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Raise your green smoothie, Happy St. Patrick’s Day

March 17, 2010 By 16 Comments

It’s all about green today,

Raise your green smoothie.  Cheers!

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I had a green smoothie (green monster smoothie) this morning and it was so much better than any of the ones I have made in the past and it was a pretty green color too not like my first one (you can read about my 1st green smoothie).  Looked nice next to my freshly painted green nails ha ha

In today’s smoothie went 1/2 cup of original almond milk, 1/2 cup of vanilla almond milk (I planned to use 1 cup of original but I ran out), 1/2 banana, 1 scoop vanilla whey protein powder, 2 cups of spinach and about 5 ice cubes (my smoothies have to be EXTRA cold). It was so tasty, I can’t wait to have another.

Everyone makes their green smoothies differently so here are a few that you might be interested in reading about.

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Push it, push it good!

March 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment

Do you remember the song Push It by Salt N Pepa?  The title just popped in my head so I rolled with it LOL  Here are my workouts for this week!  I pushed it this week!

I know that I want to boost it up a notch and try to start working out twice a day a few days a week but we’ll see how that goes with this running.  I actually accomplished my goal of doing 50 stability ball crunches every day.  I’m thinking I want to boost that up to 100 starting next week, we’ll see!  So here are my workouts for the week.

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Pre Workout Meals

March 12, 2010 By 4 Comments

Happy Friday!  It’s time for your healthy lifestyle tip brought to you by Life Fitness.

Today’s Tip:  Power through your workout with protein

While there are good and bad sugars, healthy and unhealthy fats, your body hasn’t met a protein it didn’t like. The fact is most proteins are equal in terms of their nutritional value and superior in their role as building blocks for muscle creation.

What you eat and when, has incredible influence over your exercise experience. Eat too much right before exercising and you’re likely to feel sluggish, even nauseated, because your body is competing with itself to fuel your digestive system and your workout. Skipping your pre-workout meal, on the other hand, can leave you feeling light-headed, weak and slow to react.

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Get fired up for 100 Days of Weight Loss

March 8, 2010 By 5 Comments

If you recall last week I wrote about the 100 Days of Weight Loss challenge and hope you all had the chance to download all the PDF’s and possibly get the book as well.  There is a PDF file that we’ll be looking at today.  I will just share the basics and some of my personal additions.

7 Keys to a Successful 100 Days Challenge

1)  Always move forward

Don’t think about the past, start new TODAY

2)  Do what worked before

Were you successful with weight loss in the past?  If so, share some things you did that worked before and be specific.

For me it was portion control, exercising more and eating out less.  I am thinking about starting a food journal again and I would like to choose one more unhealthy thing to give up.  In the past I gave up soda and Oreos. What’s next? hmmmm

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Healthy once again

March 7, 2010 By 6 Comments

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Just wanted to do a quick check in and say I am healthy once again and back to working out! I’m so excited.  Today was the 1st day back to the gym in 3 weeks and it was nice.  Went to spin class and burned a wonderful 654 calories in 1 hr. 5 min. Last night I had what felt like a pulled muscle in my back doing dishes and I was so bummed.  I did not want to miss spin so when I woke up this morning and was in total pain we whipped out the heating pad and I slept on that for about an hour and we were off to the gym.  I did good and although it still hurts a bit I am going back tomorrow to start running again. YEA!

Will keep ya’ll updated on how the week goes.  It’s been a crazy week with traveling back and forth to downtown Chicago for doc visits with my stepdaughter.  She flew back home this weekend and posting might be intermittent for the next few weeks as she will fly back in town for more doc visits, procedures and surgery.  It will be busy and I’ll most likely be traveling to and from the city quite a bit.  If you are so inclined, please do keep her in  your prayers! It would be much appreciated.

How did your workouts go this past week?

P.S. Be sure to drop by my Facebook fan page and connect with others who want to live a healthier lifestyle!
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Nutrition Websites & National Nutrition Month

March 5, 2010 By 7 Comments

I'm Blogging National Nutrition Month

March is National Nutrition Month and the 2010 theme is “Nutrition From The Ground Up”.

National Nutrition Month® is a nutrition education and information campaign created annually in March by the American Dietetic Association. The campaign focuses attention on the importance of making informed food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. Registered Dietitian Day, also celebrated in March, increases awareness of registered dietitians as the indispensable providers of food and nutrition services and recognizes RDs for their commitment to helping people enjoy healthy lives.  source

Today’s tip: Choose one thing you will change this month when it comes to better nutrition for yourself

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