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Buying Special Diet Foods on a Budget

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Learning how to cope with these varied diets on a limited budget has stretched my creativity to say the least. If you are struggling in a similar situation, here are a few tips I’ve learned along the way: 1. Focus On Foods You  Can  Have For most people, whole foods are still an acceptable and desirable part of their diet: meats, fruits, vegetables, and certain grains, seeds and nuts. Focusing on those foods will not only make you healthier, but help you stick to your budget. Avoid overly processed foods with long lists of ingredients that could create dietary issues. 2. Make It Yourself Instead of purchasing items like breads, sweets and snacks, learn how to make them yourself. That way you know exactly what ingredients go into each food item and you can tweak recipes to meet your dietary needs. I learned early on how to make bread that strikes the balance between my own and my husband’s dietary needs – a mix of whole grains and regular all-purpose flour. For my son, I’ve learned how
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21 Day Anti Inflammatory Diet to Detox and Reduce Inflammation

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After the holidays, I always feel like I need a major detox. I love to indulge in all the holiday goodies and feasts, and probably a little too much red wine, so when January comes around, I’m ready to clean up my diet. A lot of the foods I love to eat around the holiday season are unfortunately ones that cause inflammation. You know, like baked sweets, fried foods, dairy (cheese!!!), alcohol, and lots of gluten. The 21 day anti inflammatory diet is a full body detox that aims to reduce inflammation, and sounds like just the meal plan I need to detox my post-holiday body. more article click here
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LEMON DETOX DIET

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The lemonade diet is a fasting diet that relies on an entirely liquid-based diet. Also known as the Master Cleanse, the lemonade fast is rumored to have wonderful benefits when it comes to weight loss as it is purported to cleanse toxins (Master Cleanse) and burn fat. There’s a downside with this diet that most people aren’t prepared for with any juice fast. Unfortunately, no solids are to be eaten for at least 10 days, which can make you feel very hungry. Any participant in this diet will be getting their nutritional sustenance and caloric intake from a lemon drink you make and sweeten at home. Although there are claims that this lemonade fast is able to burn fat, making you slimmer. Throughout this article, I’ll be delving into the evidence for and against this diet to allow potential participants to decide if this diet is right for them. More Article Click Here
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3-DAY DETOX TO REJUVENATE AND MAKE YOU FEEL AMAZING

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This 3-day anti-inflammatory detox plan will make you feel amazing, even if you’ve been eating fast food like there’s no tomorrow for a while. Time for a little detox, my friend. If someone told me years, nay, even months ago I would ever be doing a detox, then I would’ve probably spit in their face. You do a detox, loser. And that spit would probably be toxic, as you will find out later. THIS ANTI-INFLAMMATORY DETOX IS A RESET This 3-day detox is not about staying away from food and just juicing. The goal for this detox is to help us: reduce chronic inflammation enhance liver detoxification decrease cravings for sugar and other inflammatory foods stop thinking about food and what we’re gonna eat next all the time reset our taste buds & change our food preferences celebrate and go back to real food have more energy & vitality improve skin and maybe shed some weight We’re gonna achieve these goals by: eating more raw foods drinking enough water having at least 3 hours between me
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Three Day Cleanse & Detox

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If you’re embarking on a healthy eating plan, a thorough cleanse and detox will help you to get into the spirit of your new plan, and will ready your body for the nutrients and superfoods that will comprise your healthy, new lifestyle! This three day cleanse and detox is designed to kickstart a healthy eating plan and cleanse your system. Be sure to drink plenty of water while completing the Three Day Cleanse and Detox. We recommend drinking four 12-ounce glasses per day of either spring, filtered, or distilled water. Avoid flavored or sweetened water. It is recommended to juice twice daily. We like to use the Breville Juice Fountain. more recipes click here
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Free Printable Clean Eating Grocery List + Survey! | Ambitious Kitchen

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Happy Wellness Wednesday! You’ve probably heard of the term clean eating before, right? If you haven’t, here’s a simple definition: Clean eating is basically the practice of eating whole foods that are real, unrefined and minimally processed. Often times you’ll hear people bash ‘clean eating’ because they say it’s too black and white on that foods are labeled good or bad or clean and dirty. BUT here’s my philosophy with clean eating, because I think it’s a different then most out there — I believe that clean eating should be about inclusion rather than exclusion. Sometimes it seems people might read too much into the labels of clean eating and try to break the term down into something it isn’t. More Article Click Here
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How To Use Intermittent Fasting To Quickly Lose 50 Pounds Or More

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If you landed on this page, then I bet you’ve probably tried to lose weight many times with little to no success. Maybe you lost some weight, but it either always came back or your program wasn’t sustainable, so you quit. If you’re looking for a way to lose weight, especially if you need to lose 50 or more pounds, you’ve come to the right place. If you’re looking to lose that weight in the quickest way possible, while still maintaining good health, then I have great news! If there’s one thing I’ve learned from my 12 years as a Holistic Nutritionist working with thousands of clients, it’s that there is A LOT of  emotional and mental pain associated with weight gain , especially when you’re weight has gotten this bad. It might even make you angry or sad thinking about it now, but I want to assure you of one thing before I get into the process: You can either let your past decisions define and/or confine you, or you can choose to move on. Yes, your past decisions (or lack of action) have
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