Abs & Ales and 8 "Healthy" Foods That You are Eating You Shouldn't Be

Abs & Ales Craft Beer Tasting and Workout
Enjoy your DF workout? Enjoy a cold beer?

Well now you can enjoy both together!

On Friday, July 18th we will be hosting our first "Abs & Ales Craft Beer Tasting and Workout". The workout will start at 5:15 p.m. and the beer tasting will start immediately afterwards. You will have the opportunity to taste 4 4-oz craft beers and hang out with the DF crew and your fellow members. This event is open to everyone, members and non-members, you just must be over 21 to participate in the tasting. The event will be held to raise money for Wounded Warrior and the cost is $10 for members and $15 for nonmembers. To register for this event sign-up at the front desk so we know how much beer to have for the tasting. Hope to see you all there!


Train The Trainer
Due to Vacations and scheduling conflicts we will be holding the DF Train the Trainer Event on Saturday September 13th at 10am. So get those workouts ready and mark your calendars!



8 "Healthy" Foods that you are eating that you shouldn't be

Many people think that they are eating the right foods and the right portions, BUT the truth actually is that you are eating better than you were and have been snowed by all the Special K Commercials and Boom Chika Pop that you think you are doing well when actually you are throwing your calories away!

1. RICE CAKES- STOP EATING THESE they are a total waste of your calories at 35 calories PER cake they may seem like a good low cal option, the only problem? No Nutritional value! Why waste 35 calories on something that wont fill you up, keep you full or give you any satisfaction or value?
Here is an example of some other options you could switch that rice cake out for and have more value and feel fuller longer for
10 Grapes at 35 cals
12 Strawberries at 48 cals
10 spears of asparugus

2. MICROWAVE POPCORN- Skip the high levels of sodium and synthetic fake butter with chemicals you cant pronounce and plan ahead if you know you are going to the movies or want a night time snack and go to the store and pick up some brown paper bags and some kernels and pop it yourself in the microwave. Then you have the power to decide what goes on your popcorn whether it is plain, a little bit of sea salt or something off the wall like garlic powder or something spicy with a little kick like chili powder. 

3. "LIGHT" SALAD DRESSING- To fill the flavor in light salad dressing when they take out the fat they add numerous synthetic chemicals to replace the flavor. Stop and look at your label, if the list is longer and harder to pronounce than German you should opt for full flavor or simply oil and vinegar or a balsamic. What you save on calories and fat you will make up for in sugar and sodium in those dressings.

4. FLAVORED FAT FREE YOGURT-  Same concept as with the "light" salad dressing when it says "light" or "fat free" and usually "reduced fat" they took out the fat and added additional sugar, chemicals, and sodium to make up for the lack of taste. Opt for your unflavored full fat greek yogurt like Chobani or Oikos and add your own fruit, oats or if you have a sweet tooth crush up some dark chocolate like caco to add in 

5. FROZEN DINNERS-There should be warning labels going off everywhere just by looking at the box. One thing is its frozen and the other you microwave the entire thing, everything in the entire box has been processed. The amount of sodium and lack of nutrients; let alone they look and taste gross  (just saying)  Just because something claims to be healthy doesnt mean it is, I could claim to be the Queen of Canada does it mean its true? Take a little extra time on Sunday afternoon or evening and cook all your meals for the week and guess what? You can freeze them! So if that is your reason for going to those nasty box dinners then STOP 

6. REDUCED FAT PB- In all honesty go to Giant Eagle Market District or Whole Foods and either crush your own peanut butter or buy some fresh or organic. It doesn't taste quite the same but you will be getting the full benefit with out all the extra crap

7. FRUIT COCKTAIL- This touches back to frozen dinners, cut up your fruit on Sunday or Monday whatever day works for you. Separate it into containers and you can freeze so it doesn't brown or a little bit of lemon juice helps apples from browning then you don't have the extra sugar, and processed syrup 

8. PROCESSED BREAD- What ever happened to the days of bakeries and making fresh bread daily? Sans mass processing, fillers and chemicals where your bread can go a week with out molding or getting hard and stale. Bread is not always the enemy, if you miss having a sandwich every once in a while or once a week its not a horrible thing! Try giving loafers a shot with fresh baked bread! Its awesome and you can freeze it as well. 

Bottom line is guys read your labels, take a little extra time out of your life to spend in the grocery store to read the labels of the foods you are feeding to your family! If the label consist of crap that is longer than your grocery list for the entire week its probably not the best option. Be smart use your head. The more ingredients the more processing and chemicals! 


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