diet tips Archives - Page 3 of 3 - Fabulously Fit
September 15, 2014 by Dani Leave a Comment
Old Favorite Zucchini Bread or Muffins
Long years ago I used to make Zucchini Bread on a weekly basis for our family. I had gotten the recipe from a cookbook, Step-By-Step to Natural Food published in 1979 by Diane Campbell. My cookbook was used so much that it is now in battered pages. These past months I have been experimenting with this recipe to make it fit Fabufit Paleo guidelines. First I just made the recipe using a Gluten Free Flour and Coconut Oil. It was delicious. However, this Gluten Free Flour is made from rice, which doesn’t really match strict Paleo.
Last week, I worked with the recipe again and came up with a totally delicious version. It has a much different taste to it, but John and I both like it very much. We love having one of the Paleo bread or muffin recipes in the morning with some hot tea. (At least, I really like the hot tea.)
Here we go. It will probably become a favorite for you too.
1 and 1/2 cups of Blanched Almond Flour (We found at a store in DFW area called Costco.)
NOTE: Using the Blanched Almond Flour will revolutionize your Paleo Baking. I only discovered it a couple of months ago when I saw my first bag of Honeyville Blanched Almond Flour. I have just discovered Nature’s Eats brand carried at Sam’s, which is also wonderful to work with.
2 medium zucchini squash, peeled and grated
Beat eggs, syrup and oil together.
Stir in salt, soda, powder, ginger and grated zucchini (Should be about 1 and 1/2 to 2 cups loosely packed.)
Mix in flour and broken walnuts.
Brush some coconut oil around in a loaf pan, and then dust with almond flour to keep from sticking.
350 degrees for about 40-45 minutes. Insert a toothpick to see if done. I must admit this is tricky getting it perfectly done so I just make the muffins and bake them 24 minutes.. It will feel very moist when eating. It almost resembles the consistency of a pineapple upside down cake I recall from years ago. I have begun using the Blendtech blender and can toss everything in there and blend. This makes a really light batter to cook with.
Filed Under: Feature, Healthy Food and Inch Loss, PALEO, Paleo Recipes, Recipe Cards Tagged With: Dani Rotramel, diet tips, Fabufit, Fabulously Fit, healthy eating, Healthy Food, healthy recipes, Paleo Diet, Weight Loss
Changing Your Set Point (Part II)
In the last post, I shared with you 7 important steps to take in order to change your Set Point (the weight at which your body wants to weigh.) Here are a few very critical things to remember:
Lose no More than 10% of Your Body Weight in a Six Month Time Frame
Scientific evidence supports losing no more than 10% of your body weight at a time. That seems to be the amount of weight you can lose before your body starts to fight back. Your body’s set point and all of it multitude of regulatory hormones dictate the effectiveness of this 10% loss. Some can lose more than 10% at a time, but only a very precious few can maintain that loss. Maintain this new lower weight for 6 months and then you can repeat the cycle and thus reset your set point again.
New Forever Lifestyle Habits Must be Taken to Autopilot
Resetting your set point requires new forever lifestyle habits that you will take to autopilot. They will become second nature to you.
Avoid any Crash Diet or Insane Amount of Exercise
Increasing your exercise to insane amounts will not work long-term. Crash dieting will not work. Your metabolism with create a compensatory reaction to both of these actions in order to maintain its fuel reserves. If pushed to extremes, your metabolism pushes back. Research from Harvard Medical School
Think about your metabolism like the tires on your car:
The more miles you put on it, the less responsive it becomes.
Quote from Jill Coleman ,Director of Instructor Training for Metabolic Effect
Ready for the Key to it All?
Stay 90% consistent 100% of the time
Filed Under: Exercise Training, Feature, Fitness Tips, Fitness Training for Members, Wisdom, Words of Encouragement Tagged With: diet tips, Fabulously Fit, healthy eating, inch loss, Paleo Diet, paleo tips, Weight Loss
Fabufit Paleo Eating Course
Listen to Intro Class on Fabufit Paleo Eating Course
Babystep Training on Fabufit Paleo Eating for Inch Loss:
Four Video Classes
Digital Journal/Workbook for Guidance in Implementing all Four Classes
Save Yourself Time in Learning this Fabulous Inch Loss Way of Eating
Learn how to eat Delicious Meals without the Guilt or the Inch Gain
Filed Under: Fabufit Products, PALEO, UNIQUE Tagged With: diet tips, Paleo Diet, Weight Loss
SPEED COOKING for Healthy, Paelo Eating
We are all so busy. It is critical to become good at speed cooking. But many times speed cooking without planning results in an unhealthy meal, full of bad carbs and fats. To speed cook healthy meals to stay fit, here’s what I recommend:
Plan your menu, and buy paleo food staples. These products can be found at Costco, Sprouts, Kroger and other stores that specialize in healthy foods. To make things easier, I have a cabinet devoted just to my Paleo staples.
Organic Dried Onion Flakes (It takes way too long for me to chop onions or garlic and so many of the delicious Paleo main dishes require them.)
Coconut Oil (The big tub found at Costco is so economical and used so very often.)
Classico Marinara Sauce. Try recipe for Marinara Chili here.
Organic Blue Aquave Nectar
Unsalted and natural Walnuts, Pecans and Almonds
Dried Cranberries, Slivered Almonds for salads
Balsamic Vinegar or Strawberry Balsamic Dressing – click here for recipe
Natural Rotisserie Chicken (This chicken with a tossed salad of dark green lettuce or spinach, and possibly a baked sweet potato, makes a great easy meal.)
Cans of full fat coconut milk. Put in refrigerator to get the can cold and then open and dip off the top part to make a very delicious and healthy whip cream by adding a little honey or stevia and pure vanilla. Then just whip with a little whisk or fork.
We don’t use flour with gluten, so stock your pantry with coconut flour, almond flour, tapioca flour and arrowroot powder.
Make enough for at least two meals when making main dishes like the Chili. Buy some of the glass storage containers with the good sealing lids. These can even be used for freezing a dish.
John and I have simple meals, like a piece of grilled salmon with a big salad. We find frozen salmon individually vacuum sealed in a bag at Sam’s. Just have to remember to thaw the salmon. Put it in cold water for an hour while you prepare the salad and vegetable. Add cranberries and slivered almonds to make a delicious salad.
When having a Rotisserie Chicken, we save any left over to make Chicken Salad. Click here for recipe. Be creative and always freeze anything that you will not be eating the next day. That way you do not waste your groceries, and you make it easier for a later meal.
For delicious healthy recipes – the Paleo way – visit my blog, www.fabulouslyfit.com and click on the Healthy Recipe Tab.
Filed Under: Blog, Healthy Food and Inch Loss, Paleo Recipes Tagged With: Dani Rotramel, diet tips, Fabufit, Healthy Food, Paleo shopping list, Weight Loss
I Finally Found a Great Paleo Pumpkin Pie Recipe
I promised I would find one. It wasn’t quite so easy as I tested the ones I found. This one has a light and delicious filling. I liked the Paleo crust very much but John didn’t, so I may substitute a regular non paleo crust. NOTE: I made the crust first and used the left over egg white and just added it to my filling extra.I had no maple sugar so I used 1/4 c. pure maple syrup and 2 packets of stevia.
This site: deliciouslyorganic.net has some great looking recipes. Hats off to this author who has created such a fabulous substitute of “deliciously healthy” for “delicious”. I also found a Paleo Pecan Pie here using the same crust. I will be trying this one tomorrow.
Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: diet tips, Healthy Food, healthy recipes, paleo