This whole week, Channel 3 News Today focused on family obesity. Yesterday they invited me to come on the show and interview with anchor Mark Nolan. Check out his what I had to say about how families can make healthy changes.

What are some ideas you have? Are you struggling with how to get everyone on-board in your household? Post your thoughts here.

For the best family fitness in Cleveland or best Cleveland personal trainer, have you seen Trainingbyliz.com?

Ingredients:
* One whole pastured chicken egg (or at least organic/free-range) -I get my eggs locally from an old-fashioned chicken farm.
* 5-6 egg whites from cheap egg source (Look, pretty much all the toxins will be in the yolk/fat tissue, so you can skimp and buy the cheap eggs to use for the whites, which have the proteins, right?)
* 1/2 cup of chopped veggies of your choice (I tend to keep chopped onion and bell peppers on hand for this purpose. Sometimes I’ll add chopped kale, collards (for calcium & phytonutrients) or even dehydrated wakame (seaweed) for iodine, which helps support thyroid function (the seaweed addition is salty and quite a different flavor, so prepare yourself for a shock)
* 1/2 oz. of organic cheese of your choice -You can add organic Parmasean, Romano, feta, raw goat’s cheese or any cheese of your choice. Keep it organic, if not raw, so as to prevent the ingestion of the recombinant Bovine Growth Hormone (rBGH).

Here’s what you do:

Lightly brush olive oil onto a small frying pan. Place over medium-low heat. Then begin to crack your whole egg and 5-6 egg whites onto the pan. Break the yolk (for quicker cooking) with a spatula and cover with a lid. Gather your veggies together and sprinkle them atop the egg and cover again.

You don’t even need to turn your egg over as long as you keep it covered the heat will convect to the top and cook it through. You’ll know when it’s finished because the yolk will be fully opaque.
Here’s another version with the dried wakame on top, onions & raw goat cheese.

Here is another version with the dried wakame (seaweed), chopped onion & goat cheese. It’s only for the daring, hippy-types! Care to join my club?

Let your Guru Omelet cool on a dish and serve after a few minutes. Enjoy and tell me how you like it. What would you do differently?

This is the version with seaweed. Check my 1/1/09 post to view a video with Swiss chard in its place.

Oh yes, nutritional profile: 244 calories, 11 grams fat, 6g carbohydrates, 28g protein, <1g fiber

Want more fiber and polyunsaturated fats (Omega-3 EFAs)? Add 2 Tablespoons of organic flaxseed meal to your eggs and you’ll boost the nutrition to: 319 calories, 17g fat, 30g protein, 4g fiber

Today I am journaling two days of my detox on the Master Cleanse. Watch the video for some healthy perspective on the self image for mothers in particular. Get the inside scoop on healthy bowel function. And listen to my food for thought commentary at the end of the video.

Check out this link for ultimate family nutrition, something I am still consuming while performing my detox. This is NOT part of the Master Cleanse plan, but something I feel is very necessary during the process and any time.

Whole foods supplement for families

Are you getting enough fruits and vegetables every day?  Check this out to improve your family’s health:

https://www.juiceplus.com/nsa/content/Home.soa?site=ld23991

Today’s workout:

Dynamic warm-up
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I have been imperfect.  In fact, I have caved into the pressures that certain stresses have caused: divorce, selling a home, moving, holidays, running a business, kids.  2009 was a year in tumult.  They were necessary changes, but difficult to wade through.  As a result, my body is showing me signs, and I have to pay attention.  Here’s what I notice:

• Certain days I’d liken my appetite to that of a hungry truck driver (lack of sleep some nights, sugar)
• Getting thick in the waist
• So far so good in the legs/hips, but that waist means more metabolically active fat
• I don’t have that resistance to sweets as I usually do (red flag this one)

Recently someone gawked at me when I said that I have been eating too much.  “Really? But it’s all healthy stuff, right?”  Calories add up no matter what.

So, watch this video, post your comments and be my support. These next two weeks will be a journey for sure, but I’m determined to go through with it.  Don’t miss the smoothie recipes below!

Each of these smoothies were done in a 12-ounce Magic Bullet

Morning Smoothie for my Ease-in Day 1

Raw milk

Fresh banana

Filtered water

Cucumber slices

Ice

Mid-day smoothie

Raw milk & raw cream

Fresh banana

Fresh pineapple

Filtered water

Cucumber slices

Ice

Early pm smoothie

Organic mesculin greens

Organic vine tomato slices

Handful of chopped organic purple onion

Purified water