Super Foods for a Super You

Include these Foods for Maximum Body Benefits

-- By Becky Hand, Licensed & Registered Dietitian

More powerful than a locomotive…
Nutrient dense and packed full of health enhancing properties…
Here come the SUPER FOODS!

These foods benefit the body in so many ways. They power your brain, and correctly and efficiently fuel your body. Super foods fight infection, enhance your immune system, and protect against diseases such as osteoporosis, heart disease, certain cancers, diabetes, and respiratory infections.

Include them often when planning your meals and snacks.

Vegetables Red, yellow, and orange peppers Mushrooms Romaine Lettuce Carrots, baby and regular Kale and other greens Garlic Onions Broccoli Cauliflower Sweet potatoes Spinach Green onions Winter squash Cabbage Beets Tomatoes Fruits Apples Red grapefruit Melons, any kind Dried apricots Red grapes Prunes Oranges Berries, any kind Dairy Skim or 1% milk Low fat yogurt with active cultures Low fat cottage cheese

Meats and Seafood Fresh fish, unbreaded Salmon, canned or fresh Tuna, canned or fresh Lean, fresh beef, poultry or pork Eggs Soup beans, caned or dried Veggie burgers Nuts and seeds Grains 100% whole wheat bread, bagels, pitas Whole wheat pasta Cornmeal Millet Bulgur Brown rice Whole wheat pancake mix Oatmeal Shredded Wheat Dry cereal with >3 grams fiber Low fat Triscuit crackers Wasa fiber rye crackers Miscellaneous Extra virgin olive oil Black olives Dark (not milk) chocolate Green tea Salsa Calcium-fortified juice

Happy Memorial Day!!!

Beachbody Success Story

This COULD be you! Contact me for guidance!

Beachbody Fact or Fiction?

In a continuation of yesterday's discussion about pyramid schemes, let's look at some FACT vs. FICTION with a Beachbody coaching business:

Fact: Beachbody is the 69th fastest growing company in the United States according to an article in Entrepreneur Magazine, March 2008.

Fact: Beachbody was started by Carl Daikeler and Jon Cogdon with $500,000 borrowed from family and private investors and is now a $250 million company that spends $90 million on marketing annually.

Fiction: Becoming an Independent Beachbody Coach is a get rich quick scheme.

Fact: With a modest investment of time, it takes about four months to start making money. When you invest more time, you make substantially more money.


Fiction: Beachbody coaches are part of a pyramid scheme - a non-sustainable business model that involves the exchange of money primarily for enrolling other people into the scheme, usually without any product or service being delivered.

Fact: Beachbody coaches market fitness and sell products from their own websites and are rewarded for encouraging people to become members of the Team Beachbody Club, get commissions on the fitness products that they sell and can build a business team where everyone is rewarded for their efforts to promote fitness, weight management and improved quality of life. Network Marketing is a business distribution model that allows a parent multi-level marketing company to market their products directly to consumers by means of relationship referral and direct selling.

Fiction: You have to spend a lot of money to be an Independent Team Beachbody Coach.

Fact: It costs $39.95 to become an Independent Team Beachbody Coach and then $14.95 a month if you decide to continue being a coach. There is no other cost for becoming a coach and the $14.95 monthly fee pays for your own coach website and e-commerce fitness product and supplement store.

Fiction: All that you have to do is sign up to be a coach and you will start making money.

Fact: Like any other business (each coach has their own coach business center) you have to work to make money. The more effort you put in, the more money that you will make. Beachbody helps you make money by providing a wealth of information and resources including live and recorded conference calls explaining the company and providing ideas on how to be successful, business building videos, product training sheets to familiarize you with all of the products, success stories, downloadable materials, access to everyone in the management of the company and most of all, your own personal coach to help you build your business.

Fact: The top coach in the company, a now retired school principal, in his first year (which is also the first year of the Beachbody network marketing business model)earned $305,938.00.

So Proud to Be Associated with Beachbody

Happy Mother's Day to all you wonderful moms!

Hump Day Humor

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Food Finds- YUM!!!!

Breakfast :

I am in love with Kashi GoLean Crunch cereal with skim milk. It has 9 gms of protein (not counting the milk) and 8 gms of fiber.

My newest breakfast love takes me 2 min (no joke) to make in the kitchen. I scramble 1/2 cup of EggBeaters. I make 1 Boca Breakfast patty. I put both in a Whole Wheat sandwich pocket by Kangaroo. This meal has less than 300 cal, about 30 gms of protein, less than 6 gms of fat, and the carbs are equivalent to one slice of bread! IT'S THE BOMB!!!!

Lunch :

I LOVE LOVE LOVE FlatOut Wraps!!! I really should take stock out. I fill it with lean meat, slice of skim mozz cheese, and fresh baby spinach. It is yummy and also very portable!!!!

My latest way of making the wraps is using Boca burgers or chicken patty as the protein. I am in love with these also.

The FlatOut Wraps taste awesome, have 9 gms of protein, and are equivalent to one slice of bread.

Dinner :

If you are game, tofu really is great to change things up a bit. It did take me some time to perfect making it, so you should also be patient with yourself.

Cheat snack :

I have found that putting fun-size Three Musketeers bars in the freezer are wonderful. I eat 3 at a time.

Another choice is Weight Watchers Chocolate Muffins. They are soooo chocolaty!

I've just discovered Guiltless Gourmet single serving cake mixes. They are new so may be hard to find. The fudge brownie one is AWESOME.

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I would like to say THANK YOU to everyone who offered support and prayer during the most difficult time of our family's life.

My brother's brain surgery went PERFECT. Although it lasted roughly 13 hours, he was discharged home yesterday just 4 days after! Last surgery, he was in the hospital for 5 weeks. This is a night and day difference.

I cannot express the gratitude we have for Dr VanLovern. This man isn't just a gifted surgeon, he is an incredible human being. He is on earth for a purpose. We are also thankful for Tampa General Hospital and the OR, Recovery Room, and Neuro ICU staff. They were very supportive and patient with us.

During the past 16 months, we have learned that brain tumors ARE NOT a rare occurance. Our ordeal is not yet over. My brother will have radiation in a few months to stunt the rest of the tumor that couldn't be removed. He will then have MRIs for the rest of life to be monitored.

I feel like we have finally emerged from the gauntlet of hell. God definitely has a plan. My brother plans to use his experiences to help others in the same situation.

Please continue to pray for an uneventful recovery.