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Posted by Alyssa Schomaker / Saturday, August 15, 2015 / No comments / breakfast , breakfast benefits , clean eating , clean eating breakfast , easy meals , eating healthy , healthy breakfast , recipe

Making the Perfect Overnight Oats

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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Making breakfast the night before is a convenient and effective way to make sure you start your day off well, get a metabolism boost, and feel energized throughout the day! One of the greatest options for breakfast is oatmeal. It is satiating, full of fiber, and can be well-rounded with the right concoction of fruits and seasonings. Overnight oats are easy to prepare, but here are some helpful tips to create the perfect consistency and flavor:</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.666666666666666px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">If you are adding Chia seeds in your overnight oats, and I recommend you do, you will want to add a little extra liquid to compensate for the chia seeds. Chia seeds absorb the liquid just like the oats will. Experiment a little bit with different amounts of liquid to find out what your favorite consistency is.</span></span></div>
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Making the Perfect Overnight Oats

Making breakfast the night before is a convenient and effective way to make sure you start your day off well, get a metabolism boost, a...

Posted by Alyssa Schomaker / Thursday, August 13, 2015 / No comments / clean lunch ideas , eating healthy , family , fitness , health , healthy choices , healthy family , kids , Kids Health , lunch , tips to eat clean

Packing Your Kids a Healthy Lunch

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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Whether you are packing your children’s lunches for a fun day at the beach, a play date with their friends, or school, adding healthy choices in their lunchbox is important! You want to make sure they are growing strong and healthy. A healthy lunch can be a challenge to prepare. Kids are susceptible to pressures from their peers and the media when it comes to food options. Overcoming these influences is difficult, but it can be done! Here’s how!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The first step in creating a healthy lunch is having a conversation with your children about healthy food! Help them understand what “healthy” means and how healthy choices will be good for their bodies and brains! Kids want to grow, and they want to be strong and smart. Tell them about the healthy aspects of certain vegetables, fruits, nuts, and proteins. The more they know, the more they will be interested in the food they consume. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Decide what kinds of foods you would reasonably be able to pack in a healthy lunch. Make a list. With the list of foods that you have created, ask your children to pick their favorites! Involving your children in the preparation will make them more excited about the process! Then, you can pack nutritious lunch options based on their healthy preferences.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 700; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Know the Basics</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">It is important that your children eat well-rounded meals. What constitutes a healthy lunch? There are many ways to get proper nutrition, but the basics come down to protein, vegetables, whole grains, and dairy. Putting the basics into each healthy lunch will give your children a nutrient dense diet, helping them grow strong!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Now that you have a general idea of what to pack, it’s time to pack it right! A healthy lunch is only healthy if it is properly stored and maintained. To create a portable lunch, you’ll need ice packs, a lunch box, a stainless steel thermos, and air-tight microwave safe containers.  To involve your children even more in this process bring, them along when you go shopping for these essentials. Let them pick the color thermos they like, the shape of the ice packs, and the design of the lunch box! Just make sure the lunch box is well-insulated and roomy enough to store the containers and the thermos.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">To keep things interesting for your kids, here are some fun food ideas for healthy lunches. </span></span><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; line-height: 1.38; white-space: pre-wrap;">Kids tend to love finger food! Try making your own healthy version of pre-packaged lunch snacks. Pack whole grain crackers, fresh deli meats, and slices of your child’s favorite cheese. Then, they get to put all the food together as if it is their own creation!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: 400; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another great finger food option is a pinwheel wrap. Take your whole grain wrap and put in the ingredients that your kids desire. Tightly wrap and then place toothpicks through the wrap about an inch apart. Cut between the toothpicks and you will have bite-sized pieces that have all the colors of the ingredients! It is a pretty finger food that your kids will love, too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">With these ideas in mind, planning and packing a healthy lunch for your kids is easy and fun. You may even want to pack your own healthy lunch! If you are looking to pursue a healthier lifestyle and improve the lives of your family, please </span><a href="http://www.afitnurse.com/" style="text-decoration: none;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; text-decoration: underline; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">contact me</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">! I can help you get on track with food, fitness, and a healthier approach to living!</span></span>

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Packing Your Kids a Healthy Lunch

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How to Prevent and Treat Muscle Cramps

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5 Benefits of Walking

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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Another benefit of walking is weight management. A brisk 30-minute walk burns 200 calories, which can translate into weight loss if you are also incorporating dietary portion control. Walking won’t make you look like a bodybuilder, but it will make you look leaner and will help you stand taller!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sitting all day at work can cause problems for your glutes. Atrophy is when your muscle cells degenerate, and it happens because of lack of use! When you walk, make a conscious effort to engage your glutes for the entirety of your walk. You will notice a difference in the shape of your butt, but you will also be improving muscles that have been wasting away in your office chair.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #666666; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Like running, walking releases endorphins, which translate into a happier you! Walking can also give you time to decompress after a long day and help you organize your thoughts and lower your cortisol, which your body releases in response to stress. Once you start walking routinely, you’ll notice you feel healthier emotionally, not just physically!</span></span></div>
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5 Benefits of Walking

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You Know That Water is Essential. Do You Know Why?

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<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">The command “drink more water,” makes a lot more sense now! It’s essential to every aspect of our being. Try switching out your sugary beverages for water. You can add different fruits to spruce up the flavor too! If you are eating well, you’re likely getting 20% of your water intake from food, which is great! Keep doing that. Ultimately, drink more water. You’ll notice a difference in how you feel and how your skin looks!</span></span>

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5 Summer Skin Care Tips

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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Drinking water is an important part of any skin care routine. H20 should be your best friend, your buddy, always by your side. It helps keep your skin softer, hydrated, younger-looking, and helps prevent fine lines and wrinkles in the future. Summer skin care relies on water consumption a lot, because we are sweating more in the summer, which can lead to dehydration!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Summer skin care can be improved greatly by routine exfoliation. When you exfoliate your skin, you are getting rid of dead skin cells that are clogging your pores and hiding your fresh, healthy skin. It’s important to not over-exfoliate as it can lead to skin irritation or redness. It is suggested to exfoliate two times per week to allow healthy skin to develop. You can buy exfoliants or make an all-natural one at home for your summer skin care routine.</span></span></div>
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5 Summer Skin Care Tips

Summer skin care is important to your appearance, but also to your overall health! Your skin is your body’s largest organ and needs spe...

Posted by Alyssa Schomaker / Tuesday, July 21, 2015 / No comments / Alyssa schomaker , BeachBody Business , Career Change , coaching , fitness , goals , health , nurse , Royal Republic , top 10 beachbody coach

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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Social media training is provided as well. I am going to teach you how to grow your market so that you can reach more people and be make a bigger impact in the lives of others. We are a top ten team in 2014 and currently a 2015 top 10 team as well. Most of my team is in healthcare and mothers and contribute this largely to our success. We are people that love to help people.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">In 29 months, My family and I are debt free, home with our kids, and have created a life by design. We don't live our lives for the weekend. We travel 8-9x a year and have created a 5 figure weekly income. Crazy I know but, it is 100% true and all because we are serving other people and helping them improve their health and live a more positive lifestyle. My cup is filled daily and it reminds me such how much reward comes from helping others.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">I didn't have business experience, training or the "know-how" before I got started... but I did have</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">-- I was Coachable, willing to show up and learn</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">-- I was ready & motivated to make changes and create freedom for my future family</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">This business isn't for the QUALIFIED… its for those who are COACHABLE and not looking for a “Get RICH Quick Scheme!”</span></span><br />
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<b><i>I will also be launching my next New Coach Training University on the 3rd of August with a new coach kick off call at 8:00 pm EST on Wednesday July 28th.</i></b>  Once you become a coach you will have access to the link for this call!</div>
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Then, to help you get started right you will have access to my New Coach University where I will teach you everything that I have done to be successful in this business.  I will help you from re inventing the wheel.  You will have access to all of my trainings, my documents, my guides, scripts, calls and more!  I do a weekly team call, a smaller new coach call and 1:1 calls as needed. So there definitely is not a lack of support from our team and myself!</div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Our cardiovascular system can also benefit from treadmill incline workouts. When you are walking up an incline, you are pushing your body forward, but also upward, which causes your lungs to breathe deeper and increases blood flow to your heart. Cardiovascular strength is so important in overall health, so it’s awesome that treadmill incline workouts are such an easy way to improve it!</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;"><span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Lastly, treadmill incline workouts are extremely customizable to your fitness level and fitness goals. You can modify the speed and the incline to keep you working toward your best you! Putting a treadmill at an incline between 10% and 15% is suggested, from there you can adjust your speed to wherever you feel comfortable! If you have to hold on to the bars, consider lowering your speed and your incline. Keeping your arms at your side in a normal walking formation will also help target your core muscles and improve the overall results from your treadmill incline workout!</span></span></div>
<span style="color: #444444; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br /><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;">Hope you give a treadmill incline workout a try next time you hit the gym! It’s a great way to mix things up from your normal routine, and it has so many benefits that it may become a staple in your fitness routine!</span></span>

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New Approach to Treadmill Incline Workouts

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