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4/29: Fitness & Eats from the Week + What “Counts” as a Workout

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Hey, hey! I completed my first week of workouts at OPEX , and I’m feeling really great overall! I actually don’t *feel* like I’m working out all that much, but I’m starting to realize I need to change my thinking about that. I think a lot of us – myself included – believe that you need to feel exhausted and sore after a workout for it to “count.” I remember going all out, 6 days a week, at CrossFit and thinking I was in the best shape of my life. Ha! Sure, I was having a great time, but  I was 100% overtraining and beating up my body so badly. Now, I’m spending about an hour per session at OPEX and challenging myself, so I’m clearly working on my fitness, but it’s tough not to think that these workouts don’t “count” if I don’t totally kill myself during them. At the end of the day, I just want to be healthy and functionally fit well into my elderly years. (I picture Mal and myself with gray hair and jumpsuits still doing partner workouts together!) I’m sick of dealing with injurie

Weekend Link Love — Edition 502

Clean Eating Southwestern Stuffed Sweet Potato Recipe

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This delicious clean eating southwestern stuffed sweet potato can be made spicy or not and travels well for lunches! YOU: You’re busy, often tired and it seems that some days, it’s just impossible to get it all done. Am I close? But somehow, some way, you still want to eat healthy and feel better overall. Am I still on track? The thing is, busy lives often mean unhealthy convenience food. But convenience food doesn’t have to come from a box. All you have to do is know which healthy ingredients to buy that will turn into fast and healthy meals. THE RECIPE: Take the lowly sweet potato, for example. It might not look like much. In fact, they can be downright ugly at first glance. But inside those ugly skins hides a beautifully, vibrant orange flesh that is packed with good for you nutrients. And the only thing you have to do it bake them and eat them. Now, please understand that when I say bake them, I don’t mean you have to do anything special with them. You don’t have to rub t