Recipe for soft silky hair!

If you have dry hair treat it with avocados, which have tons of essential fatty acids that enhance shine!

• Take two avocados, peeled and pitted into a blender and whip.
• Next coat your hair saturating each strand in the avocado mixture.
• Comb through to evenly distribute the mixture, then clip hair back for 30 minutes.
• Wash out the avocado with a hydrating shampoo, then follow with conditioner. Try Frederic Fekkai Shea Butter Moisturizing Shampoo and Frederic Fekkai Shea Butter Moisturizing Conditioner.
  

Chocolate-Chip Christmas Balls

If you are having a Christmas party or simple making sweet treats for the family to enjoy make these low fat chocolate-chip cookies!  Visit diet.com for other low fat recipes!

Start to finish: 40 min.

Makes: 36 balls

8 tablesppons butter, softened

1/4 cup cream cheese, softened (2 ounces)

1/3 cup granulated sugar

1/8 teaspoon salt

1 egg

2 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract

1 cup all-purpose flour

1 cup white whole-wheat flour

1 12-ounce package miniature semi-sweet chocolate chips

1 cup confectioners’ sugar

2-3 teaspoons fat-free milk

Directions: Preheat oven to 350°F.  In a medium bowl, beat butter and cream cheese with an electric mixer for 30 seconds.  Add sugar and salt.  Mix until combined.  Beat in egg and 2 teaspoons vanilla.  Beat in flours  Stir in chocolate chips.  shape dough into 1 1/2-inch balls.  Place 2 inches apart on ungreased cookie sheet.  Bake for 15 minutes, until bottoms are golden.  Transfer to a wire rack and let cool.

Meanwhile, combine confectioners’ sugar and 1/2 teaspoon of milk at a time until icing reaches desired consistency.  Drizzle frosting over cooled cookies.

Nutrition facts per serving: 124 calories, 1 g protein, 17 g carbohydrates, 6 g fat (3 g saturated), 1 g fiber

source: fitnessmagazine

Healthier Hot Chocolate

It’s almost Christmas time and I have the perfect low fat hot chocolate recipe for you and your sweetie to enjoy in the chilly weather!  There’s no need to ruin your healthy eating habits during holiday season! Check out these other low fat recipes!

Serves 2

3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder

3-4 tablespoons agave nectar (a natural sweetener found at supermarkets and health-food stores)

2 1/2 cups skim milk

1/2 vanilla bean, split

1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon

1/4 teaspoon ground nutmeg

Directions: Mix cocoa powder and agave nectar.  Heat milk in a medium saucepan over very low heat with vanilla bean, cinnamon and nutmeg.  Whisk in cocoa-agave mixture thoroughly, until mixture is warn but not boiling.

Nutrition facts per serving: 215 calories, 12 g protein, 44 g carbohydrate, 1 g fat, 3 g fiber

Source: FitnessMagazine

5 IMMUNE-BOOSTING FOODS!

Here is a list of foods that will help boost your immune system when flu and cold season hit! Check out diet.com for recipes to incorporate these immune boosting foods into your diet!

Yogurt contains probiotics that strengthen the immune system.  Make sure you load up on yogurt during cold season, a cup of day will decrease your change of catching a cold by 25%.

Eggs are filled with amino acids, zine, and B vitamins and this helps build white blood cells and antibodies, which the body needs to fight off illnesses.

Red Bell Peppers are full of vitamin C.  Eating just one pepper you’ll consume 200 mg or more of vitamin C.  (Surprisingly an orange contains 70 mg of vitamin C so skip the oranges and chow down on red bell peppers)

Ginger helps cure colds. By eating fresh ginger your body sweats out toxins and it may fight viruses.

Garlic contains sulfur-based compounds and boosts your immune system so it may keep your body free of infections.

Fact of the day: “Sugar causes your body to secrete large quantities of insulin, which suppresses the release of a hormone that helps regulate the immune system…excessive amounts of sugar also deplete crucial B vitamins needed by the liver to detoxify the body.” -Connie Gutterson, R.D., Ph.D

source: fitnessmagazine

Fight Cellulite While You Sleep!

Get Rid Of Cellulite Now!!! Feel confident showing off your legs!

If you are having problems with cellulite a good way to be dimple free is first start exercising! Not just cardio but strength training because you will gain muscle and those fatty composites will disappear in now time.  For even faster results double up! Mix exercise with Bliss Fatgirlsleep cream, it contains red algae and lotus extract, circulation-boosting ingredients that firm skin by morning.

Personally, I think Captiva’s Cellulite Refining Treatment is the best product to reduce cellulite but it’s a little more expensive but it’s worth it.  Since working out and using it  my cellulite has reduce by 90%.

Exfoliating your legs with a exfoliating scrub and a luffa sponge will also help!!

Tummy Tuck Workout

Do you want sexy abs like this?  Do these three moves and you will have killer abs in no time!

The Flattener: Lie on floor with legs extended above hips.  Keeping back flat, slowly lower legs to an inch above floor, then return to start.  Do 10 times.

The Tightener: Lie on floor with legs straight, left heel on right toe.  Place left hand under head and extend right arm toward ceiling.  Lift shoulders until lower abs are engaged, then return to floor.  Do 12 times.  Switch sides.

The Strengthener: Sit on floor with legs extended, hands down and by hips.  Engage abs and crunch upper body and knees toward each other; straighten body, lowering legs and back to just above floor.  Do 10 times.

Check out bodybuilding.com for free training programs, free nutrition plans, and wholesale supplements and fitness products. Also check out diet.com they have free exercise videos you can do and you will sweat and burn more calories than ever!

Source: FitnessMagazine