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Bikini Blaster 2 of 2. Hope you have the complete set now. If not, here’s 1 of 2. Do the whole video with me here. Okay, now go cray cray reblogging!!!!!!! <3 Cassey

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The Tumblr Guide to Healthy Living

a compilation of resources to help you eat right, exercise, and be happy!
How to Start a Healthier Lifestyle

Nutrition 
Eating Clean Principles
Non-Dieters Diet
Your Flat Belly Day 1 meal plan by Women’s Health Magazine
Your Flat Belly Day 2 meal plan by Women’s Health Magazine
Your Flat Belly Day 2 Meal Plan by Women’s Health Magazine
Eating Low Carb
What is Paleo
Portion Size Guide
Get lean grocery list
80 Healthiest Foods
100 Foods that Dr.Oz wants on your Shopping List
Shirataki Noodles
Tips to Snack Better
10-Calorie Sweet and Crunch Snacks
Why Eat Raw Foods?
10 Commandments of Dieting
Tips for Staying Healthy in School
The Happier way to Diet Menu
Food that makes You Prettier
Look Better Naked One Week Meal Plan Part 1
Look Better Naked One Week Meal Plan Part 2
Portions
Dr.Poon Diet
The Best New Superfoods
12 Best Foods for your Abs
Clear Skin Diet
Foods that Melt Flab Away
Raw Food for the Rest of Us
Quick Combos
5 Ingredient Eating Clean Recipes
Herbs that Heal
What to Eat When You’re Craving…
Eating Clean vs. Junk examples
Transition to Healthy Living
Eating Clean Video

Recipes
Eating Clean Recipes
Healthy Meal Ideas for Breakfast, Lunch & DinnerBefore and After Workout Snack Ideas
Super 8-Step Salad Wraps
Not-Quite-Unnecessary Raving about Broccoli Slaw
Grocery List
Foods that Cause Bloating
Eat Breakfast, Here’s Why
Making Conscious Health Choices: Who Decides?
Not eating enough…but not hungry either?
Sunshine Oatmeal Recipe
Oatmeal from The Pea Pod
Chocolate Oatmeal Cookie-In-A-Bowl
An Overwhelming Amount of Oatmeal Recipes
More Recipes
Starbucks Drinks Under 200 Calories
Snack Attack
Smoothies

Healthy Desserts
Healthy Dessert Blog
Banana Bites
Grapefruit & Strawberry Popsicles (make them without alcohol)
Peanut Butter & Banana Sandwiches
Frozen Yogurt Blackberries
Skinny Coconut Cupcake
Nutella Fudge Pops
Banana Split Cheesecake Bites
Frozen Fruit Pops
Watermelon Tart
Healthy Banana Almond Chocolate Ice Cream
Banana Split Cheesecake Bites
Fruit Ice Cubes
Banana Ice Cream
Frozen Yogurt Strawberries
Peanut Butter Chocolate Ice Cream
More Frozen Banana Bites
Apple Cupcakes
Raw Tropical Ice Cream
Cucumber Melon Popsicles
Chocolate Covered Bananas
Jello Skies
Apple Peanut Butter Slices
Frozen Banana Popsicles
Banana Berry Soft Serve
Volume Ice Cream

Cleanse/Detox
3 Day Detox
The Look Better Naked 2 Day Cleanse
Jillian Michaels Detox
Detox Recipes
Detox Essentials
Lean Green Smoothie
Detox Smoothie

Veganism/Vegetarianism 
Free Vegetarian Starter Kit by Peta
Vegetarian 101
Making the Transition
Recipes by Peta
Shopping guide by Peta
Easy Sweet Potato Veggie Burgers with Avocado
Shirataki Noodles
Onehappyvegan
VeganYumYum
TheVeganStoner

Weight Loss
How to Determine Your Ideal Weight
How to Overcome A Plateau
Beat a Weight Loss Plateau
Why You Aren’t Losing Weight
How to Burn Fat Fastest
Metabolism Boosters
5 Metabolism Boosters
How to Conquer Cravings
20 Secrets of Very Fit People
Fighting Belly Fat
How Do I Lose Weight
Thinking of Giving Up?
The 2 Minute Visualization
How to Keep Yourself Full for Longer
Lose Weight without Dieting
Flat Tummy Tips
Commit to Fit
10 Ways to Get Your Diet Back On Track
Constructing A Plan

Calculators
Body Type/Frame Size Calculator
Calorie Calculator
Ideal Weight Calculator
How Much Weight You Can Lose By Prom/Summer/Your Wedding/This Thursday/Tonight

EBooks
Winning by Losing - Jillian Michaels 

Exercise
Lift Weights to Help You Lose Weight
How to Start Running [Couch to 5k]
How to Tone Any Area of Your Body
Building Lean Muscle vs. Bulky Muscle
But I Don’t Want to Get Bulky!
Abdominal Exercises for Beginners
Running for Weight Loss
Gym Cheat Sheet
The Lazy Girl’s Guide to Interval Training
Archive of Online Work Outs
Top 30 Free YouTube Work Out Channels
100 Best Workout Songs
Workout Basics
Insanity Workout Videos and Calender
Tone Every Inch
Top 10 Calorie Burning Cardio
More Links to Online Workouts
Workout Finder
Victoria Secret Angel’s Workouts
30 Day Shred Printable Chart and Videos
BodyRock inspired Workouts
Yoga: The Basics and How to Get Started
77 Reasons To Do Yoga
YouTube Yoga for Beginners
YouTube Yoga Routine
YouTube by Body Part
Bye Bye Arm Jiggle
The Workout MovesLunge 101
Lean Thighs - No Lunges
Target Workouts
Yes, You Can Yoga!

Mind
Feeling good
10 Ways to be Happy
How to be Confident
Gandhi’s Top 10 Fundamentals
Focus
Happiness Manifesto
3 Simple Rules in Life
Zen Flow Chart
Karma Cleanse

You Don’t Have to Be a Size 0 to Be Beautiful
Fine Bauer
Mary
Christina Hendricks
Lexi Placourakis
Kasia Pilewicz
More beautiful girls

Battling Eating Disorders
The Minnesota Starvation Study
Why Starving Seems to Work 
Stop the ED Hate
How Bulimia Affects Your Body
“The Binge” and Why You Should Eat When You’re Hungry
What to do After a Binge by MatchStickMolly
What is Intuitive Eating?
After a Binge
Tips to Control Binging
Help with Eating Disorders
National Eating Disorders 
Dealing with Eating Disorders
National Center for Eating Disorders UK

Inspiration
people that have changed their lives and have lost a ton of weight! 
soldiering-on
tillicanseemylovelybones
funeralformyfat
roserevitalized
anotherdreamanotherlove
peacefulserenityxhealthylife
more inspiration
and some more
jessicablossoming
hopetogether-staytogether
130 lbs Lost!
amazing transformation
theysayanythingispossible
a tumblr dedicated to before and afters
noexcusesgetfitnow88
jazzie-onamission

I will be updating the online video work outs on the weekend and every link in that section should be working after that :)

thehonestpalate:

LET’S TALK ABOUT ENDOCRINE DISRUPTORS!

A friend recently sent me OpEd by Nick Kristoff, How Chemicals Affect Us, and it brought me out of my sad and lonely hole of final exam cramming.  It’s been incredibly easy to get lost in the math/science classes I’m enduring and completely forget that my end goal is getting my MD.  Although I don’t know what field I’d like to specialize in, or if I’d like to specialize at all, (that decision is literally years away), but I’ve been interested in Endocrinology for awhile and this article reminded me why.

But first, a back story:  A few years ago, before the idea of becoming a doctor even crossed my mind, my grandparents passed away within 3 weeks of each other.  Lung cancer played a role in both of their deaths, and the cause - years and years of cigarette smoking - was the clear cause.  But during the grieving process, I became intensely focused on what causes cancer and why so many people are dying from the various types.  It was a mixture of my depression and anger that caused me to devote hours (years) of my life to reading about the chemicals in almost every product I used, and then to eventually purge myself of them.  

I had already adopted a vegetarian diet before my anti-chemical crusade, but afterwards I stopped buying processed foods, things that came in boxes, shopped only at the farmers market, threw away all of my makeup and products and replaced them with natural counter parts.  I made homemade cleaning products and wiped countertops with vinegar.  I eschewed exterminators and Drain-O, even when my roommates pointed out that those things were currently necessary to survive in our East Village apartment.  I sent crazed emails to family members and friends warning them of the dangers of pesticides, chemicals in canned goods, hydrogenated oils, coal mining, bisphenol-A, triclosan, meat treated with hormones, meat in general, shampoo, Purell, water bottles, tap water running for too long, light pollution, corporations, over-fishing and high fructose corn syrup.   

After a few years of this tunnel-vision, I think I exhausted myself.  My war on everything was a result of my depression and as I learned to cope, I started to descend back to Earth.  However, I learned a great deal about chemicals during those dark days, and it’s partly that experience that got me enrolled in a postbac program at age 26, studying my ass off to become a doctor. 

All of that said - I read this article last night and was reminded that all of these issues I cared about in 2008 are still major issues.  Bisphenol-A is a chemical that is used in most plastics, and many studies show that it can be a serious endocrine disruptor, meaning it can act like a hormone and confuse the body, tricking the brain into thinking it is estrogen, and even causing neurological affects in infants and children.  In any article you read, you’ll learn that studies about the chemical are inconclusive.  ”Inconclusive.” “Debatable.” “Unproven.” “Ambiguous.”  So the FDA continues to allow its production and use in the lining of cans, in plastic food containers, in electronic equipment and (less so) in baby bottles.  

In Europe, things tend to work a bit differently, and health officials more often wait until something is PROVEN to be safe before it is allowed to be used.  Here, we can use the product until it’s suddenly discovered to be harmful, 40 years down the line.  And also unfortunately for us, chemical companies have an incredible about of lobbying power (read: $$$$) and their argument usually wins over our voting representatives.  Totally unfair, but literally how our government works. 

Bisphenol-A is just one of many chemicals in the treasure-trove of vague “organic compounds” found in the items we use everyday.  At this point, I use canned goods all the time.  I drink out of plastic water bottles a few days a week because I’ve now lost 3 reusable Sigg bottles.  I feel overwhelmed by the thought of having to return to my former self and renounce all the conveniences in my life.  Luckily, I’m able to see a bit more clearly now and I think it might be time again to make some subtle, manageable changes.  I am an ADULT and there is no reason I can’t keep track of a water bottle.  I can go to my neighborhood Whole Foods and buy some BPA free plastic food containers.  Basically, I’m saying there are small changes I can make.

That said, it doesn’t take the possibly harmful chemicals out of our products.  I don’t know what to do there, except post angry stories about it on my blog, sending my feelings into the ether and hoping that the concern will catch on and other people will post more angry stories on their blogs, and eventually people with actual importance will listen. 

If you’re interested, here are a few more resources:

List of Products with Bisphenol-A

NPR Story on Chemical DES

Grist: Hormone Disruptors

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thereluctantrawfoodist:

A sobering look at drinks. Then there are the chemical additives. Do you think these and others like them have been created with your health in mind? 

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thevictorianfirefly:

effinglioness:

eyever:

musicpnppl:

jazharlow:

The fuck did they do to her?

i like her chubby

… chubby?

UUGGGGHHHH.

NOT CHUBBY. JUST CURVY. ITS WHAT SOME WOMEN NATURALLY LOOK LIKE. AND ITS WONDERFUL.

(Source: day47)

symmetrism:

Art’s great nudes have gone skinny

Italian artist Anna Utopia Giordano has created a visual re-imagination of historic nude paintings, had the subjects conformed their bodies to what the 21st century considers an ideal of beauty. The results are revealing—and quite shocking in what they say about the modern attitude toward women’s bodies.

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before-and-after-pictures:

5’3
205lbs -> low 120s

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MM

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before-and-after-pictures:

158 to 133

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This is my progress so far, I’ve still got 20 more lbs to go though. :)

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