11 Foods to Always Keep on Your Shopping List

11 Foods to Always Keep on Your Shopping List

How many times have you meant to eat healthy — only to get home and find nothing good for you in your fridge and end up ordering an unhealthy meal on Seamless?In the battle to keep yourself on track, my game plan is simple:  Always keep these ingredients at the top of your shopping list and you’ll never have a problem with finding something good to eat in your kitchen!

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5 Healthy Habits You Can Start Today

5 Healthy Habits You Can Start Today

Transitioning into a healthy lifestyle doesn’t happen overnight. You don’t just wake up one morning and find that from that moment on and – Poof! – you’re perfectly healthy in everything that you do.In reality, having a healthy lifestyle is a gradual process of integrating healthy habits into your daily life a little bit at a time. Deciding where to start to make a change can sometimes be the hardest, most overwhelming part.

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“Welcome to Menopause. Deal with it.”

“Welcome to Menopause. Deal with it.”

I was sitting in my doctor’s office, looking for advice and information about a series of telltale symptoms that had really started to bother me. My libido had started going way down, even though I had always thought of myself as a highly sexual person, and suddenly I wasn’t as interested in sex with my partner as I was before.

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9 ways busy people find time to work out

9 ways busy people find time to work out

Do you ever get so busy that you feel like you can’t fit your workouts into your schedule? Has this happened for days or weeks on end? I hear people say all the time that they are too busy to work out. I can relate. Although I’m always at the gym, I am there to help others, so even I have to purposely plan to workout.

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How to lose weight for good by saying three magic words

How to lose weight for good by saying three magic words

How often do you say, “I love you” to yourself? If you’re like most people, probably not that often, or maybe never.  You may not think this is having much of an impact on your life, or your weight, but it is.  At the risk of sounding cliché, this is a reminder that self-love is so important!

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The Gesture that Has Changed My Life

The Gesture that Has Changed My Life

Giving thanks is the most incredible gesture in the world.  It goes beyond just saying the words “thank you.”  It is truly and genuinely feeling gratitude in your heart for who you are, where you are, and what you have right now.  I think about what I am grateful for all the time but I haven’t always had that practice.

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Changing Habits: How to Turn Wellness Into a Lifestyle

Changing Habits: How to Turn Wellness Into a Lifestyle

Is this something you struggle with?Have you ever caught yourself trying to get rid of negative habits just by fighting them off? You know, when you find yourself tempted my something that isn’t in our weight loss meal plan, do you just get angry and try to “shout” the craving away?

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