Excuse Proof Fitness Podcast Episode 1
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In this podcast, Derek Doepker and Shane Edele discuss strategies for eating a healthy diet when you’re on a busy schedule.
You’ll discover:
- How to make healthy meals in under 5 minutes
- How to eat healthy when going out to restaurants
- Ways to transform ordinary smoothies into incredible meals
- Why store bought meal replacements are crap, and a simple way to make your own meal replacements
- The healthiest and most addicting snack food on the plant
Resources Mentioned In The Podcast
Cooking
Using a crockpot for bulk cooking
Kitchen Equipment
Superfoods
Smoothies
Making your own smoothies from any of the following:
- Base: water, kefir, yogurt, milk, and/or dairy alternative like coconut milk
- Protein: whey protein, rice protein, any powdered protein
- Fiber: ground flax seed hulls, coconut flour, chia seeds, fiber supplement
- Fruit: lemons, limes, berries like strawberries, blueberries, blackberries, etc
- Fruit juice: no added sugar options like grapefruit, cranberry, pomegranate
- Greens: spinach, parsley, kale, celery, cucumber, greens powder (fresh greens require high powered blender)
- Superfoods: apple cider vinegar, cacao, medicinal mushrooms, phytoplankton, chlorella, spirulina, camu camu, kelp powder, noni, superfood blend
- Fats and oils: coconut oil/milk/cream, palm oil, almond/almond flour/almond butter, cashews, fish oil
- Sweeteners: stevia, lakanto, xylitol, in moderation raw organic honey, blackstrap molasses
- Flavoring: Carob, Coffee beans, cocoa powder
Sample smoothie recipe:
- 2 cups homemade kefir
- 1.5 scoops whey protein
- 1/2 cup frozen blueberries
- 1-2 tablespoons coconut oil
- 1 tablespoon coconut flour
- 1 tablespoon carob powder
- 1 teaspoon raw cacao
- 1 teaspoon raw organic creamil
Another option, if I wanted higher carbs and lower fat would look like this
- 1 cup coconut water kefir
- 1.5 scoops whey protein
- 1/2 cup blueberries
- 1 banana
- 1 tablespoon carob powder
- 1 teaspoon raw cacao
- 1 teaspoon honey