Monthly Archives: September 2018

Sep232018

Instant Pot Fish Curry

If you’ve been anywhere near Fit’s social media recently, you’ve noticed she got an Instant Pot for her birthday! She is equally terrified and excited by it. An Instant Pot is basically a pressure cooker. For example, it typically takes 30-50 minutes to cook rice in a traditional rice cooker. With the Instant Pot, it takes four minutes. FOUR MINUTES. WHAT. Yeah. Very exciting. But also terrifying because…explosions. As long as you follow directions, you’ll be fine! So Fit’s been experimenting with it for a bit, and trying different recipes. Using Instant Pot’s included recipe booklet (recipe by Laura Pazzaglia), she made a scrumptious fish curry! I had already made brown rice before and wanted something healthy and flavorful to go with it. What better than wild caught white fish? This curry has a coconut milk base with different flavors like bay leaves and tomatoes to freshen it up.

Remember, with an Instant Pot, follow the directions!

Sep222018

Hungry & Fit’s Go-To Healthy Snacks

Here at Hungry & Fit we eat…a lot. We have different styles, but there is always a lot of food involved. Hungry is more of the wolf-type; he will eat an inane amount of food and then be good for a while. Fit is more deer-like, grazing across the day. She eats small snacks and meals…every hour or so. So yes, a lot of food is consumed in the Hungry & Fit household. That means we have to be stacked when it comes to food options. Fit will usually gravitate toward smaller meals or snacks. It’s very important for us to have healthy snack options available at all times so we don’t go down a bad road.

Sep202018

Why Casein Protein Deserves More Love

Casein is one of the main types of protein supplements available on the market, however, one could argue that it’s actually underrated.

Many of us are so infatuated with the quick gains and short-term muscle building potential of whey protein that sometimes we just don’t give casein the love it deserves, and the fact that casein is also a bit more costly doesn’t help, but it’s certainly worth those few extra dollars.

Sep192018

The Top 4 Benefits of Cutting Back On Your Drinking Habits

Alcohol is no doubt one of the most popular substances used for recreational purposes. As a matter of fact, it is one of the oldest drugs to be discovered by man. Most people use it for the excitement and the apparently temporary calming effect it has on their nerves. As a matter of fact, alcoholic beverages such as beer, vodka, and wine, each have a certain set of benefits in the human body when taken in moderation. Some religions (such as Christianity) and cultures actually embrace the use of alcohol in minimal to moderate amounts. But just like other soft and hard drugs, alcohol doesn’t come without its fair share of risks, side effects, and repercussions, both physically and mentally, as well as emotionally. With addiction and dependence being the most conspicuous problems, the list of disadvantages of alcohol may be too long to fit the scope and volume of this article. But there is good in reducing your alcohol intake or minimizing exposure. This being the case, here are the top 4 benefits to cutting back on your drinking habits.

Sep182018

Guilt-Free Vegetarian Lasagna

Lasagna. Thick noodles, layers of cheese, sauce, more layers of cheese. Comes with a side of steaming hot guilt. Oh, did I ruin it? Sorry. Yeah. Typical lasagna is heavy, full of lots of cheese, meat, and white starches. Hey, that’s totally fine in moderation, I’m all for it. However! I have discovered (thank you, American Heritage Cooking) a wonderful guilt-free whole-wheat vegetarian lasagna. Before you turn your nose up, IT TASTES GOOD. It tastes good by my standards, it tastes good by HUNGRY’S standards. That’s when you know it’s good. He takes his cheesy pastas seriously and I kid you not when I would catch him continually digging into the dish of lasagna heaven. I could eat this lasagna without feeling like a ball of cheese after who needed to be rolled to bed. I ate it, I felt great, and then I ate it the next night.

Aside from the healthiness, I was worried about the difficulty. I don’t think I had ever made lasagna before on my own. But really, the hardest part was chopping up the vegetables! So yeah, not too bad. It’s just layers. Layers of the best stuff of life. So yeah, let’s dig in.

Sep172018

3 Ways That Brain Development Can Impact Your Ability to Focus in School

Our body functions is dependent upon brain performance. The brain is responsible for our focus. It is important to take up various developmental approaches to boost its functioning. Students have a lot to cover in school. Understanding and retaining all that is taught can be overwhelming. Parents and teachers use different ways to improve the students’ attention in school. Ability to focus translates to a good performance report for students. Here are three approaches to brain development that can increase a learner’s ability to focus:

Sep162018

4 Helpful Tips That Will Keep You on Track to Lose Weight

If you want to lose weight, it is important that you have determination and willingness to follow your goal. Losing weight not just involves being mindful of what you eat and moving around. It also involves a lot of mental and emotional practice so you can maintain good habits. Habits are important when you want to achieve something because it is going to shape your path towards success. For this reason, you need to keep track of your weight loss journey so you will know if you are getting the results you wanted and to see if there is room for improvements. If you do not track your progress, you will not see a clear picture of your journey and you might end up not reaching your ultimate weight loss goal.

Sep142018

4 Tips for College Athletes to Be More Successful

Are you getting the most out of your time as a student-athlete? College days consist of practice, classes, training, eating, studying and – when possible – having fun, but mostly it’s a lot of work.

Some student-athletes with the gumption to do it all use day planners to manage their lives. They know that, for now, excelling on the field and in the classroom is their job, and they’re determined to succeed. With willpower and planning, student-athletes make their mark on the world and prepare for the road ahead.

Read on for 4 tips that can help student-athletes navigate these and other challenges.

Sep112018

Improving Your Cardio with Boxing

Improve your cardio with this intense boxing workout

Back in the day, when my coach asked me to spell the word “hell,” all I said was: C A R D I O.

If my coach asked me to spell that word today, I would do the exact same thing. All jokes aside, cardio is one of the hardest things to do in any type of sport.

If you are an athlete then you know what I mean by that. You spend hours upon hours working on your cardio. Many people, including my early self, asked the question: WHY? Why would you spend time working on cardio when you can invest that time to work on actual skill and power?

Well, the answer is quite simple. You won’t be able to showcase your skill or your power if you don’t have the stamina and durability. Your body will fail you!

To be honest, cardio is one of the most important things in sports, especially boxing. There were phenomenal fighters who were better than their opponents but they lost because they ran out of energy, or simply, “gassed out”! That’s why boxers (and other MMA fighters) are in incredible shape.

With that being said, it doesn’t matter what your sport is, cardio is a necessity! This article will show you how you can use boxing as an excellent way of improving your cardio.

Sep102018

The 1800 Diabetic Diet

Type 2 diabetes is two things:

One of the most common killers in the English-Speaking world
(Usually) the result of a poor lifestyle – both diet and exercise.

The 1800 calorie diet is pretty obvious – it’s a diet that restricts you to no more than 1800 calories a day. Being an anti-diabetic diet, it also focuses on reducing your carbohydrate intake.

Today, we’re going to talk you through the basics of the 1800 calorie diabetic diet – what it is and why/how it works.

This diet is more specific than a simple macro based diet plan. Why? Carbohydrates must be restricted and you only have a set number of calories to eat per day.

What is the 1800-Diabetic Diet?