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Your First Paycheck
Getting your first real paycheck feels pretty good. For the first time, you have your own money coming in. You worked the hours, earned the paycheck, and now you get to decide what to do with it. Maybe you can finally buy some things you've wanted. You can go out with...
The Emergency $500
When people start talking about emergency funds, you'll usually hear something like: “You should have three to six months of expenses saved.” That's a great goal. Eventually. But let's be realistic. If you're working your first job, living paycheck to paycheck,...
Sweet Treats That Won’t Derail Your Goal
Craving something sweet doesn't mean you have to derail your goals. One of my favorite high-protein desserts takes just a couple of minutes to make and feels more like ice cream than a nutrition snack. 🍓 High-Protein Cheesecake Bowl Ingredients: 1 cup nonfat Greek...
Recipe Alert: Protein PB Cups
If Reese's are one of your weaknesses, I'm not going to tell you to replace them with a rice cake and pretend it's the same thing. It's not. Instead, let's make something that actually tastes like dessert but gives us a little more nutritional value. Peanut Butter...
The Comparison Trap
Comparison is the thief of joy...and sometimes your mental sanity. Comparing ourselves to other people isn't new. We've been doing it forever. What has changed is the access we have to everyone else's life. We used to compare ourselves to our neighbor, coworker or...
Community Wellness Champions: Building Connection One Community at a Time
In August, Priority Life Care officially kicked off our Community Wellness Champion Program, and we are already seeing exactly why this program matters. The idea behind the program is pretty simple: the people who know a community best are the people who live and work...
Fitness is not your Punishment
How many times have you heard someone say: “I ate like crap this weekend, so I need to work it off.” “I have to go burn off those calories.” “I missed yesterday, so I need to do extra today.” Somewhere along the way, exercise became punishment for what we ate, what we...
When Tragedy Strikes
Tragedy is part of life. I wish it wasn't, but it is. At some point we are all going to lose someone, get a phone call we weren't expecting, watch someone we care about struggle, or go through something that just doesn't make sense. And somehow, life around us keeps...
Actions vs. Reactions
We've all been there. You get an email that rubs you the wrong way. Someone says something that pisses you off. Something happens at work or at home and you immediately want to react. Then you find out there was more to the story. Maybe you misunderstood what they...
The Family BBQ isn’t a No Go
Labor Day means cookouts, family, friends and probably a table full of food you don't normally eat on a Monday. Enjoy it. Seriously. You don't need to bring your food scale to the family BBQ or avoid everything you like because you're trying to stay on track. You can...