Dee's Mighty Cookbook
Dee McCaffrey is an organic chemist. Her book, Tasty Cuisine for Flourless and Sugarless Living is part cookbook, part motivational, part educational, all good.
Dee traces her first time overeating, aged 9 dealing with her parents divorce, to how that triggered the next few decades of her relationship with food. But it's not just overeating, it's what she was eating.
Like most of us that are overweight, Dee ate lots of refined carbs, sugary foods, processed foods and very little if any fruits and vegetables. Carbohydrates are not evil things. Fruits and vegetables are carbs. Her background in chemistry and personal research helped her make the connection between how the body processed "foreign" foods, processed carbs vs. the real thing.
Keep in mind, our ancestors didn't eat they way we currently do. Food was made fresh most every day and had little shelf life. All the processing food now goes through is mainly to extend the shelf life. It is quite possible the price we pay for convenience is our expanding girth.
Her book goes into detail on why flour and sugar are bad. Once she gave them up, her weight dropped. Within 3 and ½ months she lost 48lbs. One year later, she lost 102lbs reaching her goal weight of 108lbs and have kept the weight off for over a decade.
You may think giving up flour and sugar is too hard or very impossible, but she gives alternatives. Eat flour with the fiber still in it. Raw sugar is healthier than high fructose corn syrup. She also tells you what to look for in the store.
The bulk of the book is dedicated to her recipes. You get breakfast, salads & dressings, veggie eats, snacks, sandwiches and soups and even beverages. The recipes range from the basic, Veggie Omelet, to the exotic, Sunflower-Almond-Sesame Tahini Logs.
Reading and following her advice requires you to have an open mind and be open to change. Going completely sugarless and flourless in today's world won't be easy, but if you feel addicted to those types of foods and powerless to stop, give her book a read. It might help you to see that not only has that change been done, it's been done successfully.
Also available is Dee's Lose Weight For Life DVD, I'll review that one next week and also post some before/after pictures of Dee.
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03.12.07 | renee commented: I should clarify, she's replacing white and enriched flour w/oat flour and other types that still have the fiber. She replaces white sugar with things like organic molasses or raw honey. She even suggests Stevia.
So it's not 100% no flour or sugar, just the unhealthy forms found in most processed foods. Hope that explains it better 
03.13.07 | Gina commented: Warning: snotty comment ahead!
I had *the Best* flourless dark chocolate expresso "cake" this weekend. I'd be willing to live on *that*!!
As some of you know, my kids have to eat a gluten free and dairy free diet, so the idea of cutting anything else from our menu feels extraordinarily disheartening. The sugar stays for us--but the concept is incredibly interesting.
03.13.07 | renee commented: 
Gina, that comment was so NOT snotty...was it homemade cake to share your recipe?
::scared sugar lovers are gonna take a pitchfork to my hiney::
...remember, she still uses sweetners, she didn't say down w/sweets 
03.14.07 | Gina commented: Yeah, no recipe--sorry--unless you can get it out of the folks at Cabana in Nashville. (And if you do, I am so coming over for dinner!) 
03.29.07 | pc commented: To successfully lose weight, you must carry out
a plan to balance your caloric intake with exercise.
Ideally, dieting should be done by eating a nutritionally balanced, low-calorie diet and
increasing physical activity.
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I don't think I could go all the way sugarless or flourless.
Though I wouldn't mind trying the cookbook out.