The Coffeepot Cookbook
Saturday, April 28, 2012
BOOK - AN INTRODUCTION TO COFFEEPOT COOKING : HOW I LOST 101 POUNDS WITH PORTIONED CONTROLLED MEALS
An Introduction to Coffeepot Cooking:How I Lost 101 pounds with Portioned Controlled Meals
This is much more
than a book about cooking in my coffeepot. When I hit 245, my daughter,
and her cousin, ganged up on me and threatened to cancel future family
vacations unless I lost weight. I was being forced by them to learn to
cook portion controlled meals for one person and, lose 40 pounds. This
is my story. It is how I ultimately lost 101 pounds cooking in my
coffeepot and kept it off.
When I started thinking about coffeepot
cooking for making portion controlled making meals for one person, I
discovered that many other people had addressed various cooking issues
by using a coffeepot. The reasons others had engaged in coffeepot
cooking are discussed in the first chapter.
As a scientist, I did not
start cooking in my coffeepot until I studied everything I could find
and I found contempt for the method based on the safety concerns of
people who had never tried it. These fear driven comments are almost
comical in the hindsight of having cooked in my coffee pot for more than
two years without any personal adverse effects and having the positive
benefit of adapting to portion controlled meals and losing 100 pounds.
Safety concerns are addressed in the second chapter but it should be
obvious that being 100 pounds overweight is less healthy than coffeepot
cooking.
During those two years, I cooked hundreds of meals in my
coffeepot and have been very satisfied with the results. Many of the
recipes were adapted from crockpot recipes or based on my professional
cooking experience and family traditions. Very simple recipes are
included in Chapter three I am sure that once you enjoy cooking, you too
will be able to adapt recipes to the tools available, including your
coffeepot.
This book is also about my personal journey to lose 100
pounds and go from morbidly obese at 265 pounds to slightly overweight
at 165. Actually, the starting point of cooking in my coffeepot was 245
but I had been 265 in the recent past. The path I took may not work for
you, but the diet principles are universal. I needed to cook portion
controlled meals and scale back dramatically on the amount I was cooking
and eating. In my case, I chose to cook in my coffeepot and prepare
much smaller portions than I had done all my life. I would only eat the
carefully pre-weighed portion I put in the pot after a light breakfast
when I wasn't hungry and when I came home, the meal would be cooked and
ready when I was hungry.
The final chapters of this book are based on
excerpts from my blog documenting my near obsession in losing 100
pounds to return to more human proportions instead of trying to compete
with Jabba the Hutt in a fat man contest. If you have friends or family
who might benefit from this knowledge, be sure to send them a copy of
this book. This happens to be a fun way of cooking for all young and
adventuresome people and the young at heart.
Have fun and enjoy fine food – just less of it!
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