BOOK REVIEW – Secret’s to Controlling your Weight, Cravings and Mood by Maria Emmerich

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I recently finished reading Maria Emmerich’s book, Secrets to Controlling your Weight, Cravings & Mood.  I love Maria’s blog, and I religiously read all of her posts.  I’m little bias towards Maria and her words of wisdom.  I bought the kindle version her book for $9.99.  Since then I’ve been on a kindle book buying spree!

Just as the title suggests it’s all about using food and/or supplements to improve your mood.  I found the food – mood connection extremely interesting.  When I started eating low carb/gluten free, within weeks I noticed a huge boost in “happiness.”  After digging deeper into the experience I discovered FAT is nature’s Prozac.  Imagine that, eating the skin on the chicken breast, cooking in bacon fat, using coconut oil, and other forms of natural fat can boost your mood.

The theme of the book centers around these four areas taken from page 98:

For 90% of dieters, a deficiency in one of four essential brain chemicals can cause weight gain, fatigue, and stress.  The solution to losing weight doesn’t lie in deprivation diets; it lies in balancing our neurotransmitters.  Specialized nutritionists, like myself, and advanced practitioners are focusing on how the brain affects our health.

  • Serotonin influences appetite
  • GABA curbs emotional eating
  • Acetylcholine regulates fat storage
  • Dopamine controls metabolism

I found this particular section on Vitamin D in the book interesting.

Maria explains low vitamin D can be contributed to chronic fatigue & depression.  Infertility has been linked to low vitamin D and Vitamin D is 800% more effective at preventing influenza infections in children than vaccines.  Maria recommends you take around 5000 ius a day – Vit D-3 is preferred.

I was completely unaware vitamin D played so many roles.

If you want to know more about the Secrets to Controlling your Weight, Cravings & Mood, you can buy the book by clicking here, or the Kindle version by clicking here.  Visit Maria’s Facebook page and blog for daily information on how food affects you and what to do about it.

Enjoy,

p.s.  The last chapter of the book is dedicated to low carb, gluten free recipes, ranging in snacks, meals, to dessert.

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Gluten Free Resources

Do you need help with gluten free meals?
I recommend this meal-planning app. It makes cooking gluten free dinners extremely easy and family-friendly.
What gluten free snacks can I eat?
Lots! I have a ton of practical gluten free snack recipes in my cookbook.
How can I eat dessert on a gluten free diet?
You can 100% eat dessert while eating gluten free. Try my dessert cookbook for easy gluten free dessert recipes.
How do I know what is gluten free and what isn’t?
I have a whole section is it gluten free?
How do I make substitutions?
If you need substitution advice I created a ton of resources here.

Oat Flour Banana Muffins on a cooling rack.

Oat Flour Banana Muffins

A blue plate with two tacos on it made with cheese taco shells.

1-Ingredient Cheese Taco Shells

An image with 4 different gluten free lemon desserts.

17 Irresistible Gluten Free Lemon Desserts

A collage of 4 different gluten free Valentine's cookies.

Gluten Free Valentine’s Cookies

A cookie tray of easy peanut butter cookies.

Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies

A collage of 4 different potato chip alternatives.

13 Tasty Potato Chip Alternatives

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    1. Thanks! Checkout Maria’s blog for her thoughts on the food/mood connection. She is a nutritionist and gifted recipe developer. Her blog can be found at https://mariahealth.blogspot.ca/
      I look forward to reading more of her books and writing about it.
      Carol

  7. Does it focus more on supplements or does it offer plenty of suggestions for what foods to eat to make improvements? I’m not a fan of taking a bunch of supplements.

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      I’d say it is 50/50. Maria first goes through supplements for weight, cravings, mood and then shares what foods can be used to help that are naturally high in them. But she does not list the quantity of food to eat to get the same result as the supplement.

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