• Lift weights to run faster. A study found that 8 weeks of resistance training improved experienced runners’ 5-K times by 30 seconds.
• Eat at least two servings of fruit or veggie at every meal.
• Never super size your food portions.
• Whenever you put food in your mouth, peel it, unwrap it, put it on a plate and sit down and enjoy.
• Enjoy all of your senses in the pleasure of nourishing your body.
• Start your day off by eating a big breakfast. It helps you eat fewer total calories throughout the day.
• If it’s a fast food burger you crave, order the smallest fast-food burger (with mustard and ketchup, NO mayo) and drink water. You can add an apple or baby carrots to complete your meal.
• Go back in time. Remember your lunch time meals when you were a kid? A peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat bread with a glass of 1 percent milk and an apple.
• I still love scrambled eggs in a nonstick pan (I use only egg whites). Pop some asparagus in the microwave and add whole-wheat toast and presto your eating in no time!
• Keep lean sandwich fixings on hand like whole wheat bread, sliced turkey, reduced-fat cheese, tomatoes, mustard and horseradish.
• Make chicken soup and freeze serving sizes to have later.
• If you pay the money to do a 30-day challenge, you´re more likely to actually go. Plus, a little friendly competition always helps.
• The human body has the natural ability to maintain a healthy weight automatically until it is forced to store fat through a lack of physical activity and/or a low calorie diet.
• If you continually strive to achieve a socially imposed ideal, you will never be free of your insecurities or your self-consciousness, so accept your body!
• Working out alone often is an oasis of solitude in a busy day, but maybe you need some company.

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