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spring mix with onion, brown rice and chicken for lunch

Spring Mix, Celery, Onion, Brown Rice and Chicken for Lunch

April 2, 2024
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What's your go-to on a crazy day? I love a spring mix salad with things I've already got prepped. A one bowl wonder that I am calling a salad. Maybe you do your salads differently. Please let me know! I really enjoy having a salad for lunch and today is no exception. Luckily I had food prepped for the week. I made a batch of chicken in the slow cooker. Cooked a couple of cups of brown rice to add to things. Sauteed some sweet onions. [caption id="attachment_7060" align="aligncenter" width="617"] Since everything was already prepped, I just had to assemble my salad![/caption] Easy healthy lunch. It's not hard when everything is prepped ahead of time. It's one of those crazy busy days for me....

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Get More Fit with Kathy Murray

Get More Fit with Kathy Murray

March 26, 2024
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#151 - Get More Fit with Kathy Murray Download | Play in New Window | Scroll down for podcast appsKathy Murray is a certified personal trainer with over thirty years’ experience in the fitness industry.She is a graduate of The Ohio State University where she was a member of the 1983 National Cheerleading Championship Team. After college she competed in and won the United States Aerobic Championship in 1986 and spent the year traveling the world as a Fitness Ambassador.Kathy worked as a free-lance educator to teach fitness to European Instructors. While in Munich, she coached the Munich Cowboys (American Football) Cheerleaders to six national titles in cheerleading and was head trainer/translator for the German Gladiators during a pilot TV show for the International Gladiators. She...

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Joy of Walking Two Dogs

Joy of Walking Two Dogs

March 19, 2024
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This week I’m discovering the joy of walking TWO dogs. I think we’re all agreed that walking a dog gives you more steps but let me tell you about walking two of them. My grand-dog Stella is spending the week with Penny and me. They enjoy spending time together, which makes visiting a lot easier on all of us. Neither Penny nor Stella has great leash manners. Penny is now a 50-pound dog and Stella is 75 pounds and strong. Both dogs, in fact, are strong. Because walking both at once is a tremendous challenge, I tend to walk one dog and then the other. If they were easier to walk together, we could go to some parks for a good long hike. Unfortunately, because I can...

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between salad and soup

Between Salads and Soups

March 19, 2024
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Fit and Strong, Food and Drink

I'm feeling that time of year, between salads and soups. Most people call it the equinox, when the days and the nights are about the same length. Here in the states we are moving from winter into spring. I know we have some readers and listeners who will be moving from summer into autumn, like Sue Loncaric who publishes on Living Well After 50. Jill and I interviewed her in 2021 for the Fit Strong Women Over 50 podcast. Between Salads and Soups I find that most of my vegetables end up in salads or soups, or sometimes both. I especially like soups with roasted vegetables but find that I'm adding roasted vegetables to some of my salads as well. Roasted red peppers are incredibly sweet. I also find...

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Get Healthy with Chris Freytag

Get Healthy with Chris Freytag

March 12, 2024
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#159 Get Healthy with Chris Freytag Download | Play in New Window | Scroll down for podcast apps In episode 150, Jill McCauslin and Chris Brown interview Chris Freytag, the founder of Get Healthy U and Get Healthy U TV. Chris Freytag has been teaching, training, writing books, creating DVD’s, and speaking on the subject of health and fitness for the last 30 years. Get Healthy U TV is a streaming website with workouts for midlife women. They have over 700 workouts for all levels and ages. You can access the workouts on your computer, smart phone, Roku, Fire TV and the Get Healthy U app. Get Healthy U is the sister fitness hub that educates and inspires women to make healthy lifestyle choices as they age. Get Healthy U...

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Adjusting soup on the fly

Adjusting soup on the fly

March 5, 2024
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Fit and Strong, Food and Drink

What do I mean by adjusting soup on the fly? Good question. I made a pot of vegetarian chili in the Instant Pot the other day and had it for dinner. It was not my best attempt at soup or chili. I think I put too much broth in. It was not as thick as I expect chili to be. Maybe it was because I didn’t add any meat but I’m pretty sure I’ve made vegetarian chili before and it was fine. I ate a bowl of the chili and stuck the remainders in the refrigerator. Then the next day I made a pot roast for a family dinner. I made it in the Instant Pot as well. Basically the pot roast consisted of chuck roast (beef), potatoes...

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Kale Chips and The Trouble with Indigo

March 5, 2024
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Fit and Strong, Food and Drink

Kale Chips are Delicious! I found my favorite way to enjoy kale. Perhaps you've tried it in a salad, or wilted in a soup with lots of vegetables. That is two different ways that I enjoy eating kale. But by far, my favorite way is by turning kale into kale chips. It's a great light crunch snack. I feel that they are a better crispy, crunchy snack than potato chips. Kale chips are very easy to make. I bought a giant bag of kale which was already in smaller pieces. If you bought kale in big giant pieces there is an important step to cut out the large center rib of the piece of kale. Even when you cook the center rib, the texture is so much different...

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Preventing Dementia

Preventing Dementia with Mitchell and Emily Clionsky

February 27, 2024
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Preventing Dementia with Mitchell and Emily Clionsky - 149 In episode 149, Jill and Chris talk with Emily and Mitchell Clionsky, the authors of Dementia Prevention: Using Your Head to Save Your Brain. Their book is the culmination of 45 years of extensive clinical evaluation and treatment. A husband-and-wife team, they have a combined 70 years of professional and clinical experience in medicine and neuropsychology and have treated 20,000 patients. Emily Clionsky, MD, completed residencies in internal medicine and in psychiatry, and is a diplomate of the American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. Mitchell Clionsky, PhD, is a board-certified neuropsychologist who specializes in evaluating and treating patients with cognitive impairment, dementia, ADHD, and traumatic brain injury. They partner at a private practice, Clionsky Neuro Systems, Inc., based in Springfield, Massachusetts. Their...

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Salad - Eating a Rainbow of Colors in My Meals

My Way of Eating a Rainbow of Colors in My Meals

February 18, 2024
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I've been working on eating a rainbow of colors in my meals since 2024 began. Most of the rainbow meals look like a soup or a salad. I've noticed that my occasional baked potato needs some healthy foods and color added, because white just isn't part of the red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet mix! I find myself referring to our Eating the Rainbow download tracker to see if I'm hitting the rainbow each day. Soup This is my lunchtime rainbow soup last Friday which was my recent attempt at “eating the rainbow.”  It is a vegetable soup started with 8 cups of water and adding a frozen bag of stir fry veggies with a can of garbanzo beans, a can of diced tomatoes, some slow cooker...

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Avoiding Menopause Weight Gain with Amy Wilson

Avoiding Menopause Weight Gain with Amy Wilson

February 13, 2024
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148 - Avoiding Menopause Weight Gain with Amy Wilson Amy Wilson is a Board-Certified Geriatric Pharmacist, a certified fitness professional, and a certified nutrition coach. She helps people prevent and reverse diseases with nutrition and fitness. Amy believes diet and exercise can change a person’s life, and how the right nutritional program can be the key to improving health and fitness. She has seen her clients reverse their pre-diabetes, diabetes, high cholesterol, and more. She uses a holistic approach to health to help her clients feel in control of their bodies and minds, while no longer feeling enslaved by their scale. We discuss: Why so many women have experienced a midlife weight gain Why avoiding menopause weight gain is important How to manage glucose spikes and if they are...

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Becoming Elli is for women over the age of 50 who are focused on healthy living and getting fit. We discuss fitness, nutrition, and ways to age gracefully. Our mission is the same as our podcast: to become (and stay) Fit Strong Women Over 50.

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