JJ Flizanes- Fitness, Love & Life

I have been invited to start a series of weekly video blogs and tips-which is great since I always want to do video for you but find myself making excuses these days why it can wait……
I have a feeling some of you can relate that to your diet and exercise program maybe??
Well none the less, [...]

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As I prepared 2 weeks ago for my raw food experiment this past week, I wanted to share the reasons why I am doing this now and the reasons why I have not done it in the past.
Benefits:

Getting more fruits and veggies into the diet
Eating more vibrationally alive foods
Getting more enzymes
Increasing fiber
Increasing antioxidants
Changing your relationship [...]

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Hi everyone!
This week has had many great breakthroughs for me . I want to share this one with you in the format that it actually occurred because I don’t think I could have said it better re-writing it in the blog so I just gave you the whole interaction between JJ and I, with her [...]

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What a difference no Gluten makes!
For whatever reason last night was a tough night. I was feeling lonely, sad and very very tired. I worked a 13 hour day and stopped at Wendy’s on the way home. I was starving and exhausted which did NOT help in my judgment of food choice.  I will say [...]

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Sorry I haven’t written in SO long!
Lately I’ve been feeling pretty even keel, even flat and dare I say boring!  I haven’t been having my emotional highs and lows to which I attribute a major reduction in the amount of sugar that I used to eat.  I am also not over eating and not emotionally [...]

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What started out as an experiment 3 years ago has turned into the preferred way of life.  One month before my wedding, I decided to eat gluten free to see what effect it had on my body.  In 10 days, I was down 4 pounds.  Knowing this was water weight only, I was intrigued by [...]

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This past weekend we had a local church putting on a Greek Food Festival.  For those of you who do not know, I am Greek (and Italian).  I grew up in the Greek Church for 13 years and we also put on a food festival every year. So I know and love this food…..
However, it’s [...]

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Mornin’
Results are in. After the first two weeks of JJ’s 6-Week Beach Body Cleanse I’ve lost 6 pounds! And that’s even “cheating” for two days of it! Doh!
Feeling much better today. Less tired. 
I was thinking about what I posted last night about how my moods have been much more level.  I attribute that to not [...]

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Longest blogging break ever…so sorry!  I feel like I don’t have anything interesting to say (type) when there’s nothing exciting going on in my life.
So , tomorrow is the last day of my cleanse…thank God! It was easy in the beginning and then got harder toward the end because I grew very bored and hungry!
I [...]

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Detox day 2: Who am I? What’s my name?
Just a quick check-in.  For me this detox has been tough.  I think that the detox of fruits, veggies and nuts would have been fine had I not had all of the additional stressors the past two days.  I’m PMSing so my body is craving meat meat [...]

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