HEALTHY EATING
100 Days of Read Food ~ Lisa Leake
100 days of real food is a great resource for increasing your knowledge about eating healthy with a lot of family friendly recipes. The recipes use ingredients that are easy to find and are not complicated to make. The website is loaded with free recipes as well as ideas, tips, and tricks for making healthy meals for your family.
https://www.100daysofrealfood.com
The Whole Smiths Cookbooks ~ Michelle Smith
These cookbooks have delicious options for meals, snack, desserts, and so much more. She is all about real food that tastes great but also provides our bodies with needed nutrients to function optimally. She also gives option for Whole 30 if someone wants or need to have that option. Her website has recipes, lifestyle ideas, a podcast, and so much more.
https://www.thewholesmiths.com/
The Skinnytaste Cookbooks ~ Gina Homolka with Heather K. Jones, R.D.
There are several Skinnytaste cookbooks, and many have become New York Times bestsellers. Gina manages to give you recipes that are loaded with flavor but also low calories. The recipes also use easy-to-find ingredients. Heather is a registered dietitian that focuses on weight-loss nutrition that is based on hope and healing. The Skinnytaste website is not only overflowing with recipes, you can also get some free 7-day meal plans.
https://www.skinnytaste.com/
Run Fast Cookbooks ~ Shalane Flannagan & Elyse Kopecky
You don’t have to be a runner to enjoy these cookbooks. They have something for everyone. If you like muffins Rise & Run has 24 recipes for different healthy muffins. There is a trial mix popcorn recipe that is a family favorite, as well as some tasty granola. You will also find snacks, soups, salads, and amazing mains. Check out their website to learn more about their cookbooks, sign up for a monthly newsletter or look through the blog.
https://runfasteatslow.com/
Nourishing ~ Instagram
Nourishing has live daily food videos with tasty and healthy recipes that are professional done. You can download and print the recipes if they look good to you. It’s helpful to see the recipes being made and to see it all put together. I have tried several of the recipes I have seen on Nourishing and have loved every one of them.
https://www.instagram.com/nourishing/
Eatinghealthygram ~ Instagram
Eatinghealthygram has live daily healthy food videos as well as healthy tips and tricks. They show everything from breakfast to dinner options with ingredients that are easy to find and recipes that are not complicated to make.
https://www.instagram.com/eatinghealthygram/
EXERCISE
NourishMoveLove ~ Lindsey Bomgren
Nourish Move Love is my absolute favorite exercise option. She has a multitude of free options from cardio to HIIT to strength training. During each video she is continually talking and guiding you through each move and giving tons of encouragement and motivation. One of her series, Strong 20, is my go-to strength training program. Its ten days of 20-minute-long functional strength training for every part of your body and you only need a mat and some weights.
https://www.nourishmovelove.com/
Ulitmate Body 12-week Fitness Guide ~ bodyboss
If you like having a written manual to look at to get you going with a great whole body workout plan, this book is for you. The HIIT workouts are a circuit that 7 minutes long that you repeat 3 times. It also gives some warm-up and cool-down stretches.
https://us.bodyboss.com/products/ultimate-body-fitness-guide
Core Envy ~ Allison Westfahl
This book gives you 3 different core building exercise circuits as well as information on weight loss, cardio and eating. The exercise have detailed pictures and descriptions for every move.
https://www.amazon.com/Core-Envy-3-Step-Guide-Strong/
Hal Higdon ~ 5K to Marathon Running Plans
Hal Higdon is the master at training plans for running. He has everything from a 5K all the way up to a marathon. All his training plans are available for novice all the way up to advanced. For the 5K, he also includes a walker training plan. You can access all of the training plans on his website for free.
https://www.halhigdon.com/
7 Minute Workout ~ Google Play or Apple
This workout app has high rating and a lot of positive feedback, and it’s free. Basically, it is a 7-minute workout circuit. It shows you details for every move and counts down each move for you. If you want a longer workout, you can just repeat the circuit how ever many times you want. You can advance and do harder moves as you progress.
Just go to the app store on your phone and download
BOOKS
Rewire Your Mind ~ Shauna Shapiro, PhD
The focus of this book is mindfulness. Dr. Shapiro goes into detail about how we can rewire out brain to help us find more focused attention and joy in our lives. It shows a blueprint for living with mindfulness and leading a life of curiosity and compassion.
https://drshaunashapiro.com/
Atomic Habits ~ James Clear
This book will show you in detail how to create new healthy habits and break bad habits. The key is developing systems that will work to help you find success with your habits. I loved this book – it gives so many great ideas for systems we can put into place to get the life we want. It helps you feel good about yourself and understand how to stop or start habits.
https://jamesclear.com/atomic-habits
Tiny Habits ~ BJ Fogg, PhD
Tiny Habits is a detailed plan filled with many real-life examples for starting and building new habits. There are “recipes” for getting started with a variety of new habits, and many graphics and flowcharts to give in-depth understanding to how our behavior can work for us when trying to start something new.
https://tinyhabits.com/
The Power of Now ~ Eckhart Tolle
This book guides us through how to become aware of what is going on with our thoughts and let go of unhealthy and destructive thinking. It pushes us towards being in the present moment and not getting continually caught up with thinking about the past of the future. The focus is on becoming more conscious of our throughs as they have a significant impact on our behaviors. Living in the now is both freeing and enlightening,
https://eckharttolle.com/
The Blue Zones ~ Dan Buettner
The Blue Zones gives insights from the world’s loving living groups of people. You will learn about the common routines that people that live in the Blue Zones all share and how to implement them into your life to increase your overall health and longevity.
https://www.bluezones.com/dan-buettner/
Designing Your Life ~ Bill Burnett and Dave Evans
This book is based on one of the most popular classes at Stanford University. Designing Your Life walks you through how to create and build a life that will leave you fulfilled and happy. This is true for both people starting out and adults that have already lived a lot of life. It’s never too late to design a life you love.
https://designingyour.life/
PRODUCTS/TOOLS
BlendTec Blender
This is one of my most used kitchen appliances. It is fantastic for making smoothies, blending up veggies, nuts or seeds and even making soup. I purchased a refurbished one several years ago and mine still works great.
https://www.blendtec.com/
Cuisinart Immersion Blender
My Immersion Blender is a wonderful tool to have for soups. I frequently use it for soups like cauliflower, tomato, squash, and potato. It makes the tasks of blending the soup super easy and quick.
https://www.amazon.com/Cuisinart-CSB-175-Smart-Stick-Blender/
Orgain Organic Protein Powder – Vanilla Bean
I use this protein powder almost every day in my smoothie. It adds a great flavor and gives me a lot of protein to start my day.
https://orgain.com/
Hoka Running Shoes ~ Arahi
This brand has been recommended to me by both a physical therapist I was seeing and my knee doctor. It is a high-quality dependable brand that has every kind of running or walking shoe you could need. I need a stability shoe and the Arahi has been a lifesaver for my knees.
https://www.hoka.com/
Audible ~ Reading App
Running or biking goes by so much faster for me when I am listening to a good book (it’s also great for in the car). Since I started listening to books a little over a year ago I have been able to listen to over 40 while running, biking, or driving. It’s multi-tasking at its best while amping up the enjoyment factor when exercising
https://www.audible.com/
ZWIFT ~ Indoor Biking App and Bike Trainer
Zwift takes indoor biking on a trainer to a whole new level. You can choose to ride in real locations like New York or ride in their cool world they created for the app. You can choose the distance and difficulty and then ride the course with other people from all over the world in live time. It connects to your trainer so we you are climbing it gets harder to ride and when you are going downhill its easier. It’s so convenient to just go in my basement and jump on my bike. The Zwift app is $14.99 a month. The bigger one-time cost is purchasing a trainer for your bike (either from them or somewhere else)
https://www.zwift.com/home