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45 Super Bowl Cocktails Under 200 Calories | Part of the fun of Super Bowl Sunday is the drinks. Am I right? If you're trying to lose weight and want to indulge in a cocktail (or 4) without ruining your weight loss progress, we've curated the best low calorie drinks that are easy to make and taste delicious. Perfect for one or for a crowd, these simple cocktails go beyond vodka sodas. Learn how to create low calorie drinks with rum, tequila, gin, and anything else you have on hand!

Drink Up! 45 Super Bowl Cocktails Under 200 Calories

How to Stop Boredom Eating | If you want to know how to overcome unhealthy eating habits, like boredom eating, stress eating, or any other type of emotional eating patterns, this post has tons of helpful tips to teach you how to control your mindset, how to beat cravings, and how to avoid eating your feelings. These clean eating strategies will help you figure how to control cravings before they start, allowing you to plan ahead and learn how to stop making unhealthy choices in the moment.

Emotional Eater? 9 Ways to Stop Boredom Eating One and For All

75 Comfort Food Recipes Under 500 Calories | If you're craving comfort food without the guilt, this post is for you! We've curated the best healthy, low calorie comfort food recipes, allowing you to enjoy your favorite meals without sabotaging your weight loss goals. From vegan and vegetarian comfort foods loaded with plant-based protein, to crockpot and casserole dishes that are easy to whip up, to our favorite guilt-free desserts, these comfort food ideas will not disappoint!

Guilt-Free and Delicious: 75 Comfort Food Recipes Under 500 Calories

How to Stop Drinking Alcohol | Trying to quit alcohol? Whether your booze of choice is wine, beer, or hard liquor, this post has tons of simple tips and ideas to keep you motivated and help you push through alcohol cravings like a boss. Removing alcohol from your diet is a very effective way to lose weight, and there are many other health benefits of eliminating alcohol from your diet. Learn how to cope with FOMO at home and while socializing with friends while you kick bad habits to the curb!

How to Stop Drinking Alcohol: 10 Tips and Tricks to Reduce Cravings

45 High Protein Vegan Meals | If you're looking for simple and quick vegan recipes that are easy to prep, we've curated the best vegan recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner that are high in plant-based protein to help you feel full for longer. With tons of low carb and low calorie options to choose from, these recipes are healthy and delicious. Clean eating has never tasted so good!

45 High Protein Vegan Meals to Satiate Your Hunger

How to Reduce Body Fat | If you want to reduce your body fat percentage fast, this post is for you! We're sharing the best food, diet, and exercise tips and tricks for women to help decrease your body fat naturally. This post includes a body fat percentage chart for women and for men to help you gauge how much you need to lose, and you'll learn which foods to avoid, the best foods and snacks to help you feel full, and fat burning workouts to help you tighten and tone your body!

How to Reduce Body Fat: 9 Tips and Exercises that Help

30-Day Fitness Challenges to Try This Year | Whether you're looking for 30-day full body workout challenges for beginners, or something more specific, like a 30-day arms challenge, 30-day abs challenge, or a 30-day squat challenge for women, this post has tons of ideas to inspire you! While many of us take on weight loss challenges at the beginning of the year, there's no time like the present, and you can start any of these 30-day challenge ideas right here, right now!

33 of The Best 30-Day Fitness Challenges to Try This Year

7 Plank Workouts for a Killer Core | Whether you have 5 minutes or 20 minutes to spare, we've curated the best plank workouts for women and for men to help tighten and tone your core and abdominal muscles. There are so many benefits of incorporating planks in your weekly workout schedule, and while they make look easy, they give you a full body workout and are a great way to sculpt your abs and obliques! Perfect for beginners and beyond, lose belly fat fast with these home exercises!

7 Plank Workouts for Beginners to Strengthen Your Core

10 Oblique Workouts for Women | Say goodbye to your love handles with this collection of oblique workouts you can do at home or at the gym! We've included a range of workouts for every fitness level, and you don't need weights as we've also included no equipment body weight workouts that pack a punch! Hate doing abdominal exercises like crunches? You're in luck! Some of these moves are done standing, and they will give you a flat belly and ab definition your friends will be jealous of.

Bye Bye Love Handles: 10 Oblique Workouts for Women

20 Lower Body Workouts for Women | If you're trying to get into a strength training routine and want to know how to tighten and tone your glutes and legs at home with weights or without weights, we're sharing the best exercises to help! Whether you have a set of dumbbells, kettlebells, resistance bands, or a TRX suspension trainer - or no equipment whatsoever - we've curated the best home workouts to help you burn fat and build muscle.

Legs and Glutes: 20 Lower Body Workouts for Women

20 Full Body Stair Workouts for Weight Loss | If you're trying to lose weight and build muscle and stamina, climbing a set of stairs is a great way to get a full body workout! Whether you're using outdoor stairs, or have a staircase at home, we've curated 20 staircase workouts you can do anytime, anywhere! Choose between HIIT workouts for cardio, leg or glute workouts to target problem areas, or a full body workout to torch fat and calories. Better yet, combine 2 or more into your own routine!

Get Fit At Home: 20 Full Body Stair Workouts for Weight Loss

10 TRX Workouts for Beginners | Cardio meets strength training with this collection of full body TRX workouts! Perfect for women and for men, we've included a mix of arms, abs, legs, glutes, back, and full-body workouts so you can plan ahead and create your own TRX workout routine to target your upper body, lower body, and core on alternating days. There are so many benefits of TRX suspension training, and it's a great way to burn fat, build muscle, and provides a serious core workout!

Full Body Cardio and Strength: 10 TRX Workouts for Beginners

20 Upper Body Workouts for Women | If you're trying to get into a strength training routine and want to know how to tighten and tone your arms, shoulders, and back at home, we're sharing the best exercises to help! Whether you have a set of dumbbells, kettlebells, or resistance bands - or no equipment whatsoever - we've curated the best home workouts to help you burn fat and build muscle. Say goodbye to flabby arms and bat wings and commit to the challenge!

Strength Training At Home: 20 Upper Body Workouts for Women

44 Baked Salmon Recipes for Weight Loss | Salmon offers so many health benefits. It's rich in omega-3 fatty acids and vitamin B, high in protein, and it's a great anti-inflammatory food. If you're looking for a collection of the best healthy salmon recipes to add to your weekly meal plan, we've curated tons of ideas to inspire you. From simple lemon honey garlic, to brown sugar teriyaki, to dill, to pesto and more, you can cook these recipes in the oven, in foil packs, or on the barbeque!

Healthy and Filling: 44 Baked Salmon Recipes for Weight Loss

40 Sandwiches Under 300 Calories | From make ahead breakfast sandwiches, to the best cold and hot sandwiches, to vegetarian sandwiches that satisfy, we've curated the best sandwich recipes for weight loss! Each recipe is 300 calories or less, with tons of make ahead recipes you can meal prep for work or school. There are so many ideas here, including upgrades of your faves, like philly cheesesteak, egg salad, tuna, grilled cheese, meatball, and traditional club sandwiches!

Simple and Filling: 40 Sandwiches Under 300 Calories

60 Pasta Recipes Under 500 Calories | If you're looking for healthy lunch and dinner recipes under 500 calories to help with your weight loss goals, we've curated tons of easy ideas to inspire you! From vegan to vegetarian, chicken to ground beef to shrimp, simple tomato sauce to creamy Alfredo, this post has it all. And as an added bonus, many of these are make ahead recipes that are also freezable, making meal prep a breeze!

Satisfy Your Hunger: 60 Pasta Recipes Under 500 Calories

How to Lose Face Fat | Whether you have chubby cheeks, a double chin, loose skin due to quick weight loss, or you just feel self-conscious about your round face shape, we're sharing 13 face slimming tips and exercises to teach you how to get rid of face fat. While these tips and facial exercises won't slim your face in a day or even in a week, we've included makeup hacks and fashion tips that will make your face look thinner overnight!

How to Lose Face Fat: 13 Tips and Exercises for a Slimmer Face

33 Baked Oatmeal Recipes | If you're looking for healthy breakfast ideas that will make you feel full, support your weight loss goals, and that you can make ahead of time as part of your weekly meal prep routine, this post is for you! Whether you like to eat a low carb or low calorie diet, we've curated tons of ideas that are easy to make, high in protein, and taste delicious. From banana, strawberry, peach, and blueberry, to peanut butter and chocolate, these are delicious!

Rise and Grind! 33 Baked Oatmeal Recipes to Fuel Your Day

30 Salads Under 300 Calories for Weight Loss | If you're looking for easy and healthy salads for lunch or for dinner that will satisfy your hunger without causing you to gain weight, these salad recipes are the best! Whether you like your salads with chicken, tuna, steak, or salmon or prefer vegan or vegetarian options like taco salad and pasta salad, these low calorie recipes are super quick, high in protein, and downright delicious! Clean eating meal prep has never been so simple or delish!

Clean Eating At Home: 30 Make Ahead Salads Under 300 Calories

15 Leg and Glute Workouts | Whether you workout at home or at the gym, prefer to use weights (dumbbells, barbells, or kettlebells) or resistance bands, or need no equipment workouts you can stream from anywhere, this post has the best exercises to help you tighten and tone your legs, butt, and thighs. We've included 10 exercises, including squat and lunge variations, glute bridges, and dead lifts, as well as the best videos you can stream for free so you can workout anywhere!

Tighten and Tone: 15 Leg and Glute Workouts for Women

How to Get an Hourglass Figure | If you want to know the secret to a small waist with curvy hips and a bigger butt, this post is full of diet and nutrition tips, as well as 5 hour glass workout ideas to help you see results fast. While you probably won't achieve an hourglass figure in a week or even in a month, cleaning eating coupled with the right exercise moves is key! If you're up for the challenge, use the tips and ideas in this post to create a routine to get you to your goals!

How to Get an Hourglass Figure: 11 Tips and Workouts for a Sexy Body