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posted by on Cooked Recipes

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This delicious recipe for pesto vegetables was a huge hit here at home and so I am going to share it with you. While the dish is primarily vegetables, 80 to 90 % vegetables, the black beans and brown rice provide a dense, filling, satiating feel so after you eat you feel energized from the vegetables yet still completely full and satisfied. || Read more

posted by on Daily Workouts - 10-15 minutes

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This at home workout is an all bodyweight workout and all you need is yourself and a timer. It doesn’t take much room is done in bout 15 minutes. This upper body workout will work your whole body as well with lots of all over body toning exercises. Dynamic jumping, rolling type exercises are great to boost the metabolism, strengthen and tighten the full body as well as give you functional strength, || Read more

posted by on Diet & Lifestyle

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I love To Do lists and make them almost every day. I can definitely say that on the days when I am being most productive, I am following a To Do list. There are many benefits of To Do lists, from helping you prioritize your time to helping you remember what it is you meant to do! For me, to do lists are absolutely invaluable. It’s a very simple strategy that works great!  || Read more

posted by on Natural Healthy Therapies

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Affirmations are powerful positive words and statements that repeated over time, can change your perceptions and empower you to make more positive choices and decisions in your life. Our words are powerful and affect our daily life more than most of us realize. || Read more

posted by on Art, Home & Mom

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We are celebrating Mom’s birthday over here and have a full on busy day planned. My brother is on his way to pick up Emily, my 11 year old niece, who’s been with me for 5 weeks! It’s been a lot of work keeping up with her but I did it 😉 All that training paid off!  || Read more

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Our crazy garden has gone wild and admittedly, I could use a little more expertise in this area. Mom is more of the vegetable gardener in the family. I stuck more to flowers in my previous gardening experiences, only dabbling in vegetables for a few summers when my kids were young. I even made bean vine-covered teepees for them, which were really quite awesome! But anyway, I have tried to carry on with mom’s garden as best as I can. I will admit, however, that I could use a little help! I’ll share some photos of our awesome but crazy garden below. || Read more

posted by on Intensive Training Workouts - over 15 minutes

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This new Ugi workout is great for shaping the legs and tightening and firming the butt with great Ugi leg and glute exercises. The Ugi pank butt blaster exercise looks innocent, but it is tough, and you will feel your glute muscles building afterwards. This HIIT workout is made up of 16 minutes of intervals which balance and alternate different core tightening, butt blasting leg exercises to give you great shapely legs.  || Read more