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To be in control of your diet, you're going to have to learn to manage eating out less!That's just the facts, you have to control what you're eating.Here's a great Copy Cat Recipe:Chipotle Burrito Bowlserves 2Ingredients
1 Tbsp + 1 Tsp Olive oil, divided8 Oz Chicken breasts2 Tsp Taco seasoning, home made is best2 1/2 Cups Cauliflower, cut into bite-sized pieces(or purchase cauli rice)1 bell pepper thinly sliced, seeds removed1/2 A small onion, thinly sliced2 tsp garlic, mincedSalt and pepper2/3 Cup diced jicama or corn- (corn is not low carb)1/4 Cup Chopped CilantroJuice of one large lime6 Tbsp Salsa of choice1/2 Small avocado, chopped into cubesLettuce, Cheese or Sour Cream as garnishInstructions
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees and heat 1 tsp of the olive oil on high heat in a large, oven-safe pan.Sprinkle each side of the chicken breasts with taco seasoning, making sure to really rub it into the chicken.Place the chicken into the hot pan and sear until golden brown, about 1-2 minutes. Flip and repeat until the other side is golden brown. Then, place the chicken into the oven and cook until no longer pink inside, about 20-25 minutes.While the chicken cooks, place the cauliflower in the food processor and process until small and "rice-like" (Or buy cauli rice and skip this step!)Heat 1/2 Tbsp of the remaining olive oil in a large pan on medium heat and add in the riced cauliflower. Cover the cauliflower with a lid and cook, stirring occasionally, until golden brown, about 7-10 minutes.While the cauliflower cooks, heat the remaining 1/2 Tbsp of olive oil in a separate large pan on medium-high heat. Add the peppers, onion and garlic. Season with a pinch of salt and pepper Cook until golden brown, stirring occasionally. This takes about 3-5 minutes.Heat a dry grill pan on high heat the jicama or corn kernels, this only takes a minute or two.Place the cooked cauliflower rice into a large bowl and add in the cilantro, lime juice and another pinch of salt and pepper. Stir until well mixed.Divide the cauliflower rice between two bowls, followed by the pepper/onion mixture and the jicama/corn. Then, divide the salsa and chopped avocado between the bowls.Finish by placing one of the cooked chicken breasts on each bowl, followed by another squeeze of fresh lime juice.Adjust salt and pepper to taste. You can add lettuce and cheese or sour cream if you eat dairy.FINAL HOURS!!!to take part in the challenge, you will receive a free fruit-infusing water bottler (BPA free!) with your order, no code needed ($20 value) and a quick start guide.Then when you send a before an after picture with testimonial of your success after the challenge, you will receive our 3 new fall tea blends in September,which is a $75 gift!!Jennifer XOXOPS: The book below is available on Amazon, and some of our products are still available on Amazon, too. Some are sold out! -
First of all, congratulations for being here. You rock!You are putting yourself first and making sure you are getting what you want,that's rare and its awesome!Remember less than 2% of people have goals that are written down,and they succeed at reaching their goals more than all the rest of the 98% combined!!Which are you? Do you have goals for this challenge?How will you know if you succeed unless you can measure yourself?I want to talk today about the "Clean Plate Club" and how people think about themselves as "good."Most likely when you were a little child your parents rewarded you for eating all your food, you received praise, dessert or just avoided being punished when you at it all!You were inducted to the "Clean Plate Club!"They actually reinforced an idea in your mind that to please them you had to eat whatever was on your plate.But that is not the case any longer!Today you get to decide what is good for you!That means you don't have to eat everything on your plate, you can save it, you can share it, you can throw it away!You get to decide what goes in your body, how much it needs and you can say NO to eating everything!One of the best strategies is to begin changing how you see yourself, to redefine what you think of as praise.Because we still are conditioned to believe following these old rules is a good thing, our brain still gives us internal praise when we do them!!You need to move up the priority of your health and well-being, your weight loss and eating habits. You need to give yourself some rules and some praise when you achieve them!It sounds difficult, but it just takes a bit of attention.Start with "I drink tea before every meal," and "I eat protein, water, fiber and healthy fat at every meal" and "I eat enough to be satisfied."Then praise yourself when you accomplish them, notice when you feel better, you have less bloating, your clothes fit better, or you have more energy. Notice the subtle changes, because that is how these small things become habits, we reinforce them to ourselves.You will have to be brave and strong to make changes, if you need to set an alarm on your phone, make a reward chart with old school gold stars or use something you really want to purchase as a goal reaching bribe. Maybe you need to get someone to help you make these changes?Whatever works for you: DO IT!Today is the last day to get our 21 day Newport Skinny Tea on sale and receive a free fruit infusing water bottle with purchase! ($20 Value no code needed!)And when you finish the challenge just submit your testimonial with photos to receive our three new fall tea flavors in September! ($75 value!)YOU CAN DO THIS! -
If you can't seem to lose weight no matter what you do, most likely your metabolism has stopped working...I've been learning about the discoveries doctors and researchers have been making about metabolism, one thing I read recently is that if you have more than 30 pounds to lose to reach your ideal weight you are almost certainly insulin resistant.Insulin resistance is different than metabolic syndrome, but both share a commonality, your body has stopped being sensitive enough to insulin to use your calories effectively. You are storing your calories, especially sugar, instead of burning them, that is why nothing you try is working.The news gets worse....even if you get everything "right" with dieting and exercise, since you have a broken metabolism it will make your body store even more fat... Eating a low fat diet very frequently while doing intense cardio will most likely make you GAIN weight.UGH!I'm going to give you some key first steps if you believe you're insulin resistant and what you've been doing isn't working.1. Embrace Good Fats and get off the Sugar Roller Coaster. Eating refined sugar or starch while trying to be "low-fat" will continuously put your blood sugar on a roller coaster, every time your blood glucose goes up your body will have no choice but to store some of it as fat, because your cells are not sensitive enough to insulin to use the calories, it has to store them so your blood does not become overloaded.Embrace good fats, vegetables and protein as outlined in our book below or on our website. The process of getting your cells to be sensitive again takes time. Warning, eating more fat goes against EVERYTHING we've ever learned about dieting, its hard to trust that it will work.2. Eat 3 times per day, allowing 4-5 hours in between meals. You should be eating meals that keep you full for at least 4 hours, this means they have enough fiber and protein that they are breaking down slowly and not spiking your blood sugar. You can work up to this point, if you need a snack between lunch and dinner then plan for it and move your dinner later.3. You must start walking every day. Walking will reeducate your metabolism. Walk 45 to 60 minutes daily or less if you are just starting. Walking will help make you most sensitive to insulin.In the August tea Challenge I will continue to go more in depth with this topic, and even if you have less than 30 pounds to lose, you will see great benefits to making your body a better fat burning machine!Grab our special offer- purchase ato take part in the challenge, you will receive a free fruit-infusing water bottler (BPA free!) with your order, no code needed ($20 value) and a quick start guide.Then when you send a before an after picture with testimonial of your success after the challenge, you will receive our 3 new fall tea blends in September,which is a $75 gift!!Jennifer XOXOPS: The book below is available on Amazon, and some of our products are still available on Amazon, too. Some are sold out! -
The following is an excerpt from my new book that will be coming out shortly, I thought it was so important that you needed to read it right away. It will solve some mysteries for you about why you are struggling to lose weight.___________________________________The myth that we need carbohydrates to “fuel” our body persists, but carbs are actually the only macronutrient we don’t need to eat in order to survive. Carbs are made up of sugars and starches. When we eat carbs, it provokes an insulin response from our cells. Insulin is the gatekeeper of your fat cells. When its high, you are storing energy as fat, when its low you can burn your stored fat as energy.Without an insulin response, calories can’t get put into our cells for fat storage. When we eat a food that does provoke an insulin response we can measure that response on the Glycemic Index, when we measure how much a typical serving of that food raises our blood sugar we call that the Glycemic Load of the food. The higher the Glycemic Load, the more calories % wise are stored away from that meal as fat. A slice of white bread has a GL of 100, every other food is measured in comparison to that standard.
I can hear things clicking into place for you…Just know, I am purposefully making this explanation extremely simple, because it’s a very complex subject and I don’t want you to get lost in the technicality of it and give up. What you need to know is that one key to control your fat loss is to control your overall dietary Glycemic Load.
Most diets that succeed in getting you to lose weight do so because they control the Glycemic Load you eat. Most diets cut out processed foods, control sugars and starches and don’t even know that this is what they are doing! The Zone, Paleo, Keto, Whole 30, Raw, and all mainstream diets I can think of use this principle.What studies show is that reducing the glycemic load, unlike reducing dietary fat, while trying to lose weight pulls most of the fat that the body uses from the abdominal fat stores instead of the thighs and butt, especially in women. Increases in your glycemic load tend to store calories on your abs.When our insulin is low, we unlock and burn our fat stores for energy! When our insulin is high our body is either putting more energy away to burn later or clamping those stores shut. Insulin control is one of the key principles to unlocking your fat stores and burning them instead of them growing!If you think about it, this will make a great deal of sense to you! I know you’ve been on a diet, where you are really trying, you are eating very low fat and low calorie only to not lose a pound and maybe you have even gained weight. This is because your insulin is high all the time, or you have some degree of insulin resistance preventing you using your fat stores.If you use calories in-calories out model to try to explain it, well it isn’t even mathematically possible. You know you are eating well, you are exercising, SO what the hell happened? There should be a deficit, I should be losing weight....This diet tells me to eat X calories subtract Y amount for daily living and exercising and I will have a deficit, then I will lose weight… but you now know that isn’t the way it always works. Yes, if you eat a ton of any type of calories you trigger some fat storage, but X-Y= weight loss model is inaccurate.So how is your body getting around math? Insulin! Insulin makes this possible. Insulin is the key, this will make everything you are frustrated about with dieting make instant sense.Let’s say you get up and you have a low fat bagel with no butter, but instead you use jam plus orange juice for breakfast. You are being very good, the calorie count and fat count is low, then you go an exercise intensely for an hour. An hour after that you are ravenous, and exhausted feeling, even shaky.Your breakfast had a glycemic load over 400, which is very high and it shot your insulin and blood sugar straight up. Your body responded by starting to shuttle extra energy into your fat storage cells and by clamping them shut. When you exercised you were burning off a little bit of your food and any glycogen in your muscle stores left over from yesterday. But basically your exercising didn’t do much, except lead your body further into thinking its starving, because it can’t access any of the stored energy it has, so now it sends signals that its starving and your blood sugar is crashing, leaving you shaky. So what do you reach for? Something that will prop it up, something with some sugar in it, something to make you feel better and the process gets worse.I've hear from so many people just like you who just CAN'T lose weight anymore no matter what they try, I know it’s true, because I've experienced it myself. I didn’t know why, but now I do, a big part of it is this insulin response. It’s imperative that you get it under control, learn how to unlock your fat stores and start to burn them for energy. I will be showing you how in this book.1.The first secret to keep your insulin in check is to keep your daily servings of starchy and sugary carbs (potatoes, rice, flour products) to 1 whole serving or 2 half servings. This DOES NOT include vegetables and fruits. It could be half of 1 potato and 1/2 cup of rice. That would be the starch for the day.2.The second secret is to eliminate sugary drinks from your diet, stop adding sugar to your coffee and tea as well.3. The third step is to exercise when your insulin is low, so first thing in the morning take a walk or at least 2 hours after a low glycemic meal. Our NST system below can also help!___________________________________________________________Our Newport Skinny Tea day and night teas work with your body to heal and rejuvenate your digestive system, to cleanse pounds of waste out of your intestines and to reset your metabolism to its original, pristine condition. In tests, the carcinia cambogia in kokum is shown to help the pancreas reline itself with beta cells to help balance your insulin response. Dandelion and nettle are cleansing agents that help your body rid itself of the excess water that is trapped in the tissues. All the teas in the system help your metabolism to run more smoothly and process food better. Cinnamon helps slow your insulin response and ginger and lemon calm inflammation in your tissues. All ingredients in our teas are purposefully selected to work in harmony to restore your body.
It's on sale right now for $26 instead of $35.Please note: This is not medical advice, you should always consult your doctor about your specific medical issues and you should never stop taking medication without a doctors consent. We are not doctors and cannot treat you, your disease through this article. We do not assume any responsibility for your medical issues or disease. -
First of all, congrats for showing up!I always want to recognize you!And let you know that you're doing a great job!This month I want to bring you ways to enhance your health through changes made in your beauty routine and enhance your beauty made through changes in what you eat, drink and how you exercise and relax.If any of this feels overwhelming, just do what you can. Detoxing and weight loss are both cumulative and geometric. (Yes I did have some extra caffeine this morning!)This means that that if you do 1 thing you're going to get a direct result, but if you do two things, you are going to get 3, 4 or possibly more results from the combined effect that the two things have together.Unfortunately, the same is true for toxic substances, for example when you take pain reliever after you have had too much alcohol, together they're much worse for your liver than they would be separately.Adding Epsom salts to your bath once a week is an easy thing to do, if you combined it with more efforts, you'll see results faster.These are the Epsom Salts I recommend: Epsoak Epsom SaltsHow are Epsom Salts different than sea salt?Epsom salts are named after a spring in Epsom in Surrey, England. Epsom salts are a naturally occurring mineral compound of magnesium and sulfate. Epsom Salts enhance the natural detoxification of our bodies through our skin, plus they add greatly needed magnesium.How do they draw out toxins?
Magnesium and sulfate are both quickly absorbed through the skin and into our blood. The skin is a highly porous membrane that both takes in minerals and eliminates toxins every day. Using a powerful mineral base such as Epsom salts in a bathwater creates a process called reverse osmosis, which pulls excess salt and harmful toxins out of the body and allows the magnesium and sulfates in through the skin. Orange and Lemon peels are also highly detoxifying, essential oils contain concentrated oil from the citrus peel as well.As we know, toxins stored in the body fat are a major reason why weight loss can be halted or slow.
What else does it do?
Magnesium plays a role in over 325 enzymes, helps to improve muscle and nerve function, reduces inflammation and improves blood flow and oxygenation throughout the body. Sulfates are necessary building blocks for healthy joints, skin and nervous tissue. Epsom salts replenish the body's magnesium levels and sulfates. The combination helps to flush toxins from the body and helps build protein molecules in the brain tissues and joints.
The use of Epsom Salt has been shown to improve the symptoms of many health conditions including athlete's foot, gout, toenail fungus, sprains, bruises and muscle soreness. It is also good for anyone dealing with chronic disease or chronic pain to do regular Epsom baths to help detoxify and reduce inflammation while improving mineral and sulfur content in the body.Sulfur is known as the beauty mineral and will make your skin, hair and nails stronger and more beautiful. Magnesium will help you feel relaxed, help tense muscles relax and help you sleep better.
California Citrus Detox Bath Salts1/4 cup lemon peel, shaved with a micro planer1-2 cups orange peel, shaved with a micro planeressential oils2 pounds Epsom saltsMix all ingredients together, make sure you dilute your essential oils with a carrier oil, put 1 pound in your bath and relax 20-40 minutes. -
Don't you just love ice cream in the summer?If you haven't yet jumped on the banana nice cream trend,now is the time to do it!What's nice cream?
Its basically frozen bananas blended
until they're smooth and creamy like ice cream!Here's the basic recipe forBanana Blueberry Nice Cream:2 1/2 frozen bananas
1/2 cup frozen blueberries1-2 tbsp. waterMix all and blend until ice creamy(Add more or less water for desired consistency) you may have to scrape the sides of your container a couple timesThere's a thousand and one ways to change it up-add any fruit, nut or mix in you can think ofadd nutritional items like flax, chia, bee pollen, protein powder, or even nut butters, avocado or cocoa powderMake your frozen bananas into a smoothie, smoothie bowl, ice cream sandwich, popsicle or serve it in a fruit bowl for breakfast!Replacing high fat dairy with nutritious banana is a great step for your skin, too! You should see a reduction in inflammation, redness and puffiness.Bananas are high in potassium, which is great for your nerves, relaxation and muscle tension.Hope you enjoy, would love to see what you create on Insta! Tag me!
Jennifer XOXO
