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Easy Ways to Increase Your Protein Intake: Tips from Health & Fitness Influencers

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I am so excited to share these super helpful tips on how to include more protein in your diet from some amazing food and fitness influencers around the Interwebs. (There are even a couple of Registered Dietitians in the mix!) I’m always looking for new ideas to get a balance of various sources of protein into my diet, so I personally loved reading their ideas. Additionally, one of the most frequently asked questions that we receive from nutrition clients  is how to increase protein intake. It’s not always easy! If you’re in the same boat and looking for fresh ideas, I hope these tips and tricks from influencers will help you hit your protein goals! Wondering why protein is so important?  Protein plays a major role in our bodies – and since prioritizing it in my own diet, I’ve seen some serious benefits. Here’s a short-ish list of why protein is so great: It stabilizes blood sugar, supports muscle and bone repair, maintains healthy skin and cartilage, and helps in maintaining a heal

Grilled Italian Chicken Salad

My Confidence Is Returning, and I’m Re-engaging in Life

Three Effortless Health Hacks Everyone Can Do

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Living your healthiest life can be a lot of work. There is a good amount of planning and effort that goes into the classic healthy living advice: hours of exercise, meal planning, going to yoga, cooking, meditating. It’s a lifestyle! One that many of us choose because health is important to us, but it’s not effortless. Here are three health hacks to add to your routine that you can sit (or nap!) through to reap the benefits with almost no effort. Lie down for a power nap . Not getting enough sleep can have a negative trickle down effect on the rest of your day. Taking a quick power nap can work magic on your energy levels . Ten minutes of shut eye or even just focusing on yoga breathing for a few minutes will leave you rejuvenated. (Of course getting enough sleep at night is the best way to achieve optimal rest.) Take a probiotic. You simply take a pill and those billions of good bacteria do all the heavy lifting for you in your gut to support your healthiest digestive tract an

What I’m Loving Lately 113

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Hi, guys! I’m hitting publish on this post a little earlier than usual with the holiday WEEK upon us. I mean, how great is it that July 4th falls smack in the middle of the week!? Are a lot of you on vacation for the entire week? I sure hope so! 🙂 I’m actually off to Seattle tomorrow for our annual trip with Brooks Running as part of their blogger ambassador program. Brooks has a full weekend planned for us, including volunteering at the  2018 Special Olympics USA Games , and I can’t wait to tell you guys all about it when I get back. In the meantime, be sure to follow along on Instagram Stories! 🙂 After that, I’m off to Black Butte Ranch and Bend, Oregon for the holiday week, and I seriously cannot wait. Woohoo, vacation! Ok, so let’s do this… here’s the next edition of  What I’m Loving Lately ! It’s quite the mix of goodies and awesomeness, so let’s get right to it. And I hope you guys enjoy the weekend and July 4th week! Nantucket – Last week, I had the opportunity to vi

Video: “I Know What A Pickle Is!”

How To Steam Vegetables And Not Have Them Taste Bland

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Even wonder how to steam food and not have it taste bland when it’s done? We all have those nightmarish, childhood memories of being forced to eat overcooked, mushy vegetables. Yuck! No wonder some… Read more → from The Gracious Pantry https://ift.tt/2N7XFka

Find Your Tribe, Find Your Health?

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Humans are a tribal species. We form alliances, align ourselves along ethnic, familial, religious, and cultural lines. Still, for the vast majority of people, “tribal” carries a negative connotation. Bitter partisan politics, ethnic genocides, religious wars, and the long history of bigotry make that connotation almost unavoidable. But I don’t think tribal in its true essence is all bad. The basic instinct to form and belong to groups is a simple fact of human physiology. It’s how we work, so we’d better make it work for us. Remember, I err on the side of evolution. If human evolution has produced and maintained a characteristic or behavior, there’s probably a reason for it. And maybe that reason doesn’t make sense in the modern world. It gets distorted or magnified. Tribalism certainly can. But it can be equally detrimental to ignore that characteristic, to brush it off and discard it. We don’t have to perform hard physical labor to procure food anymore—but exercise is still vital f

Spot The Dog

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Summatime is in full swing ’round here! Me: “Mazen let’s take a photo of us eating our cones” Mazen: eats MY cone!! I picked up some sugar cones from the store and it’s been hard not to eat ice cream every night. Breyers Vanilla is the BEST though, and it’s not as dense and rich as a lot of the other kinds (I’m looking at you Half Baked!!) Can you spot the puppy dog?! I love how Gus makes it in the background of so many of my photos. [Banana-chia oats in an almond butter jar!!] MY OTHER RECIPES Gus also made an appearance on pizza night: Look at that Big Green Egg masterpiece! Served with a salad on the side. And the same for lunch the next day! Thomas brought Mazen and me bagels from Bodos one morning for breakfast. Fun treat! They are generous with their cream cheese. Mango for the family to share on the side. Like Where’s Waldo, my little watch dog is always somewhere nearby. from Kath Eats Real Food https://ift.tt/2lDOXh2

Staff Pick Tuesdays: Relaxation Routine

New Finds aka Things Worth Sharing

Episode 399 – Robb and Nicki Q&A #6

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We’re back with Q&A #6 with Robb and Nicki for Episode 399 of the podcast. And don’t forget to submit your own questions for the podcast here: https://robbwolf.com/contact/submit-a-question-for-the-podcast/ Show Notes: 1. [3:24] Book recommendations for us nutrition nerds. Sarang says: Hey Robb, You have been successful in making me and thousands of guys like me to become total “nutrition nerds”. We have all been listening to your podcasts from months/years and reading all kinds of books and blogs we can find to quench the thirst for more knowledge. For some reason, its a highly addictive subject and I’m thinking and reading about it most of the time. It would be great if you could list out some books that are knees deep in the science and not just superficial advice. The whole paleo/nutrition community would be thankful for that. Thanks in advance! Notes 1-Kung San: Men Women and work in a foraging Society- https://www.amazon.com/Kung-San-Women-Foraging-Society/dp

Clean Eating Brownie Waffles Recipe

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OMG! I swear I had brownies for breakfast! These clean eating brownie waffles taste just like the real thing! But first of all, I should mention that as much as I’d like to say that these also have… Read more → from The Gracious Pantry https://ift.tt/2KjGdY9

Ask the Coach: Primal Health Coaches Answer Your Questions

Top 5 mistakes with elimination diets: how most people are doing them the wrong way

Goin’ On A Bear Hike

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Happy Monday! I just love these summer weekends. There is so much more to do than in the winter! But also: more bugs and snakes to look out for! On Thursday night Thomas and I went to the Alison Krauss concert at the Pavilion. Her voice was beautiful, and she played some classics! On Friday I picked Mazen up from summer camp, and we got dressed in our out-to-dinner clothes and headed to Zinburger , which hosted our family for dinner. MY OTHER RECIPES All summer long kids eat for just $3, and they have a very kid friendly atmosphere and menu. In fact there was a tiny newborn in the booth next to us that Thomas and I enjoyed watching! T and I each ordered the Napa salad to start, and we shared both sweet potato waffle fries and hand-cut regular fries for the table 🙂 I had the special summer burger topped with heirloom tomato, balsamic glaze, and burrata cheese! We had so much food on the table we brought about half of it home for lunch the next day because we want