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Random Abs. » Reader Recipes. [From this post on Oh She Glows] During January 2009, I felt a huge void in my life.

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I was unhappy with my career and I was often up late at night until 3 or 4 in the morning worrying about work. I dragged all day long and I was turning into someone I didn’t recognize anymore. I started blending green vegetables in my blender after reading about Kris Carr’s green juices. While I didn’t have a juicer, I did have a blender, and I was excited to blend my green ‘juice’ any way that I could. In my Story of the Green Monster post, I explained: Determined to feel alive once again, I crammed the healthiest foods into my blender and I blended my little heart out.

This was one of my first concoctions: No almond milk, just kale, an English cucumber, and baby carrots. lol. Thankfully, my Green Monsters have improved greatly since those initial days. On January 26, 2009, I gave my two weeks notice at my job. This is a recipe that I keep coming back to again and again and it never fails me. [print_this] Diet. Insanity Workout.

Drop serious pounds and sculpt sexy curves with Insanity, the DVD craze that lives up to the hype.

Insanity Workout

The magic behind the routine comes from plyometrics: explosive, full-body exercises that rev your heart rate and ratchet up metabolism to torch megacalories and build lean muscle. We asked Insanity creator Shaun Thompson for his top multitasking moves to help you get an insane body in only 20 minutes. You'll need: Zilch. Unless you count a wardrobe of size-smaller clothes. The plan: Do each sizzler for 1 minute without stopping between exercises. The HEISMAN Works: shoulders, arms, abs, butt, thighsStand with feet hip-width apart, elbows bent, arms close to body. Stance Jacks Works: shoulders, abs, obliques, butt, thighsStand with feet together, arms raised to chest level, elbows out, fingertips touching.

Hit the Floor. Weight Loss Foods – YouBeauty. Some foods—from celery to spicy eats—maintain a mythical status among dieters, who believe they offer an effortless calorie-burning boost.

Weight Loss Foods – YouBeauty

But can a single food give you a real leg-up when it comes to shedding excess pounds, or is this right up there with baby unicorns and U.F.O.s? We asked Anthony Ricci, a certified sports nutritionist on the board of the International Society of Sports Nutrition, to give us the skinny on five foods often believed to magically tip the scales in your favor.

MORE: Six Apps that Help You Lose Weight Claim: Celery burns off more calories than it contains. Ricci says the so-called negative calorie hypothesis is technically correct but the effect is so negligible it’s useless for shrinking waistlines. MORE: 10 Healthy Brown Bag Lunches Claim: Eggs help control your appetite. While eating eggs won’t trigger spontaneous fat loss, Ricci says that eggs may help stabilize appetite. MORE: Tunisian Egg Scramble Recipe Claim: Spicy foods rev up your metabolism. Read More. Top 100 Foods to Improve Your Productivity. Besides eating to lose weight, why not eat to improve your productivity? Whether the following foods help sharpen your eyesight, keep your brain focused, or just fill you up without making you feel lazy, you’ll find they’ll help you keep your day on track.

Energy and Brain Foods Most of us can be productive in the mornings, but if you find that you’re unable to concentrate or simply lose the energy to keep going many afternoons, these energy and brainpower boosting foods are what you need. Eggplant: As long as you don’t forget to eat the skin, it doesn’t matter how you ingest your eggplant. Eggplant skin contains the nutrient naunin, which keeps your brain sharp by increasing communication between your brain cells and messenger molecules. Eyesight For many entrepreneurs, long hours in front of the computer screen has become an absolute necessity.

Strawberries: As with the other fruits on this list, strawberries help your eyesight. General Productivity Boosters Improving Digestion and Sleep.