I have spent the last three years trying to eat healthier, to lose weight, and to get myself fitter, so imagine my horror when I got on the scales last week for the first time in several months and found that I had put on 10lbs. YES TEN POUNDS! I put a lot of this down [...]

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Good ideas for a healthy lunch in the office to save having to go out and buy fast food, which is not only unhealthy, but can cost you a small fortune over the space of a year.

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Well it had to come I suppose, I have been pushing myself all week to exercise more, and have been doing a good 2 1/4 mile walk at a fast pace every morning, with the result that I now have blisters forming on the balls of my feet. I decided to slow things down a [...]

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This week I started my new regimen of trying to get up earlier and to take a walk to wake my body up and get going, prior to showering and breakfasting, just to try and start the day off right, and ideally be more productive.   I know that lying in bed, then getting up, grabbing [...]

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When I need a boost of energy or I am in need of refreshment, there is nothing that I like better than a large glass of Iced Green Tea with a fresh Lime squeezed into it.   This really is a refreshing drink for summer.  Iced Tea in itself is really refreshing, and it’s also good [...]

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