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10 Foods that Boost Your Metabolism | They say weight loss is 80% diet and 20% exercise and that abs are made in the kitchen, and I couldn't agree more. If losing weight is your goal, filling your plate with the right percentage of lean protein, carbs, and healthy fats - macros - is key. It will turn your body into a fat-burning machine, helping you to burn calories at rest, lose weight, and build muscle. If you're looking for natural ways to boost your metabolism, check out this list!

10 Foods That Boost Your Metabolism for Faster Weight Loss

30 Healthy Lasagna Recipes | There are so many simple and easy ways you can upgrade your favorite lasagna recipes to make them healthier - use ricotta and cottage cheese instead of mozzarella to make it low fat, use zucchini and eggplant instead of lasagne noodles to make it gluten free, and add vegetables instead of meat to make it vegetarian or vegan. If you're looking for the best low calorie and low carb lasagna recipes, this post has tons of ideas to inspire you!

30 Simple and Delicious Healthy Lasagna Recipes for Weight Loss

25 Protein Overnight Oatmeal Recipes | Also known as PROATS, protein overnight oats are a delicious way to kickstart your day. Oatmeal offers many health benefits - it's high in fiber, a great option for those on a low cholesterol diet, and it can help you lose weight to boot! Adding protein powder to your oatmeal helps build lean muscle and keeps you feeling full and satiated for longer. From vanilla to chocolate to peanut butter to pumpkin pie, these recipes are healthy and low calorie!

Proats 101: 25 Protein Overnight Oatmeal Recipes for Weight Loss

25 Protein Fluff Recipes for Weight Loss | Looking for simple and easy high protein dessert recipes? These protein powder recipes are for you! Protein fluff is a low calorie, high volume frozen dessert that's sweet, creamy, and filling while also low fat and low carb. There are so many different recipes and flavors you can make - vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, peanut butter - and many use xanthan gum to add thickness. Use a vegan protein powder if you need a plant based dessert!

High Protein Desserts: 25 Protein Fluff Recipes for Weight Loss

40 Easy-to-Make Eggplant Recipes | Also known as aubergine, eggplant offers many health benefits - they improve digestive health, balance blood sugar, and boost brain and bone health to name a few. If you want to know how to cook eggplant, this post has everything you need, from cooking tips and hacks, to healthy and delicious aubergine recipes the whole family will love. Enjoy your eggplant stuffed, fried, grilled, baked, oven roasted, or throw it in the air fryer with these delicious ideas!

Awesome Aubergine! 40 Easy-to-Make Eggplant Recipes

15 Full Body At Home Lazy Girl Workouts | If you're looking for quick at home workout videos to help you lose weight and get a flat stomach fast, this post is for you! We've curated 5 exercise videos each for your arms and upper body, your abs and core, and your glutes and legs. Many of these workouts are only 5 minutes long and require no equipment, and we've even included a few lazy girl workouts you can do in bed because losing weight shouldn't be difficult. Are you up for the challenge?

Get Fit Fast! 15 Full Body At Home Lazy Girl Workouts

10 Waist Workouts for Women | If you want to know how to get a smaller waist, this post has all the info you need! We're sharing the best exercises you can do at home for a slimmer waist, and we've also included 4 at home videos you can stream anytime (and anywhere!) to give you tight, toned ab and core muscles. Many of these moves require no equipment, but you can add weights to make them more of a challenge. Perfect for beginners and beyond, find out how to get an hourglass figure!

How to Get a Smaller Waist: 10 Waist Workouts for Women

5 Benefits of Strength Training for Weight Loss | If you're trying to lose weight at home, lifting weights is one of the best exercises you can do. Resistance training creates an 'afterburn effect' and boosts your metabolism, while also burning belly fat, promoting bone health, and improving sleep. This post has all the details you need, including 5 tips to help you get started with weight training for weight loss!

5 Benefits of Strength Training for Weight Loss & How to Get Started

10 Chest Workouts for Women | Whether you workout at home or at the gym, these exercises will target your back and chest while also working your tricep and bicep muscles. You'll need dumbbells for most of these workouts for women, but we've included resistance bands exercises as well as no equipment / body weight options too. Reduce back fat and tighten and tone your upper body with these quick moves and gym videos for an amazing before and after transformation!

Chest Workouts for Women: 10 At Home Exercises to Try

How to Get Bikini Ready Fast | Whether you're going on a beach vacation, or the summer months are quickly approaching, you're probably on the hunt for some sort of summer body workout plan to help you get your best bod in 30 days (or less). There are tons of meal plan and workout plan ideas that can help (21 day fix, anyone?), but the key to long-term results is to adopt healthy lifestyle changes you can sustain. This post has lots of great tips to teach how you to be confident in your skin!

How to Get Bikini Ready Fast: 10 Tips and Tricks That Work!

36 Dark Chocolate Recipes for Weight Loss | Dark chocolate offers many health benefits - it's an anti-inflammatory food with antioxidant properties, it boosts cognition, and it's a delicious natural mood booster. The trick is to use chocolate with cocoa that's 85%, 90%, 95% or higher. This collection of homemade chocolate desserts includes healthy, low carb keto desserts as well as vegan desserts that are naturally gluten free. We've also included some DIY sugar free desserts that are delish!

Guilt-Free Dessert: 36 Dark Chocolate Recipes for Weight Loss

24 Upgraded Chicken Breast Recipes For Weight Loss | If you're sick and tired of making the same, boring baked chicken day in and day out, this post is for you! We've curated our favorite healthy chicken breast recipes that are quick, easy, and healthy to boot! Whether you prefer to cook your chicken in the oven, a skillet, an instant pot, or a crockpot / slow cooker, there's a recipe here for you. We've also included stuffed chicken breast recipes that are low carb and simply delish!

Sick of Chicken? 24 Upgraded Chicken Breast Recipes For Weight Loss

40 Healthy Date Recipes for Weight Loss | Dates are a healthy sugar substitute, allowing you to add sweetness to your meals and desserts without using refined sugar. It's an easy, clean eating food swap you can use to create easy and delicious lunch, dinner, and dessert recipes to help you lose weight and keep your blood sugar stable. Whether you follow a vegan, Paleo, keto, or low calorie diet, this collection of recipes has everything from smoothies, to cookies, to banana bread and more!

Sweet and Satisfying: 40 Healthy Date Recipes for Weight Loss

48 Healthy Sweet Potato Recipes | Sweet potatoes offer so many health benefits - they're rich in Vitamin A, full of fiber, great for gut health, and aid with weight loss to boot! If you're looking for easy ways to cook sweet potatoes, we've curated the best recipes to try. You can bake, mash, or roast them, throw them in the air fryer, add them to you favorite winter casserole or summer salad, try them candied, mix them with quinoa, try a breakfast bake...the possibilities are endless!

48 Healthy Sweet Potato Recipes for Weight Loss

22 Lunch Workout Routine Tips & Hacks | Whether you work from home or at the office, it IS possible to squeeze in a quick sweat sesh between calls and deadlines! There are tons of no equipment workouts you can stream for free, ranging from the 15 minute to 30 minute mark, with longer options to choose from. This post has everything you need - workout essentials, tips to teach you how to look good after a lunch workout, and pre- and post-workout snacks and meals, and more!

22 Lunch Workout Routine Tips and Exercises to Help You Stay Active

30 Simple and Easy Wheat Free Meals | If you're looking for family-friendly gluten and wheat free meals, this post is for you! We've included recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner, as well as delicious wheat free desserts you'll wish you tried sooner. Many of the recipes are also dairy and sugar free, and since you can meal prep many of these ahead of time, they make the perfect weeknight dinners as they can be reheated in a pinch!

30 Simple and Easy Wheat Free Meals the Whole Family Will Love

40 Simple and Easy Pumpkin Seed Recipes | Pumpkin seeds (aka pepitas) offer tons of health benefits. They boost your immune system and heart health, improve sleep, and help with weight loss to boot! If you want to know how to roast pumpkin seeds, this post has tons of tips, as well as the best pumpkin seed recipes to try. From cinnamon toasted pumpkin seeds, to pumpkin pie pepitas, to chocolate pumpkin seed peanut butter cups, to sweet candied pumpkin seeds, these recipes are delish!

40 Simple & Delicious Pumpkin Seed Recipes to Try This Fall

48 Healthy Stuffed Bell Pepper Recipes for Weight Loss | Bell peppers offer so many health benefits, from boosting your immunity, to helping you get a good night of sleep, to improving heart health. Bell peppers can also help you lose weight, and we've rounded up the best stuffed pepper recipes that taste good while also helping you feel full and satiated. Whether you prefer traditional ground beef and rice recipes, or want vegetarian or vegan options, this post as it all!

48 Healthy Stuffed Bell Pepper Recipes for Weight Loss

9 Hula Hoop Workouts for Weight Loss | Perfect for beginners and beyond, these weighted hula hoop workouts and challenges are a fun way to add in some cardio to burn calories while also getting in a good core workout. Adding hula hoop exercises into your fitness regime also provides fat-burning benefits, and many of these workouts will also tighten and tone your body. This post discusses all of the benefits of hula hoop workouts, and you can stream the workout videos for free!

Get Fit At Home: 9 Hula Hoop Workouts for Weight Loss

40 Peloton Quotes to Motivate and Inspire You | Whether you own a Peloton bike or treadmill, or workout via the app, it's an all-in-one option for at home workouts. From indoor cycling and treadmill workouts, to strength training and core workouts, to yoga, pilates, barre, and stretching, there are tons of options, and we've compiled our favorite Peloton instructor quotes from Jess Sims, Cody Rigsby, Alex Toussaint, Robin Arzon, Ally Love, Kendall Toole, and more!

40 Peloton Quotes to Motivate and Inspire You Everyday!

7 Best Batwing Workouts to Tighten and Tone | If you want to know how to get rid of flabby arms, this post includes the best arm exercises for batwings! Whether you prefer to workout at home or at the gym, you can create your own arm workout routine based on what equipment you have available to you (yes, there are no equipment options!). We've included the best exercises for triceps along with a few other moves that target batwings for beautifully toned tank top arms!

Flabby Arms? 7 Best Batwing Workouts to Tighten and Tone