Orr Daniel - The wellness lifestyle: a chefs recipe for real life

The

WELLNESS
LIFESTYLE

a MyTendWell book

The

WELLNESS
LIFESTYLE

A Chefs Recipe for Real Life

DANIEL ORR & KELLY JO BAUTE, PhD

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Red Lightning Books

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Bloomington, Indiana 47405 USA

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2018 by Daniel Orr and Kelly Jo Baute, PhD

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ISBN 978-1-68435-059-9 (paperback)
ISBN 978-1-68435-056-8 (ebook)

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CONTENTS

Cultivating a New You
Tips for Improving Your Mind and Body

Enlightening Your Life
Superhero Ingredients and Mindful Eating

The Proof Is in the Pudding
Some of Our Favorite Recipes

PREFACE

The Wellness Lifestyle: A Chefs Recipe for Real Life is a marriage of food and fitness and was written to assist those obsessed with food and struggling with daily physical activity. Who qualifies? Anyone who collects cookbooks, buys quick-fix exercise books, watches cooking shows and weight-loss programs, or makes it a priority in life to dine in the newest, trendiest restaurants, all while struggling with the buttons, zippers, and snaps in the morning when getting dressed for work on Monday. Chefs, who are obviously obsessed with food, will also love this book. The guests in our restaurants eat our cooking occasionally; we are tempted by bacon fat, foie gras, and caviar every day. Chefs eat, drink, and sleep their cuisine 24/7 and must learn how to balance their pleasures and their pounds. People who love to eat, professional chefs, and amateur cooks will find the book educational, entertaining, and inspirational. People who need to learn how to move their bodies will find Chef D and Dr. Ks plan appealing and easy to fit into everyday life. The Wellness Lifestyle: A Chefs Recipe for Real Life is a recording of a successful shift in lifestyle by one of Americas best chefs. Its a fulfilling recipe for people interested in losing weight without losing out on one of lifes greatest pleasures: food! Chef D wants to teach you how to saut off the pounds (SOTP) with this new style of healthy cooking he has developed for the MyTendWell program.

Break the routine and get on the regime!
Real Food by Daniel Orr

The Wellness Lifestyle: A Chefs Recipe for Real Life was born in the Caribbean through a series of twenty articles written for The Anguillian, the national newspaper of Anguilla, the island where Chef Orr cooked in 2004 and 2005. In his column, Eating My Words, Chef D shared his adventures in dieting and healthy eating in the kitchens of CuisinArt Resort and Spa with the people of Anguilla. These articles make up the basis for the lifestyle plan. Chef D invited Dr. Kelly Jo Baute to bring the book full circle by developing the wellness programming of the exercise material to ensure it is the most up-to-date information and that the nutrition plan is a safe way of eating.

The numbers of chronic, and costly, health issues are skyrocketing. Type 2 diabetes is on the rise, and by the year 2025, two-thirds of the US population will be diagnosed with a debilitating diseasea completely preventable disease. Dr. K stands behind this lifestyle philosophy for preventing disease and improving overall quality of life. Families that adopt this active, healthy, and positive lifestyle will be giving their children a wellness upbringing.

This has been a long and winding road for Chef D, and he continues to work on his goal of having a healthier lifestyle and control over all the temptations that life throws at him. There have been many detours and roadblocks along the way: opening a new business, the roller-coaster economy, family issues, life, death, personal challenges, outside pressures. You knowlife. Staying on track is one of the biggest issues with making long-term lifestyle changes. Chef D and Dr. K understand this and have created a lifestyle plan that moves you toward your goal, even if it takes longer than you would hope. Its like riding a bike, right? If you fall off, it is easier to get back on if you know what you are doing, even if you have a few Band-Aids on your wounds. Those battle scars make us who we are. Come join us on the ride!

The Wellness Lifestyle and the Sauting Off the Pounds Kitchen are, in the proverbial nutshell:

Balancing protein, complex carbohydrates, and healthy fats.

Eating more local, organic, and naturally produced foods

Consuming more complex carbohydrates and fewer refined carbohydrates, such as white bread, muffins, crackers, and bagels

Consuming more fruits, vegetables, fiber, legumes, and whole grains

Reducing consumption of sweets, sugars, carbonated beverages, juices, and caffeine

Consuming more fish high in omega-3 fatty acids, leaner grass-fed and pastured meats, and eliminating processed meat and meat produced with hormones

Eliminating processed foods with additives, GMOs, and coloring agents

Reducing/eliminating snack foods, frozen foods, and canned foods

Reducing intake of saturated fats while increasing intake of unsaturated fats

Eliminating consumption of trans and hydrogenated fats totally

Decreasing portion sizes of proteins and increasing whole grains, fresh vegetables, and fruits

Reducing heavy alcohol intake

Drinking the proper amount of water per day depending on body size and amount of movement

Increasing healthy and safe movement, and setting a date with yourself for some type of moving daily

Most important, sharing physical activity, food, wine, and the pleasures of the table with the ones you love

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chef D and Dr. K would like to thank families and friends for their support and encouragement during the development of the MyTendWell Lifestyle Plan and the writing of this book.

Big thanks to Ali Sohrabi, the GM at FARMbloomington Restaurant, and his hard working FOH managers. Chef Chris Hoppie and sous chefs Ryan Johnson, Chelsi Field, and J. Brandon Shepardyou all are the best. Thanks/gracias to all the FARMhands for their support and care. Teamwork makes the dream work. They all stepped up and allowed Chef D to take the time to finish this tome.