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Eating Stella Style: Low-Carb Recipes for Healthy Living (Paperback)
by George Stella , Christian Stella
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Author: George Stella , Christian Stella
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Pub. in: January, 2006
ISBN: 0743285212
Pages: 272
Measurements: 8.9 x 7.3 x 0.8 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00972
Other information: ISBN-13: 9780743285216
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- Awards & Credential -
George Stella, is a professional chef for more than twenty years and the host of the Food Network's Low Carb and Lovin' It. He applied the principles of Stella Style to his own family who cumulatively lost an unbelievable over 560 pounds together! |
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The host of the Food Network's Low Carb and Lovin' It turns his popular show into text, punctuated by many exclamation points.
In Eating Stella Style, Stella brings it to you in his infectious conversational style which makes you feel like he is talking directly to you. You learn how he applied the principles of Stella Style to his own family (who cumulatively lost an unbelievable over 560 pounds together) and the results have been nothing short of amazing!
For beginning low-carbers, Stella spells it all out for you step-by-step to give you an overview of what the low-carb lifestyle is all about in layman's terms and shows you how easy it is to follow. He clearly demonstrates to you how low-carb living is anything but monotonous and presents way for you to spice things up in the kitchen to create luscious, delicious and nutritious meals to satisfy your appetite every single time. The recipes in this book are quick, easy and satisfying for anyone wanting to eat better than they ever have before.
Stella admits that there's no one way to effective losing weight, so he offers several versions of Eating Stella Style to let you cater the one that will work best for you. There's even a convenient shopping list of foods to get when you go to the grocery store. Reminding everyone to find a solid support system to help them in their new lifestyle change, Stella said sticking with the sugar-free, low-carb life will make your weight loss both "simple and sustaining." As someone who has "been there" himself through the weight loss stalls and struggles, Stella openly shares how to get through these times so you don't get discouraged and give up on your low-carb plan. Having someone who has felt the pain of being obese and understanding what that is like is what makes Stella such a uniquely qualified authority on the subject of weight loss and healthy eating.
The plethora of low-carb recipes that you get in Eating Stella Style will keep you so busy cooking outstanding dishes for your family that you'll forget you're even on a diet! And that's just the way George Stella would have it!
- From quoting Jimmy Moore
Target readers:
People struggling with weight loss, food lovers, housewives, professional cooks, or hotel and restaurant managers.
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George Stella, a professional chef for more than twenty years, is the author of George Stella's Livin' Low Carb and the host of the Food Network's Low Carb and Lovin' It. He lives with his wife and sons, Anthony and Christian, in Norwalk, Connecticut. George Stella lost over 250 pounds on a low-carb eating plan and has since introduced thousands of fans to "Stella Style Eating." George Stella and his family lost over 560 pounds with "Stella Style." They ate fresh foods, used low-carb ingredients to reinvent old favorites, and developed better eating habits- all while still eating foods that they love.
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From the publisher
George Stella lost more than 250 pounds on a low-carb eating plan and has turned thousands of fans on to Stella Style - eating fresh, natural foods prepared with minimum effort for maximum taste. In Eating Stella Style, he shows readers how to tailor his recipes to fit any personalized weight-loss plan, whether it's low carb, low fat, or low calorie. He inspires even the most jaded dieters to begin a new eating lifestyle and shows them how to stay on track.
But Eating Stella Style is really about mouthwatering recipes: How does a Hot Ham and Cheese Egg Roll sound for breakfast? Or Strawberry and Mascarpone Cream Crêpes, Stella Style Baked Eggs Benedict, or Coconut Macaroon Muffins? For lunch or dinner, choose Grilled Portabella and Montrachet Salad, Wood-Grilled Oysters with Dill Butter, Kim's Stuffed Chicken Breasts with Lemony White Wine Sauce, Shaved Zucchini Parmesan Salad, or Spaghetti Squash with Clams Provençal Sauce. Satisfy your snack cravings with Better Cheddar Cheese Crisps, Devilish Deviled Eggs with Tuna, or Cheesy Pecan Cookies. And for dessert, try Pumpkin Pound Cake, Lemon Meringue Pie, Honeydew and Blackberry Granita, or Chocolate Pecan Truffles.
Perfect for both devoted Stella Style fans and new converts, Eating Stella Style will tempt you with tasty, flexible recipes that satisfy everyone!
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Introduction: Getting Started
Where to start, where to start?
Let's start fresh.
I'm George Stella, professional chef and champion of fresh, healthy foods that taste great! I call it Stella Style.
It seems like only yesterday that I tipped the scales at a whopping 467 pounds. That's right, 467 pounds!
Now, I'm healthier than I've ever been!
What do you have to lose?
Over the past seven years, my family and I have dropped a combined total of 560 pounds. We've exchanged our old habits for new, healthier ones, and we've never felt better! I'm traveling in airplanes without having to ask for a seatbelt extender. I'm fitting into smaller and smaller clothes, and no longer have to shop from specialty "big men's" catalogs.
I feel like I'm finally living the life I always should have had.
Even now, after losing more than 260 pounds and keeping the weight off for years, it's still painful for me to think back to what my life was like then. When my whole family was overweight, we couldn't do anything without attracting attention - the stares of strangers were something we came to expect! Now, when I'm spotted in the fresh produce section of my local grocery store, I'm not getting glaring looks, and children aren't hiding behind their mother's legs. When people point at me, it isn't because I'm fat; it's because I'm the low-carb chef from TV.
Sometimes, when I need a few ingredients for my newest recipe, a trip to the store can take hours! Seems everyone knows my name! Seems everyone has been inspired by my family's weight loss and are hungry for more. More often than not, they'll ask -
Where should I start? Or...
How do I get started? Or...
How did you start?
Stella Style... A Fresh Start
Stella Style is, quite simply, how we did it. It is our recipe for weight-loss success.
My family's fresh start began the moment my wife and I decided to give the low-carb lifestyle a try. We swapped our sugar-filled highly processed packaged foods for wholesome fresh foods that were naturally low in carbohydrates. We rethought the way we cooked, shopped, and ate. We rethought the way we lived.
Over the years, our eating philosophy evolved into something we call Stella Style. What began as a strict low-carb "diet" has grown into a flexible lifestyle that allows us to eat a broad range of healthy and fresh foods that taste great.
For me, Stella Style means preparing simple meals using the best kind of food - fresh food. There's no reason to sentence yourself to tasteless, monotonous menus: With Stella Style, you'll eat low-carb meals, snacks, and desserts that are delicious and satisfying. Most important, you'll eat food that you love, without pinching on the portions!
With Stella Style, you'll learn to:
- Eliminate all the "white stuff" from your diet. This means refined sugars, white flour, and potatoes.
- Replace processed foods with fresh, healthy choices.
- Shop the outer aisles of your grocery store for fresh, healthy foods.
- Select the right, high-fiber veggies.
- Get into your kitchen and COOK!
- Reinvent your high-carb favorites with low-carb alternatives.
- Eat well-rounded meals.
- Surround yourself with a strong support system.
- Identify the right foods without obsessing over each and every carb.
- Keep menus simple while still staying creative.
- Eat until you're satisfied.
Living by these simple guidelines gave my family and me a fresh start and a new lease on life. I want this book to do the same for you. I want to give you your fresh start toward success. Hey, I feel so great, I'm eating such delicious food, how could I not tell the world?
This book is put together for anyone who's trying to lose weight.
In Stella Style, I'll give you all the information you need to make each and every recipe your own. I'll show you how to reinvent old favorites and create a few new ones along the way, so you'll never get bored or hungry. I think you'll find Stella Style to be simple, satisfying, and extremely flexible. I wouldn't have it any other way! What I know works for everyone is food that just tastes good.
I've included not only carb counts for each and every recipe, but the calories, fat, protein, and fiber content as well, so whether you're just starting out or heading into the home stretch, you can tune the recipes to your liking. My sons have stepped in to offer some Healthful Hints, so you can lower some of those calorie and fat counts without sacrificing flavor.
The recipes in this book are for everyone. They all make the most of fresh, wholesome ingredients. Once you give them a try, I'll bet you never go back to your old eating habits again.
I sure didn't.
How to Get a Fresh Start Stella Style
Step One: Welcome Change
Seven years ago, I experienced the unforgettable indignity of being wheeled outside a hospital - down to the back dock - so that I could be weighed on a flatbed laundry scale.
I was sick yet again. It was pneumonia, for the third time in a little more than a year. But this time felt different. I felt different. By the time I made it to the emergency room, I felt lifeless.
They wheeled me out to that laundry scale and I was way too sick to care.
I remember sitting in the wheelchair in a hospital gown that didn't fit. There were several laundry room workers gathered around, and one of them announced, "He weighs four hundred and sixty-seven pounds!"
That's when my doctor sat down and told me that I had congestive heart failure. He told me that I had to take this medication, and that medication, and this medication over here. I had no idea really what these medications were, or how I could possibly afford them.
That was when he said it.
My doctor looked me in the eyes and laid it out plain and simple. He said, "You are going to die."
I had too much body for my heart to supply with blood, and that was going to be the end of me.
I was sent home with a lecture and many, many pages of dieting instructions. Menus, recipes, everything, but I was more demoralized than ever. I was dwelling on the fact that I was going to die. In fact, I had accepted it.
But the worst thing, worse than my own health problems, lack of direction, and hopeless feelings, was that my family was following in my footsteps. Making the same bad decisions. Feeling that same hopelessness.
Somewhere along the line we had become... a fat family.
My sons had tried this diet and that diet and had always failed. Anthony weighed in at 225 pounds, my wife at 200, and my youngest son, Christian, was well on his way to a future like mine. At fifteen years old, he was already over 300 pounds and growing. Christian had even been pulled out of public schools and was now being home schooled, because he couldn't fit in with the other kids.
My wife, Rachel, tried to make better choices at the grocery store, but it was too little too late, and it didn't keep us from ordering out for pizza. We all seemed to be resigned to the way things were, to the way we were.
But with that doctor's words always in the back of my head, I realized our life together wasn't going to last long if things didn't change.
Soon after, my father died. I didn't attend his funeral because I couldn't afford the two plane tickets I was required to purchase because of my size.
Things finally became clear. I needed help. We needed help.
But as I sat in that wheelchair, all 467 pounds of me, I didn't know where to start. I didn't know what to do. I was living off disability, so a dietician was out of the question. Most commercial diet plans seemed confusing and ultimately unsatisfying. As a chef that had his start in some of Florida's best restaurants, for me, the idea of eating prepackaged frozen dinners that I counted out on a calculator was just another kind of death sentence. My health was failing and my wife and sons were bigger than they'd ever been.
We were at the bottom and we were ready to listen to anything.
They say that you have to hit the bottom before you can work your way back, and I am living proof of this. Sometimes, my weight loss is so sweet - the only sugar I really need - that I almost forget just how hard getting started really was.
When I heard of low carb, everything clicked. Here was a diet that said, the way we understood it at the time, that you could eat all the meat and cheese and butter you wanted and still lose weight. Rachel always says that she thought low carb was a joke, and that she only gave it a chance because - what other choice did we have? We laughed, and we thought it would never work, but we still gave it our all.
If anything, running across an Atkins book was fate. Low carb came into my life when I was at my lowest, and I was ready to do anything. I finally had that courage to start, but even more important, I finally had something that I thought I could start. Even though we thought it was a joke.
So nowadays, when people ask us how we started, I like to tell them...
We started laughing.
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Susan Martin (MSL quote), USA
<2007-02-28 00:00>
George Stella's first book has become our family menu planner. Here is a weight loss guru who really can cook! Everything tastes wonderful. His recipes always come out delicious. He is an unpretentious and sincere person who isn't just trying to sell you something. He has un-masked the secrets of low carb cooking and dramatic weight loss. We have lowered our weight over 30 pounds, lowered our cholesterol, blood pressure and achieved a healthy, calm and abundantly satisfying way of life in our kitchen. Much of the credit goes to George Stella who took the Atkins template and made it brilliantly clear, tasty, inexpensive and life-affirming.
I just wish the Food Network would feature him again. He is a force for health in America. |
J. Chichilitti (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-01 00:00>
It really is that great! I am a very picky eater, and everything in this book is "thumbs up"! The banana muffins are amazing, the goldfish crackers are super and the rice pilaf is a "diet saver". If I could give this book more then 5 stars I would! |
Jill (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-01 00:00>
This is the second of George Stella's cookbooks - and it is just as good as the first! His recipes are incredible. Most low carb cookbooks contain recipes that taste like low carb fare - healthy for this lifestyle, but not a lot of taste. This cookbook is different. The recipes taste just as good if not better than any restaurant fare. In fact, my parents, who are not following low carb, bought the cookbook becuase they enjoyed the meals I made for them so much, that they wanted their own copy. I highly recommend both of George Stella's cookbooks. His recipes are quickly becoming my favorites! Hope he comes out with another cookbook - and soon! |
A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-03-01 00:00>
This cookbook is a great companion to the first cookbook! Sweets, snacks, desserts, sauces, meats, etc. They are all wonderful!
The breadless bread pudding,cinnamon crisps, blueberry pancakes (you dont have to have the blueberries to make them) Oh I could go on and on. I really think that having both of the cookbooks opens a whole new world. We dont go out to eat anymore we have our own restraunt right at home. We Never feel guilty about eating any of these things! Keep up the great work George looking forward to your next cookbook! |
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