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Traci D Mitchell is a health and fitness expert, and founder of The 40-Day Shape Up. Traci has been featured on The TODAY Show, and numerous other programs talking about foods that are right for your body type. When she's not talking about healthy foods, she's talking about functional fitness or working with clients to help them live a healthier lifestyle.
Detox Your Body with This: Lemon Ginger Spice Tea
There are detox diets. There are fasting diets. Some detox diets make you fast, and some fasts have a detoxifying effect. I’m more of a detox-with-the-foods-I-eat kinda gal. But every once in a while I get a wild hair to make my own concoctions to drink. I think it was after I bought a bottle of [...]
Lose Weight Fast & Naturally with These Belly Flattening Tips
Got this question yesterday: “Traci, I need to lose a couple pounds in the next couple weeks and I really want my stomach to look flatter…I’ve gained a little weight there recently. What can I do?” GOOD question. Here’s the deal…I will only give healthy advice, and will never advise anyone to lose more weight [...]
Avoiding Dietary Fat to Lose Belly Fat? Uh oh!
It still seems that the knee jerk reaction to getting rid of belly fat is to eliminate fat from the diet…immediately. While cutting back on certain foods, including unhealthy fats, is important. The “no fat” approach to dieting has a lot of people throwing the baby out with the bathwater. Excess fat throughout the body [...]
Leg Exercise Workout: Tone and Shape in No Time!
Looking for a way to tone your legs? Here are five exercises that will shape up your legs in just a few weeks. From start to finish, this workout should take you right around 30 minutes. Throw in 20 minutes of interval cardio, and you’ve got the perfect workout. Do the exercises in this order, [...]
Lose Weight Naturally: 8 Simple Tips
When it comes to losing weight, anyone can do it naturally – and no one needs to take diet pills or undergo surgery to achieve their goals. The problem is, as weight continues to accumulate, the urgency to lose it grows. What was only ten pounds becomes 20 pounds, then 30, then 50 and so on. [...]
Detox Your Body with These Blood Cleansing Foods
Toxins don’t just come from what we EAT, but also from what we BREATHE in. Here are a few foods that can help sponge up all the bad stuff, eliminating it from our system: Apples Beets Broccoli Brussels Sprouts Cabbage Cilantro: (EXTREMELY effective) Dandelion Greens (looks like a regular leafy green if the produce section. [...]
Gaining weight but eating healthy? Maybe it’s stress.
If you felt stressed over the holidays, you may need a low key day of R & R. When you’re in “fight or flight” mode (rushing to work, not getting enough quality sleep, letting the small stuff get to you, etc) your body increases the amount of adrenaline and cortisol released. This can – and [...]
Body Shaping Weight Loss Tips for the New Year
Lose weight. That’s what most of us want to do in the New Year. Personally, I think “gain health” should be the mantra, but that’s just not as snappy as telling it like it is: get rid of the extra weight through the belly, or the inches on the thighs. When we look at a [...]
300 Calorie Fat Burn “Anywhere” Workout
If you’re traveling over the holidays, it can be hard to get in a workout, let alone make it into the gym. Surprise your body (and metabolism) by doing a few of these exercises that can be done ANYWHERE: SET 1 30 Lunges (alternating legs) 30 Jumping Jacks 60 High Knees (like running in place, [...]
Cardio or Strength Training for Fat Loss? Which Works?
A recent study published in the Journal of Applied Physiology has gotten a lot of attention lately, primarily calling out the message “cardio burn more fat than weights.” Well, does it? Not exactly. And not in a way that applies to anyone who moves around a little. Don’t put away your dumbbells yet.The study was [...]
