Healthy Recipes Part 17: Healthy Homemade Cajun Chicken Pizza

A quick ,easy to make and healthy thin based alternative pizza Ingredients 1 Byblos Wholemeal Lebanese bread Reduced Salt Tomato paste 150g  Grilled chicken Breast 100g low fat cotttage cheese 1 slice of virginia ham shredded handful kidney beans/white beans cajun seasoning black pepper 1/2 Cup Sliced Onion 1/2 Cup Sliced Green Capsicum 30g shredded parmesan   Directions Spread tomato …

Healthy Recipes Part 16: 1 minute Blueberry and Vanilla Oatmeal Muffins

Quick and Simple and perfect for a preworkout meal if you are in a rush…. Ingredients 30g Quick Oats/Rolled Oats 1/2 Scoop Vanilla WPI Small handful of blueberries 1 Egg white teaspoon of cinnamon 1 or 2 tbsp water, depending on consistency 1 teaspoon of stevia Directions Add all ingredients to a mug and mix together, put mug into the …

Is alcohol seriously holding you back from reaching your goals?

As a personal trainer one of the biggest hurdles I find when trying to devise a nutrition plan for clients is to get them to understand the importance of eliminating, or at least significantly moderating the amount of alcohol they consume. Apart from the fact that most people are oblivious to how many calories there are in alcohol(7 per gram, …

Thermic Effect of food and how it can help you lose weight

Ok, so in simple terms here’s what you need to know about the thermic effect of food Some of the calories in the foods you eat are burned off during the digestion process, so the net amount of calories absorbed by your body is actually less than the amount contained in the food. This process is commonly referred to as …

Fix your Sweet cravings with minimal calories!

One of the biggest challenges i faced personally when i decided to start living the healthy lifestyle i do today was my nutrition. Knowing what to eat, when to eat, portion sizes, choosing the healthier options etc. One of my biggest downfalls was my sweet tooth i inherited from my mum and her side of the family. I could go …

Superfoods Part 1: Quinoa

Quinoa is native to South America. The pre-Columbian Incas saw it as a sacred food, calling it chisaya mama (mother grain). They planted the first seeds of the season in religious ceremonies using golden tools. Depriving the people of quinoa was one of the means the Spanish used to conquer the Incas. In recent years, people who value nutrition have …

Breaking News: Pre Workout Supplements banned in Australia

Its official, PRE WORKOUT products containing ingredient 1.3 Dimethylamylamine (DMAA)will be BANNED from manufacture, storage, distribution and possession as from August 1st 2012. The Committee considered the referral from the medicines scheduling delegate to include 1,3-dimethylamine or 4-methylhexane-2-amine (DMAA) in Schedule 9 of the Standard for the Uniform Scheduling of Medicines and Poisons( The same as Heroin Mescaline and LSD!) …

Keys Training Tips To Beating The Beep Test

    BEST EXERCISES  – weighted single leg front lunges weighted single leg side lunges lateral bounds ON THE TREADMILL  –  The simplest type of treadmill workout for beep test training would be to set the treadmill to 1% incline (this best mimics the energy demands of running outdoors on the flat) and 8km/hr.  Then each minute on the minute …

Cairns Residents – Coles vs Woolworths for Value on Healthy Items!!!!

  To all you heathy concious Cairns folk, unless you had already worked out this for yourselves i just did a price comparison to see which is better value. First of all these prices are based on the Coles in Cairns Central and Woolworths in the City. I doubt they will fluctuate that much in the out of town Supermarkets. …

Healthy Recipes Part 13: Chocolate Mousse

You could make this healthier option for a dinner party dessert and i guarantee your guests will mistake it for the real deal. Perfect for end of day treat to kill any chocolate cravings. Ingredients 1 scoop optimum nutrition Casein( cookies and cream/chocolate/ choc peanut putter) 1 Tbsp 100% Cocoa 200ml water 2 Tsp Stevia 150g Low Fat Cottage Cheese/Ricotta …