DIY Coconut Milk
Autumn Harvest Soup
Butternut Squash and Apple Soup
Wild Salmon and Zucchini in Parchment
Cleansing Brussels Sprouts Salad with Pecans, Cranberries, and Goat Cheese
Apple Cider and Mustard Vinaigrette
Winter Recipes
Skinny Green Smoothie
Healing Tea with Turmeric and Ginger
Chocolate and Avocado Smoothie
Black Bean Brownies
Easy Green Bars
Chocolate and Banana Quinoa Cereal
Cleansing Salad
Baked Cod with Olive and Caper Pesto
Soba Noodles with Creamy Nut Sauce
Farmers’ Market Vegetable Soup
Wild Rice and Chestnut Stuffed Acorn Squash Bowl
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by Frank Lipman, MD
In my practice, I often treat people who aren’t as healthy as they want to be. They feel tired, worn-out, not quite right. They get frequent infections, headaches, and digestive upsets. They have so little energy that they feel older than their chronological age.
They come to me because they want their health and energy back. Once I’m sure they don’t have anything medically wrong with them, I work with my patients to renew their capacity for a vital, active life.
A crucial first step is to look at a patient’s diet, because what we eat has a profound effect on how we feel. For many of my patients, years of unbalanced eating turns out to be a major part of their constant exhaustion and poor functioning.
When we start talking about diet, many patients insist that they eat well. When we talk more, however, it’s clear that they don’t eat well at all. In fact, between trendy diets and all the dietary misinformation that floats around in magazine articles and online, they’ve often ended up eating in ways that are often just wrong for them despite their best intentions.
Every person is different. A diet that works well for one person may be completely wrong for someone else. And even a diet that works well for you now may not work as well at a different time of year, or when your life circumstances change.
That’s why I’m so glad to be writing this foreword to Holli Thompson’s Discover Your Nutritional Style. Holli knows, from her own experience and from her training and experience as a health coach, how vital it is to craft a diet that is right for you. More important, she understands that things change. The style that keeps you feeling well-fed and healthy may change as you change.
Holli has often worked with me to coach participants through my cleansing process. I know from my own experience that she truly understands the value of doing a safe, gentle cleanse as a way to renew your body and shake off the effects of the toxins that surround us and the toxic effects of stress. Cleansing isn’t always easy, and Holli is wonderful at helping people solve their issues with it. She’s even better at encouraging them to make the long-term dietary changes that help them stick with a healthier lifestyle.
Holli is a creative problem-solver and an empathetic, well-trained health coach. I’m delighted that she’s written a book that incorporates her ideas and her enthusiasm. Use this book to discover your own Nutritional Style and learn to lead a happier and healthier life.
Thank you from my heart to:
My clients and community. Thank you for believing that I had something to offer and for your trust, confidence, and support. I am grateful and blessed to have you.
Sunrise River Press, most especially to Molly Koecher for discovering me in More magazine and for overseeing this book with such care. I am grateful.
More magazine Editor-in-Chief Lesley Jane Seymour, for highlighting my work as a Reinvention Story in her magazine.
My guest contributors: Dr. Mark Hyman, Sarma Melngailis, Natalia Rose, Dr. Alejandro Junger, Jenny Nelson, Elizabeth Petty, and Amy Waldman. Most especially to Dr. Frank Lipman, for writing the foreword, and to Jennifer Mielke.
Joshua Rosenthal and the team at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition for leading the way and changing my life.
Sheila Buff, for your nutritional wisdom and incredible editing talent.
Jennifer Elsner, for your impeccable sense of design, beauty, and style for my overall brand; for creating my website; and for your influence, design direction, and styling. To Chelsea Fullerton, for your talented and inspiring photography. Your great eye, infectious laugh, and lovely persona made it all fun, casual, and easy.
To the photo shoot team: Thank you to the Ellwood Thompson stores for allowing us a beautiful and healthy location. More location thank-yous to Bill Sorrell and Rob Smith, Michelle Martello, and Jennifer Elsner and David Shields for allowing us access to your homes. To Lauren Thorsen for her production skills, and to Jennifer Saunders and Mary Dandridge, the two styling angels.
Robin Colucci, for coaxing this book out of me, with so much gratitude.
Pamela Henning, for being a wonderful, supportive friend from the very beginning.
Bill Couzens, for founding Less Cancer, being a great friend, and making me laugh.
Karin Witzig Rozell, Leni Onkka, Erika Lyremark, Nisha Moodley, Tara Sophia Mohr, Danielle LaPorte, and Marie Forleo, for your wisdom and inspirational coaching.
Janice Formicella, for your research, support, and everything else.
My girlfriends—you know who you are. Thank you for listening and cheering me on. I love you ladies and could not have written this book without your help; dragging me out of the house, encouraging me to keep going, and making me laugh.
My mastermind and entrepreneur colleagues, we’re in this together, and I’m so happy to be in your circle.
Mom and Dad, I love you and I am grateful to be your daughter, and thank you to my sisters and your families for your support.
My son, Nathanael Ormsby Nikolai Anatoly Thompson. I’m sorry my head was buried in my Mac so much this past year(s). Thank you for being you.
Moses, I will always be yours. Thank you for listening and being there for me.
And to my adopted furry companions, who are by my side each day.
From Down and Out to Discovering My Nutritional Style
I’m a health and nutrition coach, a certified natural health practitioner, and to make it fun, a nutrition stylist. The stylist part is my nod to my “glamorous” past life as an executive in the fashion and fine jewelry industry. (Anyone who’s ever worked in fashion knows the glamour part is way overrated, but that’s another story.)
As a coach, I work mainly with women, many of them entrepreneurs, most of them in their thirties or older. It’s a time fraught with hormonal changes, aging issues, energy issues. As I like to say, it’s the time in life when you reap what you have sown. It’s when you realize you can no longer get away with eating whatever is in front of you. The women I work with want to feel fabulous every day, they want to live life as beautifully as possible, and they want to