Seafood is part of the Total Health Makeover® for those who choose to eat animal protein, and Lent starts next Wednesday – fish is a traditional Lenten food, and it’s often on sale during the next six weeks at your grocery store.
Not all seafood is good for you, though. How do you know what’s good for you, and what’s really not so healthy? (Rule number 1 – Don’t automatically trust the person trying to make the sale…)
Monterey Bay Aquarium keeps this information updated and available for everyone. We love that they’ve dedicated themselves to gathering this information and publishing it.
Download pocket guides here – they’re available by region of the US. There’s even a sushi guide!
Or get a mobile application – iPhone users can download this application, or if you have another phone with internet service, just go to mobile.seafoodwatch.org.
It doesn’t take hundreds of crunches to get rock-hard abs. By standing up straight (and sitting up straight) and pulling your abs in tight, you’ll work them out all day long! And we all know that 16 hours of holding your abs in is a lot more of a workout than 5 minutes of crunches.
The best solution is to do some crunches AND pull your abs in all day.
Try it like this * When you sit and stand, imagine there’s a string attached to the top of your head pulling your whole body up. See how your hips automatically tuck under and your tummy sucks in? For comparison, slump down and see how your stomach pooches out.
It will take a while to train your body how to sit and stand correctly. But keep it up and soon it will become second nature. You’ll look younger, thinner, and have great abs!
This is a very “Purple” version of vegetable soup – lots of veggies, no fat, very low sodium, and all the carbs from vegetables. If you’re looking for a cleansing kind of soup, this is it. The vegetables give it good flavor, although the flavor will be mild if you’re used to a lot of salt and seasonings.
If you like, add miso to the soup (per individual portion) after you’ve removed it from the heat. Miso is a fermented paste made from grains and soybeans. The live organisms of miso are good for your gut and they’re an effective therapeutic aid in the prevention and treatment of heart disease, certain cancers, radiation sickness and hypertension. Put one soup spoon worth (a couple of teaspoons) in your bowl, then add a little of the soup broth, and stir to combine it. Then add the rest of your soup. Never heat miso; the heat kills the living organisms.
Miso is sold in the refrigerated section of your health food store. Keep it in the fridge after you open it. If the kind you buy comes in a plastic bag or pouch, transfer it to a glass jar (it’s just easier to keep it that way). It lasts indefinitely.
8 cups water
4 cups chopped onion
3 stalks celery, chopped
2 cups chopped broccoli
2 cups chopped carrots
1 cup chopped cauliflower
1 cup green beans, cut into 1-inch pieces
2 cups chopped kale
1/3 cup Bragg’s Liquid Aminos
In large pot, bring 1/2 cup water to a boil. Add celery and onions and cook until soft. Add remaining water and rest of ingredients except kale, and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to medium, cover, and cook for 30 minutes. Remove cover, add kale, and cook for 15 minutes. Serve.
Are you in a rut?
Is your weight stuck at one number?
Are you tired of your workout?
Do your menus bore you?
Well get ready for MIX IT UP MARCH! We’ll mix it up, shake it out, stir it around – and get ready for a fresh, sexy spring!
Class begins Monday, March 14 for ten weekdays, ending Friday, March 25.
Your coaches are the amazing Lyrical, an experienced THMer with a sparkling personality and lots of great ideas, and her son Chef Ryan! Ryan was in high school (or maybe middle school) when his mom decided they’d be eating healthier foods and following Marilu’s THM® program. He learned to love a great variety of food (we can tell you about the first summer they subscribed to a farm share, and he found all kinds of new favorites – and sometimes ate all the plums or all the carrots or all the berries before his mom got home from work). He fell in love with preparing food so it was both delicious and healthy, so much that he went to chef school and found a career he’s passionate about!
Now for these ten days, we get Chef Ryan as a coach!
Take this class to mix up your routine, shake things up, kick it into high gear, and get ready for spring. Get fresh and get sexy by mixing it up!
Members are automatically enrolled in class – just check your inbox on the first day of class for the class daily email.
In the first 10 minutes: 10 teaspoons of sugar hit your system. (100% of your recommended daily intake.) You don’t immediately vomit from the overwhelming sweetness because phosphoric acid cuts the flavor, allowing you to keep it down.
20 minutes: Your blood sugar spikes, causing an insulin burst. Your liver responds to this by turning any sugar it can get its hands on into fat. (And there’s plenty of that at this particular moment.)
40 minutes: Caffeine absorption is complete. Your pupils dilate; your blood pressure rises; as a response, your liver dumps more sugar into your bloodstream. The adenosine receptors in your brain are now blocked, preventing drowsiness.
45 minutes: Your body ups your dopamine production, stimulating the pleasure centers of your brain. This is physically the same way heroin works, by the way.
> 60 minutes: The phosphoric acid binds calcium, magnesium, and zinc in your lower intestine, providing a further boost in metabolism. This is compounded by high doses of sugar and artificial sweeteners also increasing the urinary excretion of calcium.
> 60 minutes: The caffeine’s diuretic properties come into play. (It makes you have to pee.) It is now assured that you’ll evacuate the bonded calcium, magnesium, and zinc that was headed to your bones as well as sodium, electrolytes, and water.
> 60 minutes: As the rave inside you dies down, you’ll start to have a sugar crash. You may become irritable and/or sluggish. You’ve also now, literally, pissed away all the water that was in the soda. But not before infusing it with valuable nutrients your body could have used for things like hydrating your system, or building strong bones and teeth.
This will all be followed by a caffeine crash in the next few hours. (As little as two if you’re a smoker.)
