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Listening to Your Body

Jun 9, 2020
4 min

Listening to Your Body

Your body has a lot to say and is in constant communication with you. Whether or not you are listening is the issue. From waking up in the morning feeling tired to craving certain foods to feeling sore; your body is trying to tell you what it needs in order to be at its best. I am going to try to cover these various messages your body is giving you in as succinct a way as possible, because each message could be a blog post in itself. Let’s start with cravings. Cravings ca

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May 26, 2020
3 min

To Lift or Not to Lift?

The answer to that question is yes. There are many benefits that come from resistance training. The type of training you do depends on what you are looking to get out of the workout regimen you are doing. Are you looking to improve your mile time or are you looking to put on muscle mass and see some muscular definition? Endurance type athlete: Lifting weights is still something that should be done. The type of resistance training you do here should be muscular endurance t

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May 7, 2020
3 min

Freshmen (Quarantine??) 15

So, this post started out as advice on how to make better food choices during your time at college, since it is often a difficult transition to go from being under the watch of your parents to making decisions on basically everything on your own. Now with the presence of COVID-19 and the new ‘normal’ (is anyone else as tired of hearing that phrase as I am?), I decided I would make this a two-for-one kind of thing. The concept is pretty similar between the two. Going off to

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Mar 2, 2020
3 min

Self-Experimentation #1

Hello friends. Today I am sharing with you all my plant-based diet experience. For starters, I did this to give myself some experience with this diet prior to conducting a possible study that asks participants to partake in a plant-based diet intervention for a 4-week time period. I am an advocate of being your first client, especially when you are going to be asking someone to make a change to their lifestyle, you should be able to relate and pull from your own personal e

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Feb 11, 2020
3 min

You and your diet were on a break!!!

First off if you get the reference from my post title then I love you. Second, this is me explaining why calling it a cheat meal/cheat day kinda makes me roll my eyes. Before I get started I just want to say that I’m still working on removing that phrase from my own lexicon, so I indeed roll my eyes at myself and I don’t want you people to think I am attacking you all and being holier-than-thou. Now with that disclaimer out of the way let me explain. The more people in the

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Jan 19, 2020
2 min

Life

Hello, hello, hello!! Haven’t posted anything in a while, but I am just sitting at a Starbucks(that I walked to from my lovely apartment) trying to do some school work but I keep finding myself drifting focus from my school work. I keep looking out the window and just thinking about life. I know I talk about finding what sets your soul on fire and determining your purpose in life, and honestly every time I think I have that figured out something changes. This is the one re

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Eat Your Plants

Jun 23, 2018
2 min

Eat Your Plants

I don’t want to sound like your doctor during your yearly physical, but eating your fruits and vegetables is very important to living a healthy life. Last fall I took a very interesting class where I learned a lot about the powerful health benefits found in all plant foods(fruits, veggies, nuts, and seeds). This class made me take a step back from my eating habits (which was already fairly healthy) and made me start to really think about what I was eating everyday. Eating ‘he

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Pinterest is a Wonderful Thing

Apr 28, 2018
1 min

Pinterest is a Wonderful Thing

So the other day while procrastinating studying for final exams I was scrolling through my Pinterest and came across an awesome quote: I really love this because it is something that even I forget sometimes. I am guilty of forcing myself to exercise and workout when my body really needs to relax because I ate one too many candy bars or gummy bears or had an extra latte or too many mixed drinks. Exercise is supposed to be an outlet for stresses and an enjoyable activity. The m

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Apr 13, 2018
2 min

Happy Friday the 13th!!

Usually I wait until Saturday to post my blogs, but tomorrow I am not going to be able to post and today is my favorite day of the year! Happy Friday the 13th!!! So usually this day scares people and this is the (almost) universally least liked day of the year. For those of you that know me, you already know why this is my favorite day of the year. Number 13 has been my lucky number for as long as I can remember. Growing up every soccer team I played on I got 13 to be my jers

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