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April 24, 2025
Stop Dieting and Start Eating Healthy
What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think about healthy eating? All the unhealthy foods you’ll have to give up? There’s a huge difference between healthy eating and dieting. Dieting is limiting. It focuses too much on restricting what you can eat instead of enjoying good food. Plus, most fad diets have a specific set of rules that categorize foods as either good or bad. Dieting tends to focus way too much on weight loss; you need to keep losing pounds in order to feel motivated. As soon as you reach your goal weight or your weight plateaus, your motivation fades. It’s no surprise that two-thirds of people who diet end up splurging on “bad foods” when they stop dieting, regaining most, if not all, of the weight they had lost. Healthy eating, on the other hand, is very liberating. Almost ALL foods can fit into a healthy diet, so you don’t have to stick to a limited selection of “good foods” or completely avoid “bad foods.” Healthy eating encourages you to make small incremental changes over time instead of one big change like most fad diets recommend. Your diet changes constantly depending on what your needs are at any given time. Transitioning from Dieting to Healthy Eating Lifelong healthy behaviors are not motivated solely by weight loss. You have to genuinely want to live a healthier life. Weight loss can still be a factor but it isn’t the only reason why you’re changing your lifestyle. Focus…
15 Trusted Tips To Help You Lose Weight And Get Fit!
According to a poll by Forbes, the top 2024 New Year’s resolutions are improved fitness, finances, mental health, weight, and diet. Health and fitness are always at the top of the list. Gyms will be overcrowded the first two or three weeks of January, and every crazy fad will be tried, from detox diets to…
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How To End 2023 To Unlock Your Best Life in 2024!
Clean slates and fresh starts inspire us to dream. Each New Year, we imagine the kind of life that might be ours. The promise of change fills us with hope as we get excited about the possibilities. People promise themselves that this is the year everything changes: out with the old and in with the…
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Burdened Or Blessed This Christmas?
We put a lot of stress on ourselves to create the perfect Christmas and make special memories that no one will ever forget. The holiday season feels magical, with sights, smells, and sounds that fill us with wonder and delight. But you don’t have to have the perfect Christmas for it to be a blessing….
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Make Christmas Merrier For These People, Too!
There’s just something special about the Christmas season that ignites people with a sense of wonder and excitement. It’s the perfect time to spread goodwill and generosity, especially to those who routinely make our lives a little bit easier, better, and brighter. Among the people at the top of our gift-giving list, besides our loved…
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How To Deal With Grinchy People This Christmas
You can learn a lot from rude people. And with the Christmas season upon us, class is in session. The holidays bring out the best or the worst behavior in people. It can happen to the best of us. You can be an angel one minute and a Grinch the next, especially if someone steals…
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Making The Holidays Happy
The holiday songs we hear on the radio and store speakers as we shop say this is the most wonderful time of the year, the happiest season of all. And, for many people, it is! The Wonderland Escape Just look at all the colorful decorations that delight our senses and delicious food that reminds us…
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Unlock Your Best Life With Gratitude
A truly grateful person counts their blessings, not their burdens. Gratitude is a powerful emotion that fills our soul with a deep appreciation for what matters most. It’s a superpower that sets the tone for our day, fuels goodwill, creates opportunities, frames our expectations, and guides our actions. Furthermore, it reminds us that the most…
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Use Criticism To Your Advantage
Norman Vincent Peale said, “The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.” How often do we seek praise over criticism? While no one likes being criticized, a critique can be a gift, depending on how you see it and what you do with it. …
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Motivation Brew
What comes first, motivation and then action, or action and then motivation? And what is motivation, anyway? Here’s one definition, “The reason or reasons one has for acting or behaving in a particular way.” Motivation is the driving force behind our actions. Motivation is that powerful, internal force that drives you to live your life in a…
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Six Habits To Feel Happier And More Fulfilled
On the surface, life appears to be a combination of your thoughts, beliefs, behaviors, and actions, where even the littlest and seemingly insignificant things can make huge impacts, triggering lasting effects. On a deeper level, your beliefs, behaviors, thoughts, and actions are a product of your identity, which we’ll leave for another time. There’s an…
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Why Walking Is Amazing!
Hippocrates said, “If you are in a bad mood, go for a walk. If you are still in a bad mood, go for another walk.” There are so many great reasons for adding walking to your routine. Besides being enjoyable and relaxing, it’s good for your overall well-being. Here are some of the incredible benefits…
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5 Self-Reflection Questions We Should Ask That Most People Avoid
Perhaps you’ve heard these famous words of Socrates, “The unexamined life isn’t worth living.” Whether you agree with Socrates or not, a superficial life is weak, unfulfilling, and filled with stuff that don’t matter in the end, not to mention that it keeps you from being what you were born to become. We should set…
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