The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge hosted a Zoom call with health-care workers at a hospital in British Columbia as a way to mark Canada Day, thanking front-line staff for their efforts during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Independence Day weekend will be a little different for most of us this year, but we can still make some ...Sharing a barre video workout you can do at home, featuring some of my very favorite exercises for lean, strong legs. All you need is something sturdy to hold onto for balance, like a chair or countertop.
Hi friends! How’s the morning going? I hope you’re hanging in there with everything going on. We had a good weekend here at home and cranked away at the master bedroom. We’re completely re-doing it and I ended up selling our furniture way faster than expected on Facebook marketplace. We’re sleeping camp-style until the missing pieces get here.
I didn’t realize that I still had paint and dirt all over my feet until I started filming this barre video. 
I hope you love this one! I included some of my very favorite exercises for lean, strong legs. This one is a little over 30 minutes and flew.by. My legs were pleasantly sore the next day, too.
Here’s the full follow-along video!
You can combine this with last week’s Barre Arms and Core video for an hour-long workout.
Please let me know if you give it a try and leave any workout video requests in the comments!
My Barre Bootcamp plan is still available here if you’d like more full-length barre workouts (and a plan!) you can do at home.<3
xoxo
Gina
More barre workouts:
Total body barre workout and video
10 barre workouts you can do at home
Barre Bootcamp 4-week workout plan + videos
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Yes, you are still practicing social isolation and sheltering-in-place during the COVID-19 pandemic. But you can still begin the process of reclaiming health, losing weight, and emerging from this national crisis in far better shape than when it started. And ask any successful Wheat Belly follower: Do you get sick like other people with viral illnesses every year? You will receive a resounding “NO”: people living this lifestyle enjoy a huge reduction in viral infections that plague others. We cannot claim that this makes you resistant to coronavirus, but it surely helps to achieve the higher levels of health that we achieve on this lifestyle. You may not have ready and safe access to supermarkets to make the full conversion of your kitchen to a grain-free lifestyle, but you can still take the necessary steps to transform your life.
In addition to losing weight and regaining overall health, the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox helps reverse insulin resistance, inflammation, and vitamin D deficiency, strategies that improve your immune response considerably.
So put it off no longer: We are planning our next Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Challenge that starts on Wednesday, July 15th. This is your opportunity to seize control over health and weight, maybe even turn the clock back 10 or 20 years, look and feel better, be freed of numerous, if not all, prescription drugs.
By joining our Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Challenge, you will have access to:
1) Our Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Private Facebook page that provides videos, success stories, and plenty of feedback and answers to your questions.
2) LIVE Facebook sessions with Dr. Davis and April Duval, our main Facebook page administrator. Dr. Davis will personally kick off the Detox Challenge on July 15th. And because April is herself an example of a fabulous Wheat Belly Detox success, she knows the ins and outs of this lifestyle like the back of her hand.
To join our Challenge, you must sign up to become a member of the Wheat Belly Blog community with an annual subscription fee of $15.99. Sign up here. Once you have signed up, you will be given access to our Private Facebook page.
By becoming a Wheat Belly community member, you will have access to the huge number of resources available on the Wheat Belly Blog, also—nearly 2000 posts with additional recipes, tips, new concepts, avoiding pitfalls, etc. as well as supporting this cause and covering the costs of Wheat Belly staff.
Our goal: to help you succeed in turning around your life and health and achieve all your health goals including weight loss, getting off prescription medications, and turning back the clock 10 or 20 years.
Through my New York Times bestseller, Wheat Belly, millions of people learned how to reverse years of chronic health problems by removing wheat from their daily diets. But, after reading the original Wheat Belly or the Wheat Belly Total Health book, or even using the recipes from the Wheat Belly Cookbook and Wheat Belly 30-Minute Cookbook, people still said: “I’ve read the books, but I’m still not sure how to get started on this lifestyle.”
That’s why I wrote the Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox and now help readers along in this Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox CHALLENGE. This is the quickest, most assured way to get started on regaining magnificent health and slenderness by adopting the Wheat Belly lifestyle.
The Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox supplies you with carefully designed meal plans and delicious recipes to fully eliminate wheat and related grains in the shortest time possible. Perfect for those who may have fallen off the wagon or for newcomers who need a jump-start for weight loss, this new addition to the Wheat Belly phenomenon guides you through the complete 10-Day Detox experience. And we will kick off this next Challenge with a live Facebook session with Dr. Davis on Day 1!
In addition to this quick-start program, I’ll show you:
To join the Detox Challenge:
Step 1
Get the book. And read it (at least the first 5 chapters).
Detox Challenge participants should be informed and active in order to get the most out of the challenge and private Facebook group. READING THE WHEAT BELLY DETOX BOOK IS REQUIRED TO PARTICIPATE. PLEASE DO NOT PARTICIPATE IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE BOOK or else the conversations will not make sense and you will not enjoy full benefit. It is a very bad idea to try and piece the program together just from our conversations. (Note that the Wheat Belly Detox program is NOT laid out in the original Wheat Belly book.)
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Step 2
Join the Wheat Belly Blog community to access the thousands of discussions that provide additional recipes, discussions about issues relevant to the Wheat Belly lifestyle, access the newest ideas in the Wheat Belly Blog. The cost is $15.99 for an annual subscription. Here is why we have converted to a subscription process.
Step 3
Come join the Private Facebook Group.
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Step 4
Head back to the Private Facebook Group starting Tuesday, July 14th (the day before the official start of the Challenge) and onwards for tips, videos, and discussions to help you get through your Detox and reprogram your body for rapid weight loss and health. Dr. Davis and site administrator, April Duval, will be posting video instructions and answers to your questions. Or just join the conversation now, as we discuss the ups and downs, share recipes, and just have fun every day on the next Wheat Belly 10-Day Grain Detox Challenge!
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The worst thing about attempting to reduce your calories are those times when you feel hungry and could legit eat a horse (or an entire large Domino’s). Protein is your best friend for avoiding hunger pangs when trying to lose weight.
Eggs are a really versatile way of sneaking a bit more protein into your diet. Fried, scrambled, poached, turned into an omelette or a frittata, or even hard boiled and eaten as a portable snack – eggs are a great source of protein, with a large egg containing 7.5g and 75 calories.
Eggs are also rich in vitamins D, E, K, B6 and B12, so load up and forgo the multivitamin.
Stuck in an eggy rut? Try these recipes:
You may think tofu is bland, spongy and firmly reserved for veggies and vegans, but think again. Tofu is a flavour vehicle, and it soaks up whatever you throw at it. So if you know what you’re doing, it’s a tasty, protein-rich alternative to meat. It has 118 calories and 12.5g protein per 100g, and there’s so much you can do with it.
Pro tip: buy firm tofu (Cauldron is a good brand) and press it before you cook.
Don’t know what to do with tofu? Try one of these recipes:
Ah yes, where would we be without the humble chicken breast? From bodybuilders who eat 72 of them a day to your average Joe who relies on them as a quick weekday meal staple, we’ve got a lotta love for chicken breasts. And with 24g of protein for 100g (which is more or less your average chicken breast), who can blame us?
Need ideas for something different to do with chicken breasts? Try one of these recipes:
Greek yoghurt is another of those things that seems kinda boring if you’ve only ever spooned it from the tub. It’s tangy, thick and unless you sweeten it it’s probably not what you were looking for when you attacked the tub (it’s nothing like a Muller Corner. Boo).
But with a bit of thought, you can transform Greek yogurt into a delicious dessert or add it to meals for a bit of creaminess.
Buy Greek yogurt, not Greek-style for the good stuff (can’t go wrong with Fage). The classic stuff is 93 cals for 100g, with 9g of protein.
You can also get 0% varieties which contain no fat, and surprisingly Fage’s 0% variety contains more protein – 54 calories with 10.3g protein.
Wondering what to do with Greek yoghurt? Start here:
Beef jerky is a solid snack to have on hand as it’s fairly low in calories and can pack a hefty protein punch. There are also many different flavours available, and if you’re feeling fancy you can branch out from beef and go for salmon jerky, veggie jerky and even reindeer jerky.
A 40g packet of Tesco beef jerky has 13.4g protein, with 114 calories.
The downside to jerky is that it’s really expensive, with one pack of Wild West beef jerky retailing for £2.99. Yikes.
But it is possible to make your own, if you’re willing to put in the extra effort. Here’s a recipe that you can make in the oven, and one you can make with a dehydrator if you’ve got one.
You might have passed red lentils in the supermarket without a second thought, but these little pulses are definitely worth adding to your trolley.
They’re brilliant at bulking up meals, and with 7.3g of protein and 93 calories in 100g (which is loads), they certainly hold their own nutritionally.
Here are a few things you can do with red lentils:
Do you eat enough oily fish? The NHS recommends that we get at least one portion of oily fish a week as they’re high in a whole host of vitamins and minerals, including omega 3, which helps to keep your heart healthy.
Salmon is an oily fish that is also high in protein, so perfect for upping your protein intake while also getting the other benefits salmon brings.
For 100g (around an average salmon fillet) it’s 209 calories and 25g protein and there’s a lot you can do with salmon as the star of the show.
Add one salmon meal to your meal plan a week with these great recipes:
Almonds are another great snack to have on standby, and they’re surprisingly high in protein. A 30g handful will set you back 182 calories and will provide 7.9g of protein.
While they’re delicious eaten as a snack, there’s a lot you can do with them to incorporate them into your meals too to add a welcome crunch.
Get almond inspiration with these recipes:
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Hundreds of cars drove through the rainy streets of Pincher Creek in southern Alberta on Tuesday, hoping to draw attention to the town's looming loss of rural health care.