Shrimp Pizza

Ingredients:
2 small ready-made pizza bases
8 thin slices mozzarella
8 – 10 prawns, peeled, deveined, tails intact
1 tbsp tomato paste
2 tsp capers
4 anchovy fillets, chopped (optional)
12 small black olives
1 garlic clove, finely slices
1 pickled jalapeno peppers, finely chopped (optional)
¼ small red onion, finely sliced
½ small red bed pepper, finely sliced
2 tbsp parmesan cheese, grated
1 tbsp fresh basil, chopped
Splash of olive oil

Directions:
Preheat the oven to 400°F.

How to Overcome Emotional Eating

Eating is a part of life. Your body gets its nutrients from food. Sometimes we can go overboard with our eating habits and it can result in gaining weight. One issue with food is emotional eating.

The problem of emotional eating may end with the scale but it begins in the mind. Stress takes its toll on your life. When your defenses are compromised your health takes a hit and so do your emotions.

Can Aerobic Exercise even Improve Mental Health?

Everyone wants to have a healthy and fit body. In addition having improved mental health is also one such thing that everyone wishes for.

The importance of improved mental health cannot be ignored, it is considered above most other aspects. The most common question that often emerges in the minds of most people is how to improve mental health and is it possible? Moreover those who have heard about aerobic exercises tend to ask whether aerobic exercise itself can improve mental health.

Why Extreme Diets Don’t Work

I’ve seen a lot of extreme diets out there. My Mom thankfully was never into the extreme, only eat grapefruit stuff, but she did just about every diet plan out there. So I grew up observing each plan and how well it worked while she was on it.

Now I am a fitness trainer and a lot of them hitting their goals has to do with diet. So again, I talk to people that have done a lot of the extreme diets they read about that they swear worked for someone they know.

Cilantro Pesto

Ingredients for about ½ cup of pesto:
2 cups cilantro leaves
1 tbsp fresh lemon juice
¼ cup olive oil (preferably extra virgin)
½ tsp salt
½ tsp freshly ground black pepper
3 garlic cloves, minced

Directions:
Place the cilantro leaves and the minced garlic in the bowl of a food processor and with the motor running carefully and slowly add the lemon juice and olive oil until you get a smooth paste.

Put the pesto into a serving bowl and add the salt and pepper. Cover and chill until needed.

5 All Purpose Toning Exercises

Exercise is an important part of our lives. Staying in shape is one way to increase your life expectancy. Weight bearing exercises are important also for increasing muscle mass and bone density as you age.

Most of us have learned what to do when it comes to exercising. The problem is where and when to get the job done. With a busy lifestyle, making time for exercise is a challenge.

Extreme Diet Changes

As I was going through blog posts recently and looking at areas I’d like to update more, it became apparent that I’ve been less than personal on here lately. I have a personal blog that I deal with a lot of my health stuff on and I think it’s time to start migrating some of it here as well.

So I’ll jump in. For one thing, I advocate that everyone goes and checks with their doctor before making any major fitness or nutrition changes. Now that said, I also need to let you know that I am NOT a nutritionalist I just play one on tv. lol I’m a fitness trainer and I can make recommendations, but that is the extent of my legal abilities.