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Jan 22 2013
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Body Media Fit Review and Discount Code

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One of my personal goals this year is to lose 25 pounds in 6 months.  Actually the weight isn’t as important as feeling good.  If I lost enough weight to be a little bit leaner, a tiny bit smaller and feel a little bit better about myself I would be happy.

Why you should be counting your calories

So how can a person lose weight? Well that’s easy by burning off more calories than we take in whether that is by eating less or exercising on a more regular basis. Now the question is how do you know how many calories you are taking in and burning off each and every day? Once again the answer is easy, with Body Media Fit.

Body Media is an interactive armband that tracks your calories burned on a daily basis, counts your steps taken every day and monitors your personal weight loss goals based on your own abilities, fitness levels, commitments and preferences.

The Activity Manager gives you personal notifications and tracks your personal daily bests such as how long you did vigorous activity in any given day and the amount of time you slept in a day. Oh yes Body Media acknowledges that getting enough sleep is an important part of getting healthy. Body Media Fit has been featured on television shows such as The Biggest Loser and Live with Kelly and Michael.

The kind people at Body Media were generous enough to send over a free membership and armband to help me get started living a healthier lifestyle.  I loved using Body Media Fit to track my calories because I like to see that I am burning more calories every day than I am taking in.

I entered the foods I eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner online and Body Media Fit did the rest. Weight loss is easy when we know what we are doing and Body Media helped me get a healthy education.

3 Healthy Tips that I learned from tracking my calories:

If you want to lose weight you should burn 500 more calories a day than they take in

We should take at least 10,000 steps per day

A healthy person needs a solid 8 hours of sleep every night

Get Your Own Body Media Fit Today

Visit Body Media today and enter the code MYDIARY15 to get 15% off your entire order.

This offer is valid until January 31, 2013.

Love Always.

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Jan 9 2013
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A Yummy Giveaway from PROBAR (up to a $50 value)

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Are you having a very busy day? Do you often find yourself without time to cook a healthy meal? If you are like me then you live a very busy life and you most likely find yourself very often eating out in restaurants or snacking on munchies while you are on-the-go; this is a very unhealthy and very costly habit.  Wouldn’t it be great if you could have a healthy snack in your bag at all times?

I recently discovered PROBAR products and after one bite I completely fell in love with them.  Now I always kept a PROBAR in my bag so that I always have a snack on hand whenever I get hungry throughout my busy day. PROBARs are the perfect snack combination of sweet taste and nutrition; they are also very filling.  I was definitely not hungry after eating a PROBAR.

PROBAR offers several different types of healthy bars to satisfy all of your hunger needs.  You can grab a snack bar, replace your meal with a PROBAR, fill up with a protein bar or give into your sweet tooth cravings with some of PROBARs favourite dessert flavours.

The great people at PROBAR were generous enough to send over a box of PROBAR Meal Bar’s for me to try and (just like the snack bars) I have to say that they are very yummy.  The PROBAR Meal Bars are very filling and a little bit high in fat but I don’t feel unhealthy after eating one.

I am always running late in the morning so having a PROBAR Meal Bar for breakfast on my way to work is the perfect way to make sure that I don’t skip meals.  Pro Bars come in tons of delicious flavours such as Brownie Crisp, Blueberry and Rocky Road.

If you would like to order a box of PROBARs visit their website and enter the code “BLOGGER” at checkout to receive 40% off your total order.

Enter below for your chance to win a box of your choice of PROBARs.

- PROBAR Meal-Bars are available in over 15 flavors, they are PROBAR’s original and most popular whole-food, meal-replacement bars.

- Fruition bars are a tasty 150-calorie snack bar; they are available in seven flavors and are certified gluten-free.

- HALO bars are a healthy alternative for your sugar cravings. They come in four sweet flavors such as Rocky Road and S’Mores.

Enjoy!

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Nov 21 2012
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“A Beautiful You” Giveaway from Jenny Craig ($49 value)

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Good Morning Everyone.  The new year is quickly approaching and this means that soon we will all be setting our new years goals and personal resolutions. I decided to get a head start on my personal goals this year and I started a new workout regime to start losing weight.

Find Your Healthy Habits

The kind people at Jenny Craig were nice enough to support my weight loss goals.  They sent over some Jenny Craig snacks and I have to tell you that I was pleasantly surprised at just how great the snacks taste.  I was also surprised to learn that with the right meal plan you can be full all day and lose weight at the same time.

Dieting doesn’t have to be boring and you don’t have to starve yourself in order to lose weight.  All you have to do is burn off more calories than you intake on a daily basis.  This is exactly what Jenny Craig stands for; they believe in eating well, moving more and living life.

Get Started With Our Jenny Craig Giveaway

If you have been thinking about starting to exercise on a regular basis or if you want to start losing weight then enter our Jenny Craig “A Beautiful You” Giveaway.  One lucky reader will win a free 30 day Jenny Craig program which has a $49.99 value.  When you sign up for a 30 day Jenny Craig program your initial membership fee will be waived, the additional costs of food will be at your own expense.

When you sign up (or win our giveaway) with Jenny Craig you will receive a personalized meal plan, you will have instant access to tons of healthy recipes, and you will have the support of the entire Jenny Craig team behind you to make sure that you achieve your weight loss goals.

So what are you waiting for, enter now to win a free 30 day membership with Jenny Craig.

Good Luck to everyone who enters, the winner will be announced Monday December 10, 2012.

Love Always,

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Nov 19 2012
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A Second Chance at a Healthy Life

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Dear Diary,

After 32 years of being unhappy with my appearance and eating whatever food I wanted to in an effort to try and feel the void of personal happiness I have finally decided to make the conscious decision to start living a healthy life.

Eating healthy and living a healthy lifestyle are two very different things with one common goal – to be a happier person. Eating healthy can help you lose weight and prevent several severe medical conditions. Eating healthy can help you be happy on both the outside as well as on the inside. Living a healthy lifestyle is purely beneficial to your medical health. Exercising on a regular basis helps prevent several medical conditions such as diabetes, high cholesterol and unhealthy high blood pressure.

The only way that people can lose weight is to burn off more calories in a day then they take in.  There are two ways to do this, people can eat less food and intake fewer calories or they can eat what they want and exercise to burn off the excess calories. I have decided to do both. I have been living an unhealthy lifestyle for so long that I don’t know the first thing about making positive changes in my life to be healthier and happier so I need a little bit of help.

3 Healthy Living Tools to Help Me Lose Weight

Jenny Craig.  I am learning about setting personal goals and controlling my food portions with Jenny Craig.  It is truly amazing how much food we eat compared to how much food we should be eating. I am trying to change my personal mentality to think of food as a means to stay healthy and give me energy throughout the day as oppose to something to drown my sorrows and celebrate my victories. I am learning that people don’t have to starve themselves to be on a diet and this is good news for me because I love eating.

Lose It. I am learning about suitable daily calorie intakes for my personal goal weight with LoseIt.com. I used to eat whatever I wanted whenever I wanted because I thought that food made me happy, but this is not true. I now live on a 1100 calorie diet per day and believe me when you only have a limited number of calories to eat you will make sure you cherish them. I am cutting out carbs and sugar from my diet.  I am also trying to drink less caffeine and drink a lot more water throughout the day. I am not going to lie, tracking every single piece of food that you eat throughout the day is a huge pain in the a$$, but no one said that losing weight would be easy.

Blogilates.  I am learning that exercise can be both fun and beneficial with Blogilates. I want to work out with Blogilates because their workout clothes are cute and their workout routines are inspiring…and you can do them all in the comfort of your own home.  I want to be happy with my physical appearance and I don’t want to worry about my health as I get older. This is why exercising is beneficial for both my outsides as well as my insides.

Love Always,

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Oct 1 2012
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Save Yourself. Skip the Gym: 90 Days of Yoga

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This year is all about making positive changes as I work towards loving life and learning to love myself. One of my goals for 2012 was to find a career that I honestly and truly love, and I discovered that career is writing.  I want to be an author, but until my fiction and motivational books are published I would like to work for a literary agency, a public relations firm, or even a financial institution in corporate communications.  I want to wake up every morning and go to bed every night feeling good about myself.

In order to achieve my career goal of becoming a professional writer and in order to achieve my personal goal of becoming an author I decided to go back to school. I am currently enrolled in the journalism program at Concordia University here in Montreal. My class this semester is called “Writing for the Web” and our assignment is to create a blog and start writing on a regular basis. Since I already have a blog, I decided to blog about one specific topic on My Diary Entry throughout the school semester.

In addition to achieving my career goal of becoming an author I also have a personal goal to be healthy, get fit, and lose weight; but I absolutely hate going to the gym.  My ideal weight is 120lbs for my 5 foot frame and therefore I would like to lose 20 to 25 lbs.  It is very hard to lose weight if you don’t exercise because you hate the gym, so I decided to do a little investigative journalism and find effective at home exercise routines that will help me get fit.

From October 1 to December 31 I am going to do a yoga workout routine in my apartment every other day.  I can’t commit to exercising every single day because between working my 9 to 5 at the bank, going back to school, and all of my freelance gigs I just don’t have the time. Finding the right balance between work and life is a dilemma that a lot of people have when they are trying to achieve career goals and trying to achieve personal happiness at the same time.

One of the main reasons why I don’t exercise on a regular basis is because I get bored easily and a regular gym routine is boring.  The key to achieving success and continuing to exercise on a regular basis is to have a variety in my yoga routines. I already have the Jillian Michaels Yoga Meltdown DVD and I purchased 3 other Yoga DVDs from eBay, including Shape Lean & Strong Yoga, Rodney Yee Power Yoga, and The Biggest Loser Yoga for Weight Loss with Bob Harper.

I am looking forward to exercising on a regular basis because endorphins from exercising make people happy. I am also excited that I will actually be taking a break from my freelance work every other night to do some yoga, instead of just working from 6pm to 11 pm every day.

If you have a favourite yoga DVD please share, I would love to read about it.

Love Always,

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