How Meal Planning Saves You Money & Stress Even When Groceries Are Super Expensive!

Meal Planning Ideas On A Budget

Do you feel like you’re spending a ton of money at the grocery store?

Like every time you look at your grocery receipt, you think “I spent that much and got that little?”

I totally get it I feel the same way. My grocery budget seemed to be growing out of control which is of course not what we want when we are trying to grow our net worths. 

So what can we do to spend less at the grocery store?

Meal planning that’s what.

Meal planning either for the week or the month or even longer could be the key to saving you tons of money over the long haul.

So stick around and I will share with you some of the meal planning on a budget ideas I use to save money at the grocery store.Continue reading

10 Brilliant Weight Loss Tips That Matter More Than Eating Less and Working Out More

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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36 Comforting Journal Prompts and Gentle Ideas for When You Feel Lonely or Disconnected!

36 Encouraging Journal Prompts For Loneliness & 5 Practical Ways To Overcome It!

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

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

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

3 Hidden Reasons You’re Not Losing Weight—Even If You’re Doing Everything Right!

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.

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19 Simple Goal-Setting Ideas For Women With ADHD Who Feel Behind!

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

7 Surprising Weight Loss Foods For Your Healthy Grocery List

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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The Secret To Building An Emergency Fund Even If Your Spending Is Out Of Control!

Starting an emergency or savings fund will be one of the best financial decisions you ever make.

If you don’t have one, I promise you, it’s really simple to understand what you need to do to build. 

Then that begs the question:

If it’s so simple, why don’t more people have an emergency savings fund?

Well besides sometimes not knowing how important it is, building a savings fund requires discipline and self-control.

I know I know…no fun, right. But it’s important to understand that many of the money problems that we face are emotional and psychological.

Sometimes our money problems are because we don’t make enough.

But sometimes it’s our money problems stem from seeing that new dress or buying that daily Starbucks coffee that we just have to have (or so we think). 

I’ll warn you upfront. Building an emergency fund won’t be fun (although my emergency fund freebie can make it more fun…I’ll tell you more about it later). Continue reading

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

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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