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20. Canadian. pescetarian. lover of green tea. compulsive nail-bitter. I have both psoriasis and eczema, and I am currently trying to get rid of them with oil pulling, as opposed to the steroids and medicated creams/shampoos that I have used all my life. this is a body positive blog after years of dealing with food and weight issues. my ultimate goal is to just be healthier and feel comfortable in my own skin. Healthy-living related books, blogs, and documentaries I love: Courtney Swan Taralynn McNitt Sharee Hansen You Are What You Eat By Dr. Gillian McKeith Juicing, Fasting, and Detoxing For Life By Cherie Calbom Big Book Of Juices and Green Smoothies By Cherie Calbom Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead Food Inc. Food Matters

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Food Diary: 24 March 2014 (Day 17)

Breakfast:

1 Activia greek yogurt w/ 1/4 cup of Pumpkin-Flax Granola

1 kiwi

Lunch: 

Green Juice (apple, 1/2 lemon, cucumber, celery, parsley, kale, spinach, and blueberries) 

Snack:

pumpkin seed melba toast w/ homemade hummus

Dinner:

1 small sweet potato, cut up and oven roasted w/ olive oil and spices

red pepper, onion, mushrooms, bean sprouts, and veggie meat crumble, sautéed in coconut oil 

Dessert:

1 cinnamon roll with icing.. I haven't eaten dessert in 17 days, but my mom made cinnamon rolls to take with her to her friend's place tomorrow and honestly, they just smelt too good not to eat, lol. They only had 160 cal., so I didn't feel that horrible about it. 

Exercise: 30+ minutes of walking with Jasey 🐶 + 30 mins of blogilates

Water: 7/8 cups

Total Calories: 1004, Carbs: 147, Fat: 25, Protein: 52

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Pillars of a Nutritious Life | by Livestrong Woman

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5 best exercises to flatten your lower abs.

Full length workout video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z7u_sdYNS_k&list=UUIJwWYOfsCfz6PjxbONYXSg

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Tabata - The 4-Minute Fat-Burning Miracle Workout. Doing as little as 4 minutes (or one “Tabata”) can help you burn more fat than a traditional 60-minute aerobic workout. That’s right—4 minutes of Tabata can get you better fitness gains than an entire hour of running on the treadmill. The trick to getting all these benefits is the level of intensity. To do a Tabata, all you have to do is pick a cardio activity such as running, jumping rope, or biking and go as hard as you can for 20 seconds.Follow that with 10 seconds of rest and repeat seven more times. And when I say “as hard as you can go,” I mean 100-percent maximal intensity. By the end of the 4 minutes you should feel like you’re going to die.

Charlotte Hilton Andersen, Shape.Com

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Food Diary: 23 March 2014 (Day 16)

Breakfast:

2 Whole Wheat Blueberry Pancakes

1/2 cup of fresh strawberries

1 tbsp of honey

1 cup of coffee

Snack: 

1 Kind Plus, Almond Cashew w/ Flax & Omega-3

Lunch: 

nothing, oooooppppsssss.

Snack:

about 1/2 cup of "homemade" trail mix 

Dinner:

Vegetarian Stir-Fry  

Exercise: 30+ minutes of walking with Jasey 🐶 + over 6 hours at work

Water: 6/8 cups

Total Calories: 1049, Carbs: 137, Fat: 38, Protein: 47

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I just ate the biggest dinner ever..

because I didn't have a break at work today, so I didn't eat lunch. It was all "healthy", but I was just so hungry and couldn't stop adding more veggies to my stir-fry.

Vegetarian Stir-fry (in coconut oil)

3/4 cup of Asian style frozen vegetables

1/2 cup of fresh chopped veggies (bell peppers, onions, mushrooms)

1 cup of bean sprouts

65g of Chinese noodles

1 Yves Veggie Chicken Burger, cut up

1 tbsp of low sodium soya sauce

1 clove of roasted garlic

fresh cracked pepper

about a tbsp or more of Hemp Seeds

460 cal., 56g carbs, 12g fat, 30g protein

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Sunday Morning: Whole Wheat Blueberry Pancakes!

All I wanted when I woke up this morning was pancakes. We have a box of processed pancake mix in our pantry, but I knew that wasn't gonna be overly healthy, so I decided to make my own. 

1 1/4 cups of whole wheat flour

2 tsp baking powder

1/4 cup of egg substitute (or 1 egg)

1 cup 2% milk (or milk substitute)

1/2 tsp salt

1 tsp sugar (or stevia, etc)

1/2 cup blueberries (opional, but it makes them delicious)

Start by mixing your flour and baking powder together, then set aside. Beat together your egg, milk, salt, and sugar in a large bowl (big enough for the flour to be added, in addition to your wet ingredients). Stir in flour until mixed well, then add blueberries. Preheat your pan over medium heat, spray or oil the bottom, then pour about a 1/4 cup of batter for each pancake. Cook until bubbly, then turn and continue cooking until the outsides are golden brown. The batter will make 10 pancakes and you can freeze the leftovers and reheat in the toaster to enjoy at a later date. 

If you use protein powder, this would be a perfect recipe to incorporate it into. I topped my pancakes with some fresh cut strawberries and about a tbsp of honey instead of carb-heavy maple syrup. The fresh fruit makes them sweet enough to eat on their own. 

81 cal., 16g carbs, 1g fat, 4g protein /per pancake

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