Big Kahuna Turkey Burger

The perfect burger for the upcoming spring season!  One of the many great things about this burger is that you use ground turkey instead of ground beef.  It's much leaner and easier on your heart as oppose to the fattier, heart-unfriendly red meat.  This recipe is quick, easy and extremely delicious!

Preparation Time: 10 minutes
Cook Time: 12 minutes

Fridge to Plate: 22 minutes

Ingredients

1 lb ground turkey (93/7 ratio)
1/2 c low sodium teriyaki sauce
1 can no sugar added pineapple rounds
4 whole wheat thin buns (regular whole wheat buns are ok too)

Directions

1.) Preheat your grill to medium-high
2.) Divide the pound of ground turkey into 4 or 5 patties
3.) Push your thumb into the center of each patty to prevent the burger from bulging out in the middle and turning into a football shaped burger.
4.) Grill the burgers for 5-6 minutes, flip and brush the already grilled side with teriyaki sauce.
5.) Continue grilling for another 5-6 minutes.
6.) With two minutes left of grilling time, put the buns face down and the pineapple rounds on the grill as well.
7.) When the time is up, brush the other side of the burger with teriyaki sauce.
8.) Pull everything off the grill, put the burger on the bun with a pineapple round on top.
9.) Add lettuce, tomato and onion if you'd like.
10.) Enjoy!

Easy, healthy, and delicious!

Until tomorrow, spend Everyday Living Fit!

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Drink More Water For A Healthier You

Pop may taste good, energy drinks may make you feel energized, and alcohol may make you feel good, but none of these options are good for you.  Therefore, you should drink more water!

Two thirds of your body is made up of water. The majority of your muscles, brain and blood is made up of water.  It can energize you, make you stronger, and can make you lose weight!  Here's how:

1.) Get Stronger: Your muscles are 75% water.  If you don't drink enough water, all that hard work in the gym will never show.  Drink water to increase your strength and the size of your muscles.

2.) The Ultimate Energy Drink: If you drink enough water you will never need fake energy like coffee or energy drinks.  The only reason you need caffeine is for when your body is dehydrated.  If you drink ten 8 oz. glasses of water a day, you'll have all the energy you need!

3.) Lose Weight: Hunger is often misinterpreted cravings for water.  AKA, when you are dehydrated, it feels like you're hungry.  Easy solution: Drink a full glass of water before every meal.  You'll be amazed at how less hungry you'll be which will lead to you eating less.

4.) Improve How You Look and Feel: Think about what happens to plants if you don't water them enough.  They shrivel and die.  That same thing happens to your body inside and out.  Drinking water will hydrate your skin which leads to less wrinkles and feed your organs allowing them to function properly. 

Drinking water really can do wonders for your body.  From strength, to losing weight, to being more energized, water should become your go to drink!

Until tomorrow, spend Everyday Living Fit!

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English Muffin Breakfast Pizza

The only thing that's better than pizza for dinner is pizza for breakfast.  Of course, this recipe has one up on even pizza for breakfast.  Here's a healthy breakfast pizza recipe that everyone can appreciate.

Ingredients

2 Whole Wheat English Muffins cut in half
1 whole egg
2 egg whites
1/4 cup chopped green peppers
1/4 cup chopped red peppers
1/4 cup chopped mushrooms
1/4 cup low fat shredded cheese
2 tbs. low fat cream cheese

Directions

1 - Preheat oven to 350 degrees and put the English Muffins in the toaster.
2 - Chop the peppers and mushrooms.
3 - Scramble the eggs and cook them with the peppers and mushrooms together.
4 - Once it's all done cooking, spread an equal amount of cream cheese on each half of the English Muffins.
5 - Put an equal amount of eggs, peppers and mushrooms on each English Muffin and then sprinkle cheese on top of each one.
6 - Bake in the oven for 3-5 minutes or until the cheese melts.

This is a quick and easy recipe that's not only delicious, but it's also completely healthy!  Enjoy!

Until tomorrow, spend Everyday Living Fit!

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Stop Drinking Your Calories!

You can easily have a perfect diet and perfect workout plan and still not get close to the results that you want to see in yourself.  The reason?  You're drinking too many calories!  Juice, sports drinks, alcohol and especially pop contain way too many calories, carbs and grams of sugar than you should be intaking. 


One 12 oz. bottle of regular pop has an average of 240 calories, 65 carbs and 65 grams of sugar in it.  That's more grams of sugar than you should be intaking for days, let alone 15 minutes!  Same with carbs; that's more carbs than you should be having in a day (depending on your diet and type of carb). 


That's just for one bottle.  For our multiple bottle of pop drinkers, you could have 3 in a day adding up to an extra 720 calories, 195 grams of carbs and 195 grams of sugar.  That's nearly half of your daily caloric intake just in pop!  That'll take HOURS of intense exercise to burn off in the gym, hours that could be used for something else if you cut out the drinks. 

Most sports drinks and juices are much the same if not worse.  The amount of sugar in most of them has the equivalent of eating ice cream, doughnuts or candy. 

Here are a few tips that could help you out.

1.  If you aren't in to drinking good ol' fashioned water try the Crystal Light or flavored tea packets to add to your water bottle.  You'll end up with a great taste and 0 calories.

2.  If you are going to drink a sports drink, make it the low or zero calorie ones.  Gatorade has a G2 that has low calories, or there is Powerade Zero.  Both good options.

3.  Get a water bottle that shows how many ounces are on it on the side.  You should be drinking at least 64 ounces of water a day.  If your water bottle has 24 ounces in it, make it your goal to drink about three a day.

4.  Stay away from pops completely.  They are listed as having zero grams of sugar, which is true, but are loaded with artificial sweeteners.  These artificial sweeteners may actually cause more weight gain along with destroying your organs. 

Hopefully dropping the calories from what you drink will help you to shed those stubborn last 10 pounds. 

Until tomorrow, spend Everyday Living Fit!