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Make Meal Planning Easy with Choose MyPlate

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Meal Planning is easy with a tool like MyPlate. Check out the food groups we include at every meal for balanced eating. Figuring out what to cook and serve can be daunting for anyone, even to the professionals. When you have the right tool, serving healthy meals can soon become something you enjoy. Try using Choose MyPlate as your meal planner cheat…
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9 Healthy Chicken Recipes for Weight Loss

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If you want a delicious low calorie chicken recipe that promotes weight loss, check out 9 of my favorite chicken recipes. One of my favorite sources of protein is chicken. I love that there are such a variety of ways to prepare and cook it. Each of the variations to preparing chicken adds such an assortment of flavor and texture….
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Goal Setting Lesson Plan: Health Education 9-12

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Goals are important to have purpose and improve your life. Help your teenage high school students learn how to set goals and practicing making goals. Starting statement Today we are going to be talking about goals and how making goals helps your life in so many ways.  We can just let life pass us by or we can actively choose…
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Active Coding: PE Stem Activity for Gym Class

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This is a fun integrated warm-up activity for PE class that ties in with computer coding. I made a poster that assigned an activity to a color spot. (see below) The color spots on the poster coordinated with small poly-spots that the students could place on the ground. We use these colored poly-spots for many activities. I had my students…
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Egg Nutrition 101

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Egg nutrition 101- everything you need to know about calories, macros, protein, carbs, fat, weight watchers points, nutrition and more. Jump to egg calorie chart I’ve become a big fan of eggs and egg whites as they were pivotal in my weight loss journey for my body building show. I have eaten eggs each morning for almost two years now,…
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Healthy 4 Ingredient No-Bake Chocolate Peanut Butter Bars (with Protein!)

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This recipe for homemade, no-bake, protein chocolate peanut butter bars taste like the real thing! With only 4 ingredients: graham cracker crumbs, peanut butter, protein powder and chocolate chips, you’ll want to make these every day. UPDATE 1/13/22- I replaced the regular chocolate chips with lily’s sugar free chocolate chps and it brought the calories and macros to 163 calories,…
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Best Tasting Protein Powder for 2022- and the worst (Results from our Protein tasting party!)

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With 14 guests, I hosted an epic protein powder tasting party! Here’s the winners and losers for protein powders that don’t taste like cardboard for 2022! Jump to final results A year ago, I gathered my family, we chose 10 brands of protein powder, and had a little taste test. I shared the results for 2021 here. Because that article…
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Scooter Cage Ball {PE Game Idea}

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If your PE class has scooters, consider playing this fun scooter cage ball game. Equipment: How to play A few rules: I played this game with 3rd thru 6th grades.  They had a blast playing!  It was fast-paced and easy with almost no set-up.  It does take some careful explanations the first time through. With 8 players on the floor…
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Building Self Esteem in Teens Lesson Plan

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Lesson outline for health educators and homeschooling parents for building self esteem in teens. Teens are at an age where they begin to need and want more independence in their lives.  They want to make their own choices.  They desire to know what is the best thing for them and why certain choices are better than others.  When we educate them…
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Maintaining A Healthy Weight and BMI

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Maintaining a healthy weight is essential for optimal health. One’s weight can effect your heart, physical abilities, and so much more. I’m sure as the years have gone by and you’ve gotten older you’ve noticed changes in your body. Some changes are expected and others come as a complete surprise. Overtime these changes have occurred within your body, but what…
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