Let food be fun!

  On my grocery list for last week were ingredients to make turkey tacos.  After making them I still had a lot of leftovers, so to prevent meal boredom I recreated my turkey tacos into baked tostadas, and they were super yummy!  Here's how I did it.....
   
Preheat your oven to 350 degrees.
Place your tortillas on the baking sheet, brush with olive oil, and sprinkle with salt, black pepper, cumin, and chili powder.
Bake for approx. 5 mins. or until crisp, and golden brown.
Once cool, spread on guacamole, layer on top the seasoned ground turkey, iceberg lettuce, and garnish with salsa.

 Baked Tostada

Baked and seasoned flour tortilla with guacamole, taco seasoned ground turkey, iceberg lettuce, and homemade tomato-serrano salsa.

Mexican kitchen must have's...

    To always have on hand - Tortillas or tortilla chips, mexican spices (cumin, chili powder, garlic powder, oregano, black pepper, salt), fresh garlic.
     Ingredients to pick up - Meat (mine being ground turkey but can be anything you want), tomatoes, onion, avocado, limes, cilantro, peppers (depending on heat preferences you can choose anything from a bell pepper to a habenero)

High FACT Diets

It is so hard to know who or what to listen to when it comes to weight loss and nutritional advice. One source says one thing, while another is saying the complete opposite...how do we get it straight?

What it really comes down to is we need to listen to OURSELVES. What a scary, confusing concept to actually trust our own body's to tell us when we are full and done eating.

"Animals instinctively know what to eat. So do we. We just don't know that we know this." - Marc David

Inside our gastrointestinal tract we have over one hundred million nerve cells (that's more than in the spinal cord!) that send messages up to the brain informing it of what nutrients it needs to eat and how to metabolize them.

This means that the gut-brain tells the head-brain what it wants...but most of us don't pay attention to this.

Try tuning into your gut-brain and see if you can eat to the point of energy instead of to the point of full. Leave your meal before you are filled with food. You may still feel a little hungry, but use that hunger and desire for more food into the next thing you do after your meal.

Upset stomach, heartburn, stress-induced digestive shutdown, feeling tired, sluggish, unfocused, and heavy are all symptoms that can be associated with eating to the point of full. Feel lighter, more focused, and more energized if you eat to the point of energy instead. In turn, it can lead to a lower caloric intake and weight loss, simply by being more aware of what and how much we are eating.

Stop listening to others and listen to yourself, because no one knows what you need more than you.

*Live, eat, and believe in yourself*