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Prepare your taste-buds! The Utopia food is now to tastes even better.

What is the key Utopia ingredient for client weight-loss? -- Delicious, gourmet fresh food to-go. Convenient meals that taste amazing make the Utopia program an easy and delicious way to work towards your weight loss goals. One Utopia client said it best, “…the meals are so good, I feel like I’m cheating!

Well, prepare your taste-buds! The Utopia food is about to taste even better. Chef Mike Smith joined the Utopia team in February as executive chef and his expertise has taken Utopia food from delicious to out of this world.  He's adding dishes to the menu that are so good, it’s hard to believe they are healthy. Staples like Mexican dishes, Italian, steak, even a bunless hamburger with sweet potato fries!

Mike’s Story

Chef Mike Smith has had an impressive career with experience at a number of noteworthy Dallas restaurants including Arcodoro/Pomodoro, Thomas Avenue Beverage Company, 2900, The Green Room and The Common Table. He has earned the respect and praise of critics including a Dallas Morning News 4-star rating, an invitation to the internationally renowned James Beard House and numerous accolades from Texas Monthly, The Dallas Observer, and D Magazine.

Mike sprang to the Dallas culinary scene beginning as a sous-chef and with years of dedication and a passion for food quickly moved up the ranks. He served as Chef de Cuisine, partner, owner and Executive Chef for many Dallas restaurants. Mike also has been involved in health-related projects such as his partnership with Abbot Diabetes Care to create a menu of options to help diabetics maintain a healthy lifestyle.

Ultimately, Chef Mike has a big vision that fits perfectly with the Utopia program: he wants to change the way people lose weight. Mike is on a mission to show the world that delicious food and weight-loss are not exclusive of each other. People can lose weight without having to give up delicious, satisfying food and Chef Mike is up to the challenge of proving it.

So What’s Cooking?

Chef Mike’s exposure to a variety of international cuisines coupled with his southern roots provides him with an unmatched culinary repertoire. His style has been referred to as “modern soul food” and Utopia is excited for him to bring his spin to the menu.

Never fear, the Utopia menu favorites will still remain! Everything is just being improved upon. For example, the Turkey Bolognese is a very popular Utopia dish. Chef Mike has taken the Turkey Bolognese recipe and added a signature marinara sauce that he learned to prepare while in training on the island of Sardenia in Italy with a local Italian mentor.

“We also want to re-create some staple comfort foods, that people miss when they go on diets,” Scott Wilder, Utopia co-owner explained. Recently Chef Mike’s patty-melt with sweet potato fries was added to the menu and has received rave reviews from loyal Utopia clients. Also in the works, a quesadilla! Stay tuned for other Utopia menu improvements and additions.

For more information about Chef Mike visit the Utopia Team page. If you’d like to find out more about how Utopia Food & Fitness can help you lose weight and get fit visit their website at www.utopiaff.com or visit their Plano location: 5805 Preston Rd Suite 594, Plano, TX 75093.

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Losing weight after giving birth is not an easy task. In addition to the normal daily stresses, you now have a new little person to love and care for. Fortunately, there are effective options that don’t require huge time demands. Utopia Food & Fitness has helped several new mothers get their bodies back.

Sally Batt is one of those new mothers. “I was officially an exhausted, busy mom” states Sally.  With two young children (2 months old and 2 years old) and a husband who travels for work, Sally needed something that did not require a huge time commitment. She discovered Utopia Food & Fitness and was instantly drawn to the fact that the program only required two 20 minute workouts each week and had chefs that would prepare each of her meals and snacks.

 Sally and her husband decided to join Utopia together.  “Together we ate the delicious, natural and preservative-free food, worked out twice a week, and joked around with the staff.”  In addition to the convenience of the program, they both loved the clean, spa-like facility and friendly staff. After six weeks of short, effective workouts and delicious pre-prepared food, Sally lost 8 lbs. and 12.5 inches off of her body. Her husband lost 17.1 lbs of fat and gained 8.1 lbs of muscle. It’s been four months since Sally completed her Utopia program and she has kept the weight off.  You can read more about her journey on the Dallas Mom’s Blog here.

“We are both thankful for our results and would recommend Utopia Food and Fitness to anyone wanting to make a healthy change.”

If you’d like to find out more about how Utopia Food & Fitness can help you shed your baby weight, visit their website at www.utopiaff.com or visit them at their Plano location: 5805 Preston Rd Suite 594, Plano, TX 75093.

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It’s no secret that eating clean, healthy, whole food is essential for weight loss; however, healthy food isn’t always tasty. There are a fortunate few who thrive on grilled chicken breasts and steamed broccoli, but for many of us, this can get old after a few days. Too often we fall into a cycle of eating healthy and then splurging on fatty, sugary foods to nix pesky cravings. It’s also far too easy to stop by a fast food restaurant to easily fit a meal into your busy day. For these reasons, it’s essential to find a solution for healthy food that is both convenient AND tastes great to be successful with weight loss.

We’ve all been in the situation where we’ve eaten healthy for several days, and then as a treat, we reward ourselves with something we know isn’t good for us. Then that treat turns into another and before you know it, you’re completely off the healthy eating wagon.  It is okay to treat yourself, but be careful to avoid turning every meal into a treat. This nasty cycle is what prevents lasting weight loss for many of us.

You must also keep in mind that it’s not all about calories. While important, you can’t simply substitute tasty calories for healthy calories. Regrettably, there is a huge difference between eating 300 calories of grilled chicken and 300 calories of a candy bar. The grilled chicken is full of nutrients that promote the overall health of your body and keep you feeling full longer. It also contains proteins that boost your immune system and help your body recover from physical activity. Candy bars, on the other hand, are full of sugar that your body cannot currently process, and instead converts and stores as fat. In addition to the negative effects the sugar will have on your body, you’ll also be less satisfied and get hungry more quickly after the flash of energy goes away.

The best solution for simplified weight loss is to find healthy AND great tasting food. But does such a thing exist? Utopia Food & Fitness has worked to create just that; delicious food that contributes to lasting fat loss and your overall health.

Their meals are proven to result in lasting weight loss, but still give you all of the tastes you crave – both savory and sweet. This is because each meal and snack is prepared without the usual overabundance of grease, sugar and butter. Instead, they focus on delicious, fresh, seasonal gourmet-to-go meals made individually for you at your necessary caloric intake and particular tastes.

When creating meals, Utopia:

  • Features organic and all natural foods
  • Sources locally whenever possible
  • Changes their menu every season, to ensure variety and also use in-season products
  • Carefully taste tests all of their recipes to ensure you will love them

Utopia also makes healthy eating convenient. Each meal is freshly prepared for you, so all you have to do is pick up your food to take home and reheat.  There are several programs for you to choose from to ensure that you can easily incorporate healthy eating into your daily routine. You can pick ready-made meals off the shelf as convenient for you and your family, you can pre-order your meals, or participate in a six week weight loss program that combines healthy eating and on-site exercise for lasting, maximum results.

Visit Utopia today to pick up a few meals and see for yourself how healthy food can be delicious and easy!

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Driving around Plano and the surrounding area, you’re sure to see numerous gyms and fitness centers promising to help you shed pounds. No doubt you’ll also stumble across multiple restaurants and meal-to-go chains saying they’ll get you into those skinny jeans in no time, too. With all of these options, the question quickly becomes, “What’s going to work for me?”So which one should you choose? Does just one or the other produce the lasting results to truly improve your health and change your body?

We all know that to lose weight you need to burn more calories than you consume. Dieting seems like a natural place to start, but be cautious. Many dieters lose weight only to see it quickly return and, often times, with a vengeance. Unbeknownst to them, diets are likely to accelerate the loss of functional muscles when proper strength training is not included. The body will start to burn muscle as fuel, which results in a lowered Resting Metabolic Rate (RMR). This drop in metabolism reduces the number of calories that can be eaten without causing weight gain. The weight will come back, but the muscle will not. Diets can leave you in worse shape than if you’d done nothing at all.

Conversely, exercise alone won’t be enough either. At the gym, less than half of the calories burned are actually fat. Energy is pulled from stored carbohydrates and proteins as well. Burning calories this way increases your appetite as a natural response. With all of the delicious and calorie-rich food choices available, it’s easy to quickly negate the hard work you just put in. If eating habits aren’t changed, workouts will not be effective. 

Your instincts probably tell you that you need to "workout AND eat right" to have quick and lasting results. A combination of strength training and healthy, monitored eating are the best way to see lasting weight loss. While the science behind this can get complicated, the process doesn’t have to be. Utopia Food & Fitness has taken the guess work out of healthy eating and exercise in a way that ensures lasting results. Founder Kirk Wilder has used his 34 years of experience in the fitness industry to develop a program that has proven to cause fat loss, lean muscle gain, and a higher metabolism for men and women of all ages.

The six week program could not be simpler or more effective. Utopia provides three gourmet meals and two snacks to go each day. They have all been carefully measured and prepared by the chefs at Utopia. They worry about the calories, so you don’t have to. It’s as easy as picking up your custom-prepared bag of food and taking it home to your refrigerator.

You also work out under the supervision of personal trainers to ensure you don’t lose any lean muscle while your body burns fat. The exercise program has been refined to be so efficient you only have to work out 20 minutes twice a week. Coming out of the program, you will actually have more lean muscle. Your newer, more toned self will now have a higher metabolism so you can "eat more and get away with it, like when you were younger."

Don’t get caught in the battle between diet and exercise. Choose the proven option of Utopia Food & Fitness that easily and conveniently combines the two. There’s no better way to lose fat while restoring lean, healthy muscle.

To learn more about the benefits of combing food and fitness, contact Utopia Food & Fitness by calling 972.781.1888 or visiting them at 5805 Preston Rd Suite 594, Plano, TX 75093.