Salmon + Grilling = Best summer niiiiiiights!

✨Honey Mustard Salmon with Roasted Veggies✨

This is a salmon lovin’ recipe 😂 Anyone else obsessed with Salmon? I’m fine if it’s just me, leaves me with more food to eat and leftovers for tomorrow! ha!

Ingredients Parchment paper Olive oil Cooking spray
* 2 lbs mini bell peppers, assorted colors
* 1 lb medium asparagus spears, ends trimmed (approximately 30 spears)
* 1 tsp seasoning blend of your choice
* 1 tsp fresh lemon juice
* 2 (6 oz each) raw salmon fillets
* 1 tsp garlic powder
* 2 tsp Dijon mustard
* 2 tsp raw honey

Instructions
1) Preheat the oven to 400° F. Place parchment paper on one large baking sheet and one small baking sheet. Lightly coat with spray. Set aside.
2) Spread bell peppers and asparagus spears evenly on the large baking sheet. Season with seasoning blend and drizzle asparagus with lemon juice.
3) Lightly coat veggies with spray. Bake veggies for 10 minutes. While veggies are baking, top the small baking sheet with salmon and sprinkle with garlic powder.
4) Spread mustard evenly over salmon and drizzle with honey. Place salmon in the oven.
5) Bake veggies for an additional 10 to 20 minutes, or until tender-crisp.
6) Bake salmon for 15 to 20 minutes, or until salmon flakes easily when tested with a fork. Serve salmon with veggies.

Portion Fix Containers: 2 Green, 1½ Red
2B Mindset Plate It: A great dinner option

What is your favorite veggie to roast for a tasty summer evening dinner?

Avocado Smash

In Australia we call it Avocado Smash and it’s just about as good as gold! So delicious and filling. I chose this, with wholemeal sourdough and add 2 poached eggs on top. The macros are perfect for a balanced breakfast and if they have rocket on the menu, add that for flavor and spice!

Ultimate Portion Fix = 1R (with opt 2 eggs), 1Y, 1G (with opt rocket), 2B (chose ¼ avocado for just 1B and stir with lime juice and it will cover more area!). I never get more than 1B so I get creative!

Miso glazed Eggplant

This picture doesn’t do it justice to how delicious it is. It is so flavorful, super filling and such a great serving of vegetables. My entire family loves it which I never dreamed my 6 yr old son would TOUCH. AN. EGGPLANT. There are so many recipes on Pinterest, but a lot have unnecessary sugar. The miso is so strong, I’d let it speak for itself. So often people take a vegetable and douse it in sauces and it’s no longer healthy. What’s the point in that? Fried okra? Why not grill it? I digress…

Cut eggplant in 1/2 lengthwise and soak in a bowl of water, any temperature fro 5 minutes. Meanwhile make the sauce.

SAUCE:
1 TBSP miso glaze
2 tsp cooking sake
1 tsp olive oil (1/2 for sauce and 1/2 for frying pan)
Cook over medium to light heat and stir together until well blended.

Drain bowl with eggplant and slice eggplant meat in criss-crosses (make sure not to cut too deep so skin is cut). Microwave for 4-5 minutes (1000 watts vs 750 watts) and remove carefully. Divide sauce evenly amongst eggplant halves and cook face down on frying pan on medium. Only needs 1-2 minutes on stove. Remove from heat and enjoy with your favorite protein. I ate both halves which was enough vegetables and carbs (~26 carbs per eggplant) so this with Tuna was my dinner portion. I was VERY satisfied.

Let me know if you try it and any modifications you make!

Poki bowls + date night with mommy!

I wasn’t naughty so I enjoyed this. Treat, and move on. No guilt because I’m not “cheating.” I decide each day if it will be a weight loss day on 2B Mindset.

Sometimes y’all I can’t even believe what this kid eats?! Look 👀 at his dinner 👇🏻. This is the same kid who wouldn’t even TOUCH a vegetable in the USA 🇺🇸, and now he’s devouring meals like this (🥦, 🌽 edamame, spinach and Salmon over rice and ponzu sauce). I love it 😍 He might ave touched it before, only in passing as he tossed it to our dog, Bella.

If you want advice, we used the “Eat It or Starve” methodology 😂😂 and it worked wonders. hahahaha A few days of early bedtimes and here we are today! 🤜🏻🤜🏻🤜🏻

My meal doesn’t look much different except it’s bigger, and has more veggies. This is the PERFECT 👌🏻 2B dinner. Then, “dinner and done”, except for tonight. He might have lost dessert for bad behavior, but I didn’t! ✌🏻✋🏻

Change your MINDSET!

I love this!!! Lets all learn to know, and LOVE, our own body!

Regardless of how intense the workout, if I start with my 'old mindset', I never see results. If you leave your workout thinking “I earned a frozen yogurt,” you should stop. I used to do that, no joke, after Stroller Strides.  I passed Golden Spoon on my way home and it was unlimited toppings, so I told myself it balances out the fat free yogurt.  NO. IT. DOESN'T. And these days, life is too hard to waste a workout.  Anyone else agree with me on that???

Our bodies were designed to move, and there is a form of exercise for everyone.  If you don't enjoy it, or even like it, you haven't found it yet then.  Keep trying new kinds until you find something that feels like “that was awesome, whoo hoo!”. Personally, every time I used to do an intense spin class, I'd go home overeat, gain weight, and feel icky. Sometimes I didn't even have to leave the gym to do that!  Have you seen what's in their "healthy shakes???" Oh my word...wasted that workout!  :( 

The instructor might tell say you burned 500 calories in an hour class, but that isn't always what matters on your body. Cardio and weights burn fat so differently. Sometimes the least sweaty pilates class makes me look and feel the longest, leanest and best. If you’re looking for a new fitness routine, Beachbody of Demand has thousands to choose from and I can help you!  Lets get started! I have a new group starting next week!

Who is this program good for? And not good for?

In this video, Ilana shows everything you get with the challenge pack and for the launch, everything 2B Mindset related is $20 off!  Don't wait, sale ends June 2nd. 

Lets talk about who this program is good for, and NOT GOOD FOR!  Umm... yep. I want to make sure that you are a good fit for this program if you decide to jump in!

So many of us have these issues, so if you answer YES to any of them, don't feel bad, you are the NORM!  Do you binge eat?  Do you eat when you're not hungry and more out of boredom?  Do you feel stressed when you travel or eat out because you can't control your meals?  Do you emotionally eat?  Do you overeat? How about wanting to lose weight, but not count points, calories, containers, weigh food or exclude food groups? Did you say yes to any of those?  If you did, this program will bring you so much f-r-e-e-d-o-m while still getting to eat delicious, flavorful foods that the whole family will eat.  Yes, I know it sounds too good to be true, and honestly, I thought that too when I ordered.  What's the catch????  But, I've lost over 3 lbs in the first week and I'm full, satisfied and I enjoyed cookies and banana bread this week.  

Vegan vs. 2B Mindset Vegan

A lot of foods that are “healthy” are not necessarily healthy for weight loss. The 2B Mindset will teach you how to sustain a plant based lifestyle while seeing the results you’re after!

Pictured on left: 1/2 cup almonds and 4 dates= 590 calories, 14g protein.

Pictured on right: Vegan vanilla shakeology & 3 strawberries & 3 blueberries 160 calories, 16g protein

Both are vegan, but one will help you hit your goals much better than the other, without compromising any taste and keep you full. 

Oh you "silly carbs"

You guys, I am LOVING this program!!! Although I'm very conscious about my health and fitness, I still have cellulite I’d LOVE to lose. Well, I'm down 3.5 pounds already and we just launched!  That's a lot for me!  AND I feel AWESOME!  I haven't had this much energy in a long time!

One of the things I absolutely love about this program is that no treat is off-limits.  She calls treats "silly carbs" and they are all ok!  She teaches us to eat Fiber-Filled Carbohydrates at most meals, but if you want some silly carbs, then go for it - following her guidelines/process.  I LOVE THAT. I also love quantity and that is celebrated on this program - YES PLEASE!

There's never any deadline to join this program; however, prices ARE increasing on June 3rd.  

Must watch Q&A with Iliana!

Y'all Iliana is so like-able and relatable, I can't get enough of her videos! Do you feel that way too?   Here she's answering all of our 2B Mindset questions like: Who am I and what is my background? What is the program? What do I get when I purchase it?  Let me know what questions you have!

Hired, fired and hired again! She's changing lives once and for all!

Read this article! Such a simple explanation of the program and Ilana's background. READ HERE.

I find this interesting. I heard today that Ilana worked at Beachbody corporate for awhile years ago. Apparently no one could work with her because she had her own ideas about weight loss that didn't mesh with what Beachbody was doing, and she wasn't budging. After trying out a new role there, she was eventually fired. Carl Daikeler, the CEO, told her that if she really believed so strongly in her methods, then she needed to go, put it all together, and come back to him with a full plan.  Apparently that's exactly what she did.  😂

I'm so glad she stuck to her beliefs because not only did she lose over 100 lbs, but so many of us are already losing too!  I'm down over 3 lbs in one week and that's a lot for me.  Thanks Iliana!  

2B Mindset is live!!!

If you could do a program that fixed your emotional eating and workouts were EXTRA CREDIT, would you try it?  

No food group restrictions.  Yes, eat the bread.  Carbs are not the devil!

No measuring!  No portion control containers, no point system, no macro or calorie counting. 

NO STRESSING!  We have you covered and are launching an entire Nutrition channel and app so you'll have just as much support over this program as you do over fitness...and we have 6,000 fitness videos so that's saying a lot.  let me know if you're ready to get started and GET YOUR LIFE BACK!  

Foodies UNITE!!!  2B Mindset has LAUNCHED!  I got a "lets get started" email right away, don't delay.  And $20 off in May, but order before my challenge group starts so you're prepared.