Lunch- Making a healthy change

Starting off the week on a healthy food with a fabulous Vegetarian Fitspirational Lunch!!

Think you can’t eat a grilled cheese sandwich and fries without eating unhealthy fried foods? WRONG!

This meal contains protein, fiber, calcium, iron and WONDERFUL nutritious ingredients! I made this AT HOME in less than 10 mins. he healthiest “fast food” you can imagine.

What you see:

1. Toasted Cheddar and Avocado grilled cheese sandwich on oatnut bread, with a bit of butternut squash aioli sauce 
2. Side Ceazar salad
3. Sweet Potato fries (BAKED not fried) *Note- Did you know Sweet potatoes are ranked one of the highest nutritional vegetable on the planet? This is because of their high protein and vitamin content!
4. Glass of water

Eating healthy does NOT have to be boring! Get creative, have FUN in the kitchen finding new wonderful ways to incorporate health into your meals! 

I made this meal healthy by:

• Using Oatnut bread instead of starchy white bread
• Having baked sweet potato fries instead of normal greasy fried french fries
• Adding a salad
• Having water instead of soda

APPLY what you just read to YOUR life. Today when you make your next meal, stop and think what you can do to make it healthier!

Xox Brittany,

The Fitspirational Blonde

5 steps to get UN-addicted to sugar!

We crave sugar because we are looking for energy.

You may not eating enough which leads to having intense sugar highs followed by crashes, followed by wanting more sugar and then crashing again. Your body is continuously craving sugar and seems to never get enough.

How to fix this?

Eat more often. As I'm ALWAYS telling you, carry snack with you!

Snack Ideas:

• Carrot Sticks
• Pita and hummus
• Fruit (raspberries, blue berries etc)
• Peanut butter and celery
• Low-Cal popcorn (meaning not drenched with butter)

If you love sugar, then you love the way it makes you feel while you're eating it... but NOT the way it makes you feel afterwords. 

How can you tell that you're addicted to sugar?

Try going just 2 days without it. Can't do that, then chances are there's a high probability that you're addicted!

Fitspirational steps to take if you're a sugar addict: (YES THIS IS A REAL ADDICTION)

1. DON'T DROP SUGAR ALL AT ONCE. This is setting yourself up for FAILURE. You will not, and I REPEAT- WILL NOT be able to drop sugar in one day, or maybe even one week. It is a slow process and takes time and dedication, but it will ABSOLUTELY BE WORTH IT once you're off of it completely. Sugar turns into FAT.
2. Slowly ween yourself off of sugar by replacing it with healthier natural sugars. For example, apples have a very high natural sugar. Every time you crave a chocolate, eat a few apple slices :) Add some Peanut Butter too for some extra flavor in there.
3. Drink a LOT of water. A lot of the time when you're feeling like you need a sugar high, it is actually your body telling you that you're dehydrated. Drink 3 glasses, wait 1/2 hour and see if you still want it. (PMSing doesn't count. If you're PMSing and you are craving a chocolate... EAT THE CHOCOLATE- Coming from a girl with INTENSE cravings during that lovely monthly gift from mother nature)
4. Cut down the sweets in your drinks! There is SO much sugar in the drinks that we intake, that a huge percentage of our daily sugar comes from drinking. FACT: did you know mountain dew has 19 TEASPOONS OF SUGAR IN ONE SERVING?!?!?!?!! How is that even legal? I did an entire presentation on this in my Spanish class and everyone was SHOCKED.
5. Exercise! This may sound crazy, but exercising really will help you beat a sugar addiction. There is something about exercise and endorphin that makes you want to eat better and takes your mind off of cravings. 

I've given you the tools, now it's your turn to take them into your hands and apply them.

A majority of America has no idea what it feels like to feel their full bodies potential.

Don't be a part of that majority. Get UN-addicted with me NOW!

Xox Brittany,

The Fitspirational Blonde