July’s Healthy Lifestyles Newsletter

Choose Health and Fitness as a Lifestyle

Not as a Fad!

Welcome to my monthly newsletter.  You can now look forward to my fitness and nutrition tips and motivation at the beginning of each month.

This Month’s Topics:
1) Nutrition – Lunch in a Snap
2) Fitness – Exercise Of The Month
3) Wellness – Drink to Stay Healthy
4) News – Eva in the Media

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1) Nutrition – Lunch in a SNAP!

I grew up eating a delicious lunch that my mom called Tuna Snaps a.k.a Tuna Melts. It still remains one of my most favorite delicious and nutritious lunches!

Here’s my yummy recipe…

1 can water packed flaked white tuna, drained
1/4 cup chopped celery
1/4 cup chopped pepper (any color)
1/4 cup chopped red onion
1/4 cup reduced-fat mayonnaise
1/2 tbsp lemon juice
2 tbsp Italian dressing
1 tbsp pepper
1/2 cup shredded or sliced reduced – fat mozzarella cheese
2 whole wheat English Muffins, Rye or Pumpernickel bagels

1. Preheat oven to 350°F
2. Add all ingredients together and mix
3. Spread one-quarter of mixture on each half. Put halves on baking sheet, sprinkle or lay the cheese on top and bake for 10 minutes.

Servings: 2
Great source of protein, fiber, carbs and fat

2) Fitness – Exercise Of The Month

Plank Walk/Push Up Combo

Exercise: Targets Core and Upper Body
1. Start standing feet together, arms by your side

2. Bend over into standing forward stretch, reaching for your toes, place hands flat on the floor

3. Keep toes planted, walk your hands forward to plank position, place hands wide

4. Do one push up

5. Keep your hands planted, walk your feet back into your hands

Thats one rep
6. Repeat by walking hands forward and starting sequence again

Tips: Keep your neck inline with your spine at all times, keep core engaged
Start with 5-6 reps – Increase as necessary

3) Wellness – Drink to stay healthy!

In times of stress, harsh environments, seasons, or whenever the body is in need of reinforcement, Echinacea Tea can be used to supply the boost required to maintain the body’s resistance to infection, to mend injured tissue, and to stimulate healthy body functioning.

I SWEAR by this stuff to keep my immune system strong and incorporate it in my lifestyle of exercising and eating right to stay healthy.

My favorite brand available at Noah’s: Organic Echinacea Tea by Traditional Medicinals Teas

4) News – Eva In the Media – In case you missed it…

Oh So Cosmo TV
My episode will air again this Sat Jul 4th

12:30 AM (for all you night owls)
ch 262 on Rogers and 608 on Bell

Meghan Ford, the nutritionist from my Fitness and Nutrition workshop and I will be featured in the 30 minute episode.

Glow Magazine
Summer 2009 edition, I’m Quoted in a Health + Beauty Article!

To read the article you can visit my blog:
http://torontowomensfitness.wordpress.com/2009/06/21/how-to-get-your-dream-body/

Some great tips included, please feel free to leave your comments on the blog…

Toro Magazine
In June I was interviewed in ToroMagazine

To read the article and see the “artistic” photo shoot visit:
http://toromagazine.com/?q=node/1784

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A little encouragement to live by in July:

In order to motivate yourself to achieve your dreams, dream BIG, and when you reach goals along the way, reward yourself and celebrate! Remember, to enjoy the journey, it leads to the fulfillment of the destination.

If you like what you are reading or tried last months tips, then please take a minute and let me know, comment below…

Be well and have a wonderful start to the summer.

Eva

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