Fit Fuel: A Chef’s Guide to Eating Well, Getting Fit, and Living Your Best Life

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With more than 25 years in the culinary profession, Chef Robert Irvine has cooked his way through Europe, the Far East, the Caribbean and the Americas in hotels and on the high seas. He’s best known as the host of one of Food Network’s highest-rated shows, Restaurant: Impossible, but equally recognized for his muscular physique and healthy lifestyle focus that once earned him recognition as one of the top 25 Fittest Guys in America by Men’s Fitness magazine. With the release of Fit Fuel: A Chef’s Guide to Eating Well, Getting Fit, and Living Your Best Life, Chef Irvine translates his tough love tactics from the failing restaurant owner to the everyday man and woman struggling to get their health and fitness goals on track. Developed from Robert Irvine’s lifetime of training and nutritional knowledge, with support from distinguished fitness writer Matt Tuthill, Fit Fuel is packed from cover to cover with equal parts inspiration and information that can change your life forever. The book is divided into three parts, the first of which examines the mental aspects of goal setting, habit forming, and long-term maintenance. Here, Chef Irvine provides encouraging, digestible ideas of how to change the way we see and think about food, ourselves, and our own unlimited potential. Just as he’s done in season after season of Restaurant: Impossible, Chef Irvine provides readers with the same no-excuses encouragement and mental coaching in Fit Fuel, motivating with tools, resources, and inspiration every step of the way. The second section of the book focuses on training, with an easy-to-follow resistance training program, demonstrated through A and B photography and well-defined techniques that the 49-year-old British Royal Navy veteran considers fundamental to his own lean and muscular physique. In addition to the main program, there are time-saving workouts, as well as a full starter s program for any beginner who might find the main program too daunting off the bat. In its final section, Fit Fuel provides recipes for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and dessert, all illustrated with realistic photography and step-by-step instructions. Few dishes or main ingredients are overlooked, despite their unmerited reputations as no-no foods. From pancakes to salads, beef to fish, Chef Irvine challenges the idea of good vs. bad as it pertains to the everyday diet, emphasizing the fact that healthy eating does not require deprivation. TOC......Page 7 Why I Wrote This Book......Page 9 The Mental Aspects of Bring Fit......Page 10 What Fitness Means to Me......Page 13 Life, or How I Got to Where I am Today......Page 18 Rocking the Navy Life (or so I thought)......Page 23 Why You'll Make It Stick This Time......Page 27 No-Excuses Training......Page 33 The Mind Follows the Body. The Body Follows the Mind.......Page 34 Join A Real Gym......Page 37 Avoid the Cycle of Fitness Failure......Page 38 Work Your Mind Like a Muscle......Page 43 Consider the Gym Your Friend......Page 44 Don't Get Fancy - Just Stick with the Basics......Page 46 The Training Program......Page 50 Chest......Page 54 Back......Page 58 Legs......Page 62 Shoulders......Page 66 Arms......Page 70 Abs......Page 74 Starter's Program......Page 76 Time-saving Workouts......Page 86 Cardio......Page 89 Nutrition......Page 91 Eat Great and Get in Shape......Page 93 Food Labels: A Basic Primer......Page 96 Great Eating: The Shopping List......Page 99 My Favorite Ingredients......Page 103 Macros, Calories & How Much You Really Need to Eat......Page 104 Let's Eat......Page 108 Breakfast......Page 111 Lunch......Page 133 Dinner......Page 155 Sweet Rewards......Page 187 The Big Reveal......Page 196 Acknowledgements......Page 198