I will be doing a little 2 or 3 part series of What is Healthy. This will focus on the basics of choosing healthy food to cook and things of that nature. Each post I will go through an area and talk about it. This post will focus on the very start of Meat.

Low Fat Foods that are healthy
I know you have heard many times over to “eat healthy”. This can be very simple to do; it is just a matter of knowing what things are healthy. Now when most people see or hear “low fat” they automatically think that it will taste bad or be different in bad ways. This is not the case, and once you start to incorporate these things into your everyday food, you will realize they really do taste good.

Meats and Proteins
With all the different meats and proteins try and use herbs and/or low fat marinades for flavor before cooking rather then using higher fat gravies and other sauces. These methods add amazing flavors to your meat while keeping them healthy and low fat. Also, cook your meats with non-stick surfaces or pam spray instead of having to use butters or oils, which tend to be higher in fats.

So that is just a basic little look that should help you start to make little changes. Feel free to leave comments if you feel I missed something!

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Here is a hilarious video I spotted on youtube. I enjoyed this very much. Dry humor for sure but very funny! Hope you enjoy.

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Hope you all have had a good week so far, mine has been great. I want to chat a little about certain kinds of foods tonight. I have recently gone been in some restaurants and eateries, when ordering I have tried to find healthy items to choose. Lets face it, most average menus aren’t exactly health friendly. Actually, most average homes in North America aren’t even stocked for healthy meals.

One thing that I know people eat a lot of is bread, rice and pasta! When eating pasta or rice in a restaurant, you rarely get a choice of white or whole wheat. This is something you should look for more often within your diet. Simply changing to the whole wheat alternative will help give you added nutrients that the regular white choice doesn’t have.

The whole wheat alternatives taste the same and usually are around the same prices. Some people try and cut things like bread, pasta and rice out of there diet because they think it is unhealthy. Sure, to much of anything is unhealthy, but within moderation and now with a whole wheat alternative you can start feeling better about having these items.

I will usually cook a bag of whole wheat noodles up at the start of the week and have them in my fridge. It makes for a quick, easy and healthy meal for me through out the week. I can cook up some veggies with a little meat and add the noodle and I have a healthy stir-fry withing 15 or 20 minutes. Quality!

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Hey everyone sorry for the lack of posts recently, I want to get back into the swing of things. Here is an awesome guest post from a blogging friend of mine named Parth, his fitness blog is shahtraining.com,, and it is awesome. Check it out, his profile link is at the bottom!

When I was in high school, I loved to experiment. I still like to experiment, although my principles are more grounded than they were back then. I came across a website called Crossfit and was immediately mesmerized. Their idea of constantly challenging yourself with a new stimuli and doing crazy things by combining forms of exercise that you wouldn’t normally combine drew me immediately to the WOD’s (Workout of the Day). I followed Crossfit WODs on and off throughout the years.

There are definitely certain things I love about Crossfit, but there are also things I don’t like:

PROS:

1. Trains your entire body in one session
2. Very good crossover between gym, real life, and sports
3. Incredibly effective method of burning fat
4. Very challenging and fun
5. Randomized stimuli keeps your body guessing

CONS:

1. Too much randomness
2. Not something a beginner can jump right into
3. Not very optimal for pure muscle mass
4. Athlete may have problems with recovery if they are not used to high intensity training
5. Does not seem to have a singular goal
6. Can be very confusing and frustrating to a typical gym goer
7. Huge learning curve

These are my personal beliefs about Crossfit. Overall, it is a very good program, but I have a problem with the fact that there really doesn’t seem to be much of a “program.” It seems like a bunch of workouts thrown in together. Over the years I’ve studied the programs both by reading message boards, comments on the main website, and trying out workouts on myself.

Hands down, a Crossfit approach to fitness is much more effective than a bodybuilding approach. Crossfit will help more people in their daily lives, and deliver faster results than a Bodybuilding approach. This is because bodybuilding is a very specific form of training. A regular housewife has no business trying to put on a half inch on her arms, unless she’s training for a figure competition. A truck driver has no business jogging on a treadmill for 30 minutes every morning, unless he’s cutting for a bodybuilding competition. What average people need is an exercise program that focuses on developing skills that carry over to normal life.

So there you are, hope you enjoyed the post, I am hoping Parth can keep giving some posts to use here at fitlifeplus.com, Parth runs a quality blog called shahtraining.com, you can check out his profile and learn more about him here, Parths Profile. Thanks Parth!

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So this is the first post by Roberta, my mom. It has to do with helping yourself change your mind and also your thoughts. It is short an very helpful. Here we go, thanks again Roberta!

Weight loss is a struggle for a high percentage of our population. Whether  it be to lose weight or to gain weight. I have found by reflecting on one word or phase every time I see food it helps me to gain control of myself so I can accomplish what I have set out to do. That makes me feel good inside.

There is no right or wrong words or phases. It can be different for everyone.

For someone that wants to gain weight your phase maybe, I AM HUNGRY

For someone that wants to loose weight it maybe, I AM FULL

So if you want to lose weight, it doesn’t mean you don’t eat. What it may mean is when you feel a craving for unhealthy food or over eating, you use your phrase “I am full” to remind yourself of your goal! Simple and effective. Feel free to leave a comment as to the phrases you may try or just give some ideas for phrases that may help. Thank you

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So sorry I haven’t been posting consistently. I came down with the flu during the weekend and I have been up and down ever since!

In that time I have been able to make a few contacts and get some more quality guest posters for fitlifeplus.com . Today I will be introducing a guest post from a person I have known for awhile, my Mom! hah! Yeah she loves health and weight loss, so she has offered to post here and there about different things then I would. Today I will start with a short but sweet post from my mom. I’ll add it up in the next little bit!

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This is my final post in the Healthy Eating Habits series. If you haven’t read the others then I suggest you do so, they are The Way to Healthy Eating Habits & Healthy Eating Habits Part 2. Now I have gone through a few different concepts that will help you on your way to healthy eating habits. None have been really hard, they just have to get done. Now I will share the final 2 factors and you can start using them all together and see the results for yourself.

Habits
Being able to break bad habits is another important part of starting to eat healthy. No I don’t mean habits like biting your nails or smoking, I mean bad meal, snack and drink habits. It is way easier to be unhealthy because everywhere you turn, there is another fast food restaurant being built. Now, the way you start to rid yourself of these, is to figure out what your unhealthy habits are. My worst habits were from snacking, any little snack I had was bad for me. I stopped buying unhealthy snacks, now anytime I snack; I am forced to eat good things. Once you figure out what the habits are, you can find out how to work on deleting them. If most of your habits are at home, only keep healthy things in the house. I have learnt by experience that if there is any type of junk food in the house it will get eaten before the healthy stuff, always.

It is all the automatic unhealthy choices you make that affect you the most. No matter what type of habit you have, you always have to be committed to breaking it. Say you eat lunch ‘out’ every day of the week. Well, not only is that very costly, but also usually always unhealthy. A very simple technique to interrupting eating out is packing your own lunch. It may take a bit more time to prepare and put together at first, but with time it gets easier then fast food.

Organization
Two little things called organization and preparation will help you out 10 fold when you start trying to eat healthy. Yes you read it right, Organization and Preparation. There are a few different aspects to it, but in the end of this you will be a wizard at all of them. See the thing about my mini course tips is that each one is as important and simple as the next. This makes your success rate that much better.

So when I say stay organized this is what I mean. If you have junk in the house it will get eaten right, well be prepared enough to have all the bad food gone and make sure all healthy food is on hand. The concept is very easy, but you have to be organized to pull it off. So you want to start making lunches instead of eating out, then you’ll need to organize your meals and be prepared enough to have all the food available. Like I said, very simple, you just have to put it into effect.

One thing that helped me out with this is, I would take one night on my day off, and write out what I was going to do each day for lunch. I would then make sure I had all the needed food at home ready to go. I would also pre-cook some things. If you are making a nice dinner, make a bit extra and use it as a lunch through the week.

As I was saying above, none of these concepts are hard to do but you actually have to do them to see the effects. I challenge you to see the results. If you want to start eating healthy then doing these will defiantly help you on your way.

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I find that in the past, when I started going to the gym or decided to run regularly, that if I didn’t set up specific times to take action then I would fail very early. The point I am trying to get across is that setting goals up and getting into a routine is what will help bring success and help you see the results.

Last summer I wanted to start going to the gym again so I asked a couple of friends if they wanted to join me (friends or partners help with getting into a routine and staying focused also but thats for a different post). Two of my good friends agreed to start going to the gym with me at least 3 times a week. I myself got organized and set out when specifically I was going to go to the gym. For me, I decided that after work through the week was the best fit for me. My friends on the other hand never really had a plan as to when they were going to work out. Big mistake. Withing 2 weeks they were pretty much unseen at the gym. Fortunately, my first week at the gym, I met with a friend that had already been going so I started joining up with him. We both were in the same workout time routine and this helped both of us very much.

When you don’t have set times to take action, it’s too easy to find unhealthy things to do. If you have set times and a routine, then you will find that it becomes automatic. When I would get home from work, I would automatically grab a little food and then go and workout. Once I was in the routine I never thought twice about doing anything other then working out. Try it and you will find out how much it helps.

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A really simple and good health tip is absolutely cutting out soft drinks and sodas of all kind. It is that simple, soft drinks are bad for you, period! Even diet alternatives are brutal for your health. Pop has so much sugar in it and as we know, any excess sugar turns to fat. A can of soda contains on an average of 4 table spoons (yup the big spoons) of sugar. Take a table spoon out and scoop out 4 spoon fulls and observe how much that it, it’s unreal. Along with extra sugar turning to fat, a single can of soda can extract nutrients straight out of your system and even calcium right out of your bones.

So enough about how bad it is for you, just stop drinking it. You will notice the difference. If you are a person that drinks a lot of soda each day then try weening yourself off it slowly maybe. Even if you can’t stop cold turkey then try easing out of it. I for one am going to start to never drink that junk again! Water is an amazing alternative, I suggest you read my previous post called Drink Up the Water Facts , you will enjoy it! Give it a try and see how it goes.

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I am going to take this post to talk about staying positive and being patient. These two things don’t only pertain to weight loss or fitness, they pertain to everyday life! You will be surprised the difference that being positive will make in your life.

In most peoples life, things aren’t always 100% peachy, things can and do go wrong. It’s how you deal with those things that make your life what it is. Of course when something wrong happens it’s easy to think negative and maybe go eat some food and get drunk, but is that good? Nope! Try to really focus your thoughts and feelings on being positive. The next time something doesn’t go as planned, like losing that 2 lbs, gain a positive ground on the situation and really focus on the good things. There will be plenty of time to change things around and see all of the positive things come back to you.

Patience is another big thing people forget about. I find that patience goes right along with positive thinking. Although some things can be done instantly, others can take a bit of time. If something doesn’t happen on the time line that you have planned then make sure and stay positive and be patient. There will be more time to complete the task or goal and for some reason it wasn’t meant to be at that point in time.

I find that when I am put in a negative thought or situation, I will mentally take a step back from the situation and take a deep breath. This helps me collect myself and really give thought to the situation. This technique helps me stay positive and not jump to negative conclusions. I hope this post will be of use to you, not only for your weight loss, but also to your everyday life! Take Care.

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