Clean Eating with Tosca Reno
Today on Fat Fighter TV a celebrity interview! Here what fitness model and bestseller Tosca Reno says about how to start clean eating.
Oh and here’s why we fantasize that we could look like Tosca Reno – she’s in her 40s for gluts sake.
In our brains we look like this. What?
Your Diet and Exercise Tendency
I’m reading Eat, Pray, Love right now with an eye toward how it might help me be more focused through meditation. I am concentrating on small goals and in fact am only thinking about losing five pounds at a time. Read more about how to Focus on Five here.
For me losing five pounds is just as hard as focusing so that’s why the Eat, Pray, Love. I’d suggest skipping the first chapter because it is all about the Eat part. SO the second part – Pray. It’s about focus and control and being at peace. All good but there is a line and philosophy that resonates and applies exactly to fitness and healthy eating.
At one point Elizabeth Gilbert’s (the author) Guru tells her that “that you should never give yourself a chance to fall apart because, when you do, it becomes a tendency and it happens over and over again. You must practice staying strong instead.”
Here’s how I’m applying that and it has been surprisingly effective. Perhaps it can help you too. If one day you choose foods that are not on your plan or “fall apart” it means you’re more likely or will tend to do it the next day. Before you know it your habit is unhealthy eating. It is the same with exercise. Every day you skip exercise you give power to the idea that skipping it is the norm.
And it can work in the reverse. Exercise today. Follow your eating plan today. Follow it tomorrow. You can turn your daily tendency of healthy exercise and health into habit. You can. You will.
And it is in this way I’ve lost five pounds, actually a little more than that over the last two weeks. The second week was easier than the first. I have no idea how long it will take to lose the next five. I actually don’t care. The weight will be what it is if my habit of health holds.
***And now for something completely different.. these Klondike no sugar added bars are great. Not low cal BUT no sugar and I’d gladly walk two miles to make up for the 170 calories! I got free coupon for them from the company and just love the heck out of them!
Low Maintenance Low Carb – Crockpot Pork Roast
Welcome to another Carbie Doll edition of low maintenance low carb cooking. If you’re like us, you’re on the go and want to keep things low (carb that is). The Carbie Dolls are big fans of crockpot cooking. This week, I tried a modified version of this scrumptious pork roast.
Here’s what you’ll need:
1 medium sized bonless pork shoulder roast (ours was a 4 pounder) Cost: Approx. $1.25 per pound
1 jar of sugar free fruit preserves (We used Smucker’s Peach Preserve w/ Splenda. It has a mere 5 carbs per serving and you’re basically just using it for flavoring) Cost: Approx $3.00
1 large onion- halved and sliced Cost: Approx $0.25
1/2 cup of chicken broth Cost: Approx $0.50
2 tablespoons of your favorite seasoned salt
Mix the preserves and the broth and set it aside. Rinse the pork shoulder, pat it dry and place it in your crockpot. Pour the preserve/broth mixture over the roast. Sprinkle it with seasoned salt. Add the onion slices to the top.
Cook on low for 10 hours. This part works great since I leave for work at 7:00 a.m. and get home around 5:00 p.m.
Serve it with fresh veggies (I had broccoli w/ cheese sauce) or a salad and you’re good to go!
Total Cost: Approx. $8.75 (and it fed our family of 4 with leftovers for lunch)
Eatin’ Like A Fool
I’ve invented a diet. You may ask yourself: Is this woman a nutritionist? A medical doctor? Perhaps a star of a popular sitcom of old, such as “Cheers” or “Three’s Company”? Any of these things would qualify me to invent a diet.Stability Ball 101
Today on Fat Fighter TV just what the heck are you supposed to do with those exercise balls! Watch and learn. We did!
What Penny Knows About Losing 225 Pounds!
This is the last of my series for 13ABC - Four Ways to Lose 100 Pounds. Meet Penny – she’s changed her life.
Metrosexual Diet
Last year, I was introduced to the Paleolithic Diet. Some of you may have already heard of it. The idea is, you should eat whatever Cavemen would eat. In other words, hunter gather-y foods or things that do not require factory processing and must die before you eat them (vegetables, fresh meat etc.). Today, I’d like play devil’s advocate and give equal time to the other side of the fence. So, I started with these two burning questions:
1.) What is the opposite of a caveman?
2.) What does the opposite of a caveman eat?
At the outset, I was thinking of maybe a brontosaurus or some other vegan dinosaur (because in my mind, that is the opposite of a caveman). More googling led me to the conclusion that the brontosaurus is, perhaps, the wrong model (‘cuz apparently they lived way before the caveman and are also not human…hmmm.) Some researchers have suggested that the metrosexual is, in fact, the polar opposite of the caveman.
According to Urban Dictionary, a metrosexual is basicially a man with taste and style who cares about fashion, art, and culture:
Also, apparently, the posterboy for the modern metrosexual man is David Beckham (and some have suggested Ryan Seacrest and any male dancer on Dancing with the Stars, and any man who cares about their grooming more than his girlfriend does). Right. So is there a metrosexual diet? If not, can we invent one? Before I go there, I should point out that there is another school of thought that holds that men on diets are by definition, metrosexuals. In other words, “real men” don’t diet. Perhaps, but I’ll leave that debate to the diet pundits.
Sticking with David Beckham as our model, what does he eat? A true quandary. I googled “what does David Beckham eat” interviewed multiple sources for this article, but the only hard evidence I could uncover is that David Beckham eats sandwiches.
Sandwiches are good. Grinders are really good. So what can we draw from all of this? You can maybe improve your health by eating nothing but berries like a caveman. You can perhaps also improve your health by eating nothing but sandwiches…er…and Posh Spice, like a metrosexual. ‘Cuz David Beckham is dreamy.
The choice is yours. My only interest is fair and balanced diet reporting.
The Snuggie Workout
Exercise is important to us and we’re innovators. So we bring you the Snuggie Workout.
Step 1:Get yourself a Snuggie. Now.
Step 2: Put on long johns, sweatpants, sweatshirt, and wool socks.
Step 3: Place the television remote control on the carpet in front of the couch. (Not on nearby end table, that’s cheating.)
Step 4:Get in your Snuggie. Now.
Step 5: Have someone push you toward the couch and land on it.
Step 6: Try to get the remote.
Step 7: Clench stuff. Unclench stuff. Clench Stuff. Unclench stuff.
Step 8:Get yourself OUT the Snuggie. (We don’t know how at this point.)
Step 9:Shower. Wash Snuggie Workout clothes and actual Snuggie.
Step 10: Weigh yourself. You’ve FOR sure Snugged Off THREE or MORE POUNDS. (To amp up your Snuggie Workout results do the above steps in Arizona or Florida in July.)
Note: You should consult with a doctor (also perhaps a psychologist) before trying The Snuggie Workout. All results achieved are entirely made up and temporary. The Snuggie Workout might cause an unpleasant “odor.” The makers of Snuggie have no idea that we exist.
