How do you plan to celebrate your leap day?

What are your leap day plans?  How about incorporating a 20 minute walk to help increase your overall health?  Here is a link to a fantastic article on Women's Heart Health (http://tinyurl.com/6tpj8wb).  Happy leap day!

Walking for Your Heart

Happy Valentine's Day!  Celebrate the day by taking a long walk with your loved ones.  Here is a wonderful and inspiring video to motivate you.  http://blog.walkingspree.com/

Fitting Exercise/Physical Activity into your day

Often I find it hard to keepfitting exercise or physical activity into my day.  I take stairs and walk really fast between buildings, but adding more things to my day seems impossible at times.  However, reading how these busy physicians (http://tinyurl.com/7kfm9zh) fit in exercise provided the additional motivation I need.  Hope you will be equally motivated as well.  Let's get up and move!!

Crunchy Snack Ideas--CC Dual (Cinnamon and Cocoa Popcorn)

I was excited to find raw and shelled hemp seeds in Costco the other day.  I immediately incorporated it into my homemade trail mix in the morning.  But there are other ways to incorporate it as well. In my case, I wanted to have it in my favorite snack--Popcorn!  Here is the recipe.  Give it a try and let us know how we should modify this low carb/low fat snack.

The CC Dual

Ingredients:
1 Bag of unsalted plain popcorn, popped
1 Tbsp of Agave
1 Tsp of Cocoa powder, unsweetened (*leave out if allergic to chocolate)
1 Tsp of Cinnamon
1 Tbsp of Hemp Seeds, shelled (optional)
1/4 Tsp of Sea Salt

Directions:
1. Pour the popped plain popcorn into a gallon size bag.
2. Mix the cocoa powder, cinnamon, sea salt, and hemp seeds together.
3. Drizzle agave on top of popcorn in gallon size bag.
4. Pour in dry mixture  of cocoa powder, cinnamon, and sea salt.
5. Zip up the bag and shake it until the popcorn has been coated with the dry mixture.