Lady Gaga’s Newest Fitness Addiction (Fit Celeb)

Vending Machines That Tell You Nutritional Information?  (Fit Perez)

Is Sugar As Dangerous As Alcohol and Tobacco?  A Tax On This House Hold Item Could Be Next!  (Fit Sugar)

Tired Of Your Boring Protein Shake?  Spice It Up!

It’s football season and overeating seems to go with all that high intensity TV watching.  To get your week back on track, we thought we would give you an awesome, low fat, easy to digest recipe.   This low fat  masala is refreshing and filling!

TRAINER TIP:  Eating fish 2-3 times a week aides in digestion (fish is one of the fastest digesting meats) , helps with weight loss, and gives your body natural Omega fasts ( also know to help shed weight).

Ingredients

• 1 cup basmati rice, rinsed
• Kosher salt
• 1/2 cup frozen peas
• 3/4 cup plain yogurt
• 1 small clove garlic, chopped
• 1 1-inch piece ginger, peeled and chopped
• 1 tablespoon fresh lime juice, plus lime wedges for serving
• 1/4 teaspoon ground cumin
• 1/4 teaspoon cayenne pepper
• 4 6-ounce tilapia fillets
• 2 tablespoons unsalted butter, melted
• 1 tablespoon chopped fresh cilantro or mint

Directions

   The New Year Brings about all those new exercise routines.  Unfortunately,  there isn’t an owners manual for the gym, your body, and your life.  For people who work at a gym, they know that this time of year is filled with a lot of accidents.  The biggest mistake people make is that they don’t know how to eat according to their workout routines.  I can’t tell you how many time we’ve had call 911 based on a passed out gym member, and all because they thought they shouldn’t eat before working out!

I will spare you the horror stories and jump right in….

AM WORKOUT – Pre workout,  eat 200-300 calories before your gym time.  If you are looking to lean up then follow your workout with a 200 calorie moderate carb protein shake.  Moderate carbs would be between  15-30 grams.

Lunch Workout:  On the days that you work out at your lunch time, eat a full breakfast.  Then have a snack about an hour before your workout.  Once your workout is done, try to eat your lunch within 30-45 mins after your workout.  This allows your body to use the food as fuel, decreasing the need to store it as fat!

After Work / Before Dinner Routine:  If you are working out after work but BEFORE dinner then you definitely need to have snacks with  you at work or in your car!

• Eat a moderate breakfast, then a small snack, then lunch, followed by another 200-300 calorie snack (with protein).  After your workout try to eat within 30-45 mins if possible.
• Working out in the evening means that you should be eating through out the whole day.  Your biggest meals should be during the day, NOT at night after your workout.

LATE NIGHT GYM DATE:  Eat as you normally would through the day.  If you eat dinner before, then make sure you have a protein shake or a snack with moderate carbohydrates and a good amount of protein to recover.

•  Always eat through the whole day to keep your blood sugar level.  If you have dips in your day when you don’t eat for 4-6 hours at a time, you will never make it to the gym!  Those dips create a sluggish, tired feeling, which is never conducive to getting your butt to the gym !

Use these fitness tips to help you lose weight without that after workout energy crash!  Print it out with the link below and post it on your fridge, at work, and give it out to friends for added support!  Never underestimate the power of a fitness tip to change your outlook on health and life~!

Adria Ali

It’s 2012 and everyone has decided to get a running start with their new years resolutions.  The fitness indusrty is selling tons of equipment, memberships sales are soring, and fitness atire is selling out left and right.  While money does make the world go round it doesn’t have anything to do with your internal chemistry.  You can’t buy a new metabolism, instead you have to treat it like a child and remember to feed, it help it grow and keep track of it as it ages.  Here are our Fit Tip recomendations for losing that body fat with a firey inferno which will soon be your metabolism!

• Feed It !  All those who have been starving themselves to lose weight… STOP IT!  You must feed your metabolism to lose.  Eat small frequent meals to keep the furnace burning at a steady pace!

• Nourish it – You must take your vitamins!  Without the proper vitamins your body will crave.  In this carving state it’s easy to over indulge and bindge on excess food.  Your body also tends to store more fat without enough vitamins because it thinks that you are starving (in a sense).
• Beef It Up – No not  you  Your protein intake!  Protein helps to level your blood sugar and feed the muscle that helps keep the flame of your metabolism burning bright.   Make sure you are intaking protein at each meal!

• Break A Sweat!   The best advice I ever heard was strangely enough for an actor.  Mathew Mcconaughey is quoted as saying, “I try to do something to break a sweat each day.”  Awesome information!  Make that a goal for yourself.  Each time you get to the point of breaking a sweat you have turned up the dial on your fat burning furnace.  Once it’s increased it stays at a higher rate for the rest of the day.
• Get The Right Kinds Of Fat –  Sure as a society we love our fat, however, few of us are focusing on what type!  Omega fats actually help your body lose.  They regenerate your mind and  help to increase your healthy cholesterol.

• Boil Your Fat Away – Water isn’t just to make you feel full, it’s also allows your body to literally burn off fat.  Without enough water in your system you can not reach a hot enough  temperature to burn fat.  So suck down that water!

People are under the assumption that they need pills similar to legal speed in order to increase their metabolism.  If you follow our fitness tips above you can change your body, improve your health, and start winning the weight loss war!

Adria Ali

Dr. Oz has become somewhat of a diet guru over the last year.  One of the newest things presented on the show was a berry that has the ability to help you lose body fat, grow healthier nails and hair, and clear up your skin!   Sea Buckthorn is a orange berry that is said to help people and mice loose weight without changing their diet.

Oz showed 2 mice.  One was fat while the other was thin.  The only difference between their identical diets was the Sea Buckthorn.  The skinny mouse consumed that along with his normal diet.

After hearing about this show from my mom and researching it online, I found it hard to find any info that wasn’t biased.

While these other forms of buckthorn can cause a laxative effect, sea buckthorn isn’t said to possess that quality.    The berry is also very rich in vitamin C, which is beneficial for detoxifying the body.  It can also be found in face products due to it’s vitamin C content.

Research of  Sea Buckthorn on Humans???

There wasn’t a lot of research on humans for this weight loss supplement.  The only one I found was on a supplement site but the research was  never mentioned on the popular daytime show.

 This study, published in 2011 in the European Journal of Clinical Nutrition recruited 110 overweight women (80 completed the study). The women were given diets that contained either Bilberries, Sea Buckthorn, Sea Buckthorn phenolic extract, or Sea Buckthorn oil.

Researchers noted that both bilberries and sea buckthorn caused a statistically significant reduction in waist circumference. Bilberries appeared to reduce waist circumference more than sea buckthorn (1.2 cm vs. 0.008 cm respectively). That’s not a lot but it’s something I guess.

As far as I can tell, this seems to be the only human sea buckthorn weight loss study out there so far (source).

Dr. Oz recommended 500mg of sea buckthorn oil per day.  However, the show and the Doctor didn’t release any info to support this dosage.

SIDE EFFECTS OF SEA BUCKTHORN 

If you are in good health then there isn’t any side effects.  However,  this oil does cause a blood thinning effect and if taken with other blood thinning medication it could cause some serious problems.  SEA Buckthorn should NOT be mixed with blood thinning medication.

Only time will tell if this miracle berry is what the mice showed it to be!  However, the timing of this supplement on prime time TV at the end of 2011 and into 2012 could make it the supplement to buy in the new year!

Adria Ali

    Get all the warm feelings that go with winter food, without all the calories!  This crock pot chicken soup is easy, low glycemic (slow carb), low calorie and very filling.  I made this recipe on a whim and to my delight it worked out so well that I decided to post it on the site!  Turn off your online gambling game and read the rest of this recipe.  Don’t forget to print it out to stick on your fridge.

Ingredients:

Use 1 package (after cooking it in the microwave for 3 Mins)

2 Chicken Breasts (thawed) 

Trader Joe’s Spray Olive Oil ( or a teaspoon of your own)

Better Then Bouillon ( or 32 oz of chicken broth) 

3  Stalks of celery

2 Peeled Carrots 

Dried Dill (optional) 

1 Cube of Dorot Basil

1 Cube Of Dorot Garlic (or one clove)

Add 4 teaspoons of Better then Bouillon with 4 cups of water (32 oz of chicken broth)  to the slower cooker and turn it on high.

Add in 1 cube of garlic ( 1 clove) and 1 cube of basil.

Cook brown rice in microwave (total of 3 cups per bag) and add it to the slow cooker.

In a pan brown the onion on medium heat with a couple sprays of olive oil.   Throw them into the slower cooker once they are golden brown.

Brown chicken in pan on both sides with a couple sprays of olive oil.  This should be a light brown and the meat with still be raw in the center.  Add to slow cooker.

Cut and peel carrots and add them to crock pot.

Cut celery and add it in as well.

Add in 1 teaspoon of dried dill.

Add fresh ground pepper (roughly 1/2 teaspoon).

Let the crock pot cook the chicken (in 2 whole pieces) for 30-40 minutes on high.

Take the chicken out of the crock pot and shred.  Add it back into the slow cooker, turn it down to warm and wait 5- 10 minutes.  If you are going to leave this recipe cooking longer then turn the heat down or add the rice 30 minutes before eating.   Serve and enjoy!

Calorie Break Down 

(makes 4 servings )

Calories:  184 / Fat 3g / Protein 16 g / Carbs 24 

The prep time for this healthy slow cooker recipe is roughly 10 minutes!  After cooking, I decided to check the odds on my random recipe.  To my surprise it turned out wonderful!  Luckily, my odds were better then online gambling.   Make this part of your recipe book by printing it below!  It will fill up your tummy with out filling out your clothes.

Adria Ali

We have seen Janet struggle through the years with her weight.  In the most recent ad for Nutrisystem, Jackson seems to open up to the audience.

“What’s so funny, and can be so frustrating is that we all want success, and we all want to be happy, but what stops me is when I don’t have a plan,” Janet explains in the ad. “I understand what it’s like to have weight issues. I’ve dealt with it all my life.”

I was luck enough to see Janet’s last concert.  It became clear to me that her physical fitness wasn’t the issue with her ongoing weight problems.  The concert it’s self was like one long cardio routine.  Jackson moved as if she was still in her twenties!  As a trainer, I know that exercise is only part of the battle, food is the other 80%.

Janet outlines that part of her struggle with her weight is based on having a “Plan…

“There is a secret to success. It’s very simple. You can’t wish for what you want, hope for what you want, just dream about what you want. You have to have a plan, and then you have to get on it,” she concludes.

 

Her interview on “The Today Show,” revealed that her poor body image stemmed from the early 70′s while on the show “Good Times.”

Christmas is almost here and so is the weight gain.  Dr. Barry Sears, the creator of “The Zone Diet,”  has been gracious enough to donate a  ZoneFast™ Weight-Loss Package valued at 74.50.  Enter to win this awesome product and get a running start on your weight loss!

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Breakfast gets boring, eating healthy gets even more boring!  In efforts to add a little variety to the day and my meals I came up with a low carb, low calorie breakfast meal.  It’s packed full of protein and its just the right amount of carbohydrates to start your day off right!

Ingredients

    Ingredients 

• Traders Joe’s Uncured Turkey Bacon
• 1 small carton of southwest egg beater or reg egg beaters
• Reduced fat cheese
• 2 logs of reduced fat crescent rolls
• (this makes a big batch for the week)

  Instructions

• Cook egg substitute on stove top.  If you use the southwest style you might need to drain and pat them dry due to extra water in the onions and peppers.  Set to the side to cool.
• 

• Southwestern Egg Beats Cooked

• Crisp bacon in a pan on stove top and set to the side to cool as well.
• Crack open the logs of pre-made, reduced fat crescent rolls.  Since the rolls come in triangles and they are small, put 2 of them together to form a square.  Make sure the 2 rolls over lap in the middle so they don’t fall apart.

• 

  Overlapping dough with bacon on the seam

• Put bacon, then eggs and a dash of reduced fat cheese on top of your overlapping dough.
• Fold eack corner across to wrap them into a little bun (forget trying to make them into crescent rolls).
• Bake for 10-13 minutes or until golden brown.

Finished Product

Set to the side to cool.  For daily meals, wrap your cooled buns into wax paper and then into ziplock bags.  These can be placed in the fridge and be eaten all week

This recipe can be made in bulk.  Each bun can be reheated and it costs a fraction of the price of pre prepared breakfast bowls and sandwiches.  The total fat is less then 10 grams and the carbs are 24 grams.  As a whole, one bun is 245 calories.  Making this  low calorie breakfast ahead of time allows you to reheat them and run out of the door while still eating healthy!  Share this fitness tip with your friends and family to keep you and them healthy all year long!

 

Adria