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Health Benefits of Essential Amino Acid Lysine
Read More: Health Benefits of Essential Amino Acid LysineLearn how — and why — to boost your dietary lysine intake. Lysine is one of nine essential amino acids, meaning that your body cannot make it on its own and that you must obtain it from your diet. Lysine plays a key role in growth and muscle cell turnover and helps mobilize fat cells…
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Eat Fat to Burn Fat
Read More: Eat Fat to Burn FatFollow these three simple rules for eating fat to lose fat. Confused by dietary fats? As an active woman, you need fats for three reasons: To function (they help your body absorb the essential vitamins A, D, E and K), to build muscle (fats aid testosterone production, a main trigger in muscle growth) and to…
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7-Day Snack Elimination Challenge
Read More: 7-Day Snack Elimination ChallengeFor one week, challenge yourself to go without any snacks, and reap the mental and physical benefits. Americans are snack-obsessed, and while it’s true that a nibble between meals can help keep energy high, those extra calories could make or break your fat-loss goals. In fact, if you snack frequently, it could add up to…
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4-Week Get Fit Meal Plan
Read More: 4-Week Get Fit Meal PlanThis 4-week meal plan will stoke your fat-burning fire and support your get-lean goals — without cravings or deprivation! The problem with most meal plans is that they drastically eliminate macronutrients or slash calories so much that you’re unable to resist the magnetic pull of that darned office doughnut box. But as every savvy Oxygen…
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2-Week High-Protein Meal Plan
Read More: 2-Week High-Protein Meal PlanGo ahead — buck the trend, be fearless and follow that high-protein diet. Here’s why science supports eating plenty of this essential macronutrient to hit your get-lean strong-body goals — and two meal plans to get you started. Ask 10 people in the gym how they prefer to eat — for gains, to get lean or…
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2-Week High-Protein Collagen Meal Plan
Read More: 2-Week High-Protein Collagen Meal PlanEven if you’re meticulous about your protein intake, you could still be falling short on one of the most important sources around. Collagen is everywhere these days, and it’s being infused into everything from makeup to peanut butter to hair products and shakes. Why is it so popular among the athletic crowd, and could it…
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Carb Cycling Meal Plan for Fat Loss
Read More: Carb Cycling Meal Plan for Fat LossBreak through your diet plateau and kick your metabolism into overdrive with this four-week meal plan. Other than tasting amazing, carbs are good for pretty much one thing: providing energy. And let’s face it, going too long without them can take your workouts from awesome to crummy and leave you feeling like a certified couch…
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7 Strategies to Kick Your Calorie-Counting Habit
Read More: 7 Strategies to Kick Your Calorie-Counting HabitUse these science-backed strategies to kick this habit once and for all. When it comes to trimming down, counting your calories used to be the go-to plan. Thankfully, a new era of research has been steadily pounding nails into this antiquated calorie-counting coffin. Case in point: A study by researchers at the Stanford University School…
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7 Ways to Prevent Calorie-Counting
Read More: 7 Ways to Prevent Calorie-CountingUse these strategies to kick the calorie-counting habit once and for all. When it comes to trimming down, counting your calories used to be the go-to plan. Thankfully, a new era of research has been steadily pounding nails into this antiquated calorie-counting coffin. Case in point: A study by researchers at the Stanford University School…
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Refresh and Recover: Peach Sweet Tea Smoothie
Read More: Refresh and Recover: Peach Sweet Tea SmoothieIncrease recovery and energy while beating the heat with this quick and easy recipe in less than five minutes. Ingredients: 1 scoop Gaspari HyperAmino (Southern Sweet Tea) 6-8 oz cold water ½ cup peaches, frozen or sliced splash of lemon juice, optional Directions: Add HyperAmino and peaches into blender and blend until smooth. Add splash…
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Fiber-Rich Buckwheat Chicken Salad
Read More: Fiber-Rich Buckwheat Chicken SaladHigh fiber links to weight loss and lower bodyweight, making buckwheat a functional and tasty addition to meal plans. Buckwheat Chicken Salad Makes: 4 servings Ready in: 30 minutes 1 cup buckwheat groats 1 whole rotisserie cooked chicken breast, shredded (about 8 ounces) 1 red bell pepper, finely diced 1 cup broccoli florets, chopped ¼…











