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I’m doing a 7 day Shakeology “shake down” with one of my friends who is a Beach Body coach. 1 meal replacement shake for 7 days, plus at least 30 min of exercise. They give 30 different shake ideas: Yesterday was banana, PB and honey, today was raspberries. 

Saw this via twitter last night – It’s scary the lengths that companies will go to make their “food” look healthy.

@AP: Act naturally: Food companies work to make their processed offerings appear more like homemade meals: http://t.co/X7bngi7IBN

I never do anything super fad or regimented but I leave Friday for a reunion weekend at my college and I want to look lean.

I’m feeling strong from Insanity, so I want to compliment it with even better nutrition. I’ve been doing the Dr Oz 3 day detox cleanse since Saturday since I was in recovery week of Insanity. I’ve already been doing breakfast smoothies so all smoothies/juices for 3 days hasn’t been bad plus I “forced” myself to finally buy almond butter, coconut oil and some other fancy things that I’m obsessed with already. 

Since I move onto Month 2 of Insanity tonight, starting tomorrow I’m following Dr Oz’s 3+3=3 pounds of fat loss recipes. Eggs, bean burgers, sweet potato fries and 1 dinner smoothie for 3 days. YES please!

I’ve already been a green tean drinking fiend and peeing like whoa!

It’s so gross, but it’s so good for you. Insane amount of protein.

I started adding cottage cheese to my smoothies to get it in without having to feel the curds!

Whenever I go grocery shopping I always get just enough food to last for a couple days, mostly because I don’t know what I’m going to want to eat on Thursday if today is Sunday. But when I was growing up, my mother used to take us to the grocery once a week because that was the only time she could go. We stocked the car with bags and bags of treats and stuff, but mom always warned that if me and my sister ate all the fruit snacks or Pops or Pop Tarts or whatever, that was it until the next week.

Grocery shopping — what we buy and where we go — is a rich sociological activity that has a lot to say about our upbringing, our tastes and habits, and our social class. American photojournalist Peter Menzel recently launched a fascinating photo essay on what a week’s worth of groceries looks like around the world. The series is definitely eye-opening, not least because it shows the peculiar dietary habits of people in 20 countries around the world but because it shows how prevalent American food products are, how healthy people eat based on their country, and it really puts First World Privilege in check.

Guess which country is the most unhealthy of the bunch?

http://thoughtcatalog.com/2013/15-photos-of-a-week-of-groceries-from-different-countries-around-the-world/

The pictures are very telling!