While it may be a little longer than you wish, it's worth the little bit of extra time. When you taste these healthy snacks - you'll be glad you took the 33 minutes to put them together.
Simple fruit based snacks are an easy, fast and inexpensive way to get high quality nutrients into your fat loss and fitness diet. However, it is also easy to go overboard when it comes to the calorie content that can be loaded into these quick and simple treats.
From your choice of fruits to how you actually combine them with other ingredients, can make the difference between bloating yourself up with unnecessary carbohydrates and sugars, or feeding your body in way that leaves you full of energy & satisfied, while keeping you in a favorable calorie range.
INGREDIENTS: NOTE - use organic ingredients if you can...
- 1 cup whole wheat flour
- 1 tablespoon ground flax seeds
- 1 teaspoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon powder
- a pinch of sea salt
- 1 large egg - lightly beaten
- 1/2 cup packed brown sugar
- 1/3 cup skim milk (fat-free)
- 1/4 cup olive oil
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- 1 large, mashed up, ripened banana
- 1/3 cup chopped-up dried figs
1) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Then coat an 11 inch by 7 inch baking pan with non-stick cooking spray. Mix flour, flax seeds, ground cinnamon, baking powder and sea salt in large mixing bowl.
2) In medium bowl - mix together egg, brown sugar, 1/3 cup skim milk, extra virgin olive oil, and vanilla extract. Then mix in mashed banana and chopped fig pieces. Add all this to first large bowl with flour mixture and stir. Spread evenly in pan.
3) Bake in oven for 20 - 25 minutes - or until tooth-pick stuck into at center comes out dry. Remove and let cool for 15 - 20 minutes.
4) Cut into 20 squares and EAT.
- each square is about eighty lean calories - two of these squares are perfect for a daytime treat or sinfully naughty pre-bedtime snack.
For eightly tight calories per square you get a nutrient dense, well-balanced, great-tasting, appetite-satisfying fitness snack that can fit into almost anyone's fat loss & fitness program. You may also make your own variations of this recipe to match it perfectly to your fitness and body enhancement goals.
Do you know there are three easy steps that you can implement today that can get you into weight loss mode? If you are looking for some technique to get your fat burning furnace roaring, you are in luck because I am going to share with you 3 steps that you can take so your body can burn more body fat.
There are tips and tricks that we can implement so that we can get more from our workout. This means burn more fat and save more time. All of us are looking for methods to lose weight quickly and get the most of our time. So, by implementing these 3 tips, you can definitely burn more body fat and see the results quite quickly. Without wasting more time, lets dive into it.
Step 1
Do your cardio after your intense weight training. This is by far one of the best method I have seen working for my clients. For those who do not know me, I have been doing personal training for more than 7000 hours since the 2004 and I find that my clients that follow my instructions and do their cardio after their weight training lose the most fat!
The reason behind this is because we are glucose depleted after an intense weight training session. Hence when you hit the cardio, your body will start using body fat straight away. If you do cardio before you weight training, you will waste time spending 10 to 15 minutes burning the sugar in your body and then only the body fat. Then when you do weight training, you will not have the power and strength to complete an intense weight training session.
During weight training, you only use sugar. So, it is more effective to do weight training first, burn of the sugar and then hit the cardio machine for maximum fat loss. If you are not use to do your cardio after weight training, you will feel that your body is heavy and find it really tough. Do it slowly. Do your cardio workout at the intensity of 70 % of your max heart rate the after 5 to 7 minutes; you feel that you can go on forever!
Step 2
Now this is a bit of a controversial issue. Some pros do not like this method and some do. I personally experienced great results from it. It is called low card dieting. Yeah, you have heard of it like a thousand times. I am not a dietitian, but for my modeling days, I use to go low carb for 5 days and then eat normal on Saturday and Sunday.
This is not Atkins diet. I do not eat lots of fats. I eat lots of vegetables; eat lots of fish, egg whites and chicken. I also drink lots of soup because I found out that soup could really satisfy my appetite. The bulk of the meals come from vegetables because it is healthy and keeps your stomach full. You will feel a bit tired during your weight training but that is normal. You are not there to do the World's Strongest Man event.
The key to maintain on this diet is that you have to eat 5 to 6 meals a day. Always plan ahead. I cannot emphasize enough. You need to plan what time you eat and what you will eat. This will help you cope up with all the hunger pangs. If you fail to plan you plan to fail.
Step 3
This tips is actually very easy. It won't need you to put in more time into you workout or change your lifestyle. If you have been doing cardio religiously 3 to 5 times a week, why not supercharge your fat loss by using a heart rate monitor. By using a heart rate monitor, you can laser target you fat burning zone. With the heart rate monitor you would also know whether you are really tired or pure lazy. I workout too, I know. Sometimes I feel like I just don't have the stamina but when I checked my heart rate, it is just fine and sometimes below the required zone. So, I know I am just cheating myself if I stop. I discuss in more detail about getting the right heart rate in my Fast Fat Loss E-Mag. I high recommend you to subscribe to it to learn more and it is free.
There you have it. Three tips for you to get into weight loss mode that you can implement today. The biggest killer I think is procrastinating. Get started today and look great faster. Keep on learning and join info sites like Fast Fat Loss E-Mag to avoid making weight loss mistakes.
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