Smile More

3. Smile More To Make Yourself Beautiful

The old saying goes “When you smile the world smiles with you.” This is so true.

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4 Days Till Christmas – Reduce Your Stress

4. Reduce Your Stress

Stress is debilitating.  It affects everybody adversely and can lead to weight gain, lack of sleep, heart attacks and death.  So, how can we beat stress?

Here are a few hints on how to overcome the stress of the holiday season:

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Add More Spice To Your Life!

5. Add More Spice To Your Life!

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6 Days Till Christmas – Ditch One Bad Habit

6. Ditch One Bad Habit before New Years Eve

I have a friend who used to be addicted to sex, drugs, alcohol and more. He is clean and fit now but we all have some habits that prevent us from being truly happy or healthy.

News flash. From November 8th 2014 I have given up ALL ALCOHOL.

Why Did Chad Give Up All BOOZE From November 8th 2015 Until September 28th 2018?

I have done it for my family, my wellness clients and most importantly for myself.


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Primed Guilt Free Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe

Primed Guilt Free Chocolate Ice Cream Recipe

Chocolate ice cream is often a guilty pleasure we all enjoy but try to limit so as to avoid excess kilos on our butts and hips. What if you could have a guilt free Primed Chocolate Ice Cream indulgence? Please see below a recipe using nutritious ingredients that is easy to make and absolutely delicious.

Ingredients:

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Primed Christmas Cake

Primed Christmas Cake

Christmas Cake is a tradition in many countries but the store bought one can often have an ingredients list as long as your arm. That would be fine if they were all Primed, quality foods that fueled your mind and body well.

Unfortunately these days food like substance manufacturers include substances to do the following:

(1) Enhance the shelf life of the product (means many added chemicals and other nasty substances);
(2) Try and get you addicted to their product (by adding sugar where it is not necessary is a classic ploy to dupe consumers);
(3) Try and stimulate your appetite so you eat more by including gluten where it is not necessary. Then you eat more of their product; and
(4) Make the product as cheaply as possible so they will use whichever supplier gives them the least price with no regard to how these products are farmed.

Bottom-line is that if you chose to buy any packaged goods you should check the ingredients list and avoid when you see MSG, gluten, sugar, fructose and any ingredients of which you do not know. Compare this to fruits and vegetables which do not need an ingredient list!

Please see our Primed Christmas Pudding made with only Primed ingredients so you will not inadvertently harm yourself or your family with nasty chemicals and other food like substances.

Ingredients:

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zest and juice of one orange and one lemon (we zest from our frozen peels as shown below)
2 cup raisins
1 cup dried apricots
15 dried prunes
4 ripe bananas

1 cup crushed walnuts
1 cups almond meal
1 and 1/2 cups of coconut flour (please click here to see how cheap and easy it is to do yourself)

6 eggs

1 cup red wine

2 teaspoons all spice mix
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
1 teaspoon ground cloves
1 teaspoon concentrated natural vanilla extract
salt pinch

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Method:

1. Soak all these ingredients in your red wine over night: zest and juice of one orange and one lemon, 2 cup raisins, 1 cup dried apricots and 15 dried prunes

2. After soaking your ingredients in your red wine over night transfer to a pot and bring to boil quickly before turning heat down and allowing to simmer for 8 minutes remembering to stir occasionally. Then set aside and allow to cool down.

3. Mash your bananas and then whisk in your eggs. Then add your spices to this mixture and stir in.

4. Add your stewed fruits into your egg, banana and spice mix.

5. Now add your coconut and almond flour as well as your crushed walnuts.

6. Grease a cake tin (or individual muffin trays) liberally with butter.

7. Set your oven to 350 degrees and once that temperature is reached place in your baking tray once all your combined ingredients have been lovingly placed inside.

8. Allow to cook for 20 minutes.

9. After 30 minutes remove from oven and once cooled remove from tin or muffin tray.

10. Serve with a nice heavy whipped cream (never the chemical laden light/lite one).

Additional

1. There are many other excellent Christmas Cake recipes with a favorite of my friend Ellen and I being www.wholefoodsimply.com

8 Days Till Christmas – Forgive

8. Forgive

The Wise Dalai Lama said it best with “If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.”

Other Forgiveness Quotes

“The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong.” – Mohandas Gandhi

“I’ve learned that no matter how good a friend someone is, they’re going to hurt you every once in awhile and you must forgive them for that.” – Friedrich Nietzsche

“There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness.” – Josh Billings
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Have Holiday Fun without Getting Fat

Have Holiday Fun Without Getting Fat

Holiday excess! Two words we do not like at all. We all usually come home with excess baggage around our butts and waistlines from our holiday excesses. This is a usual occurrence after a great vacation where we return heavier than we left due to over-eating and drinking, and not getting enough exercise and/or sleep.

Here are a few hints on how to have a great holiday that could leave you a little lighter in body, enriched in mind, and save you some cash as well.

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Avoid Brain Drain

10. Avoid Brain Drain

Before the New Year begins it is time to Recharge, Re-Program, Feed, Soothe, Nourish, Enrich, Challenge and Rest Your Mind.

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11 Reasons Why You Chose To Eat Healthily

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Of course, there are more benefits than just the 11 stated.

Here are some more benefits of adopting a Primed Lefestyle.

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Enjoy More Time for Life!