No time does more justice to the term gluttony than the Christmas season. There’s a lot of fun on the holidays. One feast after the next is served and Nussecke, Kipferl and the like do the rest. Afterwards, not only do your pants feel tight, the scales also traditionally groan afterwards. The body often has to recover from excessive bingeing. Nutritionist Alex Flohr knows how important eating right is – it saved his life. In “Body Reset” he offers recipes that are good for more than just your stomach.
Alex Flohr used to be someone else. A man who didn’t eat M&Ms one at a time, but instead put the bag on and “drank” it. Who ate not one kebab at lunch, but three. Flohr, the road builder, once weighed 135 kilos and was close to early retirement at the age of 30 – “if the doctors were right with their predictions back then.” His body gradually gave up, resulting in high blood pressure, the onset of diabetes, multiple inflammations, asthma and constant pain. In the end, he was unable to move in the hospital on a pain drip. Then the turning point came.
Recipes for a “body reset”
Flohr changed his entire eating habits and became vegan when veganism had not yet reached the mainstream. In order not to starve, he had to learn to cook from scratch, he writes in “Body Reset”. After one month he had lost 12 kilos, after 14 months 50. The values gradually improved and the body recovered. His greatest moment of happiness at that time: “I was working on one of my construction sites behind the house when someone tried to steal my tools on the street. I jumped up, screamed, started running and suddenly realized: ‘Dude! You running!'”
Flohr is now doing well again. Instead of working in road construction, he now works as a nutritionist. In “Body Reset: Get Out of Obesity, Pain and Inflammation” Flohr not only shares his recipes, but also his personal weight loss story.
We present three recipes from his book in the photo series above.
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