Monday 7 March 2011

Healthy Caesar Salad

Today, I need to let you know that all salads are not created equal! A large Caeser salad can contain more fat and calories than a burger with cheese!

You don't have to miss out, try this alternative healthy caesar salad...

Ingredients:

4 oz. chicken breast
2 Handfuls of lettuce - any type
(Except iceberg which has no nutritional value)
½ Cup chopped tomatoes
½ Cup chopped cucumber
½ Cup chopped celery
¼ Cup feta cheese

Instructions:

Oven-bake or grill chicken breast until cooked
(Season to taste)
Place the lettuce onto a plate
Add tomatoes, celery, and cucumber to lettuce
Slice chicken, place on top with crumbled feta

Dressing:

1 tbsp. extra virgin olive oil
1 tsp. Dijon mustard
½ freshly squeezed lemon
Freshly ground black pepper to taste
Mix together and drizzle over

A couple of tips for you when eating at someone else's place or at a restaurant...

Don’t eat whatever is put in front of you, find out what’s going in to it and how it’s cooked before you decide to eat it.
Don’t EVER order anything larger than a regular portion.
Never order takeout!
Drive through needs to become a drive by!

This is a healthy chicken caesar salad recipe but if you don't eat chicken then you can easily swap this for fish, or even add some pulses/nuts/seeds to make it suit your dietry needs.

Stay fit, keep focused and feel fabulous!

Steph.

Author, The Flat Stomach Solution

Thursday 3 March 2011

The 2011 Celebrity Oscar Workout

What an amazing night at the 2011 Oscars this year.

I'm so happy that Natalie Portman won best actress for the Black Swan, she was amazing. If you haven't seen it yet, get yourself down the cinema today.

As you could see by so many of the hot sexy actresses, they were spending extra time with their trainers, getting themselves red carpet ready.

When you think of these actresses do you think that they’re just blessed with the perfect body? And that they have all the time and money in the world to workout with their expensive trainers? Well the latter is definitely very true.

But you DON’T have to workout for 4 hours each day and you DON’t have to hire an expensive trainer to reap the benefits of a red carpet body…

Try this 2011 Celebrity Oscar Workout using Metabolic Circuit Training to blast fat away.

Do this workout 3 days each week, making sure that you leave 24 hours rest in between each workout.

Change your workout every 4 weeks to constantly challenge your body in new ways to keep you on your toes and ensure your workouts fun; not stale.

The Flat Stomach Solution provides over 3 months of fat burning workouts that will melt away body fat and boost your confidence. No more guess work with trying to lose weight; everything is laid out for you inside the book.

The Oscars 2011 Workout
You need to warm-up before you begin your main workout.

Main Workout:

Push-Ups x 12 reps

Dumbbell Wide Squats x 15 reps

Body-Weight Rows x 12 reps

Jump Squats x 30 seconds

Push-Ups x 12 reps

Step-Ups x 15 reps (each leg)

Reverse Lunge with Bicep Curls x 12 reps (each leg)

Jump Squats x 30 seconds

Complete each exercise without any rest in between.

Once you have completed the entire circuit, rest for 60-90 seconds and repeat once more if you’re a beginner. Twice more if you’re intermediate and 3 more times if you’re an advanced exerciser. These are hard work but fun and get amazing results.

Achieving any level of fitness does take dedication. You must make fitness a priority in your life; schedule your workouts into your diary on a weekly and monthly basis.

See them as important as brushing your teeth or a doctor’s appointment that you couldn’t possibly miss.

The majority of these stars are not obsessed with vanity; they just know that if they take care of their body and feel good because of that, that will show on the outside too.

Looking healthy is certainly a huge incentive to workout out but more importantly there are far more benefits like feeling healthy, strong and alive!

You don’t need to walk the red carpet at the Oscars to get a sizzling hot physique.

If you use my Oscar workout then you’ll be looking and feeling red carpet ready every day of the week.


Stay fit, keep focused and feel fabulous!

Steph.

Author of The Flat Stomach Solution