Eat pretty every day: 365 daily inspirations for nourishing beauty, inside and out

361 Pages·2016·84.635 MB·English

by  Hart, Jolene

365 daily inspirations
for nourishing beauty,
inside and out
Jolene Hart, chc, aadp
Text copyright © 2016 by Jolene Hart.
Illustrations copyright © 2016 by Chronicle Books LLC.
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without written
permission from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Hart, Jolene, author.
Title: Eat pretty every day : 365 daily inspirations for nourishing beauty,
inside and out / Jolene Hart.
Description: San Francisco : Chronicle Books, [2016] | Includes index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2016021194 | ISBN 9781452151625 (pb) | ISBN 9781452152318 (epub, mobi)
Subjects: LCSH: Nutrition. | Beauty, Personal. | Functional foods. | BISAC:
HEALTH & FITNESS / Beauty & Grooming. | HEALTH & FITNESS / Nutrition.
Classification: LCC RA784 .H3692 2016 | DDC 613.2—dc23 LC record available at https://
lccn.loc.gov/2016021194
Cover design by Allison Weiner
Cover illustration by Vikki Chu
Design by Sydney Goldstein
Illustrations by Vikki Chu
Typesetting by Frank Brayton
The opinions expressed in this journal are solely those of Jolene Hart, a health coach
certified by the Institute for Integrative Nutrition and the American Association of
Drugless Practitioners, who is not acting in the capacity of a doctor, licensed dietician-
nutritionist, psychologist, or other licensed or registered professional. The information
presented in this book should not be construed as medical advice and is not meant
to replace treatment by licensed health professionals. Please consult your doctor or
professional health-care advisor regarding your specific health-care needs before making
changes to your diet or lifestyle.
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CONTENTS
Introduction: Inspiration for Days 4
How to Use This Book 7
Your Year-Round Beauty Journey 8
Spring 21
Summer 103
Autumn 185
Winter 267
Acknowledgments 348
Referenced Studies 349
Index 353
About the Author 357
Introduction
INSPIRATION FOR DAYS
One moment of inspiration can turn your day around.
And one moment of inspiration every day of the year
can transform your mindset, your routine, and, I deeply
believe, the way you look and feel.
The pages of daily inspiration in this book help you
create a solid foundation upon which to live your healthy,
beautiful, precious life. Some of the entries build upon
familiar ideas; they serve as reminders of time-tested
ways to nourish health and happiness. Others may be
new, and even a bit odd at first; these aim to push your
limits and expand your repertoire of habits that support
you, every day. You’re likely to find some ideas to be
surprising, some challenging, and still others effortless—
a perfect fit for you. Collectively and over time, reading
and acting on these inspirations can restore harmony
to your body, heighten the pleasure you get from your
relationship with food, raise your consciousness about the
transformative power of self-love, shift your thinking,
and inspire you to build a lifestyle of beauty that’s unique
to you and your needs. With every page, and everything
you do, you’ll be working to transform your beauty, inside
and out.
My first book, Eat Pretty, introduced the direct ties
between food, self-care, and beauty. In this book, Eat Pretty
Every Day, my goal was to put those powerful connections
and the ideas behind them into practice, helping you, the
reader, create your own lifestyle of beauty. Season by
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season and day by day, I want you to feel prepared and
motivated to apply beauty nutrition, self-care, and healthy
vanity to your routine, with action-oriented goals, recipes,
DIY tips, science-backed beauty facts, words of guidance,
and essential beauty foods to add to your diet—all of which
will help you build a rich and pleasure-packed life that
supports you in looking and feeling gorgeous. These pages
hold ideas for well-being that I’ve incorporated into my
own lifestyle, foods I stock in my kitchen, and habits I
follow consistently to stay on track.
I continue to hear from women around the world that
the concepts of beauty nutrition—that is, the foods and
nutrients that directly support and enhance our beauty by
defending, repairing, and strengthening it—and healthy
vanity, or our innate desire to look and feel beautiful, are
so relevant in their lives. Those principles certainly reso-
nate in my own life. As a beauty writer at a major fashion
magazine, giving beauty advice was my job, but my skin
issues and relationship with food left me far from looking
and feeling my best, even with access to a staggering
array of top beauty products, services, and experts. After
looking everywhere but inside my own body for answers,
I finally found that healing the beauty issues that had
plagued me for almost a decade and restoring my belief
in my own beauty started, simply enough, with my daily
meals—how I approached them as well as what I ate.
Employing tools that are neither exclusive nor expensive,
I watched my skin transform from painfully blemished,
irritated, and inflamed to calm, clear, and healthy. At the
same time, I ended my battle with the scale, experienced
INTRODUCTION   5
a surge in energy and positivity that I had struggled for,
and felt more true to myself and my body than I had in
years. Over time, I’ve seen and heard firsthand that so
many other women have experienced transformations
just like mine when they make nutrition a central part of
their beauty routines.
More and more, we are learning just how dramati-
cally our mindset creates our reality. When it comes to
beauty, the link between mind and matter is incredibly
powerful. Yes, you are what you eat—but you are also
what you believe you are. In light of this, in this book
you’ll find a deepened focus on self-love and mindfulness
and the connection of those factors to beauty. A core
belief of the Eat Pretty philosophy is that food isn’t your
enemy—on the contrary, it can be your greatest tool for
beauty. And, like bringing knowledge and intention to
your food choices, practicing mindfulness can be a source
of great strength, positivity, and beauty in your life. Pre-
senting a year of beauty mapped out before you, day by
day, this book is a course in self-discovery that will help
you look and feel your most beautiful. This year, do one
thing every day that makes you glow.
In beauty and health,
J o le n e
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HOW TO USE THIS BOOK
Turn to the season you are currently enjoying in your
spot on the globe, be it spring, summer, autumn, or
winter, and start reading at Day 1. Over the course of
more than ninety days, you’ll encounter an array of foods,
habits, and mindsets—either new to you or renewed—
plus instructions and counsel on how to use them to
help you nourish optimal beauty and health during that
season. If the current season is just a few weeks from its
close, then you may want to look ahead to prepare your
body and mind for the upcoming shift to the next season,
then begin reading from Day 1 when that season arrives.
If you’re just a few weeks into a new season, then catch
up on what you missed until you’re up to date and then
read on, one entry each day as designed. If you skip a
few days, just pick up where you left off. And if you feel
motivated to read ahead, go for it!
As the days pass and you absorb the guidance and
explore the many benefits offered in these pages, listen
carefully to your body to discover what truly makes you
look and feel your best. What foods and habits help you
feel radiant? Which ideas get you excited, and fit natu-
rally with your personality and lifestyle? I hope you’ll
trust your inherent knowledge of your body’s own needs,
but approach each new day with an open mind, letting
these daily inspirations lead you to discoveries and break-
throughs on your own journey to your most beautiful self.
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YOUR YEAR-ROUND BEAUTY JOURNEY
Open a magazine or turn on the television, and you’re
bound to see advertisements for lipstick, anti-aging
cream, and other magic elixirs that promise youthfulness,
beauty, and radiance. But if you’re reading this book,
chances are you’ve discovered that these “quick fixes”—
while they can certainly serve as fun indulgences—don’t
build the long-term beauty that you’re seeking. What does
build beauty is a balance of daily diet and lifestyle choices
and attentiveness to your mindset, outlook, and self-
perception. Real, beautiful results come from ordinary,
everyday actions that have the power to affect a dramatic
overall change in the way you look and feel. Life, as no
doubt you’ve heard before, is the journey more than the
destination. Well, so is beauty. You make certain deci-
sions along the path of your journey and, insignificant as
they seem right then and there, they may end up being
incredibly impactful for the beauty you aim to see and
feel tomorrow, and into the future. Those little habits can
become the foundation of your lifestyle, your mindset,
and even your identity.
This book is full of inspiration for making our daily
moments of nourishment and self-care into something
larger and lasting and beautiful, physically and mentally.
Too often, our beauty routine is driven by a response to
the things we see in the mirror: a new crop of blemishes,
lackluster hair, fine lines, or extra pounds. It’s not until
we notice an issue that we start to freak out—and actually
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