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I’ve weighed over 300 pounds. I’ve lost 65 pounds. I’ve gained 30 back. Once again, it’s been a tumultuous journey to say the least.

My journey with weight loss, beauty, and self-care has been an interesting one to say the least. My guess is that my ADHD like symptoms don’t help me at all when it comes to being consistent with things like weight loss journaling, meal planning. meal prepping, tracking my weight loss, and shoot, even just using a face mask consistently.

The struggle is ridiculous. However, despite my ups and downs, I do have one or two things to share with ya’ll that I think will help you too, on your weight loss journey (😉)

What To Do When You Think “I Feel Hopeless About Losing Weight”! (Free Weight Loss Prayer Journal)

I feel hopeless about losing weight (why you shouldn't)

Do you feel hopeless about losing weight? Read this for encouragement!

Let’s just be real…

Losing weight is hard.

And sometimes you feel like you’re doing everything right and the pounds won’t budge!

Err…it’s super frustrating and disheartening.

And even worse than that it might make you say “I feel hopeless about losing weight”.

I certainly don’t want to hear those words come out of your mouth!

That’s why today I’m going to fill you up with some much encouragement that you just might burst.

What' I'll share with you today is:

– Why you should feel hopeful about losing weight even if you don’t

– Scriptures to read when you feel at your lowest

– And then 5 practical tips to start using to try and get those pounds moving againContinue reading

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Hey ya'll! I'm Nicky Johnson, owner and creator of Healthy As You Can & I'm delighted that you stopped by my neck of the (internet) woods! I'm a Christian girl on a unique health journey & I'd love it if you'd join me! I'm striving to be spiritually, physically, mentally, and financially, healthy and at HAYC I'll share tips, insights, and resources to help you do the same!

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10 Brilliant Weight Loss Tips For Beginners You’ve Never Heard!

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Weight Loss Tips You Haven’t Heard

I read a lot of weight loss articles but these tips in this post are not ones I read too often. Continue reading to learn what they are and how they can help you!

Once again you step on the scale only to be disappointed. You actually lost weight but only 1 pound… definitely not what you hoped.

What does it take to actually lose weight… like significant amounts of weight where you actually see progress and other people see the progress too?

I know how frustrating it is to believe you’re doing all the right things and fat stubbornly refuses to move.

It’s become quite comfortable and doesn’t seem to want to go anyway. So what’s a girl to do?

Restrict your calories even more? Work out two hours a day?

While I don’t know the solution for your particular situation I have some ideas that might help kick your weight loss into high gear… ideas that you not have heard so please stay tuned!

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Hey ya'll! I'm Nicky Johnson, owner and creator of Healthy As You Can & I'm delighted that you stopped by my neck of the (internet) woods! I'm a Christian girl on a unique health journey & I'd love it if you'd join me! I'm striving to be spiritually, physically, mentally, and financially, healthy and at HAYC I'll share tips, insights, and resources to help you do the same!

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How To Use These 3 Powerful & Potent Essential Oils To Aid Weight Loss

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How To Use Essential Oils That Aid In Weight Loss

In the last post, I talked about the top 3 most powerful essential oils that you can use to aid you in your weight loss journey.

But, I didn’t tell you how you use them which is kind of important.

So that’s what we are going to focus on in this post because if you don’t know how to use these essential oils properly, you could put yourself in danger.

We don’t want that. Plus, if you are feeling some type of way about using essential oils internally please consult a doctor or just read this post for entertainment.

Or if you’re okay with ingesting essential oils (safely!) make sure that your oils are legit.

No matter whether you decide to use essential oils for weight loss or not, DO YOUR OWN RESEARCH!Continue reading

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Hey ya'll! I'm Nicky Johnson, owner and creator of Healthy As You Can & I'm delighted that you stopped by my neck of the (internet) woods! I'm a Christian girl on a unique health journey & I'd love it if you'd join me! I'm striving to be spiritually, physically, mentally, and financially, healthy and at HAYC I'll share tips, insights, and resources to help you do the same!

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The Top 3 Most Powerful & Potent Essential Oils For Weight Loss

Essential Oils For Weight Loss

Are you wondering which essential oils are the most powerful for weight loss? In this post, I reveal the top 3 most potent essential oils to help you lose weight!

I know what you might be thinking? Essential oils might be able to help me with weight loss? Really? I know!

I thought the same way. But please understand that it MAY HELP with weight loss. That doesn’t mean it will help with weight loss. I am not a doctor, so if the idea of ingesting essential oils wigs you out or makes you queasy, don’t do it. 

However, I suspect though, that if you’re here you are intrigued to know which essential actually do help with weight loss right? If so, then let’s go ahead and get started. Continue reading

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Hey ya'll! I'm Nicky Johnson, owner and creator of Healthy As You Can & I'm delighted that you stopped by my neck of the (internet) woods! I'm a Christian girl on a unique health journey & I'd love it if you'd join me! I'm striving to be spiritually, physically, mentally, and financially, healthy and at HAYC I'll share tips, insights, and resources to help you do the same!

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3 Reasons You Can’t Lose Weight That Have Nothing To Do With Diet And Exercise

Has trying to lose weight got you losing your mind? Does it seem like no matter what you try, you can’t lose weight? In this post, I identify some little-discussed barriers that block you from losing weight.

I remember a few years back when I thought I was trying everything possible to lose weight.

And I come to the conclusion that it wasn’t me.

I must have some underlying condition that’s preventing me from losing weight.

Or so I thought.

So I went to a doctor with a list of symptoms to prove to her that something was wrong with me. I was convinced that I had hypothyroidism and I had all the signs to prove it.

Or so I thought.

And this was why I could not lose weight.

Or so I thought.

But that wasn’t true. That was merely the excuse I was making to avoid dealing with the real reasons why I wasn’t losing weight. Turns out I did not have hypothyroidism.

And guess what? I was actually disappointed.

Imagine being disappointed that you don’t have a serious underlying medical condition so that you can use it as an excuse for your inability to lose weight.

Crazy right?

Now it’s possible that you do you have a serious condition that makes it harder to lose weight.

But if you don’t, these three reasons that I’m going to share with you just might be the culprit.

So let’s dive in and explore these reasons.Continue reading

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Hey ya'll! I'm Nicky Johnson, owner and creator of Healthy As You Can & I'm delighted that you stopped by my neck of the (internet) woods! I'm a Christian girl on a unique health journey & I'd love it if you'd join me! I'm striving to be spiritually, physically, mentally, and financially, healthy and at HAYC I'll share tips, insights, and resources to help you do the same!

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19 Life-Changing Healthy Goal Setting Ideas For All Areas Of Your Life

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19 Life-Changing Healthy Goal Setting Ideas For All Areas Of Your Life

Are you stuck at home and wondering is there anything life-changing I could be doing with my time? Well I have 19 amazing ideas for you to try while you’re stuck at home on lockdown or whenever you have long stretches of time at home.

I couldn’t pen down one emotion to describe this period of quarantine if I tried.

Bittersweet comes to mind but that’s such an anemic word that I dare not use it for it doesn’t even come close to grasping the depth of this situation that is 2020.

2020 basically just took a wrecking ball to all of our lives. Whether it’s a lost job or a lost loved one or the fear of experiencing either, no one has gone through this period unscathed.

I have had pockets of anxiety. Continue reading

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Hey ya'll! I'm Nicky Johnson, owner and creator of Healthy As You Can & I'm delighted that you stopped by my neck of the (internet) woods! I'm a Christian girl on a unique health journey & I'd love it if you'd join me! I'm striving to be spiritually, physically, mentally, and financially, healthy and at HAYC I'll share tips, insights, and resources to help you do the same!

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7 Surprising Weight Loss Foods For Your Healthy Grocery List

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Are you making a weight loss plan for next year?

Researching different diets and meal plans to see which one you want to try? I feel you.

I’m doing the same although I know it’s a danger to say I’m going on a diet.

I’m just going to continue to make a series of dietary lifestyle changes until I reach my goal weight.

What’s amazing though is that there are definitely some surprisingly healthy and delicious foods that you can put on your grocery list ( and actually eat, even) and still lose weight.

After a 60 plus pound weight loss, I can say that I’ve never given up my favorite foods in order to lose weight.

The following foods are some of the foods that I ate as I lost weight and it has not caused me to gain my weight back.

Of course, you have to listen to your own body and see which foods work for you in your own weight loss journey.

Try these foods out and if you find your gaining or not losing weight then definitely remove them from your diet.

Ok now let’s get into it!

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Hey ya'll! I'm Nicky Johnson, owner and creator of Healthy As You Can & I'm delighted that you stopped by my neck of the (internet) woods! I'm a Christian girl on a unique health journey & I'd love it if you'd join me! I'm striving to be spiritually, physically, mentally, and financially, healthy and at HAYC I'll share tips, insights, and resources to help you do the same!

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Top 5 Affordable & Natural Supplements That Helped REVERSE My Prediabetes! (Natural Alternatives To Metformin)

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Best Natural Alternatives To Metformin To Reverse Prediabetes

Did you know that there are natural alternatives to Metformin & that it’s possible to reverse prediabetes?

I know I know…when I was diagnosed with prediabetes I just knew that it was inevitable that I would eventually get diabetes mellitus.

And I had heard for years from my grandmother how serious diabetes is and how you don’t want to get it and on and on.

So when a nurse practitioner at my clinic told me I was prediabetic, I was so scared. But then I got to work to see what I could do to reverse it and to get off of Metformin which they put me on.

I’m grateful to say that I no longer take Metformin and I no longer have prediabetes, praise God. So how did I do it?

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Hey ya'll! I'm Nicky Johnson, owner and creator of Healthy As You Can & I'm delighted that you stopped by my neck of the (internet) woods! I'm a Christian girl on a unique health journey & I'd love it if you'd join me! I'm striving to be spiritually, physically, mentally, and financially, healthy and at HAYC I'll share tips, insights, and resources to help you do the same!

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28 Christian Bloggers To Follow For Brilliant Healthy Living Tips (Round Up Post)

Ummm,

Has anyone else noticed this?

It’s kinda hard to find Christian bloggers who talk about health, weight loss or living a more natural lifestyle.

I mean, yeah, you can find some but you’ll find one you like, get all excited, and then see that their last post was in 2014.

It’s like, dude, for real…what a let-down.

Of course, there are tons of blogs that talk about living a more natural lifestyle but I really wanted to find some that had more of a Christian focus.

Why?

Because I do love it when the Father gets the praise for all of the wonderful things He has given us like vegetables, fruits, nature, animals, natural medicine, etc. to keep us healthy.

It’s humbling to think about all the things He’s created, especially when I sometimes have trouble just getting my herbs to grow (and has anyone else ever killed an aloe vera plant? Oh, that was just me…ok, nevermind).

Plus it’s encouraging to read blogs written by like-minded people.

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Hey ya'll! I'm Nicky Johnson, owner and creator of Healthy As You Can & I'm delighted that you stopped by my neck of the (internet) woods! I'm a Christian girl on a unique health journey & I'd love it if you'd join me! I'm striving to be spiritually, physically, mentally, and financially, healthy and at HAYC I'll share tips, insights, and resources to help you do the same!

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5 Quick Ways To Relieve And Soothe Your Poor Miserable Stuffy Nose 

Right now as I’m writing this I’m “suffering” with a stuffy nose.

I can deal with every other cold symptom pretty well but a stuffy nose thing is the worst ( probably has something to do with that whole needing to breathe to live thing).

Anywho, because I abhor having a blocked nose I’ve come up with some ways to make it more bearable at the very least.

If you’re reading this you’re probably desperate for something to try that will help so let me get on with it.Continue reading

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Hey ya'll! I'm Nicky Johnson, owner and creator of Healthy As You Can & I'm delighted that you stopped by my neck of the (internet) woods! I'm a Christian girl on a unique health journey & I'd love it if you'd join me! I'm striving to be spiritually, physically, mentally, and financially, healthy and at HAYC I'll share tips, insights, and resources to help you do the same!

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