“The more you eat, the less flavor; the less you eat, the more flavor.” ~ Chinese Proverb “Many so-called spiritual people, they overeat, drink too much, they smoke and don’t exercise. But they do go to church every week and pray ‘Please help my arthritis. Please help me bring up my strength, make me young …
Fruit Serving Size Grams of Fructose Limes 1 medium 0 Lemons 1 medium 0.6 Cranberries 1 cup 0.7 Passion fruit 1 medium 0.9 Prune 1 medium 1.2 Apricot 1 medium 1.3 Guava 2 medium 2.2 Date (Deglet Noor style) 1 medium 2.6 Cantaloupe 1/8 of med. melon 2.8 Raspberries 1 cup 3.0 Clementine 1 medium …
Avocados are a super fruit that have amazing nutrients, great flavor / texture and lots of “healthy” fat. Remember…you need fat to burn fat – so eat up! I use avocados in most of my recipes or I have a half sliced up at our dinner table. Add them to your salads, sandwiches, smoothies, burgers, …
I asked anyone who bought an “Amy Approved” t-shirt to send in a photo of them wearing it. I received my first photo all the way from Alaska! Thank you Andrea sporting our shirt, we are SOOO proud of your recent races…Keep it up girl!!! You can buy a Move Your A** t-shirt at ShapeItUp. Use …
I made this salad and we are hooked!!! Here it goes: Ingredients: 1 can organic garbanzo beans 2 carrots chopped 1 green onion chopped 1/2 cup chopped cucumber 1 tomato chopped 1/2 avocado chopped 1 cup pea shoots chopped Dressing: 1 tbsp balsamic vinegar 1 tbsp flavored vinegar (I used blackberry) Juice of one orange …
Stevia is a plant based natural sugar alternative. And guess what??? It contains ZERO calories! It is said to be 100 times sweeter weight for weight compared to cane sugar. Sooo a teaspoon of refined Stevia powder is as sweet as 1 cup of sugar. Stevia seems to be an easy plant to grow. We …
Circuit training burns a TON of calories, saves you time and will lean you down like no other workout. You don’t need a lot of equipment or even a gym member ship for that matter. Here are a few sample circuit workouts that you can accomplish in 30 minutes or less: Circuit #1 (Complete 3 …
Most people eat their burgers on a bun but not me! Yes I am odd (I admit) but this a clean way to get a good dose of iron in grass fed beef without making it a heavy meal. You are going to LOVE this burger recipe: Hamburgers: 1 pkg of organic grass fed …
We were making our Quinoa Pasta Carbonara and when we cracked BOSU’s egg open there were 2 yolks! CRAZY!!! What does that mean?? hmmm… 🙂 Egg’s have so much nutritional value. The craze for so long was to not eat the egg yolks but new studies show that the yolks have most of the nutrition. …
Air popped organic popcorn is a great snack any time of the day! It is very low in calories which means you can eat a lot of it, is high in fiber and contains some protein, calcium & iron! One cup of popped corn only contains about 35 calories….LOVE! I make mine by using 1/4 – 1/2 cup …
