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Did you know that 80% of your body composition will be determined by your diet? Yes, exercise is also important to health and to speed up fat-burning and muscle-building, but most of your results will come from how you eat.
With this hugely important statistic in mind, I strive to test, create and share recipes on my blog that will hopefully inspire and help YOU to be your healthiest best.
I am passionate about clean eating.
If you haven’t heard this term before, let me offer you a brief explanation:
Eating Clean is treating your body right.
It is eating the way nature intended. You eat the foods our bodies evolved to function best on, and that makes you feel – and look – fantastic. When you Eat Clean you eat more often. You will eat lean protein, complex carbs, and healthy fats. These practices keep your blood-sugar levels stable and keep you satisfied. The best part is that if you need to lose weight it will happen almost without you having to try. And yes, you can have a treat now and again. Best of all, Eating Clean keeps you feeling great and full of energy. In fact, you can forget all about the days when “dieting” meant feelings of hunger, lethargy or deprivation. Eating Clean is not a fad; it’s a way of life. When you Eat Clean your body will react by losing weight if you need to lose, maintaining a healthy weight if that’s where you are, and even gaining weight if you are too skinny. But regardless of whether you want to lose, maintain or gain, you will feel better than you ever have before.
….I’ve been eating this way (well, mostly!) for a few months now and let me just say – EVERYBODY needs to eat this way. Trust me on that.
I hope to share new, delicious recipes with you here every 2-3 days so please come back often. Some of the ingredients might look a bit strange to you at first, but you will soon discover that using these wonderful clean-eating ingredients in your kitchen is MORE than worth it. You and your family deserve the purest, most natural ingredients in the foods that you put into your bodies.
Remember: Clean eating is not a fad diet. It is a lifestyle. All the more reason to ditch the processed junk in your kitchen and replace it with real food.
Please give it a try. You won’t believe the results.
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We have quite a few things in common! Really enjoying your new blog – keep up the great work!
Yep, we do! The moment I saw the pic of your Gilmore Girls coffee mugs I knew we could be good friends. 🙂 SO happy you’re enjoying the blog. Thanks Ann!!
Would you consider guest bloggers? Maybe that way you could have a que of articles ready to post in case you don’t have something right away. Just a thought. 🙂
Hmm. A very good idea to consider!
Wendy – I got your post – I would be happy to mention your blog 🙂
Send me an email when you get a chance couchpotatoathlete@gmail.com
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Hey Wendy! Thank you for the SWEET comment! I replied to you on there, but just wanted to stop by your blog too. You sound so fun and sassy ;). I checked out that stuffed chicken and kale you made-yum!! Inspired to make it!
So glad you stopped by, Lauren – thanks!! This whole healthy-living blogging this is just knocking my SOCKS off. Soooooo much fun!!!
Maybe we can do coffee in Geneva one of these days!
I’m so glad I found your blog! It is terrific! I’m looking forward to reading more! ~ Take Care!
Ha! I just found your blog…..thumbs up, Girl!
I saw your comment about your hubby regretting telling you to “just fart” and I can SO relate!
When my hubby and I just met he said “let’s just get it out of the way and fart in front of each other.”
So I did…..boy is he sorry! I LOVE veggies and eat cruciferous ones a lot…they do NOT like me though 😉
Anyway-I’m gonna go have fu readin’ your posts 😀
Ha~!!! I love it! *high five*
Glad you found my blog – I just bookmarked yours too, looks great! Looking forward to getting to know ya!
I’m glad I found your blog. Sounds like we have a lot of things in common. I love everything that you said above, except I don’t have cats but will soon have 2 puppies. I have a fiance that will soon-to-be hubby in a few months.
Congratulations! When is your wedding??
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Hi,
I wanted to inform you of the 2011 Fitness and Health Bloggers Conference, scheduled for June 24-26 in Boulder, Colorado.
http://www.FitnessBloggersConference.org
This conference will be a gathering of bloggers from throughout North America who specialize in the areas of fitness or health. I live in Boulder and can tell you it is a very active, healthy city and the perfect place for this conference.
Please let me know if you have any questions or would like to be included in conference updates. Find us on Twitter @fitnessbloggers
I hope you can join us!
WOW that sounds amazing. If I can swing the cost of airfare, I will SERIOUSLY consider it. Thanks for the info!!
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Hi my Friend, looks great! I so need to eat healthier, as you know, and start cooking for real!
Love it Wen!! Keep up the good work!