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Eat Well in 2024
Eat Well in 2024! Sustainable practices are the goal at LLAFIT. If you didn’t reach your nutrition goals in 2023, it is not too late. You can start again today—in fact, you can start again with your next meal, no matter how many times you fall off track. When it comes to sustainable eating choices to stay lean and healthy…
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50% Off Amazing Grass Supplements
Amazing Grass offers numerous products to guarantee ways to get your greens + fruits every day. Life isn’t perfect. Our schedules, budgets, and even fridge space don’t permit us all to store and prepare the variety of fruits and vegetables required for daily consumption. I love salad and eat it daily. I like fruit, but I don’t eat fruits daily.…
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My Lunches in Pictures: 2017-2020
The gallery of images that follows is in no way all the lunches I’ve had from 2017 to 2020. It’s a snapshot to show the basic composition of lunches, a macro scheme I’ve followed from 2007 when I first read and adopted the nutrition principles in Burn the Fat Feed the Muscle by Tom Venuto and Nutrient Timing by sports…
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Thanksgiving Leftovers w/ Asian Twist
Below is a simple Thanksgiving leftover recipe. Actually, it’s so simple, it’s less of a recipe and more of a combination of a few ingredients that can easily be retrieved from a supermarket shelf — aside from the turkey leftovers themselves, of course. I had the meal featured in this post after 10 PM; therefore, no carbohydrates are in this…
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Why You Need to Log Calories
Some personal trainers and “health gurus” don’t believe in logging calories. Instead, they say “eat when you’re hungry.” I don’t agree with that. I know from experience that eating below or too far above the amount of calories your body requires (for muscle gain, fat loss, or maintenance) can sabotage any prospect of reaching your goals. For someone serious about…
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Latest Health & Fitness Quote
Previous Quotes: LLAFIT Senior Writer/EditorAs an athlete for over 22 years and a broke single mom for most of that time, I created brokesinglemomfitness.com, now LLAFIT.com, to aid anyone who believes the road to fitness requires a lot of cash or time. In reality, the way to fitness is paved with knowledge and firm principles; teaching readers how to master…
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3 Rules to Push-Up Mastery
A proper push-up (knees off the floor) is a basic upper body exercise. But for many, the movement is strenuous and difficult to learn. Women especially often struggle with how taxing the exercise can be. But, believe me, performing a correct, no-knees push-up has nothing to do with gender and everything to do with discipline and dedication. Follow the rules…
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High-protein Baked French Toast
Here’s a change to your usual oatmeal and egg white breakfast . . .High Protein Baked French Toast. Ingredients 6 slices Ezekiel Bread 6 large Eggs 1/2 cup Low-fat Geek Yogurt 1 1/2 cups Milk 2 tbsp Sugar 1 tsp Vanilla Extract 1 tsp Maple Extract 1/2 cup Pecans Directions Preheat the oven to 350 degrees F. Lay bread slices…
