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Learning & Loving Your Body
Diet and exercise isn’t one size fits all. We’ve all heard it, but do you believe it? Or are you still trying to copy what the latest fads and trends are saying? Stop being pulled in all directions. Learn what works for you and your body! You have to stop hating your body and using that as the motivation to get healthy. It is never a good idea to have any sort of negative outlook on yourself. Love Your Body Love your body so much that you want what’s best for it. Appreciate the fact that you were created so intricately, with each muscle, organ, and system wanting to function…
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Inactivity & Idleness
Do you know what one of the biggest causes of weight gain is? Inactivity! But why is it that when people want to lose weight, they seem to only focus on the diet aspect? We SIT here and watch the world become more and more overweight and obese, and we all want to blame the food industry. Fast food, processed foods, growth hormones, excess sugar – yeah, those are the culprits. But if we give those up, why are we still seeming to have trouble losing weight? Because we are becoming more and more lazy! Everything has become so convenient. We don’t even have to physically move our bodies to…
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Are You Feeding Your Problems?
Are you afraid of your food? How many of us have tried “diets” time and time again only to end up going back to binging on junk? Ignorance is bliss right? Sure, we know we shouldn’t eat junk, but if we don’t know the real reason why we shouldn’t, what’s really stopping us? If someone in the 1950’s said don’t smoke, nobody would listen. If someone said don’t smoke because smoking has been proven to kill you. Big change right? How It Affected Me When the doctors first told me weight loss helps keep IH under control, I didn’t pay it much mind because I wasn’t overweight. When the doctors…
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The Broken Body
Do you remember when your body broke? I do. Thursday, January 26, 2017. 9:30 am. It was the day I had my first child. It was the moment I had the epidural that went too far. Sure, that’s a common occurrence. Countless women experience it. The needle penetrates too far into the dura that surrounds the spinal cord and causes spinal fluid to leak out from around your brain. Excruciating headaches ensue. Sometimes the body heals itself before the new mother even notices. Other times, the skull crushing pain lingers for weeks or even months afterwards. The good news is doctors can fix this. All they have to do is…
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Breakfast
I don’t know about you, but I find that once I make a bad decision in my day, I’m more likely to keep making bad decisions. If I start my day off with a frozen waffle, I’m more likely to skip my workout and call it a lazy TV watching day. I’m more likely to continue eating junk food because I’ve already screwed up once. The key is to start your morning off on the right foot. I’m a firm believer in breakfast being the most important meal of the day. Make it count. Odds are, you currently skip breakfast most mornings. No, a coffee flavored beverage does not count…
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Get Active & Stay Active
Here’s the truth, I’m not a fitness trainer. Exercise has never been a passion of mine the way that nutrition is. But I understand the importance of it. I understand that it is necessary for our bodies to stay active, so I live by Sir Isaac’s First Law: An object in motion tends to stay in motion. An object at rest tends to stay at rest. So if there is one thing you need to know about keeping your body in shape, it’s this: one way or another, stay active. Now, I can only assume you are starting off where I started, the beginning. My Fitness Journey Actually, I might…
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The Foundation of Health
Ask any professional or health guru in the world, and they will all tell you the same thing: a healthy body all begins with proper diet and exercise. In case you misunderstood, I said both proper diet and exercise! The two go hand in hand. Look at any weight loss pill, and you will see the fine print that it works at its best with proper diet and exercise. Well of course it does! Because anyone wanting a healthier version of themselves can only achieve it in that manner. Now that the fundamentals are out of the way, I would like to share with you my own take on what…
