Recipes Edition

By: Ms. K &Mr. C

Eating healthy is a key factor to weight loss. We all know that 80/20 rule  it goes the same  with fitness as well. 80 percent of the weight loss comes with what you eat. While 20 percent comes from  working out .   I don’t believe anyone needs to be on a diet. I say that because diets are short term satisfaction no one wants to be on a diet for the rest of their lives. Instead I believe in moderation, and the reason most people gain back  weight after weight loss is because they were on a diet plan, meaning they never fully understood how to regulate their own eating habits. 

Eating right is essential. I try to eat 5 meals a day. I start with breakfast, then I have a snack mostly a fruit, then I have lunch, after lunch another fruit before I have my dinner. Well eating 5 meals a day might sound easy, its not because we all have lives, we work, go to school, some are parents. It’s easy to say eat 5 meals, but its another things to follow that plan everyday. Some people meal prep their food for 3 to 5 days because it better to be prepared then to fail. Well I would want to say that is ideal, I can’t plan my food for 3 to 5 days simple because I can’t not that I don’t want to. So I wake up earlier to prepare my lunch and dinner especially when I am going to be at school all day. Especially since now I am only a full time graduate student, but when I was teaching I still had to prepare my breakfast, lunch and snack.

It’s not an easy road to start cooking healthy. My trainer and I have several recipes to you can try that are healthy and taste very well. Eating healthy does not mean eating bland, and dry. While my trainer is  a vegan, his meal plan is going to reflect what he eats. I am not a vegan, but I also don’t eat red meat. So my meal plan is going to include fish, turkey, and chicken.

Meals :

Tofu smoothie  

1 pack of silken tofu

1 cup of almond milk

 1 whole banana sliced up

4 table spoons of flax seed

Optional add any protein shake powder if you want

Pancakes

1 1/4 cup of all purpose flour

2 tablespoons of organic sugar or any of your choice

2 tablespoons of baking powder

1/2 tablespoon of salt

1 1/4 cup of water

1 tablespoon of oil or two tablespoon of Nut butter

Optional: cut up banana or berets or any fruit of your choice and mix it in the batter before cooking

Curry coconut tofu

1 pack of firm tofu

1 cup of coconut milk

1/2 of chopped onion

1/2 cup sweet peppers

1/4 cup chopped cilantro

1/4  teaspoons of ground black pepper

1/2 teaspoon of salt

2 teaspoons of curry

Steamed fish

6 ounce halibut fillet or any fish of your choice

1 tablespoon dried dill weed

1 tablespoon of onion powder

2 teaspoon of dried parsley

1/4 teaspoon of paprika

1 pinch each of seasoned salt, lemon pepper and garlic powder

2 tablespoons lemon juice

Take about 25-30 mins to cook at 375 degrees

My trainer and I will be sharing a meal plan next week for both a vegan and non vegan plan.

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