Slim Down - No More Excuses!

Since it's the season of fruits and vegetables, it is the time when you can drop weight like command!
The best thing you can do is substitute your snacks and dinners with fruits, vegetables, salads and fruit salads each day. Another great thing you can do is juicing which can take away your hunger whilst keeping you full of vitamins, minerals and 100% natural, bio nutrition! 

To help you get started, we would like to recommend 2 books:

The first one is Salad of the Day (Williams-Sonoma): 

365 Recipes for Every Day of the Year

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This enticing collection of 365 recipes offers a salad for each day of the year. From January to December, you'll find daily inspiration and a seasonal salad to satisfy any craving or suit any occasion.

From light salads featuring spring
vegetables and herbs to garden-fresh greens mixed with summer's bounty, autumn roots tossed with hearty grains to aromatic winter noodle salads--plus protein-packed main-dish salads for any day of the year--a delicious option awaits, With this cookbook as your guide, discover a salad to match each season's ingredients.

Quick Tips On Low Fat Meals

Summer 

Summer is just about to *hit* us. If you still have some unwanted fat-pillows attached to your body and you know you would feel uncomfortable in a bikini, then you should try to stick to a high protein diet and include lots of fruits, and veggies in the diet. Make sure that the chosen nutrition will not make you bloat. Also, to boost your kidneys and liver (to spin up the metabolism and do a good detox), you will need a minimum of 2.5-3 liters of fluid intake.

Low fat goodies:

White Meat, Tofu, Lean Meat, Fish and Sea-Goodies.

From vegetables, go for: anything that isn't legume. Eat lots and lots of salads, but be very stingy with the dressings! When possible, make the salads at home, from ingredients, that you personally chose and know.

Fruits: The higher the

Is The Paleo Diet Safe?

Guest Post by Sage Spring


It is obvious that you ask this question. If you ever did a research about any diet, you know that there are always pros and cons. There are people to say yes it's the best you can do to your body and for your weight loss, whilst there are others to say that it's a no-no.
I, in my best knowledge as I am a Paleo-cook for a year, can only but recommend Paleo Diet to everyone. Why? Because it's clean, simple and free from chemicals, processed foods and other unneeded toxins. 
Following the diet, your body will cleanse inside and outside. You'll gain a better health and you will throughout feel better. 

However, I want you to ask your doctor or dietitian whether it is safe for you personally to follow a Paleo Diet. This is essential not only for Paleo diet, but all kind of diets.

So far, I only saw positive and great results, following Paleo Diet. My skin, hair and nails got shinier and stronger. I got rid of cellulite (as i got rid of the toxins and tied water). My digestive system never been as good as it is now and I don't crave for the junk food I used to eat long ago. My hubby says, he has more energy than before.

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End Of Excuses!

You know when you want to start and follow a successful diet, you'll need to do some researches on the basics of the diet. Then of course, you have to face with the fact, that you need to prepare foods, that you may have naver cooked before and have absolutely no idea how to start, what the recipe wants from you and ingredient misery when you don't have a pale purple idea about the needed groceries.
Luckily, there's a lot of useful information out there in the whole wild world wide web and you can easily find useful things regarding your diet, from which you can benefit and learn a lot.
This is what happened to me

Lose Weight Easier and Smarter

Tips And Tricks To Lose Weight Easier and Smarter

Powerade Zero 
Sports Drink

Tip 1:
Change your soft drink to mineral water, 100% pure juices or sports drinks. Sports drinks are beverages whose stated purpose is to help athletes replace water, electrolytes, and energy after training or competition.


Tip 2:
Say a little mantra, that helps you to change your mind when hunger strikes. 
Like: *I'm doing well in my diet, I wouldn't ruin it.*
*It's worse to stress out of being unhealthy than avoiding to overeat myself.*
Or try to give

Glycemic Index Diet

The G.I. Diet, also known as The Glycemic Index diet or, to be more accurate: the Low Gycemic Index diet is based on the nutrition's G.I. ranks and means their effect on the blood's sugar-level. Everything you eat affects the blood's sugar (glucose) level. This shows,  according to different types of nutrition, how quickly will the sugar level rise and decrease. 
For example: foods, with high G.I. score will be digested rapidly, raising your blood's sugar-level high, then soon after you finished eating, the glucose level will be decreasing quickly and this is the reason why you will be even hungrier soon after you ate.

Unlike the high G.I. score foods, the low G.I. foods are releasing the glucose progressively into the blood, helping to keep your sugar-level balanced and you will feel sated and bellyful

The South Beach diet

The South Beach diet is a diet plan, created by Arthur Agatston MD. and Marie Almon dietitian, to give an alternative to the low-fat diets. 
Originally, the South Beach diet was made on the purpose to prevent heart-diseases, however it achieved big popularity all around the world among dieters since it's very easy to lose weight and gain great health with the diet.

The South Beach Diet has 3 phases: each becomes more liberal.

Phase 1:

This is the first 2 weeks of the diet. This is the part of the program, where a lot of dieters would *run away scared* :) but please, don't give up, we believe in you!
"In phase 1 - as a friend said - the diet is focusing on and boosting weight loss and 2 weeks later, you must buy new clothes that won't fall from you."

In this pase you have to cut out all sugar, fruits, high G.I. veggies and processed carbohydrates from your diet. In this 2 weeks time you can lose approximately 8-14lbs!

Alkaline diet

Alkalinizing foods

The Alkaline diet has been created to change the body's pH level. Originally the pH level is more alkaline than acidic, but the foods nowadays are full of unnatural and unnecessary contaminants (such as flavour enhancers, food colourings, presticides and preservatives), that are acidizing the body. By minimizing the intake of the acidizing foods, you can gain better health, increase your energy-level, treat a cardiovascular disease and reduce the cellulite...

Medically, the alkaline diet proved that it helps prevent kidney stones. Recently a hypothesis said, that the too acidic environment in your body can increase the risk of osteoporosis and causes several damages to our body system. However, more tests haven't been made clinically about the diet's effects, it became quite popular among dieters.

Paleo diet

The diet you SHOULD  eat to be in a great shape, sleep like a baby, have more energy than ever before and to lose weight easily, is the diet we ate for thousands of years before agriculture, provided by Mother Nature.

Paleo Diet Recipe

Back in those ancient times, our ancestors didn't suffer from these "modern day" burdens such as obesity, heart-diseases, diabetes or cancer. They were the children of Nature and they lived a very healthy and natural life, they were fit and strong.
Their food (meat, fish, fruits, vegetables, eggs, nuts and seeds - excluding grains, legumes, potato, refined salt, refined sugar and processed oils) was simple nutritious and NON-TOXIC.
However, the main diet is difficult to keep, so today we can find two other versions of the main Paleo diet:

Detoxification Diet

Fruit Juices - Detoxing

Well, if you've read the *About* section of the blog, you know that we suggest a detoxing period (a short detox-diet) before starting an actual diet. However, detoxifying diets can be used alone if you wish to lose 4-10lbs "only". Special detoxing diets are directly meant to clear your body from free radicals, relieving your liver, purifying your colon-system and your blood - helping you achieve better health in shorter time, making you feel better inside and out. :)

Detoxification is an alternative medicine and although it's clinically non-proved, it has great effects to your body and spirit.

Here again we want to take the opportunity to mention:

Mushroom With Tuna

Another tasty and healthy recipe! :)

You'll need:
4-6 Champignon mushrooms (bigger ones)
100-120g tuna (you can pick canned tuna)
Salt and pepper to flavour
1 egg
50-80g Cheddar cheese

Wash and clean the mushrooms. Remove their stumps, chop them into tiny pieces, mix it with the tuna and add the egg. Put this mix in a blender, add the spices and then blend the mix nicely. Fill the mushoom heads with the tuna creme.

Metabolism Booster Diet

Metabolism Booster Diet:


A very strict, yet extremely effective diet, that changes your metabolism to make it work on its maximum. 

The rules:

• No fat
• No sugar
• Minimal fat and salt
• Stick to the menu
• Follow the diet for 14 days maximum

If you keep the rules, you can *drop off* 2-3kgs on the first week, or if you double the diet's length, then you can get rid of a whopping 6kgs in total!

Important: The diet can only last for a maximum

Gluten-free Diet

What is the gluten-free diet and should You go gluten-free?

In short: Yes, you should. 

Eating bakery products and gluten-containing products can be so enjoyable, 'cause we all like their good taste. But, unfortunately, they are not okay for our health.
Why?
Well, first of all, let's see what gluten is:
Gluten is a protein composite found in food processed from wheat and other related grain species, like barley or rye. Gluten gives elasticity to doughs and helps it to rise and keeps its shape, it gives a chewy texture to the final product. 
Gluten known as a good protein source and it's mostly used in bread-products but it's also used in different products as *stabilizing agent* as well! Doughs,

Weight Gaining

While there's millions of people want to lose weight and searching for the best solution to do it so, there's also millions who struggle to put weight on.

Gaining weight can be as hard as losing it, or harder.

First of all, you'll need a throughout medical examination, just to have a complete view on things.

To put weight on, similar to losing weight, you need a good diet. Consulting with a dietitian will help a lot. You have to know how many calories (energy) you need on a daily basis. Write a Food Diary and make a note what you eat and how many calories you  take.
Don't think that fast-food or junk-food will help you put weight on. Truth is, that this type of food will most likely just cause internal problems - anything from bad digestion to

7 Days Purifying Diet

This is a drastic, but very effective diet and actually this is one of the most preferred type of fasting diet. You may follow this diet for up to 7 days maximum. You can lose up to 11lbs (or 5kgs) during this diet.

So, as we said: This diet is a type of fasting and the base of it is a really tasty soup, which ingredients are meant to boost the fat-metabolism, letting you lose weight very quick.
(Here we'd take the opportunity to mention our essential advice: don't start a diet until you consulted with your doctor and/or dietician and note that fasting shall be done under a doctor's monitoring. Don't do it when you're working hard but do it when you can relax a lot during the days and meditate.) 
After the 7 days, you have to progressively and slowly get back to the normal 3 meals a day eating habit.

Summer Diet - Light

Summer Diet

The weather at summer is use to be too hot and you may not eat enough at daytime, but as the weather gets cooler by the night, you attack the fridge and you eat up what you can find. Well, this happens to you, then you won't be able to lose weight at Summer, moreover, chances are that you will gain a little extra weight. To avoid nighttime over-eating, you need to have a balanced diet during the day.
Since it's not a good thing to have *heavy* meals 3 times per day, we suggest you to try this diet, so you can have a healthy, balanced diet and even if you're hungry by the end of the day, you wont eat up everything you find. :)

Okay, here's the plan for your diet:

Trick #3 - Mint n Menthol

Mint and menthol:

Maybe it sounds weird a li'l bit, but mint has a great effect, when it comes to feeling hungry and meanwhile dieting. Both mint and menthol's taste can help you to soothe your hunger and even to cease it. Making them a *weapon* in your diet.

So when hunger strikes and you don't want to bomb your diet with extra calories, take a menthol flavoured chewing gum or mint candies or drink a big mug of peppermint tea - our advice is the peppermint green tea. :)

4 Days Purifying Diet

Day 1)
On the first day of the diet, you can only eat fruits up to 4lbs of it. Please separate the small seeded fruits (like grapes or berries) from the big seeded fruits (like apricot and cherry). But you can mix them with bananas or apples or even with orange. You should also drink 2-3 glass of fruit juice a day  together with mineral water and herbal teas.

Day 2)
Fruit and veggies day. You can make wonderful salads (we're sending out great recipes in newsletter) and yummy juices. Consume up to 4lbs of  

Summer Diet

During the diet you have to consume lots of vegetables, fruits, fish, lots of salad, spinach and rucola leaves mixed with veggies with some olives, gluten-free pasta with veggie-dip, spices, minimal fats and sugar!
You can eat meat once a week but red meat can only be eaten once a month. You're free to eat a fistful of nuts, a small piece of low-fat cheese, dairy and potato daily (as you wish).

Please note that you have to drink 8-12 glass of water a day (2.5 litres but in hot summer it might be 3.5 litres or more as you wish to). You can have a glass of

Apple & Celery Diet

apple and celery 

Apple and celery are both strong helpers in improving your health and your diet's success. Consuming them together will have a great effect in your weight-loss goal! :)
Both are high in fibers and they can speed up your metabolism. They also have diuretic effect, they boost your energy-levels, they purify your colon-system and they clean your body from free-radicals.  

During this 7 days long diet, please reduce the consumption of white-flour, salt and sugar. On a day, you shall eat 2-4 apples, 2-4 celery stems and a celery bulb.

Menu:

Day 1)