Posts tagged healthy life
The Ninja CREAMI Craze (You’ll Scream for This Ice Cream)

I love ice cream – so dessert is an easy choice – but it makes my healthy lifestyle challenging. Working more than a spoonful of my beloved Blue Bell into my diet is tough.

My search ended when I got a Ninja CREAMI Deluxe for my award-winning performance as Nurse Ratched during Henry’s hip replacement.

The are enough flavors included to fill the two containers included with the Ninja CREAMI Deluxe and the set of four I recommended above.

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The Process of Progress (There Are No Overnight Sensations)

Life teaches us the hard lesson that progress only comes from following the process. Most of the time, it comes with a demonstration of the consequences of ignoring it. But it’s the process that will take us past any destination we can imagine.

Focus on it to the exclusion of everything else and you’ll automatically accomplish what you set out to do.

Focus on the process and progress is guaranteed.

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Get More Protein (Better Results, More Muscle, Less Fat)

If you’re trying to lose weight, eating more protein is often the difference between success and failure.

Studies have shown that increased protein intake makes fat loss more effective, it prevents muscle loss and, under the right conditions, it can even lead to an increase in lean mass.

Fortunately, losing weight and getting enough protein go hand in hand.

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The Clean Eating Myth (It’s Actually How Much)

Eating “clean” is a solid foundation for a healthy diet but it misses the most important component in improving your health.

Losing weight will make you heathier whether you’re eating “clean” or not. The vast majority of health issues facing Americans are from being overweight, not from the type of food they’re eating.

There’s a reason we’re told to “maintain a healthy weight.”

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Life’s Too Short (To Live It Like a Junk Rep)

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust, diapers to diapers…

We get one chance at living each moment of our lives and we should make the most of every second because once they tick away, as “Verbal” Kint said about Keyser Soze, “And, like that, poof, (it’s) gone.”

No matter what it is, do everything you do as if it’s the last thing you’ll do on this earth because it just might be. No matter where you are, walk in and smile at the people you see because it might make someone’s day. Treat a total stranger as if they’re the most important person you’ve seen because it might be just what they need to keep shuffling along in this tough old world.

Years ago, Muhammad Ali told us, “Live every day as if it’s your last because one day you’ll be right.”

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