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Health and Fitness Tips for Any Schedule or Budget

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by Guest-Blogger, Sheila Olson

Staying healthy and active are high priorities for many people. However, when life takes over, it’s easy to let these goals slowly drift away. The same can happen if these priorities cost money.

Either way, whether it’s time or money holding us back, it’s important to find ways to embrace wellness. Below are some health and fitness tips which can work for most anyone’s schedule, without breaking the bank.

Buy In-Season
Being healthy means taking care of your body and eating nutritious foods. According to one of CookingLight magazine’s dieticians, Sidney Fry, MS, RD, depending on your age, gender, and activity levels, you should get anywhere from four and a half cups to six and a half cups of vegetables and fruits each day. Keep in mind, grocery stores usually have specials on produce when it’s in-season. Make it a practice to stock up on these items when you see the sales.

Grow Your Own Food
Another way to save money on fruits and veggies is to grow them yourself. Take lettuce, for example. A head of lettuce at (more…)

A Little Book Brag

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I wanted to brag just a little– Ok, maybe a lot. My dear friend and fellow Health Coach Karen Thomas has written and published her first book. It’s called, Overwhelmed & Undernourished: Use Food as Medicine and Turn Your Life Around. It’s available at Amazon.

But for me, it’s actually kind of a double brag– on one hand, it’s a brag on my friend Karen, yes. But on the other hand, it’s also my brag because I was the Chief Editor. Not only did I do all the substantive, developmental edits, and help her whip it into shape for publishing, but I also formatted it for submission and co-wrote the introduction.

It was a labor of love. Her book started out as a first draft in rough shape. She told me she was a “crappy writer” and she had no idea how to write something like this. I told her I was pretty sure I could help her.

She got started writing her book in the Launch Your Dream Book® course through the Institute for Integrative Nutrition®, where we both graduated in 2015. There were a few hundred students in this book writing course. They all had the option to enter their books into a Top 10 Author Contest (by a deadline). It became a prime motivation for all the students to shine their best work possible.

Although I never knew the exact number of submissions, it’s estimated there were over a hundred submissions into the contest. The prize was reimbursed tuition, a book blurb from the esteemed school founder, and a special listing of their winning book on the Institute’s website.

After I’d begun helping Karen work on her book, she told fellow students how happy she was with my work. Karen recommended (more…)