Healthy Habits - Fitness and Weightloss

For years I started my day with coffee, and a few yours later toast. I could never understand why I always got tired fairly early in the day. As I learned more about healthy eating, I switched up breakfast for something much healthier.

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One of the best ways that I know to add nutrition to a meal, snack or smoothie is by grinding seeds.

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Sometimes eating too much of the same thing too often is not a good thing, but for me and breakfast, it seems that I have found my power up menu.
I am quite happy to eat yogurt, canned peaches sprinkled with either some kind of trail mix, pumpkin seeds, almonds - anything like that (I used […]

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You might wonder why the act of detaching sensory satisfaction from a food will make it easier to resist.
Apart from the obvious, we want it for the sensory pleasure that it gives us, even if we don’t even pay attention half the time to what we are eating (that’s a whole other story!), there is […]

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is still a butter tart. Or is it?
My daughter wanted me to buy butter tarts, which I just happen to love warmed in the microwave with ice cream.
That’s not diet food! (like I have to tell you)
By some miracle, there where two lonely butter tarts sitting in the package for 3 or 4 days and […]

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