Drink Green Tea - It Increases Your Metabolism

Drinking green tea is one of the easiest ways to rev up your metabolism. A study reported in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition found that green tea-extract increases the metabolism by 4% over a 24 hour period.

Three to five cups a day can help you burn an extra 70 calories a day, which adds up to seven pounds a year, 35 pounds for five years and 70 pounds for 10 years.

Green tea has also been shown to inhibit fat absorption—the movement of glucose into fat cells, [support healthy] glucose levels after eating a meal, prevent insulin spikes which prevents fat storage, and reduce appetite.

Think three to five cups a day seems like a lot? Replace diet soda with my recipe for “green tea soda.” Spoon instant green tea into sparkling water like Perrier or club soda and you have a refreshing, bubbly drink. It’s great to get you through the 3:00pm slump, when you otherwise might reach for a soda or sugary snack. - Rebekah Baumgardner, BodyBuilding.Com

Healthy Food And Working Out Is All It Takes

All it takes is healthy food and working out. No rushing, no starving, no pills, no silly fake gimmicks. It's possible. Quote by: Sailor-Moonn.Tumblr.com from her before and after picture post.

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Plan What You'll Eat

If you fail to plan, you plan to fail. 

Eat More Veggies

If there is a secret to weight loss it would be to 'eat more veggies', loads more (and cut down on processed foods). Veggies are high in nutrients and low in calories, plus they fill you up, and if you also include working out hard several times a week, you WILL lose weight.

Weight Loss Begins In The Grocery Store

If you keep healthy food in your home you're more likely to eat healthy.

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Eat Clean Train Mean

You Are Stronger Than You Think

If you think you'll never have the willpower to create a healthier lifestyle and achieve permanent weight loss, then STOP thinking this way because it is not true...You have the strength to do just about anything you put your mind to. 

Choose ONE SMALL GOAL that you know you can achieve, and every day, start to practice the steps that would make that goal a reality. Your goal could be to eat from a smaller plate, or to exercise for 10 minutes more every day, or instead of five cookies a day you'll eat only two. You'll know your goal is too big if you keep failing at it, in this event choose an even smaller goal and keep practicing it DAILY for a month. At the end of that month choose a new small goal and start practicing this new goal daily as well. Within a year you will have acquired 12 brand new, permanent habits that will prove you do have the strength to change to a healthier lifestyle...and of course the added bonus to this healthier lifestyle is that you would have also found the key to PERMANENT weight loss.

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Eat Clean

The Basic Principles of Eating Clean
Eating clean involves not only choosing the right foods to eat but also avoiding all of the junk foods and processed foods that are so readily available. The keys to good health and proper nutrition are in the following principles:

Eat whole foods: Whole foods are foods that haven’t been tampered with, in the lab or the manufacturing plant. The foods you eat on this plan are straight from the farm: whole fruits and vegetables, whole grains, grass-fed and free-range meats, low fat dairy products, unsalted nuts, and seeds.

Avoid processed foods: Processed foods are any food that has a label. A label means that more than one ingredient was used to make that food. You don’t have to eliminate all processed foods (like whole grain pasta or natural cheeses), but if you can’t pronounce an ingredient on a label, don’t put that food in your shopping basket.

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Eat Clean Get Lean

Eat a Salad Every Day

Buy Clean Eat Clean Stay Lean

Just Give It A Little Time

Fitness - Your body WILL change, just give it fuel, exercise...and a little time.

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It's A Process, Change Takes Time.

  Trust the process - eat clean, exercise regularly and drink plenty of water. Even though you can't see the changes on a day-to-day basis, your body is changing.

Fruit The Original Fast Food

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Eat Healthy

Pay the farmer now...or pay the doctor later.

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Eat Clean Stay Lean

You can use this picture (or just about any picture on this blog) as a desktop background. I made it in Photoshop with the help of this great YouTube tutorial.

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Is Emotional Eating Making You Overweight?

I urge you to watch this video interview with Kris Carr a nutrition expert who explains why we overeat and what we can do to stop it. There is some sound advice given here that could help kick-start the next phase of your healthier lifestyle.

Kris regularly lectures at medical schools, hospitals, wellness centers, corporations such as Whole Foods, and Harvard University. She is a Contributing Editor for Natural Health Magazine and writes for many online publications.

The Health Benefits of Apples

It seems that 'an apple a day really does keep the doctor away'!

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Eat Healthy - Eat Clean

Eat healthy - Eat clean

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100% Dedication

100% Working OUt
100% Eating Right
100% Dedication
Just Do It!

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