{Update: I decided to go vegan in December of 2016 but I understand not everyone is ready to commit to a fully plant based lifestyle. Hope you enjoy the recipe!} Breakfast Made Ahead! Breakfast is so important for helping with weight loss and over all …
Our family is in transition from omnivore to herbivore… Yes we used to raise our own cattle for slaughter and we loved steak and jerky and such BUT we’ve decided to change. We literally eat no meat anymore, with the exception of what our kids …
I <3 documentaries! I also <3 food! So I decided I’d like to share with you some of my favorite documentaries. I recommend you doing your own research after each of these videos but I feel they are all pretty accurate in what they are sharing. Statistics may have changed since they were all released but the general message is so powerful! I share these in the hopes that you will be even just a little bit more motivated to change your “diet” and help you and your families feel better. Help end the torture of large farmed animals. I understand change is hard, but even if we changed a little things would get better. One less burger per person, oh the fat to be lost…. a girl can dream right???
Most of these movies I watched on Netflix or Hulu, I looked for full documentaries to share. For the ones that I couldn’t I hope you will make the effort to look for.
I will continue to add more videos as I find more that I love 🙂
Videos below may contain some graphic video footage. If you have young children around, ones who love animals like my son, you may want to watch this without them in the room.
I never realized how much sugar is in EVERYTHING! I still have to work on my brain to realized that I don’t want the fat free yogurt, I don’t want the low fat snacks. Sugar is what makes all of those things taste good!
We are what we eat! Food, clean food, is medicine. It’s not making doctors rich and that maybe why they are in a hurry to give us a prescription instead of prescribe exercise and good foods.
Juicing! How amazing fruits and vegetables have cured diseases. I don’t juice as often as I’d like but there are SO SO SO many benefits. The Gerson’s theory is amazing, I encourage you to watch as many videos on this as you can.
This documentary isn’t so much about our food quality or diet, but it’s about the effect of cattle farming on our environment. Watering cattle in the US uses 34 TRILLION gallons of water a year! 34,000,000,000?!?! We wonder why are we having water shortages?
The documentary that started it all for me. One of the reasons I am happy to be a Coach and be on the journey to help others make better diet choices.
This video alone made me want to search out small farmers. Organic food is so important for keeping our planet healthy, our families safe and just being good in general. If you don’t care about organic, look into the cancer rates and disease rates in areas where orchards and farming are big. I grew up in a big orchards area, pesticides sprayed all the time, scary stuff. Many people I know there have been affected by someone having cancer.
It makes me sick how many crazy standards are put on the small farmers. Yet big corporations get away with so much because they can afford the big fancy legal teams. Watch the full movie here.
His story is amazing! If we can eat processed foods in moderation instead of relying on them for most of our food intake, imagine how the obesity rate would drop! You can see the full movie for free on Joe’s site. http://www.rebootwithjoe.com/watch-fat-sick-and-nearly-dead/
More of Joe Cross’ story.
Not a food documentary but it was really touching. Helped me realize we have so much. SO much more than we really need…
This weekend I earned my Trifecta! What is that? To earn your Spartan Trifecta you have to complete a Sprint, Super and Beast in one calendar year. A Spartan Sprint is 3+ miles and 20+ obstacles, a Spartan Super is 8+ miles and 25+ obstacles …
Let’s be real… I’m a Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup addict. Chocolate peanut butter anything really. My husband used to bring them to me when we were first dating
Anyone who knows me knows that I HAVE A TERRIBLE SWEET TOOTH! Yes I admit, my struggle isn’t with the workout but the lack of sweets allowed in most diets! I am so thankful that I’ve found a superfood supplement that allows for me to have goodies here and there. I’m dedicated to share healthy treats with you because I know being told that you can’t have cookies and pie and ice cream is rough! I say poo on that! Your diet should be 80/20, 80% good nutritious food and 20% treat! Moderation is the key 🙂 The key to my Keylime Pie! Ha ha ha!
This dessert is super simple to make! No baking required, which I like because I tend to loose track of time and burn the cookies. No amount of milk fixes burnt cookies in my book!
Mix all ingredients except for the crusts of course, then fill the little crusts or the full size crust. Let chill for one hour!
Each mini dessert pie has around 7 grams of protein! Yeah buddy!
You can pin the image below for easy look up 😉
Why is strength training important??? 1. Muscle helps you keep the fat off! One study shows that adding strength training to your workout regimen 3 days a week can help increase the amount of calories burned during normal activities. Why? Because the more muscle you …
Sometimes you just need a little sweet treat! I LOVE PEANUT BUTTER! Almost to the point where it’s dangerous if there are chocolate chips in the house because I’ll take a scoop of PB and a scoop or two of chips and snack…almost every night …
I’ve been on a wrap kick lately. A tortilla counts for one yellow container in the 21 Day Fix and 21 Day Fix Extreme meal plans, so does a slice of bread but who only wants a half a sandwich? Hence the wrap, I’m not really big on bread anyway unless it’s a sweet bread. I’ve been branching out and trying different things so bare with me while I taste new flavor mixes and share my thoughts. I really liked this wrap because you get a little bit of sweet, salty and crunchy, can’t go wrong with fruity, Mexican or Asian inspired dishes if you ask me. Plus it is filling. I always have a hard time including the nuts/seeds in my meal plan so this is a good way for me to get that added in too. I should probably rephrase that, I could eat a bag of almonds or pecans by themselves but apparently you’re supposed to eat them in moderation so it’s better for me to only have the option of having a little cup.
Ingredients:
Step 1: Portion out all ingredients into color appropriate containers.
Step 2: Pour out all the goodness!
Step 3: Wrap it all up burrito style and ENJOY!
I really like Bolthouse Farms dressings. The Miso Ginger is yummy! Any citrus flavored dressing would probably pair well with this wrap. Only a teaspoon though 😉
I am really trying hard to get myself and my family on cleaner diets. If you’re unsure what clean eating is, it is essentially fresh food, not processed stuff from a box. I don’t get to control their lunches too much but I get to …