Step into 2010 with Weight Loss Plans that Work

As we enter 2010, people everywhere are gravitating more toward a lifestyle change as opposed to finding the next diet trend. There is an important reason why this is so. Diets don’t work. The medical explanation behind this is complicated and difficult to understand, but the gist of it is that when you begin a diet, your caloric intake is much less than normal. Because of this radical change, your body immediately responds with, “Help! I’m starving! I need more energy than this!” and begins using up stored calories.
Stephanie Nimberg, founder and personal chef of The Healthy Kitchen knows what it is like to be overweight.  Throughout her teenage and adult life, Stephanie’s weight had always fluctuated.  She’d find success following a diet program only to find her weight would be gained back a very short time later.  After gaining 70 pounds and feeling unhappy with the way she felt and looked after the birth of her daughter, what finally changed her life was her effort to change her lifestyle.  Creating a healthy lifestyle change, changed her life.
 Stephanie lost 70 pounds in one year while creating and following The Healthy Kitchen lifestyle program and has kept it off while enjoying all of the foods she loves, including desserts.  Her program is based on a low-carb eating style, which allows for other delicious foods that even include delicious creamy cheeses and lean cuts of juicy red meat — foods that may have to be given up altogether on other programs. The portions are hearty and generous, and the way she teaches clients to eat never leaves anyone hungry. 
 Clients of The Healthy Kitchen lifestyle program receive homemade, hand-delivered healthy meals, which are delivered fresh to their door twice a week.  Aside from it being real food made from scratch, as opposed to processed and mass-produced dishes the competition tries to pass of as edible; The Healthy Kitchen is delicious, affordable, fresh, convenient and healthy.  Individuals will lose weight and eventually maintain weight while improving overall health and appearance by simply adopting the lifestyle that The Healthy Kitchen allows.
Following The Healthy Kitchen Program helps people lose 6 to 14 pounds in the first two weeks, and best of all, there is no mess…the cooking and cleanup is done for you!   Simply heat, eat and enjoy the homemade, healthy meals!  This program is also more affordable than most of what the competition offers.
 Stephanie has helped over 100 clients look and feel better about their appearances, not to mention feel more energized.  Some of the things clients have mentioned they love best about the program are that they don’t feel hungry after or in-between meals, they don’t have to plan ahead and think about what to make and what a wise meal choice might be and that the portion control is allotted for them with generous portions of healthy, tasty food.
The Healthy Kitchen provides for each day, three meals, plus a soup, dessert and two snacks.  Some of the amazing meals include breakfasts like their signature sugar-free,  carb-free French Toast, Decadent Chocolate Chip Muffins and Turkey Sausage and Vegetable Frittatas; soups like French Onion, Chicken Tomato Vegetable and Cream of Celery; lunches like Beef Steak Salad with Feta Cheese, Ground Turkey Stuffed Taco Peppers and Honey Dijon Chicken Burgers with Swiss; dinners like Southwest Tilapia topped with Shrimp, Chicken and Eggplant Parmesan and London Broil with Caramelized Onions and Zucchini Wedges; and desserts like Peanut Caramel Crunch Ice Cream, Coconut Key Lime Pie and Raspberry Cream and Mocha Mousse.
For more information about The Healthy Kitchen, call 856-628-6627

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• Tip of the Month

  June 2010

  Abdominal Workouts: Frequency, Intensity, and Duration

  Over the past 15 years, there has been countless advice on how to “properly” train your abdominals, or core.  There isn’t a fitness magazine out there that doesn’t publish a different abdominal workout each and every issue.  Opinions and research may change over time, but there are a few things you should look at before you alter your workout with each Fitness Magazine you read!
  First of all, it is important to know what your overall fitness and health goal is before designing a strength program for any body part, especially the mid-section.  For overall fitness, it is smartest to treat your abdominal muscles as you would any other muscle group.  The tried and true guidelines for most exercise programs is to work specific muscles to fatigue within a 30-60 second set time limit (intensity and duration,) while giving the worked muscle group at least 24-48 hours of rest (frequency) before working it again.  The amount of sets you do in a given workout (frequency again) can vary from as little as 4 sets to up to 12 for the average workout.  The science behind these theories is sound.  While exercising, pushing your body significantly past the 60 second mark without fatigue generally incorporates aerobic energy, thereby not stressing the muscles most efficiently.  And rest is necessary so that your body can properly rebuild the muscle fibers that you have broken down.  Additionally, you want to be at 100% energy levels for your next workout!

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• Recipe of the Month

  June 2010

  Ham and Cheese Breakfast Casserole

  This healthy update of a traditionally rich ham-and-cheese breakfast strata is made lighter primarily by losing a few egg yolks and using nonfat milk. Gruyère cheese has a delicious, nutty aroma and flavor, which means that with the relatively small amount in this recipe you still get a big impact. To finish the makeover use nutritious, fiber-rich, whole-grain bread instead of white. The results: plenty of flavor, half the calories and one-third the fat of the original.

  4 large eggs
  4 large egg whites
  1 cup nonfat milk
  2 tablespoon Dijon mustard
  1 teaspoon minced fresh rosemary
  1/4 teaspoon freshly ground pepper
  5 cups chopped spinach, wilted (see Tip)
  4 cups whole-grain bread, crusts removed if desired, cut into 1-inch cubes (about 1/2 pound, 4-6 slices)
  1 cup diced ham steak, (5 ounces)
  1/2 cup chopped jarred roasted red peppers
  3/4 cup shredded Gruyère, or Swiss cheese
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