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There are
many wonderful gift options to choose from when trying
to get the perfect, healthy and personalized Christmas
present for that someone special on your list. This
week, Women Fitness brings you Top 10 Christmas
healthy gift ideas. You can shop at the click of a
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The best way to slim down in the middle is to do plenty of cardiovascular
exercise. Some good examples of this are walking, jogging, swimming, aerobics,
bicycling and high-activity sports like racquetball, tennis and basketball.
Anything that brings your heart rate to its training zone and keeps it there for
at least twenty minutes conditions your heart and burns fat.
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Conditioning Success
Almost everything you do everyday is done from habit. You learn to do things and
they become habitual. At an early age, habits are formed- of walking, talking,
riding a bicycle, and dozens of other behaviors. At some point, these become
automatic and reflexive. Since habits are so important, look at how they are
formed and how they can be changed. How do you get to think and act the way you
do in the first place?
The degree of success you enjoy in your lives depends upon the results you
produce. The greater your results (however you define them), the greater your
success. Now, the results produced are the consequences of your behavior, or the
way you act. Your behavior reflects your attitude, the way you habitually think.
Your attitudes or habits of thought are the results of your conditioning.
Conditioning is just another word for habit. Each one of you is conditioned to
think, feel, and act in certain ways by parents, teachers, and significant
others who have influenced your over the years. Some of this conditioning is
positive while some is negative.
Consider this story of the circus elephant. Have you ever noticed a large
elephant tethered to a small stake at a circus? She is big enough to pull the
stake out of the ground and walk away but she doesn't. Why not? Because from
when she was a baby, the elephant was staked to the circus grounds. She did not
have the strength to rip the stake out of the ground when she was a small baby
yet she can as a large adult. The elephant doesn't think to do so because she
has learned she can't succeed. This is the result of her conditioning by her
trainers and caretakers over several years.
Like the elephant, your conditioning was caused by the repetition of certain
powerful ideas and actions over extended periods of time. If this is the process
that brought you to where you are today and you are unhappy about it, you can
change the conditioning process so that your attitudes (thought habits) and
behaviors change. The results you will achieve in your lives will improve and
grow in significance and the quality and quantity of success you enjoy will
increase.
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"Satisfaction lies in the effort not the attainment.
Full effort is full victory."
-- Mahatma Gandhi |
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Balsamic Grilled Chicken Salad
Ingredients:
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2/3 cup mayonnaise
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2 Tbs. balsamic vinegar
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1 Tbs. plus 1 tsp. fresh lemon juice
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3/4 tsp. Worcestershire sauce
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1 Tbs. plus 1 tsp. extra virgin olive oil
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1 clove garlic, minced
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4 boneless skinless chicken breast halves
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11 ounces packaged salad
Direction:
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Combine first 6 ingredients and salt and pepper to taste in a bowl. Whisk
until smooth. Cover and chill.
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Prepare grill or broiler. Season chicken with salt and pepper to taste.
Grill or broil 4-5 minutes per side, until just cooked throughout.
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Cut diagonally across the grain into 1/4 inch slices. Divide lettuce between
individual serving plates. Pour dressing over. Top with sliced chicken
breasts.
Nutritional Information: (per serving)
Calories 521, fat 36.1g, 63% calories from fat, cholesterol 127mg, protein
43.8g, carbohydrates 4.2g, fiber 1.4g, sugar 1.0g, sodium 146mg.
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Top 10 Christmas healthy gift ideas
There are many wonderful gift options to choose from
when trying to get the perfect, healthy and personalized
Christmas present for that someone special on your list.
With the list below, it is possible to find an ideal
gift, even for the person on your list who appears to
already have everything a person could ever need.
Christmas time is a wonderful opportunity to let the
important people in your life know that you are about
their health and well being.
Here is a look at some popular Christmas gifts for
women, which include Christmas gifts and gadget options
for your girlfriend, wife, friend, sister and even your
mother.
Healthy Woman's Gourmet Gift Basket: This amazing
gift basket arrives loaded with award-winning gourmet
snacks and foods that are low in fat and calories, but
full of delicious flavor. Indulge without the guilt with
this heart healthy gift basket including raspberry honey
mustard pretzel dip, honey wheat dipping pretzels,
bountiful harvest granola, two types of healthy trail
mix, organic crackers, smooth all-natural peanut
butter...
Herb Gardens for the Home: There are several
herbs that are appropriate for small live Christmas
trees. They add diversity to the season and are useful
after the Christmas season. They are Rosemary, Greek
Myrtle, and Bay Laurel. Rosemary is used in Europe
because of the associations with Mary (the flowers
changed from white to blue after she laid her cloak on
it, and blue is the traditional church color associated
with Mary). Additionally, it has a wonderful piney
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