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Protein Cookies, the “fat” cold and Mom’s Lies!
Each day I will begin posting not only daily motivations, studies and inspirational articles, but I will also be incorporating other stories from popular fitness sites so y’all get the best of the cyber world without having to go everywhere! Let me do all the mouse work. HA!
I am also going to begin posting more interviews and fitness role models so stay tuned!
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Somebody has been living out your baking fantasies. And, it seems that Stephen Charles Lincoln has; bakery owner, fitness instructor, and actor - People magazine even included him as one of the years 25 hottest bachelors in 2003. He started out in his kitchen, turning it into a sweet tooth’s American Dream with The Protein Bakery.
What? That’s not what you were thinking? Well, before you start to wallow in disappointment, know this: there is a way to please both your sweet cravings and still keep your figure and it’s by eating healthier snacks! Imagine, these delicious brownies are overfilled with proteins, and they do not make you hungry for more sweet stuff and they actually taste great!Read the whole article here.

YUMMMY!!! ALL Protein Cookies!! NO Gluten - clean, healthy and my new favorite shop!
A common virus that causes colds can be a factor in obesity, according to a study released Monday offering further evidence that a weight problem may be contagious.
The adenovirus-36 (Ad 36) has already been implicated as the cause of weight gain in animals, but with this study researchers showed for the first time that it can also cause humans to pile on the pounds.
The findings could accelerate the development of a vaccine or an antiviral medication to help fight the battle of the bulge alongside diet and exercise.
“We’re not saying that a virus is the only cause of obesity, but this study provides stronger evidence that some obesity cases may involve viral infections,” said Magdalena Pasarica, an obesity researcher at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge.Read the Whole Article HERE

Are you as sick as a dog? If you are overweight, it may be influencing you!
You might be saying, “Wow, that’s amazing” or thinking that senility has set in and I’m simply unable to recall all the lies she told me over the years. Perhaps you’re even thinking that I’ve repressed the lies — little, white or other — she told me in the deep recesses of my brain and, perhaps through intense psychotherapy, they could be retrieved and examined.Wrong on all counts.
My mother was simply a straight-up, honest — blunt — person. “Boy, that apple landed close to the tree,” you’re thinking.
The Lie
She told me only one thing that wasn’t true, but she did so repeatedly over the course of many years, even when I was well into adulthood:
“You would be so pretty if only you would lose weight.”Read the whole article here.

Mother’s have more influence on their daughter’s self image than they know.
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Ahmad Baari, C.P.T.