Healthy Snacks #1: Pomegranate Greek Yogurt

Yogurt is a fantastic fitness snack

The key is to purchase PLAIN yogurt and then add your own flavorings at home. This way, you can control the amount of sugar in your food and therefore improve the nutrient density.

Pomegranate Greek Yogurt:

1. Plain Greek Yogurt

2. Pomegranate Juice Powder

3. Almond butter or Peanut butter or coconut oil

4. Cherries — frozen or fresh

Delicious, high in antioxidants, and healthful!

Eating clean means consuming natural foods. There are so many flavors in natural foods that cannot be replicated by processed foods. Expand your horizons and enjoy the nutrient benefits of whole foods.

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Unleash the Power of Beets – Exercise Boosting Properties

Benefits of Beet Juice

  • Antioxidant
  • Anti-inflammatory
  • Promotes detoxification process (kidney / liver)
  • Increases nitric oxide and purifies blood
  • Healthy for cardiovascular support
  • Immune boosting
  • Energy enhancing

Get on with this Powerful Beet Root!

If it’s good enough for Elite athletes — don’t you deserve it too?

I treat myself to beet juice + other vegetables at least three times per week. It keeps me healthy, energized, and really makes a difference in my workouts. My endurance is noticeably improved and I’ve hit most of my personal records after downing a big cup of carrot/beet/ginger juice.

See VLOG below!

This won’t be the last time I speak of Beet Juice

Let the information spread my friends!!!

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When Diet Food Just Isn’t Enough

How many Diets have you been on?

Go ahead. You can take a second to count now.

I’ll always remember my 8th grade crash diet that lasted for a week and ended with nearly a gallon of ice cream.

Help is on the way!

Because…

Diets can be sooo unsatisfying…

New research suggests that your expectations play a physiological role in the release of hunger-satiating hormones.

In other words, if you believe and expect that a meal will satisfy you, that meal will have a significantly greater chance of actually satisfying you — regardless of its content.

Food restriction is unnatural and psychologically taxing

Imagine yourself in the times before civilization — even before agriculture. Lets say you have been wandering the land for days without food and suddenly you stumble across an abundance of bright, firm, and deliciously sweet fruit.

You will indulge… as you should.

“If you try to serve that for dinner, I’m going to Andre’s instead!”

Food was never meant to be limited. In reality, our bodies are extremely powerful digestion machines. The fact that we can process “edible substances” such as candy, highly processed foods, and overly refined foods is remarkable in itself.

Maintaining healthy weight is all about your mindset of food.

I am highly active, but I never restrict myself.

Some people might think that because I opt-out of eating ice cream, that I am restricting food. This is not the case.

The reason I don’t eat ice cream is because I purposely save room for foods that are nutrient dense. If I ate ice-cream, I no longer would have an appetite for greens and veggies.

It’s an opportunity cost. By consuming high-sugar-substances, you literally LOSE the opportunity to consume healthful foods.

What kind of Loser do YOU want to be?

Live life with an Abundance Mindset

Some people talk about the Law of Attraction. Creating a reality for yourself which attracts an abundance of wealth, health, friends, and love. Whether or not this can apply to your life, the simple “Abundance Mindset” can seriously help you get weight loss results FAST.

Open your arms and accept the gift of abundance

It’s always about the Possibilities — never the restrictions.

If you laid out all the food that I consume in a day, it’s like a bountiful feast for medieval royalty! Shall you be a guest in my kingdom?

“I’ll drink to that!”

There are so many colors, textures, and pleasures attached to the food that I welcome into life.

For example, please visualize:

  • Organic Red bell peppers complimenting fresh Alaskan medium-rare broiled salmon over a bed of rainbow chard.
  • Avocado displaying it’s creamy green beauty with broccoli florets resembling mini trees of life.
  • The sweet pungency of a Walla Walla onion lightly fried over high-smoke-point tropical cooking oil adding a moist crunch for the sensation of a dinner guest.
  • Aromatic Chamomile/Ginger/Tulsi Tea steaming wonderfully on the side, acting as a digestive aid and healing beverage.

Forget the middle man.

You take responsibility for yourself. There’s no tricks, gimmicks, weight loss powders, pills, or laxatives that can save you from the inevitable adipose tissue.

Only realizing the limitless possibilities of food will allow you to obliterate that last bit of body fat on your lower stomach and thighs.

You’re nothing without a Taste for Improvement.

Similar to practicing your hobbies and advancing in your career, developing a palate for healthy foods can be achieved by discipline and persistence.

My “ah-hah” moment came when I realized that not only could I reduce body fat with natural foods, but that I would cure my ailments in ways the doctor’s never imagined.

Endless possibilities to Fuel your amazing body (you deserve it)

Now every single day is an experiment with fresh food combinations, fresh culinary herbs, and different preparation methods.

If all else fails, try eating half of a wild salmon every day and you may start seeing results immediately.

Stay tuned for more…

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Do you Know the Secret behind Taco Bell’s “Seasoned Beef”?

¡Yo quiero Taco Bell!” (in fake Mexican accent)

Alright I admit, that burrito-like chihuahua was onto something.

I used to Yo Quiero Taco Bell.

I wanted Taco Bell on school days, I wanted Taco Bell with friends, I even wanted Taco Bell at 1AM not even caring about rear ends.

The Taco Bell lawsuit makes us wonder…

What else is in your Meat, Taco Bell!?

The lawsuit claimed that only 33% of Taco Bell’s seasoned Beef was actually beef. However, Taco Bell responded officially with a higher number. In that statement, they listed their ingredients.

Yeah silly, Why Pay More!

The Taco Bell seasoned beef includes:

  • Beef,
  • water,
  • salt,
  • chili pepper, onion powder,  tomato powder,
  • sugar,
  • garlic powder,  cocoa powder,  natural flavor,
  • oats (gluten included),
  • starch,
  • sugar (listed twice in Taco Bell’s official statement),
  • yeast,
  • citric acid, and
  • other ingredients that contribute to the quality of our product

When taken in excess, the ingredients in bold contribute to significant immune imbalance in the body.

What do Consumers really Expect?

There is a method of tasting, smelling, and feeling the texture of meals that can assess both Micro-nutrient and Macro-nutrient types and ratios.

The first step always involves the senses.

A bright aroma of citrus makes freshness reign supreme.

Part of it involves knowing what you don’t know.

I say with confidence that American consumers are eaters of the blind persuasion. And I’m not to spare — I have shared my own moments of indulgence.

But I stay true to the real themes of life…

Nutrients, that is what Gives Life

The energy and depth to which we can excel in life is made possible by interacting with essence of whole foods and natural nutrition.

don’t tell anyone I paid $20 per pound on local grass fed beef.

Let me simplify;

  • Whole foods are that which Energize, Heal, and Strengthen. (everything)

You can’t beat nature. If you try, it will push back.

This is your colon on Taco Bell seasoned beef

Poor nutrition (fighting nature) pushes back in the form of disease, obesity, cancer and worse.

What is the real Secret of Health and Wellness?

My friend, you are.

You have the power. If we could mind-meld like Spock in the universe of discovery, you would feel my knowledge. But in the real world, you must seek it first.

This is the modern- day Mind Meld

Thats why you are the secret to Wellness.

If you dedicate 90% to natural whole foods, you will FEEL the power.

It could be in your hands…

Theres the power, but where’s your priorities?

Good luck on the journey, I already see you busting through barriers for which that which you must surpass.

If you learned one lesson today, it should be: Season your own dang Beef!

Best to all, and stay tuned for more.

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For Fat-Loss Results, Focus 90% of effort on Nutrition

Physical fitness requires you to move.

You can work out, play sports, or any form of gyrating.

And doing it with friends is a great fitness activity for social bonding too.

My co-worker with a history in personal training asked me how often I go to the gym. The reality is that I’m only at the gym twice a week and that the majority of my fitness results come from eating well.

Focus 90% of your efforts on Nutrition for real Weight Loss

Cutting calories isn’t really the only answer.

Actually, caloric needs are different for everyone at any given moment. For example, after an intense workout, you may actually need 1,000 calories of pure nutrition. But before bed, you might only need 200 calories from lean proteins and greens.

The secret to eating healthy is to learn more about your food

Most people have no idea what their food is actually doing for them.

They don’t know the macro-nutrient ratios, vitamin, mineral, phytonutrient, or other micronutrient content in their foods.

It takes effort to learn this information, but it is freely available online and in other resources.

However, once you have a grasp on the truth behind your food, then eating healthy becomes easier.

You can mix and match superfoods to produce the ultimate in health, while still tasting delicious.

For example, my guacamole is an absolute powerhouse of nutrition

  • Avocado (healthy unsaturated fat, fiber, protein, fat-soluble vitamins, phytonutrients, and one of the body’s most preferred antioxidant called glutathione.)
  • Lemons (vitamin c, trace minerals, potassium, and pH balancing)
  • Onions (minerals, fiber, and the potent cancer-fighting bioflavanoid, quercetin)
  • Garlic (a pungent and delicious way to boost immunity)
  • Miso paste (live Probiotics to restore and maintain intestinal balance, healing properties)
  • Pico de Gallo (tomatoes containing the powerful phytonutrient called lycopene)
  • Sea salt (minerals)
  • Cayenne powder (phytonutrients and metabolism stimulator)
  • Olive oil (monounsaturated fat, and loaded with antioxidants)

In addition to those health properties, the guac is almost entirely made of Raw Foods. This is important because it preserves the enzymes and improves digestibility.

You can’t eat healthy if you don’t know what healthy is

If an obese person says, “I eat healthy” but they aren’t getting results, then they aren’t eating healthy.

Eating healthy means something different for everybody. Most people have underlying nutritional deficiencies that they are not even aware of.

It’s almost guaranteed that you have some sort of nutrient that is not at optimal levels. (could it be Selenium? Eat one brazil nut everyday)

You NEED to equip yourself with this information, otherwise you risk the standard American diseases like diabetes and heart disease.

Food companies are trying to make a huge profit by processing foods and making it easier to consume. The danger becomes real every time a food leeches more from our vitality than it provides.

Focus on nutrients for Real Results

I challenge you to learn about nutrients and consider which foods you are not eating enough of.

Focus on eating whole foods that contain these nutrients. Do it for a month.

Then see how much better you feel, and how much leaner you are.

It’s all about the nutrition.

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