Tag: nutrition

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  Oh say, can you see beyond the scale?

  Blogging, fitness

  body, diet, encouragement, exercise, fitness, health, motivation, movies, muscle, nutrition, philosophy, weight loss, workout

  Nothing helps change my perspective like a visual. As you can see from the above photo, 5 lbs of fat may be equal to 5 lbs of muscle in weight, but it’s clearly not equal in volume. Just one more valid encouragement not to live by the number on a bathroom scale. I’ve needed this…

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  What if your no was a yes?

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  baking, diet, fitness, food, health, inspiration, nutrition, philosophy, psychology, recipes, weight loss

    “What you resist, persists.” -Carl Jung Or as Eckhart Tolle adds to this Jung quote:  “Whatever you fight, you strengthen and what you resist, persists.” Why? Because you are expending energy on whatever it is you are resisting. In fighting it, you are thinking about and considering it, and giving energy to its creation. If thoughts equal…

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  Rerouting…

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  aging, diet, education, fitness, food, health, mindfulness, nutrition, spirit

  Back in my serial-dieting-disordered-eating days, I sometimes turned to a minimal food, 4 day crash diet. The particulars and name of the diet aren’t important, but I will say that canned green beans and a small hamburger patty never tasted so good. As I became more educated in nutrition and fitness, I viewed the thought of any…