Chewy, no-bake, gluten-free granola bars made simply with oats, almonds, almond butter or peanut butter and chocolate chips. This healthy granola bar recipe is so delicious and easy to make. Homemade granola bars are great to keep on hand for traveling or whenever hunger strikes! Recipe yields 14 bars. INGREDIENTS 1 ¾ cups quick-cooking oats (or old-fashioned oats, pulsed briefly in a food processor or blender to break them up) 1 ⅓ cup sliced almonds ⅔ cup mini dark chocolate chips 1 teaspoon ground cinnamon ½ to ¾ teaspoon salt, to taste

Norvan Falls is the perfect run with surprise view points and a beautiful waterfall. This is one of my favorite runs in North Vancouver! Norvan offers a great variety for every runner – fast flat gravel road, steep rock chutes and some technical spots. I suggest taking a friend as there’s no cell reception and not many people on the trail. Getting Started From the parking lot, walk across the Lynn Creek Bridge to the map on the other side and sign in on the

Give this yummy bean salad a try!  I suggest half the oil and sugar.  Enjoy!   Black Bean Salad with Corn, Red Peppers, Avocado & Lime-Cilantro Vinaigrette.

What’s one small thing you can do daily?  How about eating breakfast daily? Drinking  water with every meal?  Scheduling workouts in your calendar and being committed ( no excuses)?  We need to be consistent to reach our goals!  My daily change is going to be chopping  fruit and vegetables the minute I get home from the store.  This will provide daily, quick and healthy snacks for the family and myself .  What small change can you make to your daily routine? Here’s to a year of being strong,fit,confident  women!

The secret to permanent weight loss is simply in your daily lifestyle choices.  Have you or anyone you know skipped breakfast and then ate everything in sight the minute they get home?  How about snacking on foods loaded with sugar and fat instead of snacking on fresh fruit, vegetables and whole grains. If you finally want to lose weight and keep it off for good, you must master consistency.  When you feel in control of your decisions weight loss goals are easily attainable. My goal

There’s a reason movie stars use personal trainers: The benefits of working with a personal trainer is one of the fastest, easiest, most successful ways to improve your health and fitness. Working with a personal trainer is so effective that it has spread well beyond the realm of the rich and famous. Today, personal trainers are used by people of all fitness, age and economic levels. Personal trainers will guide you when life gets in the way and you aren’t seeing the results you hoped

8 Simple healthy habits to transform your body. Eating healthy does not have to be difficult. In fact, if you develop a routine of adopting positive healthy practices, which you engage in regularly, eating healthfully can become second nature. Consider brushing your teeth. Most of us regularly brush our teeth so the practice has become easy to sustain on a regular basis. That is the goal of developing healthy eating habits. I teach clients to engage in a few practices regularly until they become second

The truth about losing belly fat, a local registered dietitian and myself discuss what it really takes to lose belly fat. Enjoy! http://www.straight.com/life/681266/perils-belly-fat-growing-concern.

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