Hear, hear, Alex D! I’ve always said that health is beautiful. Most people concentrate on weight-loss but a healthy weight, vibrant skin and hair, shiny eyes… it’s all a side-effect of living a healthy lifestyle.

Healthy eating means maintaining a nutritious diet. I believe it to be important to every one. I stress a healthy life to my family and friends and I try to show them the benefits to it. I think the greatest benefit most of all is that it makes you feel and look great. If your not eating healthy, then you are not helping your body. You are filling it with what it does not want, instead, help your body out and eat healthy. The turn out is awesome. I have been eating healthy for years and I have never felt better in my life.

No problem, Dee. I find just even reading and talking about healthy living makes it easier to live it.

Since starting this blog, my healthy decisions are practically unconscious now – I’m healthier and lovin life!

Thanx to both Neda, Steph ~ the Head Health Nut, and lisa for these great tips! In addition to losing weight and feeling lighter, I want to be healthy ~ fully functioning both mentally and physically and this advice makes sense. Sometimes, we just need that extra PUSH to just DO IT!

I’m totally with you on this one, Lisa.

But then I have to wonder if instead of forcing ourselves to eat, we nibble on something healthy in the morning? Then, take Neda’s advice and prepare something for when we’re hungrier?

I know most people who say they don’t eat breakfast is because they don’t feel like eating in the morning. Forcing yourself to eat something can be a blessing later when you realize you are starving around 9:30 or 10:00 a.m and the only source of food is the vending machine.

Sweet! Someone else who doesn’t mind the texture.

No, I have a Vita-Mix and I want the fiber. Why give up the fiber? It makes you feel full AND satisfied. I keep craving for more.

Thanks for the great tips, Neda!

And I’m so happy to hear you love the blender drinks. Have you tried juicing them? I’m curious to see if they’re just as good.

I suggest to always have something packed for when you are hungry. You should never allow yourself to become ravenous.

If you rate your hunger level from 0 – 5, you should be eating around a 3, but more so around a 4. Waiting till you are a 5 will cause you to just grab whatever is in sight.

So if you are a person who does not get hungry immediately upon rising and find yourself hungry when at work or running errands, have bags of food prepared and with you, so that you can eat a sensible meal when hungry.

I hope this helps.

I love your green blender drinks. I have been making them for the past few days. They are fabulous.