Can You Eat Pumpkin Bread & Still Lose Fat? Super-Awesome New Cookbook

My fiancé is out of town for 17days:-(.  So when this happens I find myself spending a lot of time at my parents house because I like to steal their food as I don’t really cook very much for myself.

When I came back from Indianapolis this past weekend I found something amazing in my mom’s fridge – low carb pumpkin bread!  I know what you’re thinking, “that probably tasted like crap.”  And I can understand why you’d think that.  I was very skeptical of this “bread” myself.  Not too skeptical to eat it, but skeptical nonetheless.

It was fantastic!

My mom got this new cookbook called Eating Stella Style: Low-Carb Recipes for Healthy Livingby George and Christian Stella, and this was one of the recipes. So far I’ve sampled about 5 recipes from the cookbook – four have been great, one was OK. It looks like there are a lot of other really great recipes too. (Thanks mom!)

This promises to be a really great cookbook.

Josef Brandenburg is Washington, DC’s top personal trainer for busy people. He shows normal people with hectic lives and average genetics how to create the bodies they want in the time they actually have. To find out more about the 7-Day Free Trial click here. You can also pick up a copy of his brand new CD – “Why Eat Less and Exercise More is The Worst Advice Ever” here.

5 Celebrity Fitness Secrets For A Great Beach Body

Summer is officially here.  The clothes are coming off as we go to the beach or pool, and people want to look their best.  So we had award winning Washington, DC personal trainer Josef Brandenburg compile 5 secrets that celebrities use to create and keep amazing beach bodies:

#1.  Marissa Miller – Don’t drink your calories: Marissa told Cosmo “I hadn’t had soda in about five years, and I came home to find this thing in the fridge that rolls soda cans out like a dispenser.  I’m like, ‘What are you doing to me?’” referring to her husband’s new soda dispenser.

“There are almost no beverages with calories that aren’t just pure sugar – juice included.  Sugar spikes insulin and insulin makes you tired, fat and hungry,” says Brandenburg.

#2. Jason Statham… click here to read the rest of the 5 celebrity fitness tips (free as a press release).

Josef Brandenburg is Washington, DC’s top personal trainer for busy people. He shows normal people with hectic lives and average genetics how to create the bodies they want in the time they actually have. To find out more about the 7-Day Free Trial click here. You can also pick up a copy of his brand new CD – “Why Eat Less and Exercise More is The Worst Advice Ever” here.

Josef’s Breakfast Fiesta

One night I was hungry, and I needed a new recipe for newsletter #29. So, I looked in my fridge and found eggs, spinach, avocado, turkey bacon, salsa and an orange, and asked myself, “How can I make something yummy and quick with this stuff?” With my hodgepodge of ingredients I created what I am now calling a “Breakfast Fiesta” because it was vaguely Tex-Mex and it was freakin’ awesome.

Ingredients

1/4 cup sliced ripe avocado	80 kcal
1/4 cup salsa	18 kcal
2-3 cups spinach	20 kcal
1/2 to 1 orange	43-86 kcal
1 or 3 whole eggs	70-210 kcal
2 or 3 egg whites	17-51 kcal
2 or 4 pieces turkey bacon	40-80 kcal

Instructions

1. Begin cooking turkey bacon. While bacon cooks, begin wilting spinach in the pan that you will be cooking your eggs in.
2. Add eggs and scramble with spinach. Flip turkey bacon.
3. Cut up avocado, and add to eggs. Cut up 1 to 3 slices of the turkey bacon and add to eggs.
4. Turn off heat under eggs, and mix well. Transfer to plate and top with salsa, and serve with remaining bacon and orange.

Nutrition Facts

Large version (3 whole eggs + 2 egg whites + 4 pieces turkey bacon 1 whole orange) = 1 serving @ 511 kcal (yes, it is ok for a man to eat a breakfast that large—the more muscle you gain the more food you can eat without gaining body fat and the easier it is to lose body fat.)

Small version (1 whole egg + 3 egg whites + 2 pieces turkey bacon + 1/2 orange) = 1 serving @ 332 kcal