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Free Beautycounter+ Facial Oil with Purchase

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Hi, guys! Just popping in real quick to share this awesome Labor Day weekend deal! Now through Monday, receive a complimentary Beautycounter Facial Oil  ($68 value) of your choice with any purchase of $150 or more!!! The Brightening Facial Oil is one of my favorite products from Beautycounter. Even though it’s an oil, it’s lightweight, silky, and blends right into your skin for some serious moisture. I randomly get dry patches on my forehead from time-to-time and this stuff works wonders! It also has vitamin C in it, so it helps to brighten and even skin tone, which is especially important to me now that summer is over and have a bunch of weird pigmentation on my face that I want to get rid of. Other products that I’m especially loving right now: Nourishing Cream Exfoliator (my daily face wash), everything in the Brightening Collection (aka “Project: Get rid of pigmentation”), and the Volume & Shape Volumizing Mist . If you have any questions or you’re looking for specific

My Journey to Primal

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Growing up I could never have described myself as a healthy person. Thin, yes. Athletic, yes. But as a student I was always missing classes because I would fall ill, and even when I was older I would constantly have the sniffles from allergies and could easily use up a pack of tissues a day. I had a really twisted notion of fitness: as long as I had the energy and endurance for my dancing and my workouts, and as long as I could fit into my old college jeans, then it meant I was on track with my wellness goals. The event that changed all that was a disturbing result that came back from my Executive Checkup in 2012: a tiny, suspicious growth that eventually was ruled out as benign and quickly removed. It scared the hell out of me. It was then that I swore to avoid consuming or using anything unnatural or toxic to my body, and I set off on a mission to learn about what would help me to achieve true health and never have to go through a scare like that again. My own Primal Journey was a

5 Ways to Up Your Protein at Breakfast

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For years dinner was considered the “meat-heavy” meal, while breakfast was associated with foods like oatmeal, cereal, pancakes and muffins. Instead, each meal of the day should be balanced with both whole grains and protein. Whole grains include fiber, which helps fill you up and has numerous health benefits. Protein also has numerous benefits including satiety, which may be lacking at breakfast meals. Here are 5 ways you can include more protein at breakfast so you can less hungry in the morning. New Research on Protein A new landmark systematic review recently published in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition suggests that consuming protein above current recommended levels helps prevent age-related bone loss, a condition known as osteoporosis.  “Current protein guidelines focus on preventing muscle loss as we age, but our study suggests we need substantially more to keep our bones strong,” says Dr. Taylor Wallace leading food science and nutrition researcher on the

The Time Murphy Was Attacked By A Pit Bull

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Hi, guys! Happy Friday! Boy, do I have a story for you. I’m still feeling pretty shaken-up and helpless after it. Ughhh, story below… So, our morning started out like most days. I woke up, fed Murphy, and ate my breakfast, which was overnight oats made with ground pumpkin seeds, SFH Churro protein powder,  banana slices, collagen , unsweetened almond milk, and a big old scoop of sunflower butter. After breakfast, Murphy and I went out for our morning walk together. On our way home (we were actually in our driveway), I heard our neighbor yell something. I turned around, and I immediately saw her pit bull running towards Murphy of me. This dog is known for attacking other dogs in the neighborhood (yes, this has happened multiple times before), so I quickly picked up Murphy to protect him. As soon as I got him in my arms, the pit bull lunged at us, grabbed Murphy in his mouth, and pulled him to the ground. I immediately went into “Mama bear mode” and started to fight off the pit bu

10 Year Anniversary!

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Guess what today is?!** 10 years – a whole entire decade – of blogging. That breaks down into 6,844 posts, over 365,000 comments, and a gazillon photos. Girl Kath from 2008! I think at most I have missed a handful of days of posts all these years. Some of you guys have been reading since the very beginning, and some of you remember more details about my own life than I do! Some of you might be new! If you are, this is how it all began: I started blogging in March of 2006 at Calorie King as I set out to  lose 30 pounds . A year and a half later, at the request of family and friends, I decided to start a photo blog of my recipes and meals. I began writing at Blogspot in September 2007 under the title Sweat, Eat, Sleep, Repeat, which then was rebranded and moved to WordPress less than a year later, and finally to my own domain, KathEats.com. You can visit the original blog, which is still live in all its blurry, dark photo glory. After working in public relations for a few years, I

Clean Eating Chicken Enchiladas Recipe

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Enchiladas are a fabulous dish. And while they are a little time-consuming to make (about an hour for assembly on this recipe), they are not complicated at all! Think of them as baking burritos in a… Read more → from The Gracious Pantry http://ift.tt/2ws6aij