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Posted on April 14, 2017  |  Awesome Foods

Stop Freaking Out About Sugar! 5 easy steps to read labels like a pro, drop fear and stay healthy.

Packaged Foods are bad for us and Sugar is evil… Right?

That’s the reaction I get from most people. They know that sugar is bad, but aren’t sure of what exactly should concern them and why.

Now, as a girl that likes to stay lean, strong and healthy.. I totally get watching sugar intake. I read labels wherever I go and put a lot of products back on the shelf.

But we busy people, gotta keep it real! Sugar is in everything.

We gotta stop freaking out when we see more than 4 grams of sugar on our favorite Kombucha

That just makes us feel like there’s no good choices in our daily life. Soo wrong!  There’s tons of good choices, we’re just missing them because we’re staring at those sugar grams.

Plus deprivation will always wreck you.  If you run from that sugar all day, you’re just gonna end up face first in a bowl of ice cream or giving yourself a mental lashing for that chocolate you snuck last night. I know I’ve been there 🙂

 

Here’s how to stop freaking out about sugar WHILE keeping lean, strong and healthy!

Yeah, we want to eat more foods that don’t have labels… but let’s face it busy days call for foods we can grab and go with and these are often packaged options.

Even the most healthy packaged options have sugar in them. Let’s look at bars and smoothies.
I’m guessing you often buy protein shakes and nutrition bars.

I’ll walk you through my two top picks, what to look for and why

My favorite bar option is Perfect Bar.

(I love the almond coconut one)
Gluten Free, Non GMO, Soy Free and jam packed with superfoods including alfalfa, celery, kelp, spinach, flax, organic pumpkin seed oil, egg &rice protein.

Outstanding! Right? Now let’s take a look at the label.

If you can’t read it below-  CLICK HERE FOR PERFECT BAR NUTRITION INFO

 

 

It’s got 20g of sugar. I’ve had many clients see this and put it back on the shelf.

Noooo!   The fear of sugar just made them opt out of a great choice.
I’ll break down exactly how to fix this.

 

First, let’s look at mēle my favorite on the go smoothie.

 

I love mēle Specifically the supergreen shake.

Like Perfect Bar, this company found a great way to get high quality veg, protein and healthy fats in the hands of busy folk trying to eat healthy.

Ingredients:

grass-fed whey protein isolate, pineapple, mango, coconut milk, almond, organic carrot, organic flaxseed, organic wheatgrass, organic barley grass and less than 1% of each of the following: xanthan gum, maltodextrin (from corn), sunflower lecithin (carrier), sodium caseinate (casein).  allergen info: contains milk, peanuts and almonds. processed in a facility that handles wheat and soy

 

Did you see those fantastic ingredients? Ya got clean, lean proteins, healthy fats, high nutrient veg and fruit.

Now let’s check out that nutrition fact label.

There’s 18g of sugar in One serving.

Does that freak you out?  It should NOT

But, I know it’s turned many away

Again, I say “Noooo! “

This is a great choice.

So, how the heck do stop fearing sugar and
stay lean and healthy?

 

Good freakin’ question!

Here’s 5 Steps to Quickly & Easily Make the Best Choice

One that fills you up, keeps you lean, boosts your energy and makes you look gorgeous!

CLICK HERE to get this super awesome PDF Cheat Sheet 

 

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Tagged: mele, meleshake, Perfect Bar, sugar

Posted on October 20, 2016  |  Awesome Foods

Do this 1 thing to get from zombie to superhero every AM!

Do this one thing to get from zombie to superhero every morning! Do you wake up charged for your days or do you feel more more of a like zombie..dragging yourself out of bed with and eerie groan?

If it was the latter, I totally hear ya! I used to fight that zombie body.

Good thing I figured out how to stop the walking dead mornings for good! I just did this one simple thing every night

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