 Keeping up with fitness and clean, healthy eating can be a challenge. Striving to limit carbs and calories and boredom with limited options can cause people to get tired of the same old foods and lead them back to unhealthy habits. It is important to incorporate variety and change in our diets to make sure we don’t become stagnant. Our bodies may prefer healthy eating, but they also crave variety and flavor. Replacing ingredients with healthier options is an easy, simple way to do this. Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. The kind of breakfast you consume will have a significant impact on your activities throughout the day. To function at your best, your breakfast should be healthy and rich in protein. Healthy breakfast choices do a lot to keep the cravings for carbs and extra calories at bay. Here are some easy healthy breakfast choices: 1. Eggs and vegetables cooked in coconut oil is a great breakfast and it will keep you full for a long time. Fry the eggs to your desired consistency, toss the vegetables in to sauté for just a minute, add some seasoning, and enjoy. 2. Skillet-baked eggs with spinach and yogurt is a great, easy-to-make breakfast that is full of nutrients to kick-start your day. Baking is a fantastic way to cook meals because you do not introduce any additional oils or fats. Pre-heat the oven to 300°F. Combine yogurt, garlic and a pinch of salt in a bowl and set aside. Melt a little coconut oil in a skillet over low heat. Add spinach, leek, scallion, lemon juice, and salt and sauté occasionally stirring. Remove skillet from the heat and crack several eggs into the veggie mixture, keeping yolks intact as much as possible. Bake for 10-15 minutes and top with yogurt mixture before serving. 3. Who doesn’t love a creamy shake? But who really loves all those carbs and calories? This avocado green tea shake is your perfect solution. It is rich and creamy and very easy to make. Whisk together 1 teaspoon of matcha powder and 1 tablespoon of hot water and set to the side. In a blender, combine half of an avocado, a ½ cup of Greek yogurt, 1 ¼ cups of almond milk, protein powder and a sweetener like honey, agave, or stevia. Blend together, add the tea mixture and serve! 4. We get fed up with eating eggs every time we are on a diet, these low-carbs pancakes will be your new go-to favorite breakfast. All you need is 2 oz cream cheese, 2 eggs, 1 tsp granulated sugar substitute and ½ tsp cinnamon, blend this all together, let the mixture rest for the air bubbles to escape, cook the mixture on a pan on medium heat for 2 minutes each side and you are done. Tasty and healthy pancakes every time. 5. Chia pudding is another easy to make breakfast. In a bowl or mason jar, combine ¼ cup chia seeds, 1 cup non-dairy milk, and ½ tablespoon of honey. Mix well and refrigerate overnight, until the seeds have become jelly-like in texture and the pudding has thickened. Top with your choice of fruit.
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Essential oils can play a huge part in all of this. The Health care industry as we know it, also, modern medicine. It is made from isolated synthetic agents, designed to manager symptoms, and has many side effects. Today, $4.5 trillion is spent on Global Health care every year. I am sure you agree that $4.5 trillion could be spent on many other things. With that amount of money, we could:
After spending all this money, Are we any healthier? A better, healthier way is to learn about Essential Oils. Essential oils have so many uses. So, I am just going to focus on a few at first. But first……. WHAT ARE ESSENTIAL OILS Essential oils are naturally occurring, volatile aromatic compounds are found in the seeds, bark, stems, roots, flowers, and other parts of plants. They can be both beautifully and powerfully fragrant. In addition to giving plants their distinctive smells, essential oils protect plants and play a role in plant pollination. In addition to their intrinsic benefits to plants and being beautifully fragrant to people, essential oils have long been used for food preparation, beauty treatment, and health care practices HOW DO WE USE THEM? 1. Topical
3. Internally
If we are going to use essential oils on our skin, or internally, really even in a diffuser, we also need to understand what to look for in an oil. Many oils are diluted with synthetic compounds so that they are less expensive. And extracting oils from plants can be done in different ways. So, it’s important to know what you are getting in an oil. Do not look for the least expensive because most likely it is not pure. Read the ingredients. Not all oils are created equally. So, today I am only going to focus on a few oils. Essential oils are naturally occurring, volatile aromatic compounds are found in the seeds, bark, stems, roots, flowers, and other parts of plants. They can be both beautifully and powerfully fragrant. In addition to giving plants their distinctive smells, essential oils protect plants and play a role in plant pollination. In addition to their intrinsic benefits to plants and being beautifully fragrant to people, essential oils have long been used for food preparation, beauty treatment, and health care practices When the body is stressed, the body cannot properly detox or function. Stress raises cortisol and insulin levels resulting in blood sugar imbalances, hormonal issues, weight gain and toxicity. Stress is the biggest toxin in this world. When you stress, your gut lining gets inflamed. 80% of your immune system is located in your gut. Learning simple tools to de-stress in this world is essential for even fighting off the common cold On Guard
Lavender
Why is Lavender important, because as I mentioned, stress can make us sick. It is important to have something that helps keep our stress level down, and also something natural that can help us have a good night sleep, rather than maybe using some of the things from the drug store. Frankicense
Frankincense is really an anti-inflammatory. Inflammation is what causes us to be sick. Inflammation through out our body that we can’t even see is the root of illness, so diffusing frankincense, or putting it on the bottoms of your feet can really do wonders. If you would like more information on essential oils, you can contact me @ Theresathmc@aol.com Visit my website @ Theresashealth.com Join my meetup group @ https://www.meetup.com/North-Attleboro-Wellness-Meetup Or visit me on Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/TheresasHealthAndWellness/  So, my goal here is to help people understand health, weightloss, and healthy aging. I just hate it when we are deceived by advertising, and wording on boxes trying to make us believe that their product is healthy. Why do they do it? I mean, I know it is for sales, but wouldn't it be just as easy to use ingredients that weren't slowly killing us, rather than lying about it. Anyway, I feel like everyone is telling us something different. Some things are true, but which is true, and which are half truths, and which are just completely wrong? For example, Fiber One: They advertise that we need more fiber, and that they have so much fiber in their snacks, just a healthier snack, with not too many calories, and a percentage of daily fiber........supposedly healthy............, except they use High Fructose Corn Syrup, one of the worst things you can put in your body. This is why people are confused. They are doing what they think is right, based on what they hear or read, but they are still not losing weight, or they have just been diagnosed with diabetes. That is why I went to school. I knew something just wasn't right, and wanted to know what I was doing wrong. And that is what I want to help others to understand. The most important thing is to read the ingredients, understand what you are eating. Try not to eat things with preservatives, chemicals, and ingredients that you can''t pronounce, or don't know what they are. Stay tuned for more helpful nutrition and product hints. if you want to schedule a free consultation, go to the Contact me tab. Also, I just started a meetup group for those who would like to learn more about essential oils, so if you are interested https://www.meetup.com/North-Attleboro-Wellness-Meetup/
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