Turkey Quesadilla

The other day for lunch I was staring in my refrigerator thinking lunch is the HARDEST meal to come up with! I never really come up with a good healthy meal for lunch thats, when I saw my .5lb of turkey and thought what can I do with this and eventually this quesadilla came to my mind. It was delicious and really simple to make!! 

What You'll Need

- about a half pound of lean ground turkey 

- 1/2 cup of green peppers

- 1 stalk of celery 

- 1/8 cup of cheddar cheese

- Hot sauce to your liking

- 1 tortilla ( I used an original one because it was all that was in the house but use whole wheat or any kind you would like)

What to do

- defrost the turkey if frozen 

- Chop the vegetables in to small pieces 

- Then place the vegetables in a frying pan with a very small amount of cooking spray or oil on medium heat and cover for about 5 minutes or until the vegetables are starting to soften 

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- Once they have begun to soften add in the ground turkey and mix until turkey is well cooked

- for the next step I used a griddle set at 350 degrees but you can use a grill or oven which ever is available to you

- first place the tortilla on the griddle or grill to warm it up alittle then add the turkey and vegetable mix and sprinkle with cheese then add the hot sauce to your own liking

- fold over the tortilla and flip about half way through cooking total cook time is about 10 minutes

- cut in to three pieces and enjoy! 

- you make about two servings out of this I split mine with my mom or you can refrigerate them and enjoy the next day! 

Let me know what you think of this recipe in a comment below! 

Stephaniexx

A Weekend Away!

This weekend I got to go back to New York and Stay with Eddie for the weekend, for me this was the weirdest combination of excitement and nervousness. When I was in New York at School my life consisted of eating out and drinking with semi regular work outs spread in. So that is the only life I know there and now that I am getting used to living a much healthier life I knew going back would be hard trying not to get back into old habits. Eddie was really great about the whole this which helped alot. He is also working on being healthier by eating less fried foods and being more active which helped make it much easier for me. I did have some cheat moments but what is life without some splurges. 

We also got active by playing tennis which was tons of fun we just enjoyed each others company and although we were not that good at it we just had so much fun running around and trying that it was a great time and great work out! 

So all in all I do feel a little bad that I ate a few things that I know I shouldn't have but I am glad I stayed active and I think it was a step in the right direction! 

I hope you all had a great weekend 

Stephaniexx

Sweet Potato Sliders

One of my favorite new foods is Sweet Potato, I love it its like dessert at dinner that's good for you. With just alittle salt it is fantastic, but today I wanted to try something different with it and after some thought I came up with the idea of making sweet potato sliders using the sweet potato in place of a bun and a slider size turkey burger with cheddar cheese. 

Don't They just look fantastic!! and I promise they taste just as good as they look. It is a great combination of salty and sweet. 

What You'll Need 

- 2 Sweet Potatoes

- About .5lbs of ground turkey 

- Cheddar Cheese block 

- Salt

- Pepper

- Olive Oil 

What To Do

- Peel the Sweet Potato and slice so that they are about 3/4 of an inch thick you should end up with about 10-12 slices

- Cut up slices of Tinfoil for each 

- place a Slice of Sweet potato on a rectangular piece of tinfoil

- Coat each side with olive oil salt and pepper to your own liking

- Fold up the tinfoil so that the potato is wrapped completely

- Place on the warmed up grill 

- Cook on the grill for about 20 minutes flipping half way between 

- While Sweet Potatoes are cooking roll ground turkey in to balls then flatten so that are sliders shaped

- Once the Potatoes have cooked for about 15 minutes put he burgers on the grill I put a piece of tinfoil on the grill and cook the burgers on that it helps keep them from falling apart and thought the grates of the grill

- When the turkey burgers are almost completely cooked slice the block of cheese thin and put one slice on each burger

- Take the burgers and sweet potatoes off

- Unwrap the sweet potatoes as you want to serve them so that they stay warm

- Place the burger between two slices of the sweet potato and enjoy! be careful biting in the sweet potatoes are really hotttt!!! 

My whole dinner this evening was two of these sliders green beans and a cucumber 

I Hope you Enjoyed and try out this recipe and let me know what you think in a comment below! 

Also let me know if you like these recipe posts or what other kinds of posts you would like to see!

Stephaniexx

Teriyaki Kabobs

Finally A Food Post! 

It has been a while since I posted a recipe, mostly because all of my meals lately have been pretty basic and I have been working on getting the healthy eating down and now that I have a better understanding of nutrition and health I will hopefully be posting more foods. Now I am no expert and I am not a calorie counter so none of them will have calories and nutritional value information however I can say that they will be made with much more natural ingredients and much less sugar and little to know processed food. This also does not mean in any way shape or form that I am paleo I am just aiming to avoid processed garbage as much as possible and eat more organic although I realize the expense makes it hard those are just my general goals to eating. 

Now on to todays recipe is Chicken ( or steak ) Teriyaki Kabobs 

These were delicious! 

What you'll Need 

- 1 Package of Chicken (or Steak) 

- 2 Zucchini 

- 1 Green Pepper 

- Bag of mini potatoes

- 3 Onions

- Teriyaki Marinade 

- Olive Oil

- Salt or a seasoning

What to Do 

- First Chop up the vegetables in to manageable chunks 

- then add oil and seasoning to the vegetables 

- Marinate the Chicken for about an hour with Teriyaki Marinade 

- Then its time to stick it to em! 

- We first wet the Sticks this helps to keep them from burning too much on the grill it also puts moisture inside the stick to help cook through every thing. 

- while putting the meat and vegetables on kabobs be careful! I poked my self a few times and it was actually pretty painful 

- Cook them on the grill for about a half hour but be at the grill to watch them rotating to make sure that no one side burns and they are cooked through 

- Now enjoy! 

I really loved this recipe it was some work but it was worth it! 

Let me know if you try out this recipe and what you think of it in a comment below! 

Stephaniexx

Where Does Your Time Go?

Recently I have been realizing that I am always saying I never have enough time to do things or I can't spend as many hours as I want doing something. This made me think Where does all of my time go? and How much of my time do I waste? 

There are 10,080 Hours in a week and I am going to break it down here to see just how much free time I actually have. 

I work between 25 and 30 hours a week Lets say I max out at 30 

that leaves 8,280 minutes

I sleep for 8 hours a night so now we are down to 4,920 still quite a bit 

I also need to eat and that is about 2 hours a day? probably less any way so 2 hours a day so 4,080 minutes left in my week 

Now my work outs which are a very important part of my week so I work out for about an hour and a half a  day... that still leaves me with 3,450 minutes or 57.5 hours!! 

Which basically leaves 8 hours a day unaccounted for... this is obviously not exact because I do not work on the weekends so those days I have alot more time then the week days still that is a huge amount of free time that I am wasting. 

Generally in that time span I need to 

shower and get ready, study medical terminology, work on my blog, read other blogs, I also will usually swim for a little 

so that accounts for maybe 4 or 5 of those hours... SO WHAT AM I DOING WITH THE REST. 

This truly makes me think I must be spending much more time than necessary on my computer or in front of the TV, time when I could be going for a walk or hike, laying in the sun, playing with the dog, or even doing more studying and preping for school. Now that I have realized how much time of my day is actually being wasted I must begin to work on my time management skills. This doesn't mean that I will be planning out every second of the day or that I wont leave my self some free TV time (my obsession with The Real Housewives is just too strong for that) So this is my new goal and plan to work on getting my time management skills down because I am tired of wasting my hours in front of electronics. 

I'm sorry if this was ranting and involved some math but I have been thinking about this for a couple days and I thought it was pretty important to share because I am sure that I am not the only one who feels that they spend too much time watching TV or on their computers and it is time that we change that and get our butts moving and our time well spent! 

If you have any opinions on this post please let me know in a comment below! 

Stephaniexx 

My Favorite Fitness App of the Moment

As someone who is just begining my look in to health and fitness and trying live better by living healthy one thing that I have been doing alot more recently is downloading any and all free fitness apps trying them out seeing what I do and dont like about them. My favorite of these apps at the moment is the bodybuilding.com app, I really like the layout and the accessability of this app not to mention that it is a free app and I can honestly say that I rarely pay for an app I'd rather my money go towards music. 

Any way so In general I love using bodybuilding.com and I am not what I would call a body builder and you dont have to be to use this site there is alot of good information about nutrition and exercise that you can get out of it, I would recomend signing up for an account and even if you dont use it religiously as I do its something to look in to in my opinion it has a wide range of programs and something for basically everyone my entire family has accounts and me and my brother use the app all the time especially at the gym and I will tell you why shortly

This is the main page of the app 

The My bodyspace, stats and goals, workout tracker, friends, and photos are all links to your own profile I like the stats and goals section as well as photos because they go by measurements and pictures rather than the scale because the scale is the enemy when it comes to trying to lose weight and be healthy 

My favorite section of this app is the exercise section 

When you click on exercises the first page you will come to lists different categories of exercises so strength training, plyometrics, ect. I also really like to use the streching section the variety of streches and exercises you get from the tab keep your workout changing and your body guessing so its not getting in to a groove with exercises its getting to experience different things. 

Once you pick a category of exercise it then narrows to the body part you want to target which I find very helpful in figuring out what muscle exactly a exercise is working out so you are not under or over working any particular muscle group

lastly once you pick your muscle then youre given a list of exercises when you pick an exercise you get images of how the exercise is done, a description of how to do it and what its working on, as well as the option to view a video of how to do it

I love this part of the app because It is handy at the gym If I want to try a new exercise or am not sure what to do to work out a specific muscle then I grap my phone bring this up and I am set I know the muscle I am working and I get to see and read the exercises before I do them so I know I am doing them correctly. 

Another part of this app that I love are the forums where both experienced trainers and unexperienced athletes can post as they wish the trainers have great in sight and the athletes are there to ask the questions that maybe you didn't think of but could be alot of help for you and your goals. 

I really hope you enjoyed this outline of my favorite fitness app of the moment and I hope you take advantage of this awesome app. 

Let me know in a comment below what you think of this app? If you use it? If you like a different but similar app better? 

Stephaniexx

Favorite Songs For Different Parts of Your Workout

So yesterday I was at the gym and was thinking about how I like to listen to certain songs for certain parts of my work out. For example I have a specific song I like to listen to when I'm trying to push through my last set of squats or bench press so I thought I would go through my favorite songs for specific parts of your workout 

Working on my muscles as you can see above i am a poor example of biceps

I will list when I like to listen to it then the artist , song, and album hope you enjoy! 

Starting up your Cardio or the Begining of a run

Fall Out Boy - The Pheonix - Save Rock and Roll 

The Downtown Fiction - I Just Wanna Run - Best I Never Had 

When you need that Extra push to get through the rest of cardio 

Fall Out Boy - My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark - Save Rock and Roll 

Zedd - Clarity - Clarity

Linkin Park - Bleed It Out - Minutes to Midnight

Wolfmother - Joker and the Thief - Wolfmother

That Last Set 

Skillet - Hero - Awake 

Miley Cyrus - We Can't Stop - We Can't Stop 

Atreyu - Blow - Lead Snails Paper Anchor 

Plyometrics or A HIIT Interval 

Avicii - Levels - Levels

Cartel - Typical - Cycles 

Cool Down 

One Republic - Counting Stars - Native

Avril Lavigne - Heres to Never Growing Up - Heres to Never Growing Up 

Robin Thicke - Blurred Lines - Blurred LInes 

Hope this was helpful to anyone looking for some new songs for your playlist 

Leave a comment below if you Have a specific Song that you listen to at a certain point in your work out! 

Also be sure to check out my tumblr for my almost daily food and exercise logs! 

Stephaniexx