A quick and easy breakfast

Looking for a quick and simple way to make breakfast? Well you have come to the right place because I am going to show you a really easy recipe that I found and use quite a lot now and it is the 'Hot Breakfast Burrito'. I love eating burritos but I'm not the biggest breakfast fan but eating this is a treat. Takes around 5-10 minutes to make and the ingredients you need are:

• 1-2 large wholemeal tortilla
• 2 large eggs
• Small handful of cheddar
• 1 chopped tomato 
• 2 table spoons of salsa 

Now to make this breakfast

• Place the tortilla on the chopping board 
• Scramble the eggs
• Add the scrambled egg to the tortilla and then place the cheese, tomato and salsa and then fold the tortilla as you would for a burrito
• If you want to grill the wrap to make it crispy then do so for around 2 minutes.

And there you have it a nice easy dish and for one serving is 319 calories, 16g protein, 28g carbs, 14g fat (4g saturated) 2g fibre.

Stay tuned for more recipes. 

Weight loss tip

I can't give you an instant cure for losing weight, I mean if their was so many businesses would of shut down by now. But instead I can give you a guide that you can follow to promote weight loss. If you follow these steps on a day by day basis I can guarantee results.

• Drink water and cut fizzy drinks - Water is by far one of the most important things in promoting weight loss and by far a lot of the population do not consume enough water. A lot of the time when you are or may think you are hungry, you're in fact not hungry but thirsty, but people seem to think food fills the hole. Get 8-12 cups a day people. Cut the fizzy drinks and try to minimize drinking squash as these are all filled with sugar and seem to leave you with that sticky mouth, this makes you drink more of these sugar products so you are getting a lot of calories in there.
• Enjoy the gym - You got to love going to the gym or committing yourself to some sort of exercise if you want to lose weight. You can't just change your diet to see major results, yes you may lose some weight but you can't just eat all this food, live the healthy lifestyle without being active. Get to the gym, workout at home or go for a run, burn the calories see some results, even if it is for half hour a day. You keep that up and within a couple months you will see amazing results.
• Set targets - A lot of people say they want to look like this, lose this much weight but they have no clue on how to get there. Set yourself weekly,monthly and yearly goals. Without goals, how do you know how you are going to reach these goals. Also setting goals/targets you are giving yourself the discipline you need in order to be successful.
• Remove the junk food - Eliminating junk food from your diet is key. Replacing a bar of chocolate for a greek yoghurt as such for a snack is not only a healthy option, but you are cutting out so many calories and sugars. Yes eating healthy is not the cheap option but it is by far the better option. People eat junk food as a comfort thing, but if you get into the habit of snacking on healthy foods, you will enjoy looking at the person in the mirror and seeing them numbers on the scales.

These things are guidelines but they are results proven guidelines. You can enhance them yourselves or comment ask me any questions on weight loss and I will make sure I answer them for you.

Thanks.

Count your macros not calories

A lot of people when dieting count the calories they are consuming rather than what they are actually putting in their body. It has been proven that you are more likely to lose weight or gain size but counting the macros that are going into your body.

So what are macros? Macros is a short term for macronutrients. You will here a lot of people into their fitness say macros though. Macros is fats, carbs and proteins. 

The reason why counting macros is better is because you get an accurate reading on what you are consuming. Whereas counting calories you could eat rubbish to hit your calorie goal.

I'm going to use an example of the picture I have below to explain a little bit more. Carbs, the total to hit in one day is 481g with 40g being fibre and 70g being sugars. Now all you have to do is hit these totals, this is the same for fats and proteins. Using myfitnesspal is a great resource because you can scan the foods you are eating and the app does the rest for you. You can even go online and use it but type in what you ate, search for it and all the nutritional info comes with it.

What should you do if you go over? Now if you go over by not a lot say 20g of protein, just have a little bit less than required the following day. Going over can be easily done but once you get the hang of counting macros you will find your a lot stricter with your diet and you will start to see results.

Green tea for great results.

If your looking for a cheap product to help lose weight then green tea is the one for you. Not just weight loss as the end result, but there are plenty of other benefits and is why I recommend this product to anyone.

So lets start on the weight loss benefits. Green tea increases your metabolism which promotes fat loss. Now how this does that is by making the fat oxidation work harder which also means calories are going to burn quicker and this is how fat loss is increased.

Other benefits with drinking green tea include:

• Skincare - It has been mentioned that green tea can help with wrinkles and ageing.
• Depression - Green tea contains an amino acid which provides a relaxing effect.
• Diabetes - Green tea keeps the glucose levels nice and slow. This means that the sugar levels stay low after eating.

So there is just a few of the benefits with green tea and there are a whole lot more in which can promote a much healthier lifestyle. 

How much should I drink a day?

Studies have not shown a guaranteed amount to drink in order to see results, but you should try to have about 2-5 cups a day. You can pick up a box of 20 or so tea bags in your local supermarket very cheap and is a great way to look after yourself.