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Healthy and quick dinner with Tyson® Grilled & Ready® Fully Cooked Refrigerated Oven Roasted Diced Chicken Breast

This is a sponsored conversation written by me on behalf of Tyson®. The opinions and text are all mine.

I struggle with healthy dinner ideas, do you?  We are in full blown sports mode right now so we literally have to eat and go most nights to get to various practices on time.  I need something that is quick, easy, healthy and #everydayeffortless.

I was asked to test out Tyson® Grilled & Ready® Fully Cooked Refrigerated Oven Roasted Diced Chicken Breast, so I took my little guy up to our local Walmart to do some shopping. He loves to “find” the product and this one was within his reach, so he was super excited!  I love the fact this chicken is already cooked and just requires simple re-heating. Not only is this nice for those of us who are short on time, but also for those of us who are slightly cooking “challenged”.

We always have a protein with our meals and my kids generally prefer chicken. It was so simple to cook, I just had to put the oven roasted diced chicken breast in the skillet and turn on the heat!  Super easy, right?!  I also added some fresh salsa because my kids love salsa on everything.  It only took about 20 minutes for it to fully heat up, which was just enough time for me to bake some asparagus.  In just under 30 minutes, we had a super healthy,  and very delicious, home cooked meal!

My oldest said the chicken was “great” and he liked that it was already “cut up” for him.

The leftovers are perfect for lunch salads or even added to some eggs in the morning for a protein packed breakfast.

I will definitely shop at Walmart again for some more of Tyson® Grilled & Ready® Fully Cooked Refrigerated Oven Roasted Diced Chicken Breast and their other products as well.

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101 Ways to Boost Metabolism, Weight Loss and Energy

Simple, 30-second, "trick" ignites your body's "brown fat" and not only boost your metabolism, but also detox your body, balance your hormones, increase your immunity, and boost your energy

By Mike Geary - Certified Nutrition Specialist, Certified Fitness Specialist &
Jeff Anderson - Weight Loss Coach
Authors of the best-seller: Do This, Burn Fat

Did you know you actually have more than one type of fat in your body? Sounds strange doesn't it? Fat is fat, right? If you look at yourself in the mirror and see something that jiggles... it's fat, right?

Well, the truth is that scienctists have actually discovered your body has more than one type of fat, and the really cool thing is that the amount of each "type" of fat actually changes as you age.

For the purposes of this article, we're only going to discuss 2 different types of body fat:

“White Fat” and “Brown Fat”

The White Fat tissue is what you usually think of as “fat” - the kind of fat that sits on your hips, butt, belly, and thighs.

It’s the fat most people are trying to get rid of through diet and exercise.

Brown Fat Tissue, on the other hand, contains a much higher concentration of something called mitochondria, which are like “mini power stations” in your body and one of their roles is to burn fat to be used for energy…

When this happens, heat is generated from the cells and this is actually the primary reason brown fat is on your body in the first place.

From the time you were a baby, Brown Fat has acted as a natural heating system for your body.

This is why babies have a higher ratio of active brown fat cells. When they get cold, Brown Fat is “activated” to begin burning fatty tissue throughout the body. Generating heat and warming them up from the inside.

It was thought that brown fat only occurred in newborn babies and was lost as we get older, but recent research has shown that this is NOT the case, but that in adults our Brown “baby” fat is simply lying dormant, waiting to be used.

What if you could trigger your body’s natural stores of brown fat to once again begin generating "internal heat"

This would allow you to begin melting away that extra layer of fat sitting on your stomach, butt, or thighs you’ve been trying so hard to lose for so long.

The great thing is you can activate this brown fat easily, and naturally, with no extra effort

Not only that, but recent research has also shown this trick to:

• Decrease blood pressure
• Detox your body
• Increase your immunity
• Supercharge your endocrine system to naturally balance your hormones…

Here’s all you need to do to ignite your Brown Fat…

First, start with a warm, but NOT hot, shower to begin your day, and then at the end of your shower, slowly begin to make the water cooler and cooler.

When the water is very cool, but not yet cold, simply turn off the hot water completely and allow the cold water to rain gently on your shoulders, chest and back (which is where most of your body's brown fat stores are) - invigorating your body.

It only takes about 30 seconds to benefit from this activity, but you’ll soon find it so refreshing that you’ll want to stay in the cold water for up to several minutes.

Step out of the shower to towel off and you’ll instantly feel the difference in your body!

Now, I’m not going to promise you that this is a ‘miracle weight loss cure,’ but it will absolutely help you burn more fat, while also revitalizing your entire body - both inside and out.

That’s it!

Before you decide this is much too extreme and crazy for you and you could NEVER take a cold shower, let me tell you WHY this works so incredibly well…

Brown Fat’s role is to act as a “rapid reaction force” that signals your body’s fat cells to generate heat when it feels cold, right?

That extra heat literally burns fat as it’s used for the energy you need to keep you warm

By standing under cold water, your Brown Fat cells are instantly called into action to tell the body you need to get warm and to start generating heat.

This is why when you jump into a cool lake or pool you initially feel like you’re freezing, but in a minute or so you don’t even notice the cold at all.

It’s not that the lake or pool got warmer - Your body is simply responding by triggering the mitochondria of your fat cells to generate internal heat while your heart pumps that heat to your skin to warm you up.

As this happens your capillaries are expanded, and toxins are flushed out of your system allowing fresh, oxygenated blood to be circulated throughout your body, revitalizing your organs and invigorating the glands of your endocrine system.

In essence, not only have you turbo charged your body’s fat burning metabolism, but your entire body gets an “instant tune up” that will leave you feeling refreshed & energized throughout the entire day!

And the best part is it really takes no extra effort on your part.

Easy enough, right?

Here’s what you should do next…

On the next page below, you're going to discover some extremely SIMPLE tricks that you can apply to your daily life to BALANCE your hormones, BOOST your metabolism, and fire up your fat-burning machine inside your body... there are 101 total "tricks" you can use to flatten your stomach faster and get lean, including these:

• Fat-Burning Trick #1: The simple twist to your morning routine (takes less than 1 minute) that INSTANTLY jump-starts your metabolism and boosts fat-burning by as much as 30%!


• Fat-Burning Trick #5: The tasty beverage you've been WARNED to stay away from...but new-found studies reveal the shocking health benefits jam packed in this potent anti-aging & fat-burning "elixer"!


• Fat-Burning Trick #15: The amazing "super-food" that in one clinical study, dissolved away more than 10 extra pounds in 12 weeks...WITHOUT DIETING or any other lifestyle changes!


• Fat-Burning Trick #99: The candle (yes, candle) that can help maximize your body’s own natural release ofage-defying, fat-melting growth hormone and have less fat on your body within the next 8 hours!

Some of these fat-burning tricks are odd, some are crazy, some involve your diet, others exercise, and some involve your mind - but they all have one thing in common... they are all SIMPLE!

All you have to do to discover those tricks, and so many more, is head to the Next Page...

Try this to make burpees more challenging

There was a time in my life that I detested burpees. I really hated them.  Now, I get so excited when I find a new way to make burpees more challenging!

Here is a variation with battle ropes, that is guaranteed to make you sweat!  Try it out and let me know what you think!

1 slam/1 burpee
2 slams/1 burpee
3 slams/1 burpee
4 slams/1 burpee
5 slams/1 burpee
and then repeat all the way back down to 1 slam/1 burpee.

Here is the video version:

I’ve been doing a personal training program designed by Ashley Horner and while it literally kicks my ass every single time, I love it.  I am stepping out of my comfort zone and getting stronger.  Check out her online training programs, you won’t be disappointed!

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Flex it Friday–things I will miss edition

It’s Friday —which means it is time to get your FLEX on again!   (go on, do it now. It is guaranteed to boost your spirits, I promise!)

I mentioned on Instagram that I am moving again and this time it’s out of the town I have lived in for the past 10 years.  While I am super excited for new adventures, I am very sad to be leaving some really great friends.  Here are some (not all, because I couldn’t track you all down just yet!) of the people and things I will miss.

I am really going to have a hard time leaving my good friend Jamie.  She was the first friend I made here and she has helped take care of all my boys. She also has listened to all of my drama. (over and over and over again!)

I will also miss Jack.  (who happens to be Jamie’s hubby).  He pretends he doesn’t like my excessive swearing and my karaoke singing, but I know he secretly loves it.   Why else would he keep that video on his phone?

I will miss my other fit mama friends who are always willing to go for a run or hike, even with my kids!

I already miss my boys former school.  They closed in June and we are all missing them tremendously.  (Please move with us Allison?) 

I will miss this preschool and all the friends we made there.  My youngest will not get the privilege to be in Ms. Lisa and Ms. Renee’s class, which completely bums me out! 

I will miss all the fun friends who are always willing to throw down a hulk smash for me.

Even when we were out in a crowded bar on a Saturday night!  

I will miss all our new fit neighbor friends and the ability to walk to school with them. I will miss the awesome lighting in my bathroom that always makes me look JACKED!  

I miss all the beautiful walking paths in our neighborhood

and the middle school track that is like my own private track because there is never anyone else there.  

I will miss him, even though he hates all things social media and probably won’t see this anyway.

But just as with fitness, we need to step out of our comfort zone in order to grow stronger.  I am looking forward to a new town and discovering all that it will have to offer us and I hope we make some wonderful friends there right away!

Flex It Friday people!  Enjoy those muscles!  

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