Fit Foods: Chia Seeds

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Just read about this new wonder food, Chia Seeds and like me you’ll want to incorporate this to your foods immediately.  There are lots of nutritional benefits of chia seeds, among which are high protein content, contains large amounts of omega 3 fatty acids, vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants, regulates blood sugar and lose weight.  

This sounds too good to be true but it is. Since chia seeds are high in protein, whole grain and organic it will make you feel full for a longer amount of time thus resulting to weight loss. I need this badly as I gained weight from my recently concluded vacation. I hate that I gained back half of what I already lost. Blame it to my mom’s great cooking skills.

Anyway I can always start anew with my dieting and exercising program. And I’ll start incorporating whole grains such as chia seeds on my diet. Then start exercising again, I need to attend more classes for the next couple of weeks. I love the cycling class which is called RPM and the Body Pump class wherein we do cardiovascular and weights at the same time. I just hope my body gets accustomed to exercising again after a month of bumming.  

Rice Coffee aka Kapeng Bigas

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I love coffee, cannot imagine a day without having one. When I arrived back home, my mom asked me if I want kapeng bigas or instant coffee. I said i'll try kapeng bigas and it tastes almost the same as black coffee with less bitter taste. You can drink it with no or little sugar, I haven't tried with milk or creamer yet.

How to make kapeng bigas:

1. Roast (until black) grains of rice. It is better to roast 1 kilo of rice so as to save time, energy (heat) and effort.

2. Put 1 cup of roasted rice in a kettle and add enough water. The ratio would depend how concentrated you want your coffee so it is safer to add 5 cups of water and adjust later.

3. Let it boil for some time, 5-10 mins.

4. Enjoy your rice coffee!

I have yet to search for the health benefits but I'm sure it has lots.

Best served with daing, itlog at kamatis (dried fish, eggs and tomato)!

Fit Food: Chocolates

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Yeah, you’ve read it right! Horray for my sweet tooth!

But there’s a limit of course, one ounce or 18 grams per day and if possible dark chocolates.

Recently I’ve been into dark chocolates, mostly for health reasons and lower calories. Before I tend to eat an entire bar or two of chocolate in one sitting, now with the darker and bitter version I can only eat one or two small square. It already satisfied my sweet cravings, and when I eat milk or other type of chocolate I find it too sweet already. I eat the 60% cocoa but it is recommended to eat the 85%, the darker the better. Well maybe later I’ll try that one and see if I can handle it.

Chocolate's benefits are rooted in antioxidant polyphenols which can improve blood pressure, and also help lower cholesterol levels and blood sugar.

Other studies have even linked chocolate to a lower risk of death by heart attack.

Endurance Training

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I'm pretty proud of myself lately and particularly today. I've been keeping my 3 to 4x a week gym workout for about 2 months now, yey! And people are starting to notice changes in me. I don't want to divulge my weight loss numbers, it's not that big but more than the numbers I am actually enjoying my gym time.

Before I used to reason out my lack of time or being tired from work for not exercising but those are just plain excuses. Now even if I do an hour or two GX sessions, I still have energy to do my daily routine. Of course on the first weeks, my muscles were all sore (even until now) because if it doesn't it means your workout is not effective and you're just wasting your time. 

Endurance wasn't build in a day.  

Today, I finished 2 sets of RPM class. RPM is a high intensity cycling class, the instructor led us to a 45-minute workout of varying speed, difficulty, etc. When I first done a RPM, the 45-minute was like a hell and after the class I can barely walk. That means my endurance is slowly picking up.

I'm glad I started with this gym thing and hope I can keep this enthusiasm until the end. 

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Fit Food: Kiwi Fruit

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Kiwi fruit is one of the most nutritional food out there. It is rich in Vitamin C, twice of oranges in fact. You only need to eat one kiwi a day to meet the recommended dietary allowance (RDA) of 90 mg for adult male or 75 mg for adult female per day. Also good source of Vitamin A, Vitamin E, Folic Acid, Potassium, Antioxidants and more!

 Nutrition Facts from my blog's Calorie Counter (on the sidebar)