I’ve been leaning out fast lately and this change in my diet has helped a lot.  Six to eight hours before bed, you want to cut out carbs like rice or pasta and instead, just eat vegetables.

I’m not a big fan of veggies or salads, but while I was touring Romania with Hollywood Men, I was served this dish every day and it’s the most delicious way for me to eat my veggies.

Here’s how:

Chop up a tomato and half a cucumber.  Top with feta cheese.  Sprinkle pepper.  Add olive oil and vinegar.  Mix it up.  Voila!  This salad is so tasty I eat it practically every day.  The tomato contains fat burning properties and cucumber is a great fibrous and water bearing veggie.  The cheese provides calcium and olive oil and vinegar are a healthy combo (as long as you don’t drench your food).

Try and enjoy!

- Steve

Recipe:

30 gms whey/casein blend protein

1/2 cup uncooked oatmeal

1/8 cup of raw almonds

5-6 ice cubes

1 cup water

voila!

I recommend BNS Protein Powder

Ingredients for one serving

• 1 head romaine lettuce
• 4-5 stalks of green kale
• 1 lemon
• 2 SWEET apples
• 3 inches or more of fresh ginger

The above amount is for one drink.  This is how I make it instead. I buy 3 heads of romain lettuce, 20 stalks of green kale, 6 apples, 3 lemons, and 9 inches of fresh ginger. I juice all of this and make approximately 64 oz of green lemonade. I then use the water bottles from Sam’s Club (the small ones, usually around 8 oz each) and I fill up eight of these empty bottles with the juice. I then store the bottles of juice in my freezer and before I go to bed, I take one out and put it in the fridge so that its thawed out by morning and ready to drink.

This works out the best because juicing is a pain to clean up afterwards so with this method, you only have to clean up once a week .  I could talk forever about why this is so damn healthy to do, but I’d rather you read up on it and see for yourself.  I got the recipe from the book below!

- Steve
 

The Raw Food Detox Diet: The Five-Step Plan for Vibrant Health and Maximum Weight Loss

The first book from top Manhattan Nutritionist, Natalia Rose. Natalia provides her simple, proven five-level diet plan to safely make the transition to eating raw foods, and to detoxify and achieve a perfect body no matter how you eat now.

The raw food craze has taken off, as raw restaurants spring up and celebrities, models, and other fans tout the effects of eating raw. However, many people who are intrigued by raw food simply don’t know how to make the transition from what they’re eating now, or how to achieve the benefits of eating raw without giving up their lifestyle or the foods they love. Natalia Rose, an in-demand nutritionist, shows how in The Raw Food Detox Diet. Whether your diet is primarily made up of meat and potatoes, or tofu and tempeh, you can incorporate the flavour and lasting health benefits of raw food into your life.

Over time, our bodies build up poisons and store waste from food that is not fully eliminated. Raw food helps to detoxify the body by flushing out these poisons and setting us back on a course toward greater energy, clearer skin and shinier hair, and a slim, natural figure. But making the transition to a raw diet too quickly can have negative effects on the body. Instead, the healthier way is to make a gentle change based on your previous diet and current needs. You do not conform to The Raw Food Detox Diet; it conforms to you, and you choose how far you want to go. Whether you’re looking to live an all-raw lifestyle, or just to improve your energy and shape while still eating the foods you love, this groundbreaking diet book will energize and inspire you to achieve your goals safely and easily.The first book from top Manhattan Nutritionist, Natalia Rose. Natalia provides her simple, proven five-level diet plan to safely make the transition to eating raw foods, and to detoxify and achieve a perfect body no matter how you eat now.

Take a peek inside the book

article courtesy of Natalia Rose, author of “The Raw Food Detox Diet”

First its got carrots. Yuck.
Second its got broccoli. Double yuck.
Next its got purple onion. What, are you kidding me?

Sounds pretty nasty so far eh? Well wait cuz I gotta way to mix these up with some secret ingredients that’ll make your mouth water!

What you add to this bowl are raisins, bacon bits and low fat mayo…

Together this mix is insane! so basically you do it like this:
1 oz carrots
1 oz broccoli
1/8 oz purple onion
1/4 oz bacon bits
1/4 oz raisins
Tbsp low-fat mayo

So I wash the and peel the carrots and broccoli, then use this chopper device I bought at the store that mashes it up pretty fine.  Definately chop up the onion into real small pieces.  Then add the bacon bits (get the gourmet kind, not the cheap fake hard stuff), then the raisins (remember to keep the raisins in the fridge, they get rock hard if left out too long), then add the mayo.

You can add more or less of any ingredient depending on your tastes.  This ratio works pretty well for me.  Also its good to soak the carrots sometimes to make them a little softer, easier to chop up and also chew on.

I got the idea for this salad from my local gym (LVAC).   I ordered a turkey wrap one day and they offered the salad in substitute for chips.  I didn’t think anything of it til I had a bite.  Damn!  I knew then and there that I had to learn how to make this.  They wouldn’t tell me how they made it (big secret I guess) so I basically took it home and dissected it until I figured out the ingredients.  Then a couple times of trial and error and I had my own version of it!

Look for me to star in “Iron Chef” in 2010

Article courtesy of www.stevekim.us/journal