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Foiled again with kitchen cleanup? Not with this life hack!

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They say that fat loss begins in the kitchen. If you are one of the chosen few to have learned this – whether taught or learned by accident – then the kitchen food scale is one of your most trusted weapons in your arsenal for taking the offensive against excess body fat. Still, every time you measure out your 4 ounces of baked chicken breast or 6 ounces of sweet potato, that scale should be wiped down. Or does it? Now, I’m not at all suggesting that you add half an ounce of salmonella to your meal along with an ER visit. What I mean is, if you lay down a piece of foil on the scale, then the weight of the food that you are measuring remains practically the same and all you have to do for cleanup is toss out the foil. Every day I pull about 4 inches from the roll and tear that off, so it’s a 12″x4″ sheet. Then I tear that up by hand into several 4″ strips. The first time you will end up with a piece of foil shaped like Italy, but after you do it a couple of times, you’ll be a master of foil tearing. Seriously, having these little foil strips in the cupboard saves me a lot of annoying clean up time during the day and makes using the food scale far less cumbersome. I hope you find it useful too!

Want to make your ground beef less fatty? It’s super easy!

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Ground beef and other meats often have a high fat content. Perhaps they have more fat than what you need. Browning and draining the meat gets a lot of fat and water out. If we are talking about 80/20 ground beef then 4 ounces of raw meat becomes 3 ounces cooked and loses 68 calories from 7.6 grams fat just from regular draining. To get even more out is really easy! Put a paper towel on your plate, place the meat on it and use your spatula to move the meat around a bit to let the paper towel do its job of absorbing. When you toss that paper towel away, you’ll feel how heavy it is with that extra liquid. It should save you about an extra 40 fat calories from 4.5 grams fat!

Vitamin B-12 Deficient?

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Some people get a vitamin B-12 deficiency. B-12 is an essential vitamin (that is, our bodies cannot produce it) that supports nerve cells, red blood cell formation and DNA synthesis. For me, it manifested as a “brain fog” which felt like everything was run through a black and white television grain filter. I confirmed it with a doctor, and doctors offer B-12 injections. I opted for oral B-12 drops (purchased online). The “brain fog” lifted. I think the deficiency is from the low replenishment rate. We keep using our own stores but don’t get enough from the food that we eat. As we get older this cycle develops into a deficiency. I like using B-12 (in the Methylcobalamin form) that comes in a dropper bottle and I place a few drops with the dropper under the tongue. That basically tries to get some through the capillaries in your mouth and the rest from being ingested. Vitamin B-12 is a very large molecule and is easily destroyed, which is the reason that half a dropper is 50,000% the recommended daily value. You take a lot and statistically some will survive the digestive process. Basically, B-12 supplements are something that helped my brain fog, but please remember to talk to your doctor about your situation.