Nutrition Corner

8 Low-Carb Vegetables Packed With Vital Nutrients—and How to Eat More of Them: What is a starchy veggie vs. a non-starchy veggie vs. a low-carb veggie?

17 Healthy Snack Ideas - Easy and Delicious Options for Every Diet: Boost your energy and nourish your body with this healthy snacking guide.

Recipe for The Day

Teriyaki Chicken Stir-Fry: A pre-sliced pepper-and-onion mix helps keep this teriyaki chicken stir-fry recipe down to only 5 ingredients.

Lifestyle & Fitness Focus

4 Best Exercises To Boost Muscle Growth, According to a Bodybuilding Champ

• Pull-ups: This first exercise helps strengthen and develop your upper body, specifically the rhomboids, lats, and biceps. Pull-ups enhance muscle engagement and contribute to the sculpting of a well-defined back, a hallmark of any bodybuilder.

• Dips: Dips are excellent when it comes to activating the chest, triceps, and shoulders. Performing this exercise with proper form will stimulate a good amount of muscle activation in your triceps, which can lead to both definition and mass.

• Leg Presses: The leg press engages your hamstrings, glutes, and quads and helps you get a handle on leg training. This allows for strategic targeting of muscle groups without the same axial loading as squat.

• Hanging Leg Raises: Hanging leg raises focus on the entire abdominal area, specifically the lower abs. The exercise engages the rectus abdominis, obliques, and hip flexors, promoting strength and definition in the midsection.

4 Genius Weight-Loss Motivation Tricks — Best Life

• Eat a protein-heavy breakfast: Even if you aren't hungry when you wake up, put down a breakfast focused on lean protein—two or three eggs, piece of toast, and half an avocado—and not one centered on processed, sugary grains drowned in milk. Morning fuel has been shown to tamp down binges later in the day and boost metabolism.

• Don't eat in front of the TV: Eating a proper meal in your dining room with a proper place setting—and proper company—will amp up your feelings of responsibility and bring more meaning to the food.

• Brush your teeth more often: To limit any craving or dessert binges after eating your dinner, try loading up the toothbrush and giving your pearly whites a scrub.

• Know the grocery store layout: You know by now that cutting processed foods is a great first step to eating healthier, but a simple trick to avoid being pulled in by their carb-heavy call is to stick to shopping the perimeter of your grocery store.

3 ways to be much more confident at work

• Believe in yourself: Doing so is simply an active choice within yourself, but daily affirmations or self-love meditations may also help—there’s something powerful about saying what you feel out loud.

• Be willing to take risks and try new things: In addition to hyping yourself up, to gain confidence, you may have to enter uncharted territory—physically and emotionally. Staying open to the possibility of positive change and being willing to practice is key.

• Give yourself some grace: On this new journey of self-confidence, there may be times you feel out of your comfort zone. Don’t let those moments set you back—instead, reassure yourself.

3 Best Calf Exercises You Should Do at the Gym to Get Toned Calves

• Standing calf raises: Standing calf raises are one of the most common yet best calf exercises. Stand holding a support, and raise your weight from the toes using your calves. Ideally, your heels shouldn’t touch the ground. It’s helpful to do this exercise on a stair or small bench, where the heels can stick outwards.

• Seated calf raises: Seated calf raises are done with weights. Pace the weight on your quadriceps, and push the weight upwards using your toes and calf muscles. Try to find a spot where your heels can stick outwards.

• Bent knee calf raises: Stand in a slightly squated position. Find something to hold for balance, and proceed to do calf raises while maintaining a bent knee.

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