Earn Money for Being Healthy

 

Walgreens is now rewarding customers not only for their spending but for their healthy behavior.

The System

 

When you make a purchase at the store, your car is swiped and you receive points depending on what you purchased. Every week they have specials for certain items with a high point value. Every time you fill a prescription or get an immunizatio you earn 500 points. Every time you receive a receipt, your points are at the bottom.

 

Healthy Behavior 

 

 

Now you can earn points for being healthy! For every mile you walk or run you can earn 20 points. You can also earn 20 points from tracking your weightloss. This is great way to set personal goals and achieve them!

 

The system also allows you to engage with others who are doing the same with online community forums. This is great place to communicate with others about their progress and give your advice to inspire them.

 

 

 

Depending on your points, you will receive an amount to spend at Walgreens. This allows you to save and earn more points! 

 

Listen to what the host of The Biggest Loser, Alison Sweeney has to say about this great program!

 

 

 

 

Take the first step in your healthy journey by signing up today!

 

 

 





Books Key for Weightloss

Book 1: Skinny Bitch

If you truly want to be thin, READ THIS BOOK. It is blunt, realistic, and a huge wake up call. This book was #1 on the NYT best sellers.The authors use a direct tone with a tough love approach. Once I picked up the book I COULD NOT stop reading it. It's like a diet book with a drill sargeant coaching you. I learned so much that you would think would be common sense but the delivery of this book really makes the information engrained in your head and makes you really start thinking healthy.

 

"Stop Being a Moron and Start Getting Skinny!"

"If you can't take one more day of self-loathing, you're ready to hear the truth: You cannot keep shoveling the same crap into your mouth every day and expect to lose weight."

"Soda is liquid Satan"

"You are a total moron if you the Atkins Diet will make you thin"

This diet book inspires women in a whole new way. The blunt approach delivers solid guidance to living a health lifestyle and is extremely motivating. This is probably the only diet book out there that is HILARIOUS!
 

 

Visit Skinny Bitch to learn more about the authors and their collection and follow them on twitter @SkinnyBitch!


Book 2: Eat This Not That

 

 

This is another must read book for weight loss and healthier decisions when you are out and about. This book offers the worst and best choices to order when you are out to eat as well as when you're at the super market. This book offers tons and tons of simple food swaps that could lead to a lower scale number and a healthier you. This is great eye opening read. The information may shock you and you come to find what you thought was healthier is not...

 

 

 

 



 

This series offers great information that is really beneficial and can make you feel not so guilty about going out to eat. It also assures you that you are buying the healhiest products over another. Check out the Eat this Not that app so you can always have this information with you and follow it on Twitter!

 

 

 

Take a look at all the different Books to make even more healthier choices!

 



 

Number One Way to Detox

Juicing is a great way to cleanse your body and has many benefits. It is such a simple way to consume natural foods with high nutrients giving your body real fuel .After watching the documentary Hungry for Change , I got inspired to start juicing and do some further research.

Benefits of Juicing

• Increases metabolism
• Flushes away unnatural toxins
• Creates clearer skin
• Natural body glow
• Increases energy
• Highly rich in vitamins and nurtients
• Cleans our your digestive system
• Boosts your immune system
• Jump starts weight loss

Listen to what Joe Cross a personal juicer himself has to say about the benefits of juicing!

Green Lemonade Juice
This recipe I found at Juice Recipes. This is such an amazing website for juicing ideas and information. Not only does it tell the ingredients, it tells what health benefits are found in all the fruits and vegetables and its nutritional value. 

 

Ingredients

2 Apples

1 Cucumber

4 Leafs of Kale

1 Lemon

2 Cups of Spinach

Health Benefits of This Juice

• Weight Loss
• Colon Cancer Prevention
• Asthma Help
• Breast Cancer Prevention
• Lower Blood Pressure
• Bone Protection
• Digestion
• Diabetes
• Lower Chlolesterol
• Cancer Prevention
• Cataracs Prevention
• Heart Disease Prevention
• Reduce Inflammation
• Blood Cleanse

With only five ingredients in this juice, the amount of vitamins and nutrients it contains, creates it to have a crazy amount of health benefits. This is only recipe out of many. Check out these websites for more Vegetable Juices  30 Days of Juicing Omega Juices & Mean Green Juices 

Nutritional Value Liquid vs. Solid

 

I mean seriously how cool is this? They offer the nutrition facts of the ingredients before and after you juice. 

 

This website is a goldmine! It has tons of great juicing recipes and tells you what exactly it benefits in your body. If you want to boost your immune system or even prevent cancer, the site tells you what recipes have the ingredients you need.

 

Whether you're a beginner or a juicer veteran, I highly suggest you visit Juice Recipes For Your Health.

 

CHEERS!

 

 

Change the Way You Think About Food

 Hungry For Change Documentary

 

This documentary was nothing shy of eye-opening, shocking, and inspirational. This film has health and nutrition experts exposing information the food industry does not want you to know about. It also includes personal stories of people who were once obese and decided to make a change and are currently living a healthy lifestyle. This film educates you on how to incorporate healthy food choices into your life and assist you avoiding the dangers of "fake" food.  The film hits on five main points: how to overcome food addictions and cravings, why fad diets don't work, how to properly read food labels, what fat is, and the most effective strategies for dexoxifying your body.  All the following information, I learned from the film.

The film stresses the fact that our population is over fed but starving to death. Meaning our modern civilization intakes a high amount of calories and very low nurtrients because we aren't consuming real food, we're eating "food like" products. The food industry knows exactly what they are doing when marketing their "fat free" and "healthy" foods. Since 1940 there has been 75,000 synthetic chemicals released, chemicals we use in our food. When food marketer's put things on their packages such as; zero calories, sugar free, or no fat, it can be extremely deceptive. It leads consumers to believe their products will make them skinny, sexy and healthy, when in reality it does the opposite. When a product says "no fat", it is usually replaced with lots of carbs and sugar. This makes the consumer want more.The industry manipulates food with all these chemicals that make you think you're eating something healthy, but you're really not.

The film compared eating foods with MSG (Monosodium glutamate) to smoking cigarettes. MSG is 80% of our modern day food and is the same chemical researchers used on rats to make them gain weight. Simply disqusting. The chemicals in cigarettes make you addicted and MSG chemicals in food have the same effect.

Our society needs to become more educated on the ingredients and nutrients of everything we consume. The film gave examples of how people need to know the definition of sugar. Some people say they are on a sugar free diet but they are still consuming, bread, pasta, sushi, and pizza. All of these have extremely high levels of sugar. The film gave a great example of a Ted Talk , explaining the importance of knowing what you're children eat and how much sugar they actually consume just from drinking chocolate milk.

The chemicals and sugar levels in these types of food make our bodies become habituated to the effect it has on us and makes us keep wanting more. These are known as comfort foods, foods that people run to when they are stressed thinking it will help.

In reality man made food causes hormonal chaos. All the additives in food  products are linked to mood swings, depression, and other diseases. People think that food is the solution to their problems when in reality it is the cause.

Real food such as; fruits, vegetables, meat, and nuts were put on this earth for a reason. Our bodies are biologically enginereed to live off these foods and love it. People need to step away from "diets" and simply add natural foods into their life.

A great way to cleanse and detox your body is juicing. Juicing creates higher energy levels, clearer sking, glowing eyes, and healthy hair and nails. Combing multiple natural foods and drinking all the nutrients is beyond healthy for you. It takes only 15 minutes after you drink the juice for the nutrients to go into every cell of your body. If you give your body real food, you'll start noticing a mood change, weight loss, a glowing appearance, and higher energy levels. All the artifical products on the market hinder all of these.

I would reccomend this film to anyone. Every single person should be well educated on how to properly fuel their body and know the tricks of the food industry. All this information does'nt do a justice on how eye-opening the film truly was. I encourage everyone to watch it!

Save yourself the headache and weight gain, EAT REAL FOOD

 

 

 

Get Carrie Underwood's legs

Carrie's Workout and Diet 



Shape Magazine reveals Carrie's workout to her sculpted sexy legs. Carrie's previous trainer Tony Greco states to get legs like Carrie's, it takes a series of lunges, squats, stepups, and toe taps along with a balanced diet.

In the article, Greco stated, “Carrie is very knowledgeable in the world of health, and she does a lot of workouts on her own,” Greco says. “It’s really a lifestyle for her. She currently has trainers in both Los Angeles and Nashville and is even known to take one on the road with her while touring. Instead of eating out, she’ll stock her fridge with healthy greens from the fresh store.”

Get some more fitness tips from Tony Greco!

To maximize your fitness results, it is very important to maintain a healthy diet. Rachel Ray's website offers the details of what exactly Carrie eats and when. Get some frist hand tips from the start herself A Day in the Food life of Carrie Underwood.
 
Greco suggests doing these exercises three days a week along with a 30 minute cardio session.

Exercise one: Bulgarian Lunge
Works: quads, glutes, hamstrings, shoulders, & core
8-12 reps on each leg

Exercise 2: Stepups
Works:Glutes, Quads, Hamstrings, & Hip Flexors
Step up and down on each leg for 30 seconds to 1 minute

 

 

Exercise 3: Toe Taps



Works: Calves, Butt, Hamstrings, & Legs
10-15 reps on each leg

 

 



 
Exercise 4: Skater Lunge

 

Works: Thighs, hamstrings, and glutes
Do for 30 seconds to 1 minute



Jump Off Your Calories

Lunden Souza's Jump Rope and Burbee Workout 

 

 

Lunden Souza is a personal trainer, writter and blogger. She has great ideas for workouts! I just did this workout and felt amazing afterwards.

 

You do a pyramid of jump roping starting at 10 jumps then 20, 30, 40, and 50. Then you work your way back down starting at 50 jumps then to 40, 30, 20, and 10. In between each jump set, you do 5 burbees. Altogether you do 300 jumps and 40 burbees.



This workout took me about 15 minutes, burning about 150 calories. I calculated how many calories I burned jump roping with Self Magazine's Health Calculator. Doing different jumping styles such as one legged, side to side, and open close, really helps to work different parts of your legs such as your outer and inner thigh. This also helps you really feel the burn!

Another great idea in this workout is using a weighted handle jump rope. I had no idea they even existed, but this is great way to give your arm muscles a better workout. Rogue Fitness has plenty of options for weighted jump ropes to better your workout. This workout is great because you can do it anywhere, especially great with nice weather approaching.

Follow Lunden on twitter @LundenMichelle for more workout ideas.

Feel The Burn!

Fear No Beer, Your Workout is Here

Since my last post was focused on cocktails, I figured I should help out the beer drinkers too! If you want to keep your figure but don't want to say goodbye to beer, follow this chart to have the best of both worlds. You can use any of the activities to equal to your beer calories.This picture has great suggestions to prevent a beer belly especially summer being RIGHT around the corner!

 

 

Don't Forget One Beer Usually Leads To Another...