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By: Stacie VenagroFitness Tips Fitness Tips 2017 World Miss Fitness America Pro By Stacie Venagro - 2017 World Miss Fitness America Pro Welcome fall! I don’t know about you, but Spring is here! Longer days, shorter I’m looking forward nights, fresh air, open windows, and to cooler weathoutdoor activities. Living in New er, sweaters, apple England we are no stranger to picking, and pumpfluctuating weather patterns which kin everything! It’s means that spring weather isn’t also the best time always promised for the beginning to savor the time of spring. Many of us make promises spent outdoors beto ourselves when the weather “gets fore colder weather nicer”, but why not start now? No matter the weather making comes. If you haven’t already it’s a great time to focus your fitness routine a couple of times a week getting out of the house. New England is well known for beautiful fall scenery, so why not get out and discover something new. healthy choices can be fun and simple. What you eat is just as important as exercise! No matter the weather you can always control what you consume. I’m going to share with you some of my healthy eating tips to help you achieve your goals. Exercise doesn’t have to monotonous, there are plenty of great places to hike locally. There’s a wonderful book called Weekend Hikes in Rhode Island by Ken Weber that I was introduced to awhile back. He does an excellent job of breaking down each destination with detailed directions, approximate walking time, and Meal prep, which I’m sure you heard before is crucial to achieving your goals. Here are some key factors for a successful meal prep: the distance. A couple that are great for fall are Napatree Point and Browning Mill Pond- Roaring Brook. These are just a couple of the many that are close by. Always be safe when hiking new areas and do your Recipes: know what you’re going to prepare. There are so many research prior to heading out. As always never hike close to dark. If hiking new areas isn’t your thing take websites out there with easy healthy recipes. Some that I like a walk or run in your neighborhood or local park. include skinnytaste.com - cookinglight.com- eatingwell. com and foodbabe.com. Get your family involved in fitness! If you don’t have children take the dogs along with you. Children love to get outside and explore nature. There’s plenty to explore to stimulate the mind and get some physical What to prep: ideally you want to have your whole day planned activity in. When you’re having fun exercise doesn’t feel like a task. Most dogs are always up for a walk, out. This will prevent you from getting hungry and reaching you can train them to run while you’re training g yourself. Alternate between jogging and walking in 30 for something that may stifle your progress. Breakfast, snack, second intervals to start off and work your way up from there. Bring water for you and your pet to keep lunch, snack, and then dinner. Using an app like MyFitnessPal everyone hydrated. to track your food at first maybe helpful to make sure you are getting the right amount of calories and enough protein, carbs, Enjoy the beginning of this beautiful season and stay motivated. Just because it’s getting cooler out doesn’t and fat. mean that it’s not a good time to start working out. Anytime is a great time to start! Stacie Venagro Fitness is located at Tools: have your Tupperware ready, crock pot, pans. Measuring your portions is also important so have your measuring cups 161 Macklin Street in Cranston. and spoons at hand and food scale if you have one. Whatever you’re using make sure you have everything ready.
Pick a day that works for you: for those of you with the weekends off Sunday is a good day to shop what you need and prepare your food. You can do 3 days in advance or 5 whatever works for you. It doesn’t matter what day of the week you choose as long as it works for you.
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Have fun with it! Healthy eating doesn’t mean you have to eat salad everyday. There are so many delicious ways to prepare your food so that you can enjoy what you’re eating. Don’t sacrifice the joy of food because you think that’s what you’re supposed to do. So pull out your smart phone and start saving those healthy recipes and get to achieving your goals!! Before we know it the warm weather will be here and you’ll be feeling great! 46 ShopInRI
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1. None of the engineers made it off the Titanic. They stayed and kept the power on so others could safely 1. escape. 2. In 1939, the New York Times predicted that the television would fail because the average American 2. family would not have enough time to sit around and watch it. 3. 3. Too much stress causes parts of your brain to freeze and temporarily shut down. 4. 4. Lil Wayne’s debut album, “Tha Block Is Hot,” is nearly curse free because that’s what his mother wanted. 5. 5. AMC allowed the writers of “Breaking Bad” to use the F word only once per season, which led to extensive planning around when to employ it. 6. The Netherlands sends Canada thousands of tulip 6. bulbs every year to thank them for their help in WWII 7. Walt Disney gave his housekeeper, Thelma Howard, Disney stocks every year for the holidays. 7. She died at the age of 79 with a $9.5 million fortune. 8. Will Smith had absolutely no acting training or 8. experience before being cast on “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air”. 9. Lego doesn’t make any military-themed sets 9. because the creator didn’t want to make war seem like child’s play. 10. Nintendo promoted the term “videogame 10. console” so that people would stop calling rival products “Nintendos,” and they could protect their trademark. 11. 11. In 1990, Muhammad Ali saved the lives of 15 U.S. hostages in Iraq by going there and negotiating with Saddam Hussein by himself, ignoring warnings from the government and his family. 12. 12. The classic game “GoldenEye 007” for Nintendo 64 was developed by only nine people, eight of which had never worked on a game before.
1. Throughout his lifetime, 85-year-old philanthropist
Charles F. Feeney has given away $8 billion—he now has $2 million to live on. 2. New research has found that the more visually creative a person is, the lower the quality of their sleep. 3. Subscriptions to streaming music services increased by 50% in 2016, totaling 92 million.
According to an extensive study, the best day to buy 4. plane tickets is Sunday—especially if you’re booking more than 21 days in advance. 5. Studies show that, when it comes to food, the human brain is bad at judging quantity increases but accurate at judging quantity decreases. 6. A new U.S. study has found that economy round-trip and one-way airline tickets are the lowest they’ve been since 2013. 7. By 2050, it’s estimated that four trucks of plastic waste will be added to the ocean every minute.
Research shows that kids are more likely to be hon8. est when they know it will please their parents, even if their parents still punish them. 9. A recent study found that higher blood pressure in an expectant mother is associated with having a boy. 10. In 2015, Americans wrote out 17.3 billion checks. In the same year, they made 69.5 billion debit card purchases. 11. According to a survey, 67% of hiring managers cite lack of eye contact as the biggest mistake candidates make in interviews. 12. New research has found that the NFL players that incur the most penalties get arrested more than their teammates.
12 Things You Didn’t Know
Ichiro Suzuki, baseball’s all-time hits leader, learned 1. Spanish just for the purpose of trash talking opponents. 2. The average American woman now weighs as much as the average 1960s man. 3. Research shows that the creativity may begin in the cerebellum, rather than the “right brain.” Making art has been found to lower stress hormone 4. levels in most people, regardless of skill. A U.S. study found that the most disproportionately common interest found on people’s resumes in New 5. Hampshire is “Bigfoot.” The design of the tallest residential building in the world, 432 Park Avenue in Manhattan, was inspired 6. by a trash can. Studies show the key to happiness is spending your money on experiences rather than possessions. 7. On average, early risers writing emails between 4am 8. and 8am make 11.8 mistakes per 100 words. A study found that only 24% of Canadians know that Queen Elizabeth II is their head of state. 9. Research has found that, on average, a person’s social media writing contains three times as many 10. mistakes as their emails. Amy Schumer is the only woman ever to land on Forbes’s list of the world’s highest-paid comedians. 11. According to USDA projections, by 2025 Americans 12. will consume 219 pounds of meat per year on average.feeling to occur.
1. The world’s first labor strike was held on the site of a pyramid.
The world’s oldest hotel has been operating since 705 2. AD in Japan.
The name tag on Heath Ledger’s nurse uniform in 3. “The Dark Knight” read “Mathilda” the name of the actor’s daughter. 4. One man, without help and without proper construction tools, spent 34 years building the Watts Towers, which still stand in Los Angeles. 5. Louisiana has the highest incarceration rate of any
U.S. state, and New Orleans has the highest incarceration rate of any city in the state. 6. Samsung has been granted a patent in South Korea for contact lenses that project images directly into the wearer’s eyes. 7. By 2017, it is estimated that nearly 207 billion emails will be sent every day. 8. Studies suggest that gifted people often have bad handwriting because their brains work faster than their hands. 9.
Cheetos are naturally gray before they are given a bright orange artificial color. 10.
Looking through Instagram accounts of healthy meals can actually trick you into enjoying those foods 11. more than you otherwise would, a study found.
Women are statistically better drivers then men. 12. It cost $15 million to build Disneyland’s New Orleans
Square—the amount the U.S. paid for the real New
Orleans in the Louisiana Purchase.
12 Things You Didn’t Know 1. The sentence “the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog” uses every letter in the
A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair. 5.
The shortest war in history was between
Zanzibar and England in 1896. Zanzibar 6. surrendered after 38 minutes.
A polar bear’s skin is black. Its fur is not 7. white, but actually clear.
Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland 8. because he doesn’t wear pants.
More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in plane crashes. 9. Shakespeare invented the words “assassination” and “bump.” 10.If you keep a goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn white. 11.The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they start with. 12.The word “lethologica” describes the state of not being able to remember the word you want.
