Travel: Italian mountain getaway or in a seek of a "Green" plant Cathedral

It's been a while since I last time managed to run away from Milan and it was not for a work.

Lately I have been travelling like a flight attendant and working day and night that's why I said to myself (and to my boyfriend): " That's it! you and I need a break!and we need it now!"He completely agreed and on a sunny Sunday morning we headed North to find a place called Catedrale Vegetale - a Green tree Catedral somewhere in mountains which was suggested by a friend . Sounded mysterious but I did not mind - in contrary was happy to get some little dose of Italian mountain beauty and have a small adventure.

The Green Cathedral

Finding the cathedral was not as easy as we though even with a navigator and GPS, so we used old fashioned way and just asked locals. (Which is actually a lot nicer way to learn about the place and get some good references and tips). the road had to cross Oltre Il Colle mountains-region to get to our destination.

Recipe: Healthy snack or an alternative way of eating frittata

It's been a while since I had been posting my food experiments, but that does not mean that I was making them - in contrary, I have been more active than ever mixing, matching, adding and experimenting.
One of my easiest, fastest preparing discovery of all time was an Egg&Mushroom frittata healthy snack which can be easily brought to work with you as it is divided by single muffin molds. Clever, huh?

Alternative firttata - divided by muffin molds

My combination of this frittata was basically all the things I like mixed together.
Ingredients:
Zucchini+canned champignons mushrooms (normal, not in the oil ones), red tomatoes (you can also use red bell pepper if don't like tomatoes) + eggs+spices.
Preparation:
1. Whisk/ beat eggs add all ingredients cut/sliced and spices.
(you have 2 options - can put the mixture directly in molds and pour over eggs or mix all together. as you prefer. I have tried both and both works).
2. Pour in the muffin tins/molds
3. put in the pre-heated oven for 30 min in 200C° or till golden and poufy.
4. Voilà! Ready!

Put all ingredients in the muffin molds

I mixed mushrooms, zucchini and tomatoes

pour over whisked eggs

put in the oven for 30 minutes or till gets poufy and golden brown crust appears

Nom,Nom! ready to eat!
Easy-peasy, healthy and fast! 

Workout/Food: 15 Exercises to burn off calories taken by that delicious junk food

If you have ever been on a diet you probably know how hard is to resist a temptation of snacking and having a cheat meals outside the diet plan and especially of those sweet/ salty delicious ones. I am not a chocolate lover but I know people who are and their struggle of giving it up. The same is for bad eating habits, like Cheeseburgers, popcorn with a movie (guilty, guilty guilty), Coca Cola, cocktails during Happy Hours with friends and so on and on. We all have our week point and some foods that is hard to resist especially when you are trying to reach a goal, like loosing weight or improving your eating habits. As I am currently on a super strict diet than I know what I am talking about resisting those food cravings and temptations just to reach my aim even if I don't see it in a mirror yet..

Even it has been a while I am living and eating healthy and clean even I have days when my leg (hand) slips and I eat something I really shouldn't..yes, I am human too! But as long as it is a balance and a cheat meal does not turns into a cheat day or even worse - a week - it is fine to give yourself a break. But have you ever stopped and think what is the consequences of that all delicious, bad food to your body? 

I did! and trust me, this really inspires me every time I am sweating my butt off in a gym. Because burning those bad calories are 10 times harder than taking them up.

Here comes some popular foods and their calories together with exercises you should do to burn them off... Behold!

1 large fries are equals to 524 burpees