Aloha all,
Welcome to Cousin Pili's second health and wellness blog. Please read and enjoy the first one I wrote, "Insure my @$$" to find out why I am here and what makes me such a smarty-pants.
My name is Pilialoha K. Nathaniel and here is my disclaimer: I am not a doctor. I am not a nurse. I am not a psychologist. I am not affiliated with any sort of health industry. You are reading this blog with the full knowledge that Pilialoha K. Nathaniel is not authorized by any school, institution or government to give health and medical advise. If you follow any advise in this blog it is at your own discretion and at your own risk. Okay? Nod if you agree. If you read anything past this paragraph that means you have nodded and you agree.
And...
I am pretty sure this is what my Cousin Chelsea wanted when she asked me to be her health and wellness coach. I think she wanted someone to tell her how do lose weight, be healthy and STAY healthy. I can do that.
CHELSEA. Be Healthy. Stay Healthy. Got it? Nod your head if you got it, Chelsea.
Great! My work here is done!
And...
How do you do that? Geez. I googled weight loss, diet, healthy, food and happiness, fat, eating healthy... I googled and I googled. No one could tell me how to EXACTLY do it. So here is my educated guess.
EAT TO LIVE and ENJOY WHAT YOU EAT.
Here's how I EAT TO LIVE every day:
Wake up.
Drink coffee. Black. No cream. No sugar.
Do Yoga or go to the gym for one hour.
EAT BREAKFAST.
Breakfast can be a multitude of breakfasty items. I usually eat oatmeal with peanut butter and brown sugar. I love peanut butter!!! I buy all natural, no salt, crunchy PEANUT BUTTER. Another good breakfasty item here is a SMOOTHIE.
My basic smoothie recipe:
Fresh Bananas
Frozen Fruit
Coconut Water
Its expensive but I think coconut water serves as a better base for any smoothie. I've tried them all.
OR... Have Bacon and Eggs and Pancakes!!! BUT!!! Here is where you must...
STOP LYING TO YOURSELF!
If you don't STOP LYING TO YOURSELF then you will be UNHEALTHY. LYING is UNHEALTHY. Telling yourself you only had one portion when you actually had three IS LYING. You must practice portion control and get yourself on a good calorie counting program. I use an app called Calorie Counter. Find out how many calories you take in everyday then subtract 500 calories. Continue subtracting the calories until you are at 1700 calories a day. That's about how much I take in. Let's see if you can do that. Note here: You should also work with your doctor or nutritionist to find a program that WORKS.
Here is something else: DO NOT STARVE YOURSELF! It doesn't work. You'll get sick. You might even die. So just don't do it.
Back to our schedule...
Go to work... and SNACK. You know you are going to... so let yourself. Bring protein bars and fruit to work. Carrot sticks and such. STAY AWAY FROM CANDY until YOU STOP LYING TO YOURSELF. If you can eat just one SNICKERS MINI then please go ahead... but don't forget to mark it down on your calorie counter.
LUNCH. Protein and greens. Eat up! You body needs the food.
AFTER WORK... or if you are in Hawai'i IT'S PAU HANA TIME!!! IT'S HAPPY HOUR!!! Skip it. This is what will happen: you will have a few beers or cocktails and with those HIGH CALORIE GUT-PROMOTING BEVERAGES comes BAR FOOD. Just don't do it. Make friends with co-workers who hit the gym after work. And... I don't care that I already told you to go to the gym earlier that morning. YOU wanna LOSE WEIGHT... SUCK IT UP so you don't have to SUCK IT IN later.
DINNER... EAT! And eat EARLY. Try to have dinner before 8PM (7PM if you're really good) then DO NOT eat anything after.
AND IN CONCLUSION... If the way I do things doesn't make you HAPPY. DO IT DIFFERENTLY. Google. Read. Here's a suggestion from Men's Health... read "The 8 Hour Diet."
See you on Sunday,
Cousin Pili
PS...
Below is the recipe I promised. The great thing about meatballs is that they taste AMAZING and they are a good lesson in portion control. You do not need to eat more than a cup of pasta and two meatballs. Eat this dish with a large spinach salad or steamed broccoli.
Welcome to Cousin Pili's second health and wellness blog. Please read and enjoy the first one I wrote, "Insure my @$$" to find out why I am here and what makes me such a smarty-pants.
My name is Pilialoha K. Nathaniel and here is my disclaimer: I am not a doctor. I am not a nurse. I am not a psychologist. I am not affiliated with any sort of health industry. You are reading this blog with the full knowledge that Pilialoha K. Nathaniel is not authorized by any school, institution or government to give health and medical advise. If you follow any advise in this blog it is at your own discretion and at your own risk. Okay? Nod if you agree. If you read anything past this paragraph that means you have nodded and you agree.
And...
I am pretty sure this is what my Cousin Chelsea wanted when she asked me to be her health and wellness coach. I think she wanted someone to tell her how do lose weight, be healthy and STAY healthy. I can do that.
CHELSEA. Be Healthy. Stay Healthy. Got it? Nod your head if you got it, Chelsea.
Great! My work here is done!
And...
How do you do that? Geez. I googled weight loss, diet, healthy, food and happiness, fat, eating healthy... I googled and I googled. No one could tell me how to EXACTLY do it. So here is my educated guess.
EAT TO LIVE and ENJOY WHAT YOU EAT.
Here's how I EAT TO LIVE every day:
Wake up.
Drink coffee. Black. No cream. No sugar.
Do Yoga or go to the gym for one hour.
EAT BREAKFAST.
Breakfast can be a multitude of breakfasty items. I usually eat oatmeal with peanut butter and brown sugar. I love peanut butter!!! I buy all natural, no salt, crunchy PEANUT BUTTER. Another good breakfasty item here is a SMOOTHIE.
My basic smoothie recipe:
Fresh Bananas
Frozen Fruit
Coconut Water
Its expensive but I think coconut water serves as a better base for any smoothie. I've tried them all.
OR... Have Bacon and Eggs and Pancakes!!! BUT!!! Here is where you must...
STOP LYING TO YOURSELF!
If you don't STOP LYING TO YOURSELF then you will be UNHEALTHY. LYING is UNHEALTHY. Telling yourself you only had one portion when you actually had three IS LYING. You must practice portion control and get yourself on a good calorie counting program. I use an app called Calorie Counter. Find out how many calories you take in everyday then subtract 500 calories. Continue subtracting the calories until you are at 1700 calories a day. That's about how much I take in. Let's see if you can do that. Note here: You should also work with your doctor or nutritionist to find a program that WORKS.
Here is something else: DO NOT STARVE YOURSELF! It doesn't work. You'll get sick. You might even die. So just don't do it.
Back to our schedule...
Go to work... and SNACK. You know you are going to... so let yourself. Bring protein bars and fruit to work. Carrot sticks and such. STAY AWAY FROM CANDY until YOU STOP LYING TO YOURSELF. If you can eat just one SNICKERS MINI then please go ahead... but don't forget to mark it down on your calorie counter.
LUNCH. Protein and greens. Eat up! You body needs the food.
AFTER WORK... or if you are in Hawai'i IT'S PAU HANA TIME!!! IT'S HAPPY HOUR!!! Skip it. This is what will happen: you will have a few beers or cocktails and with those HIGH CALORIE GUT-PROMOTING BEVERAGES comes BAR FOOD. Just don't do it. Make friends with co-workers who hit the gym after work. And... I don't care that I already told you to go to the gym earlier that morning. YOU wanna LOSE WEIGHT... SUCK IT UP so you don't have to SUCK IT IN later.
DINNER... EAT! And eat EARLY. Try to have dinner before 8PM (7PM if you're really good) then DO NOT eat anything after.
AND IN CONCLUSION... If the way I do things doesn't make you HAPPY. DO IT DIFFERENTLY. Google. Read. Here's a suggestion from Men's Health... read "The 8 Hour Diet."
See you on Sunday,
Cousin Pili
PS...
Below is the recipe I promised. The great thing about meatballs is that they taste AMAZING and they are a good lesson in portion control. You do not need to eat more than a cup of pasta and two meatballs. Eat this dish with a large spinach salad or steamed broccoli.
Preheat oven to 400
Very large mixing bowl
Small mixing bowl for egg
Large baking sheet of broiler pan with or without rack. Spray with cooking oil.
1lb lean ground beef
l large Portuguese sausage (take off casting)
1/4 c. Parmesan cheese, shredded
1/2 c. Italian seasoned Breadcrumbs
1 bunch fresh parsley, chopped (more the merrier)
1/2 c. pine nuts (good with mac nuts too!!!)
2-5 cloves of garlic (depends how much you like garlic)
1 med onion, diced
2 eggs (beaten)
Mix everything except the eggs. If the sausage is too hard to break apart then dice it into cubes. It shouldn't be hard though. Add beaten eggs and continue to mix well. A note about mixing... Grandma ("Mom" or "Ma" to my Mom and her sisters. My Grandma to myself, my siblings and my cousins... but to most of you she is Aunty Violet)... Grandma hardly ever uses blenders and spoons and mixing utensils. YOU WERE GIVEN HANDS FOR A REASON. WASH THEM. USE THEM.
Yippee!!! Now that your hands are thoroughly grimy with meat stuff and your large mixing bowl is full of RAW GOODNESS... Put it to the side and wash your hands again. If you do not clean as you go... take five minutes here to straighten up your kitchen. Put dirty items in the dishwasher or rinse them and set them nicely in the sink so that your kids or maybe your younger sister or brother will be so kind to wash the dishes after dinner. Throw away wrappers and such. Wipe the counter space. Do what you can to make clean up easier. Wash your hands again.
This little clean up break also gives time for the mix to settle. Now we make the balls. I usually make them about 1.5 inches in diameter. This recipe makes about 30-ish depending if you add more stuff to it... which I usually do. Heres some other things you can add:
Spinach
Celery
Fresh Basil
Ground Lamb or/and Ground Pork
After you make and place all the meatballs on your oiled cooking sheet, place the sheet into your oven and bake for 20-25 mins or until brown. Don't over cook it or the poor things will be too dry. Nothings worst than dry balls.
For Sunday: Sex... or Alcohol... not sure yet.
Aloha!
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