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Sake Marinated Steak

What’s better than a salt n’ pepper grilled steak? A Sake Marinated Grilled Steak! The complex flavors contributed by this Sake Marinade combine to create a steak experience that you’ll want to repeat. Sake flavored marinades often go hand-in-hand with soy and sugar,...

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BBQ Chicken En Papillote

​This quick and easy recipe combines chicken, sweet potato, butter beans, green beans and tangy BBQ sauce. It’s simple, the meat turns out tender, and there’s virtually no clean up!Be sure to slice the sweet potato very thin, as you want it to be tender at the end of...

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Healthy Eating Chain

If you’re struggling with your diet then get a healthy eating chain going. Use a different colored pen than your exercise chain. Make a big X on every calendar day that you successfully stick with your healthy eating plan. You’ve got this! Start with the recipe...

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Jerry Seinfeld’s magical fitness tip

Do you ever struggle with sticking to your exercise and diet routine? One skipped workout leads to another, and another, and another. Then, before you know it, your fitness progress grinds to a halt. This frustrating cycle is all too common. Many of my clients have...

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Creamy Chocolate Pudding

As you work towards your fitness goals, finding desserts that are low in natural sugars will facilitate your results. It will take some time for your taste buds to adjust from enjoying intense, refined sugars to appreciating the subtly and delight of natural,...

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Honey Mustard Salmon & Kale

​Here’s a new fitness dinner to add into your meal rotation. It’s quick and easy enough to make on a busy weeknight, and leftovers are wonderful packed for small meals the next day.Courtesy of RealHealthyRecipes.com Servings: 4 Here’s what you need ¼ cup grainy Dijon...

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I’m the sort of person who…

Enjoys exercise! Loves healthy food! Takes care of myself! If you are the sort of person who enjoys regular, challenging exercise then contact me today to get started on my best program! I’m here to help make 2018 your transformation year.

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The Snap-Back Effect

According to popular statistics, only 8% of New Year’s Resolutions are successfully kept. This means that 92% of us that are brave enough to set out for self-improvement will fail. Those aren’t very good odds. Thankfully there is science that explains this curious...

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Ham and Chive Egg Muffins

Breakfast is arguably the most important meal of the day. Not only does this first meal break the fast that your body has been in overnight, it is your first opportunity to influence how the rest of your eating for the day will go. If you choose to eat a sugar-fueled...

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Easy Breakfast Skillet

​There are endless combinations of flavors and ingredients that you could put into a savory breakfast skillet, so don’t feel that you must follow my suggestions below. Use your favorite breakfast meat, veggies, spices and herbs to create a breakfast skillet that is...

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What’s more important to you than excuses?

Maybe… Your relationship Your health The example that you’re setting for your kids Your quality of life How you look in photographs How you feel about yourself I can’t magically know what your personal incentive is. It’s up to you to find that, so do some digging....

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This ever happen to you?

You realize that you want to lose the weight and to get into phenomenal shape. You believe that your health is important to you, and that you want to improve the quality of your life through diet and exercise. You feel that this time it will be different, that this...

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Breakfast Salad with Poached Egg

It’s all too easy to start your day with a sugar-filled breakfast. From pastries to cereals, many traditional breakfast foods are loaded with refined sugar and carbs that set you up for a day of unhealthy eating, sugar crashes and cravings for more sugar. This...

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Classic Chicken Soup

​Not feeling creative? No need to make up your own fitness soup recipe, I’ve got the perfect one for you here. Enjoy this lightened version of classic chicken soup with a leafy, green salad. Courtesy of RealHealthyRecipes.com Servings: 6 Here’s what you need 3 lbs...

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Don’t Add These Ingredients

While making a light, fiber and protein packed soup is quite possible, as outline above, it’s also possible to create a soup that is high in calories, carbs, and unhealthy fats. Here are the ingredients to NOT add to your soup, in order to stay on track with your fat...

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Make a bowl of fitness soup

During cold winter months, soup is quite possibly the perfect dinner. It’s comforting, simple, and easily modified to fit your taste and the contents of your fridge. Making soup from scratch is simple and easy, once you know how to do it. What’s also great about...

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Guilt-Free Chocolate Treat

Most of the time chocolate treats are filled with refined sugars that will slow your fitness results. Well, today I have a recipe that uses zero-sugar, stevia-sweetned chocolate that will make both your sweet tooth and your waistline very happy. This zero sugar treat...

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Think Positive and Get Fit

Your mindset plays a big role when it comes to getting and staying fit. In the same way that an app on your phone is limited by the functions that have been programmed into it, your body is limited by the messages sent by your mind. If you have the goal of changing...

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