmed. I think that most readers will get probably get more from the book by 'buffet' style reading (finding specific information and taking careful notes) than by 'novel' style reading from cover to cover and trying to compile and assimilate all the information in one read-through.
The last 60% of the content is given over to implementation of a low carb diet, realistic expectations, the phases of ketosis, fat-adaptation, etc along with a bank of well curated recipes which are keto-friendly. The book is very well photographed and the composition is pleasant and easy to read. The recipes themselves are clear and easy to follow. Each recipe has a header with cooking times and a short description of the recipe. The ingredients (given in American and metric measures) are listed in a sidebar, along with yields and serving sizes. Step by step directions are followed by nutrient information. Most of the ingredients will be easy to source at any well stocked grocery, but some of the more specialized 'keto-specific' nut butters and low carb flours, milks, etc might be more difficult to find and necessitate specialty grocers or health food stores. Some, but by no means all, of the recipes are vegan friendly. The photography is exceptional and very nearly every recipe is attractively presented.
This is a comprehensive book, and it's very information dense. Four stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes
Keto: A Woman's Guide and Cookbook is a tutorial aimed especially at women who want to utilize a low/no carbohydrate diet for health and weight loss by Tasha Metcalf. Due out 14th Jan 2020 from Quarto on their Fair Winds Press imprint, it's 272 pages and will be available in paperback and ebook formats.
This book is certainly very well organized. The first 15% of the page content covers the introduction, definitions and concepts involved in a keto. The author covers macronutrients, different metabolic pathways and some layman accessible biochemistry, along with advantages and disadvantages of various diets. The author discusses some of the side effects of ketosis and benefits of getting through the initial adjustment period.
The second section covers some of the differences of female metabolism and hormonal cycles as they relate to diet and exercise. These chapters (and indeed the whole book) are layman accessible, scientifically accurate, free of outrageous claims, and reasonable. I must admit though, when reading, this book is so theory dense that I often felt overwhelmed. I think that most readers will get probably get more from the book by 'buffet' style reading (finding specific information and taking careful notes) than by 'novel' style reading from cover to cover and trying to compile and assimilate all the information in one read-through.
The last 60% of the content is given over to implementation of a low carb diet, realistic expectations, the phases of ketosis, fat-adaptation, etc along with a bank of well curated recipes which are keto-friendly. The book is very well photographed and the composition is pleasant and easy to read. The recipes themselves are clear and easy to follow. Each recipe has a header with cooking times and a short description of the recipe. The ingredients (given in American and metric measures) are listed in a sidebar, along with yields and serving sizes. Step by step directions are followed by nutrient information. Most of the ingredients will be easy to source at any well stocked grocery, but some of the more specialized 'keto-specific' nut butters and low carb flours, milks, etc might be more difficult to find and necessitate specialty grocers or health food stores. Some, but by no means all, of the recipes are vegan friendly. The photography is exceptional and very nearly every recipe is attractively presented.
This is a comprehensive book, and it's very information dense. Four stars.
Disclosure: I received an ARC at no cost from the author/publisher for review purposes
January 19, 2020
Packed with information, I really wanted to love this one, but found the layout unappealing. I really enjoyed having all the information in one place, and having so much of it! I would have liked to see better photos to make the recipes more appealing.
January 12, 2020
I have tabs on some recipes that I think I will like, and my family will love. I am starting to change my diet slowly, and I have found some tasty recipes within this cookbook. I’m nervously excited to try them out.
January 4, 2020
Very informative Keto cookbook tailored for woman. The recipes re delicious Nd I learned a lot. I try to follow keto the best I can although my family doesn’t wish to follow the diet. With that I have found struggles to balance the dietary needs or desires of the household. This book actually has helped me do that by enlightening me in ways I can work around it. Very good recipes and easy to prepare.
January 5, 2020
I received a free digital copy of this book from Netgalley for an honest review.
This was a pretty neat and straightforward approach to Keto. There is a lot of information to digest but it's worth it.
Mustard thyme chicken frotters and Chicken piccata with squash noodles are only two of the amazing recipes included.
This was a pretty neat and straightforward approach to Keto. There is a lot of information to digest but it's worth it.
Mustard thyme chicken frotters and Chicken piccata with squash noodles are only two of the amazing recipes included.
January 14, 2020
Very interesting and written for women, this book explores the beneficial effects of a ketogenetic diet and all the implications if we do that. There are a lor of scientific explanations and not so many recipes so if you are looking for a cookbook you may be disappointed, but if you are looking for a reason to follow a ketogenetic diet, you may find all the answers here.
Molto interessante e scritto appositamente per le donne, questo libro esplora i molteplici benefici di una dieta chetogenica e tutte le eventuali implicazioni che questo potrebbe avere. Ci sono molte spiegazioni scientifiche, ma non tante ricette, quindi se state cercando una serie di ricette potreste rimanerci male, ma se invece siete alla ricerca di una dieta scientificamente supportata, questo libro potrebbe rispondere a molte delle vostre domande, specialmente se siete delle donne.
THANKS NETGALLEY FOR THE PREVIEW!
Molto interessante e scritto appositamente per le donne, questo libro esplora i molteplici benefici di una dieta chetogenica e tutte le eventuali implicazioni che questo potrebbe avere. Ci sono molte spiegazioni scientifiche, ma non tante ricette, quindi se state cercando una serie di ricette potreste rimanerci male, ma se invece siete alla ricerca di una dieta scientificamente supportata, questo libro potrebbe rispondere a molte delle vostre domande, specialmente se siete delle donne.
THANKS NETGALLEY FOR THE PREVIEW!
November 24, 2019
Thank you NetGalley for an advanced copy of Keto: A Woman's Guide and Cookbook.
I have to partly blame myself for this not-so-positive review because I didn't read the info on the book before requested it. My husband and I just started Keto a few weeks ago so anything with "Keto" in the title, I've been requesting, assuming its a cookbook with (hopefully) some delicious recipes. This book wasn't exactly what I'd expected. It says cookbook but I glanced through the book through more than half of it and never saw a single recipe. Maybe towards the end there are a few but I'm just not interested in reading a 100 page book specifically about the Keto diet.
I have to partly blame myself for this not-so-positive review because I didn't read the info on the book before requested it. My husband and I just started Keto a few weeks ago so anything with "Keto" in the title, I've been requesting, assuming its a cookbook with (hopefully) some delicious recipes. This book wasn't exactly what I'd expected. It says cookbook but I glanced through the book through more than half of it and never saw a single recipe. Maybe towards the end there are a few but I'm just not interested in reading a 100 page book specifically about the Keto diet.
December 7, 2019
Finally a keto cookbook I can understand, with an entire chapter on female dieters needs. Looking forward to getting a hard copy in my hands so I can highlight my favorite sections.
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