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The Friday 5

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Hi, friends! Happy Friday! It’s been a snow-filled week around here, and it doesn’t seem to be going anywhere anytime soon. Anyone else excited to set their clocks ahead Sunday? Oh, yes, I’m ready for Spring… and SUMMER! Speaking of which, I signed up for a “Spring Into Summer Fitness Challenge” at Iron Way to help motivate me to get my act together. It’s 12 weeks, so it’ll be just in time for the warm weather. I’ll share some details along the way! 🙂 Anyway, I’m popping in with  The Friday 5 where I recap my top 5 favorites from the week. I hope you enjoy them, and I hope you have a wonderful weekend! 1. Sweet potatoes with nut butter  – I’ve been loving sweet potatoes with nut butter. If it sounds odd, trust me, this combination is so good. It’s especially wonderful as sweet potato toast ! Plus, it’s full of healthy carbs and fats, so it’s super satisfying and helps to curb my sweet tooth. If you have a sweet tooth, too, I have other tips on How I Beat My Sugar Addiction . so

My Favorite Way To Play: Ultimate Frisbee Workout (with Video)

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I’m a believer in working hard AND playing hard. When we get stuck in patterns of overwork and overstress, we lose the important connection with our creative, intuitive, playful selves. Our work suffers and so does our happiness (which means everything else, like our relationships, will, too). Stuart Brown, one of the world’s leading experts on play, calls play a “profound biologic process.” What we all know (or used to know until modern living helped us forget) is that play is an essential component of our physical development and general well-being. From a personal standpoint, the older I get the more I recognize play as the linchpin for my own sense of vitality. As a result, I prioritize play—even above exercise. Fortunately, however, I’ve grown into a new relationship with fitness as a result of play. I gave up the slog of grueling training regimens decades ago now, but to this day I’m still living more deeply into a play-based fitness vision. Let me show you a bit of what that l

Easy and Healthy Mocha Protein Balls

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I whipped up a batch of these super easy Mocha Protein Balls last week, and I have a feeling they’ll become a new favorite in our household! I mean, healthy mocha balls that you can whip up in a matter of minutes? Sign me up! This recipe calls for just 5 ingredients, which you can just toss in your food processor or mix by hand. Then, you simply roll the batter into protein balls. They’ll need a little time in the refrigerator to harden up, but, other than that, these mocha energy balls come together in no time! Please let me know what you think if you try them! If you’d like some additional protein ball recipes , I have lots on the blog. Here are some of my favorites . Most of them are easy to make and don’t require one million, hard-to-find ingredients. I like to keep my energy balls/snacks/desserts as simple as possible! 🙂 Print Mocha Protein Balls Ingredients 1/2 cup rolled oats 1/2 cup Chocolate Powered Peanut Butter 1/4 cup cocoa powder 1/4 cup melted coconut oil

The Best Smoothie Bowl Toppings

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I go nuts for contrasting texture combinations – creamy and crunchy, battery and chewy, frothy with crunchy on top. My ideal breakfast bowl (usually with a creamy base like yogurt, oatmeal or a smoothie) has to have a good crunchy ingredient on top. I think this is because contrasting textures reminds me of loaded ice creams with cookies (soft chew), toffee (hard crunch), or cookie dough (chewy) inside! My love for smoothies didn’t begin until I started eating them in bowls with spoons and adding a little something crunchy on top. (Remember the term SIAB? “Smoothie in a bowl” long before it was cool!) Dough Boy Smoothie The above is a  Dough Boy Smoothie ! This is simply overnight oats blended into a smoothie in the morning. The flavor and texture are both like batter! I should have been calling it a Batter Boy Smoothie all these years. Because the oats soak up a lot of the milk, the texture is super thick. And I love the tang from the yogurt. See – it’s thick enough to support g