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Grilled Corn and Avocado Salad

A refreshing and healthy salad full of grilled corn, creamy avocado and tangy lime.  Full of flavor, good fats and color!  

A refreshing and healthy salad full of grilled corn, creamy avocado and tangy lime.  Full of flavor, good fats and color!

 

Recently I decided to make a few changes in my life.  I have decided to eat super clean.  And it has been a surprisingly easy transition.  I realized that I am sick of being hungry.  Anyone else?

I have been starving for way too long!

And constantly feeling guilty about eating too much, or too wrong or too many carbs or too much fat….

It’s enough!  I am over this!

I don’t want to count my calories!  I don’t want to worry anymore!  I lost 60 pounds of baby weight for pete’s sake!!! I have done great!

But I am still not happy.

And so this time around.  I decided to make a permanent change.  No more quick fixes.  No more fad diets.  No more pills!  But most importantly, no more starvation.

The irony is that, I coach people on how to lose weight.  And I am told I do a great job at it.  And people get results!  But somehow, for myself I feel I need to starve in order to look thin.

One day, while sitting through another mind numbing meeting, I started scrolling through my Instagram account.  And pictures of food after food after food started popping up in my scroll.  And then I saw this.

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It was one of those moments where I felt myself awaken.  This quote was so very simple.  My greatest fears had been summed up into just a few words.

And as I pondered over my fear of failure, I found myself clicking on this person’s profile and I was instantly enthralled.

Here was a woman who had transformed her body…in her before pictures she looked seemingly ordinary.  But her story painted a different picture.

She was so much like me.  A girl who looked healthy and young on the outside but on the inside she was constantly worrying about every calorie, every morsel,  every sit-up.  Consumed with worry and fueled by her obsession to be skinny she turned to every fad including starvation and over exercising.

Until one day she just got tired.  And stopped.   And found a coach.  And he helped her change her life.

Her after photo was beautiful.  She was lean, strong and most importantly she looked to be genuinely happy.

I wanted to be genuinely happy.

And so I spent the rest of the day emailing this girl back and forth.  We understood each other.  It was fate.  She told me her coach’s name.  Three hours later, I signed up with him and embarked on a journey that I hope can change my life for the better.

Being the loving and supportive husband that my hubs is he bought me really cute workout pants.  And then said, “Now go and get fit!”

And I started running.  Every day after work.  I. Am. Not. A. Runner.  I literally cheated every mile I ever had to run in high school.  I hated it.  But I followed my quote.  I had nothing to lose…except fat šŸ™‚

So I turned on my Pandora.  Bought a Polar monitor.  Got a training App for running.  And I ran.

I walked a lot.  I wheezed.  I talked myself into it every minute.  And I made this girl (2 thumbs point to self) a believer.

3 weeks later I can run a lot longer than before.  And I feel…empowered.  I feel strong.  I lift weights.  Heavier than ever.  And I feel droplets of sweat roll down my forehead my nose.  And it feels fantastic.

How cute are those pants šŸ™‚

A refreshing and healthy salad full of grilled corn, creamy avocado and tangy lime.  Full of flavor, good fats and color!

Today is exactly 3 weeks since my coach and I started. We have had a little setback last week since I got a nasty cold that I am STILL fighting.  But…I am down 2% body fat, 6 pounds and most importantly I am eating like a horse.  5-6 small meals a day keeps me happy and very healthy (minus this awful cold).

It’s empowering to be able to control my food intake and increase it week by week.

After years of working out, dieting, calorie counting and eventually going back to my normal ways, I feel uplifted and positive.  I feel like I can and will succeed.

And this is not a race.  It’s a marathon.  And there will be set backs and road blocks.  But we are human.  We overcome. We power through.  And we achieve.

How’s that!  Feel good?! Feel ready to battle the world?!

How about dinner?

80% of getting the body you want is giving it the food it needs.  When it needs it.

So I feed my body.  Good.  Really, really good.

And yes, I am a chef.  And therefore it’s tough not to put butter in everything like I like to.  But, this is just the uphill portion of my marathon.  Once I am running full speed ahead I can start getting back to my beloved butter.  For now, we are just going to set it to the side.

And since majority of the foods I cook are super healthy anyhow, this entire clean eating idea has been really easy for me to master.

Finally…I can get to this yumminess!

A refreshing and healthy salad full of grilled corn, creamy avocado and tangy lime.  Full of flavor, good fats and color!

Doesn’t this just look gorgeous!  Like confetti in a bowl! Vibrant, fresh and clean flavors make this salad one of my go-to’s for a healthy side dish!

You have healthy fats in your avocado, nice sweet carby corn and loads of cilantro and lime!

It comes together in minutes and is a real crowd pleaser.

First you need some roasted corn.  I always soak mine in water right in the husk for about 30 minutes.  Then I throw it onto a grill preheated to medium high and cook for about 20 minutes.  Making sure to rotate every 5 minutes.  Let it cool.

A refreshing and healthy salad full of grilled corn, creamy avocado and tangy lime.  Full of flavor, good fats and color!

 

While the corn is cooling, dice up your avocado.  There is a neat little tutorial here that will help ya’ with that!  While you are at it, dice your onion as well.  And there’s naturally a tutorial for that as well!

Chop up some cilantro as well.  Roughly.  There is no need for precision with that.

A refreshing and healthy salad full of grilled corn, creamy avocado and tangy lime.  Full of flavor, good fats and color!

When the corn is cool. remove the husk and stand it upright and start slicing the corn off the husk with a nice sharp knife.

A refreshing and healthy salad full of grilled corn, creamy avocado and tangy lime.  Full of flavor, good fats and color!

Place the kernels into a bowl with the avocado, cilantro and onions.  Toss everything together with a spoon and season with salt, black pepper and juice of half a lemon.

Now the hardest part of this?  Not eating it all!

Enjoy!  This whole clean eating thing is a breeze!

 

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Grilled Corn and Avocado Salad from the Girl and the Kitchen

Grilled Corn and Avocado Salad


  • Author: Mila Furman

Description

A refreshing and healthy salad full of grilled corn, creamy avocado and tangy lime. Full of flavor, good fats and color!


Ingredients

Scale
  • 2 corn on the cobb
  • 1 large ripe avocado (diced)
  • 1/2 a red onion (diced)
  • 3 tbsp of cilantro (chopped)
  • 1 lime (juiced)
  • salt and pepper

Instructions

  1. First you need some roasted corn. I always soak mine in water right in the husk for about 30 minutes. Then I throw it onto a grill preheated to medium high and cook for about 20 minutes. Making sure to rotate every 5 minutes. Let it cool.
  2. While the corn is cooling, dice up your avocado. There is a neat little tutorial here that will help ya’ with that! While you are at it, dice your onion as well. And there’s naturally a tutorial for that as well!
  3. Chop up some cilantro as well. Roughly. There is no need for precision with that.
  4. When the corn is cool. remove the husk and stand it upright and start slicing the corn off the husk with a nice sharp knife.
  5. Place the kernels into a bowl with the avocado, cilantro and onions. Toss everything together with a spoon and season with salt, black pepper and juice of half a lemon.

Notes

You can also use frozen corn for this recipe. Just toast them up in a frying pan for a few minutes to get them charred a bit. Or throw them onto a sheetpan into a 450-degree oven for 15 minutes until golden brown.

  • Category: Salad
  • Cuisine: Fusion

 

 

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