2023

7 Tips To Eating Healthier – It Can Be Very Tasty!

How to eat healthier… and LOVE it. We all know that eating those double cheeseburgers and fries is what we live for… NOT! Do you really know what that junk food is doing to your body? Okay, I won’t go into that because I’ll gross myself out! But, I can say that eating healthier, even during the holidays, is important for us to stay on track, to be healthier, and to just plain feel better!

Eating healthy doesn’t have to mean spending tons of money on organic foods, sacrificing our favorite foods, or even sacrificing taste. As a matter of fact, I believe that eating healthy tastes WAY better than eating the junk food, and my whole family agrees (yes, that includes my 5 kids!). Here are some tips on how to eat healthy:

Drink homemade fruit and veggie smoothies instead of having to eat several pieces of fruit a day. By putting a couple different types of fruits and vegetables, some juice, and a little bit of ice into a blender you can create a delicious smoothie without the expensive juicers. If you put two pieces of fruit and two pieces of vegetables into the blender (and you drink it all), then you’ve just consumed four servings for the day. I personally don’t like to add sweetener. I think that it’s sweet enough from the natural sugar in the fruit.

Put LOTS of things on your salad, like croutons, colorful bell peppers, carrots, cucumbers, chicken, fish, cheese, seasonings, etc. Just because it’s a salad doesn’t mean that it has to be bland. Dress it up! I love a good salad with everything in it. It tastes so good, it fills me up, but it doesn’t weigh me down.

Substitute hamburger with ground turkey meat. This is a healthier option for everyone, and tastes the same!

Eat several times a day. This doesn’t mean that you should eat several full meals a day. Instead, smaller portions and snacks throughout the day. Preparing these snacks ahead of time will help you want to take them with you to work, school, or wherever your day takes you. Then, when you get hungry you don’t have to stop at a fast food place because you already have snacks right in front of you!

Choose healthier snack and meal choices. Instead of grabbing that candy bar for a snack (which will just give you a temporary sugar high before you crash), grab a small handful of wheat crackers, dried fruit bar, or a handful of peanuts. Instead of grabbing that hamburger for lunch, instead opt for a healthy salad that is filling and will help give you a lot more energy!

Find stores in your area that offer lower-cost choices for healthy foods. Do you have a Sprouts or other low-cost health food store near you? Even some items at Trader Joe’s are lower cost than the regular grocery store. Check out the …

Body Confidence 101

Do you know what to do to take care of yourself? Do you try look and feel your best at all times? Do you watch what goes into your mouth?

A lot of girls find it hard to take of themselves so that they could be happy and healthy. They don’t feel in charge of their bodies and this can be a recipe for disaster when it comes to developing self-esteem and self-confidence.

No matter what has happened to you in your life up to this point, your body still belongs to you 100 percent of the time. This means that your choices about your body have to be totally yours as well. Treating your body well is never a part-time job: It is a lifelong pursuit. Here are a few tips on how to take care of your body.

1. Don’t think negatively about your body. Your body image is how you see yourself in the mirror, picture yourself in your mind, or talk about yourself about your body. When you have a negative body image you see yourself inaccurately by bashing your body. This is a widespread problem for girls. Body confidence shows in how you carry yourself that is how you walk, talk, and present yourself to the world. Think about the amazing things that your body can do and compliment your unique assets. This type of positive self-talk can help you to make respectful choices about your body.

2. Take a lot of care with how you look and how you dress. The way you dress and make up your face or even pierce yourself can all be reflections of who you are who you’re trying to be. Sometimes, you make statements by how you dress that doesn’t reflect your inner beauty. Make sure that your style is uniquely your own and not something that is portrayed through the media. Your look should be all about your personality and what makes you feel good about yourself.

3. Feed your body healthy food. You need to eat healthy foods packed with vitamins and minerals to nourish your body and fee great. Some girls truly enjoy food without guilt and know how to make smart food choices. Others develop a messed-up relationship with food, starving themselves or going on exercise binges because someone called them ‘chubby’.

4. Get moving every day. Take a look at the choices that you’re making about physical activity. Do you get enough exercise? Maybe you stay glued to the couch instead of going for a walk. Or maybe when you exercise you act as if you’re training for the Olympics. When exercise is taken too far or you don’t get enough, you can do serious long-term damage to your body.

So, take care of your body as much as possible. By taking care of your body, you will gaining a lot of body confidence and self-confidence as well. And life as an adolescent is much better if you have confidence.…

5 Best Exercise Workouts To Help You Trim Your Waist Line

According to the American Council on Exercise (ACE), there are 5 exercises that are guaranteed to give you maximal results on your abdominal and other core body muscles if you can add them to your workout regularly.

If you can make use of these exercises, you will be able to develop a flat stomach and reduced waist line after some few months.

Here are these five top exercises that you can engage in:

1-The bicycle manoeuvre

Follow these steps to carry out this manoeuvre:

-Lie on your back

-Place your hands behind your head slowly

-Bend your left knee while you slightly twist your upper body till your left knee touches your right elbow

-Slowly release your body from this posture

-Repeat this movement on your right knee till it touches your left elbow and then slowly release your body from this posture

-Repeat these routines at least 12 times within one set and try to carry out three sets of these routines.

2-Crunches on exercise ball exercise

This exercise engages your core muscles to help you to stabilise your entire muscle groups.

You should follow these steps to carry out this exercise:

-Lie on the exercise ball with your mid back

-Place your hands behind your head with your elbows sticking out

-Hold your legs out in a sitting like position to help you stabilise on the ball.

-Slowly raise your upper body up and hold your upper body in this position for about 3 seconds.

-After these three seconds slowly release your body back to your starting position.

-Repeat this routine about 12 times at a time and try to carry out 3 sets of 12 repetitions of this routine.

3-The vertical leg crunch exercise

Follow these steps to carry out this routine

-Lie down on your back and extend your legs towards the ceiling

-Place your hands behind your head

-Lift up your upper body off the floor and hold it in that position for about 15 seconds

-Slowly lower your body back to your starting position

-Repeat this routine at least 12 times and try to carry out 2 to 3 sets; you can increase the number of repetitions to 15 times in one set as you become stronger.

4-The torso track exercise

You will need to buy an abdominal wheel from a good fitness store to carry out this exercise. Once you buy this abdominal wheel you can follow these steps to carry out this exercise:

-Grasp the handles of the wheel and position your knees on the floor

-Roll out the wheel as you extend your body

-After extending your body fully with this wheel you should then slowly bring back your body to your starting position. This simple exercise works on all your core muscles.

-You can carry out 8 to 12 repetitions of this exercise during one set when you start out and you can then increase the number of repetitions …