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Chinese Food Calories
I'm curious. How many calories are in an order of general tso chicken with egg fried rice?
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Garlic Green Tea - Calming, Energy Balancing, and Appetite-Suppressing
Who's stressed out?! If not now, then what about during the work week? I know I get very stressed out then and one of my favorite go-to's for killing cravings (mostly stress related--for instance, craving something sweet for a quick mood-lift however transient, lasting only minutes followed by an energy crash) is boiling…
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Lost 6 Pounds & Keeping It Going!
I set out to lose 15 pounds, starting at 140 lbs. I am now 134 pounds and very happy about that. It's been motivating to log my progress in here, so I'll log in by the end of this coming week to update my progress. Keeping it going! :)
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Savory Oatmeal Recipe
Add 1 cup of Quaker's quick one-minute oats to Anchor's 16 oz measuring cup (that's what I prefer to use but you can use what works for you). Then add enough water to just sit over it. To that, add half a tablespoon of salted butter. Then stir it and microwave it for 5 minutes. Once cooked, take it out of the microwave and…
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Ginger-Cinnamon-Garlic Green Tea
I've been enjoying this for a while now and now have it more regularly. To make it, I slice fresh ginger (about 2 cubic inches), add 3" cinnamon stick, a spritz of ground black pepper, and 1 sliced clove of garlic to 4 cups of water. I microwave that to boiling point, then I take it out of the microwave and add 2 bags of…
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Time to Readjust
Some running days are easy, while others are hard. Yesterday, I ran 4 miles, and though I had to tough it out towards the end, it was doable. Today, however, running 2.4 miles felt like s**t. I wanted to quit within the first 5 minutes, but I kept going and literally dragged myself through it. So now that I'm back home and…
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My motivation is me in 4 weeks "alright, alright, alright".
The quote comes from Matthew Mcconaugheys award acceptance speech: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4bg4Q63kJQ I especially love the ending of that speech when he says '[To] any of us... whatever it is we look up to, whatever it is we look forward to, and whoever it is we're chasing, to that I say, “Amen.” To that I say,…
