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Let me give you at least one tip to trick your mind

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Since I am blogging about nutrition ,I want to share this one with you. For breakfast,how many of us,north americans love our eggs and bacon? And most of the time ,we say that we need to cut the fat in our diet and we know that there’s pretty much fat in bacon but,…we eat it anyway! What about replace the traditional bacon with turkey or chicken bacon ? And have the same pleasure eating breakfast and doing good to your body! Here ‘s why:

You take two slices of uncooked turkey bacon(30 gr), you have 70 calories ,6 gr of fat,4 gr of protein,1 gr of carb.

Now if you take two slices of uncooked regular bacon (63gr),you have 250 cal ,24 gr of fat,7gr of protein ,1 gr of carb.

So ,even if you take 4 slices of turkey bacon,you can’t even reach the macronutriments of the traditional one! And what are we doing different while we have the bacon on our plate? We bring the food to our mouth and we chew and swallow BUT it’s after ,that all the difference happens! It’s what we don’t see that is the most important to consider! How our body processes and absorbs the food and what it does to it at the final that is different!

So, think of me (lol) next time you are having bacon.By switching to the ”nice ”one,you’ll save your arteries, your heart,your doctor will be proud of you and you will feel better in your clothes. Let me know if you would like more blogs of this kind , I have all kind of tricks to help you out for loosing weight and still eating!

Why do we sabotage?

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This plate represents weekdays,the good intention.It represents healthylifestyle, in control ,we are changing for good. (It’s a lunch plate idea that I did a lot in confinement,my husband loves it a lot).Easy ,fast,healthy!

Ingredients:

1 cup of couscous cooked

1/2 cucumber + cherry tomatoes

1/3 cup feta cheese

Dash of olive oil,salt,pepper

Homemade pizza (that I made with the kids).It represents TGIF or the weekend.It represents ”I deserve it”, it’s cheat meal. I did good all week I can eat now!…And why not a desert after that!

Ingredients :

Dough:2/3 cup warm water,1 tsp active dry yeast,1/2 tsp sugar,1/2 tsp salt,1 tbsp olive oil,12/3cup flour

Toppings: 3/4cup pizza sauce,pepperoni,veggies and cheese

And the problem is not eating pizza on one evening supper,it’s eating the whole pizza that will sabotage the whole week where we did good and lost this pound and a half.

So why we do this and then say :”Well,I’ll restart on Monday”? And time passes by and still no results with our goal to lose some belly fat.

I analyzed the behaviour ,observed and made me go to a conclusion that we completely lose focus on what we want on first place which is to lose some weight… Our mind get blurry-crazy and then get excited with the tought of the tasty hot mozarella pizza. Yes it’s normal but if we really want to lose this other pound or two by the following week,we need to calm down. If we just take this extra minute to sit down,sit straight,take a deep breath and analyze that this third piece of pizza that we are about to eat won’t serve us,than we would be able to just NOT EAT IT!

A calm mind will lead us to amazing results.

The right-best-exact diet….hmm?

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When preparing for a nutritional program as an online coach, I hear clients say:

“I can’t digest dairy product…” or

”I don’t want to eat meat and I hate vegetables.” or

”Only organic please…”

Which diet is the best? There’s none actually. When preparing for a nutrional program, I don’t have a standard diet that I would give to a client and say EAT THAT ‘cuz I have the truth,lol! No! First of all,I want to know what are your daily routine on week days and on the week-end in terms of food habits. I want to understand what do you eat,where ,at what time,do you order,do you cook…I like to ask the client to send me back a food journal (two days of the week and one day of the week-end) of every meals and bite and morsel he/she eats to really understand the fundamentals of their habits.The more details,the better and there is no judgement .

It’s important to have an idea of the habits because then I can ask and understand better what is important, what are the needs ,what the client does really want?

Depending from where we start,I can propose small changes with the diet plan without going drastic. Too rigid in the beginning won’t be fun specially if it’s been years the person eats in a certain way.

Food has so much too offer. With a good nutrition, we have a balance of energy to provide for yourself,family,work and activities. With a good nutrition ,you can avoid nutrient deficiencies. We have the macros nutrients (carbs,fats,proteins) that are easy to find in the every day diet but don’t underestimate the power of vitamins and minerals which are the micronutrients. And let’s not forget our water,THE drink!

Also, every one has a different lifestyle. Are we always out the house (ok,not for now because of this covid),do we cook,do we have a family ,are we very stressed, religion allows it or not? So many things to consider when preparing a nutritional plan.

At my opinion, a good relationship with the client helps so much to provide the greatest nutrition plan to them,adapted to their needs and what they like or don’t like.

Our body will thank us to put great things in it. Our state change, our posture,our vision for the day change.It helps also understand better why or why not we eat this certain food.

T-shirt challenge on Mother’s Day 👚💪🌺

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No gym?And you want to step up your game?Find a wall,go upside down and put your t-shirt on.We need to dress up,no?Lol! And since you’re in this position,do some push-ups. Demonstration on my link up there . Great workout on some different upper body muscles .

This confinement makes you find all kind of ways to be creative in order to make it effective. Using your body weight is one of them. The intensity you put in your exercise will increase your heartbeat like this one did for me. I use to think that doing hours of cardio would do the job but a great resistance training will bring amazing results with less time.

Ode to the sky

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Breathtaking

You are walking and on this precise moment you look up and you capture this tableau… I was under awe! It instantly brought me happiness and peace. I think that beauty of nature is this other way to feed your body and soul. So yes about exercising and eating well on a every day base but never underestimate the power of nature for a tremendous benefit.

Fitness enthusiast in time of confinement

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Hello hello,

My name is Myriam and this is my first official blog. I want to talk about fitness and nutrition and be able to share tips,exercises,meals with all fitness enthusiasts in this world.I ‘ll be able to communicate in french and spanish also. My family and I are very active all year long.My husband and I love to go for wine tasting. I am mom of two (12 and 10) and a dentist(U of Montreal 1996).

Within few months from now I would love to reach also to people that would love to get in shape and help changing slowly the way of eating for non stop improvements. If you want to start a new journey of getting into working out without feeling ”it’s a chore to go trough” and understand nutrition,you are on the right blog! I want to get involved into new healthy habits. Also I would love to help moms and women in their forties to get back in shape. I am myself 47yrs old and age is not an excuse,lol!

If you read my About page,I explain about my fitness journey.I am a certified fitness trainer and specialist in sports nutrition with ISSA(International Sports Sciences Association). You can check their IG https:// http://www.instagram.com/issaonline.

A 30lbs dumbbell wrapped with two 10lbs ankles weights
and two 5 lbs ankles weights

Despite all gyms closed,there is always a way to fit your work out in your day.No excuses,let’s go! On my side because I am concentrating on bodybuilding,today will be glutes day.Very specific exercises I will target and that I can do from home.My heaviest dumbbells are 30lbs but I have also two ankles weights of 10 pounds and two ankles weights of 5 pounds SO if I want to go very heavy with sumo squats I wrap all those ankles around the 30lbs dumbbell and I squat!

Also I invented my own hip thrusts exercise.I took an old vacuum tube with two painting buckets on each side and with this marvellous invention I can hip thrusts (and deadlifts also)!If you go on my instagram https:// http://www.instagram.com/myriam.jecki publication of March19th I am doing deadlifts there.

As long as you feel the burn! If we have nothing home,there is all kind of way to target what you want to work on and feel the burn!

Sometimes I switch to a total body workout or to a plyometric work out or to a HIIT one with let’s say four tabatas in the row. But since March 13th where we started our confinement not a day passed without a workout.That’s how much I love working out, and it gives you a structure in your day.For sure,I watch the diet that goes around the training if not I think it’s useless.Allowing myself a cheat meal on Friday night with wine!Yesterday was sushis!!!

Okay let me know your ways of working out in-time-of-confinement-with-no-gym…We can share tips and help each other.