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Looking for the best GAPS recipes for kids? Look no further! From simple breakfast and lunch ideas to fruit snacks, desserts, and creative ways to get kids to consume bone broth, we’ve rounded up 50+ GAPS recipes that are perfect for children and families alike. Using ingredients like coconut oil, almond flour, honey, and maple syrup, these recipes might be dairy free, sugar free, and low carb, but that doesn’t mean they aren’t delicious!

GAPS Recipes for Kids: 50+ Delicious Ideas the Whole Family Will Love

50+ Cheap Easy Vegan Meals for Beginners | Whether you’re looking for vegan recipes for beginners or just need some new plant-based inspiration to keep your menu fresh and appetizing, we’ve got over 50 vegan meals you’ll love, and we’ve even thrown in some gluten-free options for those with allergies! With easy to make, high protein vegan breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, and dessert recipes at your fingertips, embracing the vegan diet and eating clean has never been easier!

Cheap Easy Vegan Meals: 50+ Vegan Meals for Beginners

Want to create a weekly meal plan on a budget to help you lose weight and get back in shape? Look no further! We’re sharing 4 simple tips you can implement TODAY to help you learn the art of meal prepping for weight loss. Whether you’re shopping for one or for 2 (or for 3, for 4, for 5, or even for 6!), we’ll teach you how to create a killer grocery list as well as other money-saving tips to help you develop a healthy weekly menu you’ll love in half the time (and for half the money)!!

Easy! Weekly Meal Plan on a Budget in 4 Simple Steps!

Healthy Salad Dressing: 13 Delicious Low Calorie Recipes | Looking for healthy yet delicious homemade salad dressing recipes to support your diet and weight loss goals? Whether you’re on the Weight Watchers diet, follow a low carb, low calorie diet, or have the strength for something hard core like the paleo, whole30, or vegan diets, we’ve rounded up the best skinny salad dressings that are easy to make and taste DELISH!

Healthy Salad Dressing: 13 Delicious Low Calorie Recipes

Whole30 Diet Plan: 50+ Whole30 Recipes You'll Love | Interested in starting the Whole30 challenge but don’t know where to start? We’ve got a complete list of Whole30 rules, a Whole30 food list with things to eat and avoid to take the guess work out of shopping lists, and we’ve also pulled together 50+ easy-to-make Whole30 breakfast, lunch, dinner, snack, and dessert recipes you’ll love. Eating clean has never tasted so good!

Whole30 Diet Plan: 50+ Whole30 Approved Recipes You’ll Love

What is the Whole 30 challenge anyway? This simple yet comprehensive Whole 30 Eating Plan offers a complete week 1 kick start guide to help you understand the basic rules, and it includes an easy-to-follow menu plan with delicious recipes to help you get your body back to its healthy, natural state while enjoying serious weight loss results!

Whole30 Eating Plan: Your Complete 1-Week Kick Start Guide!

Whether you follow the Paleo diet due to health issues, chronic diseases, or for weight loss, you will LOVE this collection of 100 Paleo recipes. From breakfast, lunch, and dinner to sides, snacks, and desserts, these are the best Paleo recipes you’ll find on the Internet. They’re healthy, easy to make, and some are even crockpot-friendly. Happy eating!

100 Best Paleo Diet Recipes We Love

Ketogenic Diet Plan for Weight Loss: 7-Day Keto Meal Plan and Menu | If you’re just starting the keto diet, want to know what it is, and need tips for beginners to help you understand what you can and cannot eat, our Keto 101 guide is for you! Full of helpful tips as well as easy keto meals and keto recipes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner that are delicious and filling, losing weight has never been easier!

Ketogenic Diet Plan for Weight Loss: 7-Day Keto Meal Plan and Menu

How to Become a Morning Person: 6 Simple Secrets That Work! | Looking for tips to help you wake up with the sun feeling refreshed and full of motivation? Perfect for moms with kids, millennials in college, or for teens in school, this collection of tips will give you the inspiration you need to stop being a night owl and embrace mornings like a boss!

How to Become a Morning Person: 6 Simple Secrets That Work!

7-Day Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Beginners | Looking for an anti-inflammatory meal plan to help boost your immune system, keep your autoimmune disease under control, and aid in weight loss? We’ve put together a 7-day meal plan for beginners, complete with anti-inflammatory recipes and a list of anti-inflammatory foods to indulge in. With delicious breakfast, lunch, dinner, and snack recipes to choose from, combatting arthritis and chronic pain has never tasted better.

Anti-Inflammatory Meal Plan: 7-Day Anti-Inflammatory Diet for Beginners

Want to learn how to lose arm fat FAST? This 12-minute workout video will target and tone your shoulders, biceps, and triceps, and if you own weights, you can do these exercises from the comfort of your own home. I can't say you'll see significant results in a week, but I definitely saw a difference within a month of doing this workout every single day. Such a shame it didn't have the same effect on my double chin. HA! Make sure to take before and after measurements and photos so you can track your progress!

How to Lose Arm Fat FAST (FULL Workout Included!)

Full Body Workout with Resistance Bands: 10 Exercises to Tighten & Tone | Resistance band exercises offer a great all-in-one workout for glutes, for arms, for legs, for abs, for back, and for thighs that can be done anytime, anywhere. Perfect for weight loss and building muscle, we’re sharing 10 workouts for beginners (and beyond!) to help you get back in shape from the comfort of your own home.

Full Body Workout with Resistance Bands: 10 Exercises to Tighten & Tone

Dry Burning Eyes: 6 Remedies for Dry Eye Syndrome | Dry, burning, itchy, red, sore, and blurry eyes got you down? Want to know how to get rid of dry eye once and for all? We’re sharing our best natural treatments as well as our favorite OTC product to soothe and comfort your eyes FAST!

Dry Burning Eyes: 6 Remedies for Dry Eye That Actually Work!

Desperate to learn how to get rid of cellulite on your bum, legs, and/or thighs? So are we! And that’s why we’ve rounded up this collection of tips to teach you how to get rid of unwanted dimples naturally. And fast! From the best diet and exercises to a fabulous DIY coffee scrub and self-tanner, we’ve got 10 tricks up our sleeves to help you banish cellulite once and for all!

How to Get Rid of Cellulite: 10 Natural Remedies That Work

Oh, the dreaded bloat. It can hit you at any time, and can distend your stomach to epic proportions. The good news is that we've got 8 great bloating remedies that will help with all of the side effects that accompany PMS and your period, as well as the painful gas that typically go hand-in-hand with constipation. These natural tips will teach you how to avoid bloating and offer fast relief when it does strike so you can reclaim your flat tummy!

How to Get Rid of Bloating: 8 Tips That Work

Learn to Run: The Beginners Guide to Running for Weight Loss | Want to know HOW to run for weight loss? From choosing the right running program and learning proper running form to figuring out the right pre-run nutrition and equipping yourself with the correct running gear, we’re sharing 7 of our best tips to help you learn to run, lose weight, and get back into shape!

Learn to Run: The Beginners Guide to Running for Weight Loss

Looking for Weight Watchers lunch ideas and recipes with points? You've come to the right place. We've got heaps of make-ahead packed lunch ideas that are quick and easy to make, and that are perfect for work or while you're on the go. Enjoy!

25 Packable Weight Watchers Lunch Recipes with Points!

7 days of clean eating recipes for weight loss right at your fingertips! We’re sharing our favorite meal prep recipes for beginners to help you create a 7-day detox challenge you can stick to. Whether you’re looking for easy dinner, lunch, or breakfast ideas, need light options for summer, or comfort foods you can throw into the crockpot during winter, we’ve got everything you need to create a plan and stick to it!

Meal Planning for Clean Eating: 7-Day Detox Challenge!

Whether you're striving for weight loss, want to run in your first 5K, or just need an inexpensive workout program, we've got you covered. We're sharing 7 of our tried and tested running tips for beginners to teach you how to go from coach potato to long-distance runner in no time. We've included the basics - jogging to build stamina and how to switch up your workouts to help you lose weight faster - as well as our favorite running playlists and motivation quotes. Good luck!

Running Tips for Beginners

Whether you’re trying to target your upper or lower back, like to workout with weights or prefer using no equipment, like exercises you can do at the gym or feel more comfortable at home, this collection of back workouts for women is for you! The routines in these videos will give you a sculpted back and shoulders, and may just be your ticket to kissing your muffin top away once and for all!

10 Back Workouts That Shed Back Fat

If you're looking for clean and healthy on-the-go high protein snacks you can prepare ahead of time to ensure you don't make poor food choices when you're hungry, you've come to the right place. Whether you're looking for pre- or post-workout food ideas, healthy after school snacks for kids, or healthy food options for pregnancy, we've got low-carb, vegetarian, paleo, and gluten-free snack ideas to satisfy your hunger ASAP. Eating healthy never tasted so good!

High Protein Snacks: 25 Healthy Make Ahead Ideas