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Live Your Healthiest Life is a deliciously unique cookbook that shares the weight loss journeys of two people from different countries and cultures who have beautifully adapted their family recipes to whole-food, plant-exclusive recipes without added salt, oil, and sugar.

Shayda Soleymani lost 120 lbs. Gustavo Tolosa lost 70 lbs. They both found a firm friendship and a commitment to sharing how anyone can achieve a truly healthy version of themselves.

Shayda is passionate about helping others thrive on a whole food plant based diet, SOS free, having seen firsthand what it has done for herself, her family, and others. She is known for creating authentic oil-free Persian recipes as the creator of her YouTube channel and website, Healthy Cooking with Shayda.

Gustavo is a concert pianist and music professor with a Doctorate in Musical Arts from the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester. He became a strong voice in the whole food plant-based community, helping people adopt a WFPB diet and has developed a successful and result-driven online program, “Gustavo’s 7-Day Reboot, ReSET & Detox Program,” that focuses on daily support, teaching participants how to make simple but delicious meals that make staying focused and on track a sustainable reality.

• The story of both Shayda and Gustavo’s weight loss journeys.
• One of Shayda’s secrets to success in losing weight is her laser beam focus, something she learned first from her mother.
• What are some of the questions someone might ask themselves if they are stuck yo-yo’ing with their weight?
• The extent to which weight affects how people feel about themselves.
• Shayda’s Weight-Loss Strategies. We discuss: Environment. Caloric Density. Simple Meals.
• Gustavo’s Weight-Loss Strategies. We discuss: Be Kind To Yourself and Just Get back up. Stop chasing recipes!
• How to make traditional dishes a lot healthier, without ever losing the flavours.

I love the focus on family and connection in this conversation and of course in, the book Live Your Healthiest Life.

Turning a common block or obstacle, culture – tradition – family favourites and making it into a delicious selling point for a whole food plant-based lifestyle.

If you are struggling to find a laser beam focus for prioritising your health AND an abundance of delicious recipes made with love to share with the people you love, I recommend connecting with Shayda and Gustavo and Purchasing, Live Your Healthiest Life.

This is also a perfect conversation to share with the person dear to you who needs to hear it.

Connect with Shayda across the socials: Facebook | Instagram | Youtube

Connect with Gustavo across the socials: Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | Youtube

Purchase, Live Your Healthiest Life:

To learn more about Healthy Cooking with Shayda, healthycookingwithshayda.com.

To learn more about Gustavo’s 7-day program, please visit plantemus.com and click on “Webinars” and then “Live Workshops.”

That’s it for this week in Healthification.

Plant Positive Journal (printed and fillable PDF)

This journal and daily planner follows a twelve month format however is not dated so it is perfect to use at ANY time of the year.

With love and gratitude plant friends.

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