Scorch Fat

It’s possible to boost your metabolism with simple tweaks to your daily routine. Making these small changes will make your body more effective in its battle against fat.
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Eat Breakfast 
It is more than just a name: break-fast. Your body has been deprived of nutrients while you have been slumbering. Skipping breakfast sends your body into starvation mode. Eat your morning meal every morning. Make it 20-40% of your daily caloric intake.
Drink Cold Water
Research shows that women who drank eight 12 oz glasses of water daily have a higher metabolic then those who only drank four glasses. Drinking cold water will also help burn a few more calories because your body has to heat the water before it can use it. See our 40 Fruit water recipes post.
Sip Green Tea & Java
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Healthy Snack Idea – Frozen Grapes

It’s getting warmer here! I can feel summer, and I love it! I live in a place where it gets warm, but not too hot usually, so we have no Air conditioner or cooler in our house – so when it does get super hot I have to think of clever ways to keep cool. I drink ice water with lemon, or other fruit added, a lot! I make smoothies all the time. And one of my newest snacks are frozen grapes! I went to a swim party last summer and it was the most popular finger food there! Everyone loved it. Thought I’d share them with you. They were super easy to prepare.

First, purchase some grapes at the market. Organic is best, especially when buying imported grapes – they are one of the Dirty Dozen. Trader Joes [...]

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Flat Belly Diet

Find out how the Flat Belly Diet can help you lose 15 pounds in 32 days and learn lifetime healthy habits.
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BASICS
The basics of the diet are eating three meals and one snack a day each totaling 400 calories. You will eat 1600 calories daily with a Mediterranean-style eating plan and places an emphasis on eating real foods and avoiding processed ones. The key to the diet is eating a MUFA every meal. MUFA’s are monounsaturated fats found in nuts, seeds, dark chocolate, flax, avocado, and oils. In the Flat Belly Diet! book Coauthor and Registered Dietician Cynthia Sass explains, “research shows that MUFAs have health benefits and target belly fat. They also help control satiety, so by adding in one MUFA at [...]

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Spectacular Spinach

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Popeye ate this leafy green to get big and strong: find out how it will make you strong, lean, and healthy.

Cancer Fighter: Spinach contains 13 different flavonoids which have been shown to slow down cell division in stomach and skin cancer cells. Read more about cancer fighting foods in this book, The Cancer-Fighting Kitchen.
Anti-Inflammatory: The neoxanthia and violaxnthin present in spinach play an important role in the regulation of inflammation.
Antioxidant Packed: Spinach contains high amounts of vitamin C and E, manganese, and zinc. 1 cup of spinach contains 80% of the RDV of manganese which is vital to skin, bones, the menstrual cycle, and in cholesterol metabolism.
Better Vision: The plentiful lutein protects eyes from cataracts.
Vitamin A Okay: 2 cups of spinach contains over 100% of the RDV for Vitamin A. [...]

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Eat Colorfully

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Last night I went to farmers market and picked up these strawberries. They are so good! Strawberry season is just hitting us here in California, and I can’t get enough. I made a smoothie this morning with strawberries, kiwis, mandarins and spinach! I cannot stress enough the importance of eating colorfully! What I mean by this is you should choose a variety of colorful fruits and vegetables and add them to your daily diet. Here is a little explanation of colors and how they benefit us:

RED - Strawberries, tomatoes, red peppers and watermelon. These foods contain a phytochemical called Lycopene which helps eliminate free radicals in our bodies and fight some cancers!  

ORANGE - Oranges, carrots, pumpkin, sweet potatoes and mango. These foods contain beta-carotene which our bodies convert into Vitamin A. This  benefits our eyes, bone growth and health of the immune system. It [...]

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Eat Clean Tortilla Chicken Soup

This recipe is the perfect companion to any diet. It is a giant pot of protein and filling vegetables. The best part of this dish: it is made in the slow cooker.

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Recipe:

5 Chicken Breasts, boneless and skinless 
2 Jars of Salsa
1 Packet Reduced-Sodium Taco Seasoning (or 2 TBSP)
1 Onion
2 Peppers (Red, yellow, or green)
1 Bag Sliced Mushrooms
Juice from 1 Lime
1 Can (6oz) of Green Chillies
Chicken Broth (optional)

Directions:

Line your slow cooker with a Slow Cooker Liner to make clean up a breeze
Put the chicken in the slow cooker and squeeze the lime over the chicken
Add the packet of taco seasoning
Chop the onions, peppers, and mushrooms, throw on top of chicken
Empty the chillies and salsa on top
Cook on low for 6 hours
Remove Chicken and shred, return to slow cooker

Notes:

Add the chicken broth to thin the soup.
Top with whatever you please or what your diet allows. [...]

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Roasted Veggie Salad, under 400 calories!

Two of my favorite foods are roasted vegetables and hummus! This salad combines it all! First I roast the veggies then I add them to a bed of chopped romaine lettuce mixed with hummus and Voila! I have a healthy salad under 400 calories. This 400 calories even includes some high protein tofu from Trader Joe’s so you’re getting your protein as well. I love making this recipe in my Oster Digital Toaster Oven. It makes it so much easier, saves more energy in my home and doesn’t heat up my kitchen like it would in the regular oven. Try cooking more stuff in your toaster oven. Check out this cool cookbook The Gourmet Toaster Oven.
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What can a Raw Food Cleanse do for you?

What Can A Raw Food Cleanse Do For YOU?

There are many other health benefits of a raw food cleanse, this is just a handful. A great book to check out is The Raw Cure: Healing Beyond Medicine. Helps open your world up to how food can effect your life and how eating a raw food diet can benefit you.

Doing a cleanse is easy. The hardest part will be letting go of some foods, but, trust me! It is worth it! You’ll be allowed all fruits, veggies, some nuts and some grains. You could get through a cleanse without any equipment, but some that will come in handy are:

knives for chopping – I highly recommend a good set of knives for going raw, it will change your whole outlook to food prep. [...]

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Budget & Bikini Friendly Foods

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I, like the other 99% of people on earth, live on a budget. I have a decent job, well three jobs actually, and am fortunate enough to enjoy many things. I work hard to earn my money (again three jobs) so I hate the idea of spending it all on food. I am in the camp that believes saving on groceries means splurging on shoes (NIKE shoes in particular). So here are my ten budget and bikini friendly foods.

Whey Protein:My favorite is Optimum Gold Standard and it comes in more flavors than you can imagine. In one scoop, you get 24 grams of protein and only one gram of sugar. Cost 0.75 cents per serving.
Eggs: I love the versatility of [...]

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Egg Muffins – Healthy Breakfast or Snack

This is the perfect breakfast recipe to accompany the 17 Day Diet or Paleo – or any healthful eating plan. If you are on cycle one, these muffins provide cleansing vegetables and lean protein and go great with salsa.

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Ingredients:

 

16 Egg Whites
6 Eggs
1 Bell Pepper, sliced
2 cup Mushrooms, sliced
4 cups Spinach

 

1) Whisk egg whites and eggs together, 2) sauté pepper and mushrooms for three minutes, 3) add the spinach until it wilts, 4) place even amounts of vegetables in a muffin tin sprayed with cooking spray, 5) evenly spoon egg mix over the vegetables, 6) bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees, 7) after 30 minutes remove from oven and let the muffins cool for five minutes before placing them on a cooling rack, 8) EAT.

This recipe makes 24 muffins with around 45 calories each and packed with protein. I recommend [...]

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