Strength Training - Safety Strength training is known as resistance training and weight training. It involves using weight machines or free weights to improve muscle endurance and strength. If you're not careful with resistance training, you can injure yourself if you use equipment incorrectly or use bad form. Make sure to use care when strength … [Read more...] about Strength Training – Safety
Vegetable Skewers
Vegetable Skewers Spice Rub: 2 tablespoons garlic powder 1 tablespoon ground cumin 1 tablespoon ground coriander 1 tablespoon paprika 1 tablespoon kosher salt 1 tablespoon freshly ground black pepper 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper 1/4 cup extra-virgin olive oil Vegetables: 3 small zucchini 3 small yellow squash 2 tablespoons kosher … [Read more...] about Vegetable Skewers
Cajun Beans and Rice
Cajun Beans and Rice 1 lb dry black beans 2 onions, chopped 2 tsp minced garlic 1 T ground cumin 2 tsp salt 1 (14 oz) can chicken broth 1 cup instant brown rice Place beans in a saucepan, cover with water and soak overnight. In a 4 or 5-quart slow cooker, combine beans, onion, garlic, cumin, salt, chicken broth and 2 cups water. Cover … [Read more...] about Cajun Beans and Rice
The Incredible Edible Smoothie
The Incredible Edible Smoothie There are smoothie shops everywhere these days. Within a 5 mile radius of my house, there are four shops, not including the mall. The smoothie has been around since 1960. Similar to a milkshake, they're sweet, made with fruit, milk or yogurt. They can be made from vegetables as well. Smoothies can be both … [Read more...] about The Incredible Edible Smoothie
Big Change Small Change
Make a small change or a big change? I have a hard time making small changes. When I decide I need to do something, like lose weight, I can't start small. If I start small, then I feel I'm setting myself up for failure. For instance: if I make small changes in my diet, it makes it easier for me to goof up - and overlook - the goof up. If I do … [Read more...] about Big Change Small Change
Weight Loss Changes
Weight Loss Changes I had a strange experience today. I was walking towards a glass window when I saw someone dressed just like me. Only they were alot thinner. As I approached this stranger, about to compliment them on how well they were dressed, it dawned on me: That's me! I didn't even recognize myself. After I got over feeling … [Read more...] about Weight Loss Changes
Home Soda Maker
Here's something cool: a home soda maker. We're all hearing now about how diet soda is so bad for us, it's what's making us fat, it won't help us lose weight, the splenda/aspartame/saccarhin/whatever is going to give us brain damage and so on. Purdue says that diet soda prevents us from realizing how many calories we're taking in. Not sure I … [Read more...] about Home Soda Maker