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Breakfast Salad?

The 21 Day Fix is one of my favorite programs! It makes life so simple and quick!! So it’s time to up your breakfast game and think outside of the cereal box. Who says you can’t have a salad for breakfast? We topped hearty greens with breakfast favorites, egg and bacon. We love the added crunchiness of the sunflower seeds and turkey bacon with the tenderness of the soft-boiled egg and tomatoes. If you don’t already love breakfast, you will now! In fact, you’ll want to eat this salad for lunch and dinner, too! For those following the 21 Day Fix Eating Plan, this salad uses 1 green, ½ red, 1 blue, and ½ teaspoon. Breakfast Salad Total Time:  15 min. Prep Time:  15 min. Cooking Time:  None Yield:  2 servings Ingredients: 2½ cups chopped kale ¼ medium red onion, chopped 1 medium tomato, chopped ¼ cup toasted sunflower seeds 2 slices cooked turkey bacon, chopped Sea salt (or Himalayan salt) and ground black pepper (to ...

5 Ways You Might Be Sabotaging Your Weight Loss

If you just started an exercise plan or are working out more consistently, you may need to change how you fuel your body to get the most out of it. Common nutrition mistakes such as drinking your calories or eating too much postworkout may be the reason why you can’t lose weight (or inches) even though you’re giving it your all. Although getting fit isn’t just about the scale, it’s still an important factor, so we’ll break down 5 common problems—and how to fix them—to get you back on the path to results. Problem 1: You have no idea how many calories you’re really eating It’s common to think more exercise = more calories. But if you’re trying to lose weight, you may be adding on as many calories as you’re burning—or more. “Think about the food that you’re eating to fuel your workouts and ask yourself how it fits into your total calorie allotment for the day,” advises Felicia Stoler, MS, RD, a nutritionist and exercise physiologist. Just because you hit the cardio hard tod...