New Design Your Life 30 Day Coach Internship Starts 9/8!

If you've been following me since I started coaching last year, you know how much it has changed my life! I've been able to retire from teaching and stay home with our four children. My hope is to pay it forward and show others how they can also take control of their lives and start living a life by their design.

Coaching is much more than supporting people on their health and fitness journeys. It's daily personal development, committing to your own health and fitness, helping your team reach THEIR goals, dropping old beliefs about yourself so that you can shine and share your unique gifts with world, and taking responsibility for and control of your life. Where you are right now is a result of the choices you have made. Do you wish you were somewhere else? Do you know there must be something more to life than a 9-5 and working towards your boss's dreams instead of your own? There IS another way…working hard to create your life, not living reactively to your circumstances, but CREATING your circumstances!

I challenge you to think outside the box and imagine a different way to earn a living while sharing your own unique gifts and helping others. You can have the financial and time freedom to do what you want to do - to spend more time with family, to travel, to follow your passion.

I am starting a new 30 day coach training program on 9/8 and will personally mentor 10 people who are ready to commit to changing their lives. My team is ranked in the top 1% of  had huge growth on our team in the past month and I already have 5 new coaches who are ready to go for this new group. If you'd like one of the 5 spots please apply. You must sign up by 9/1 to start on 9/8. This is a life changer if you are willing to take full advantage of it. Our Team Believe is like family and we will support anyone who jumps in and goes for it! 

See my coaching story here and how it has completely changed my life and the future of our family. It is by far one of the best decisions I have ever made and I want to show you how to take control of your life and live a life by YOUR design - not someone else's.

If you'd like to learn more before jumping in, read more here or email me to join our 5 Day Coaching Open House to learn about what we do. If you're ready to take the LEAP of faith and work hard for the life you want, fill out this application now and email me to tell me you're ALL IN!

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Sunday Morning Clean Eating Pancakes with Strawberry Sauce

We have a tradition of Sunday Morning pancakes in the Milligan house. We used to make them from a box mix and had some fake syrup to accompany them. YUCK! But we changed to clean eating over a year ago and follow a 90/10 rule, eating clean about 90% of the time. We came up with a MUCH healthier and cleaner version for our Sunday pancakes than the boxed junk. Go to your pantry and throw that stuff out - it's loaded with preservatives. Not only is making your own pancake mix healthier, it will save you money too! We usually double this recipe if we'd like to have pancakes left over for our family of 6. The kids like to heat them up the next day! We also offer them real maple syrup, but they usually gobble up the strawberry sauce. Enjoy!

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Trader Joe's and the 21 Day Fix

What to buy at Trader Joe's for the 21 Day Fix…

I've been getting a lot of questions about what I buy when I go to Trader Joe's that is "clean," how I shop for the 21 Day Fix at TJ's and could I please post what I get! So, here ya go! 

I do 95% of my shopping at TJ's, so I'll take you through what I get in a typical week. I shop every Sunday so I can prep for the week, but I make it EASY. I don't have time for complicated recipes and fancy pants food (even though I like fancy pants food!).

I'll focus on the 21 Day Fix, since that is clean eating anyway!

The Fix comes with these color coded containers that tell you how much of each food group to eat for YOUR body. Everyone is different and everyone will be eating a different number of each container per day. 

What I do to make my life easy is choose 3-5 foods from each food group that I'd like to eat that week and shop for those on Sunday. There is a long list of foods for each food group to choose from, but I will just post what I like to eat in each one and the foods I find at Trader Joe's. If there is an organic option, that's what I buy.

The Containers…

The GREEN container is veggies and I buy baby bok choy (recipe here, YUM!), asparagus, grape tomatoes, cucumbers, mushrooms, baby carrots, peppers, and green beans. I sauté a bunch of veggies together on Sunday so I have a veggie mix ready to add to eggs, salads, brown rice pasta, etc. Check out the Veggie Stir Fry recipe.

 Ginger and Garlic Bok Choy

The PURPLE container is for fruit and I usually stick with a banana in my Shakeology, apples, kiwi, and cantaloupe. 

The boys enjoying their Shakeology. 

The RED container is protein - and yes, you need to eat all of those containers of protein, your body needs it! I fill mine with organic chicken, 1% Greek yogurt, eggs, cottage cheese, and Shakeology counts as 1 red container, too. I am not a big meat fan, but these work for me just fine!

Veggie stir fry with eggs and feta. 

The YELLOW container is carbs - but they need to be GOOD carbs! I usually fill my yellow containers with steel cut oatmeal, lentils, sweet potatoes, quinoa or brown rice. 

The BLUE container is healthy fats and I like avocado, raw walnut halves, feta cheese, hummus, and cheddar cheese once in a while. 

The ORANGE container is seeds, homemade salad dressings, etc. I use 1 container of dressing each day using grapeseed or olive oil, dijon mustard, and balsamic vinegar with spices. Also pictured is salsa (no sugar added!), raw honey (allowed in moderation), apple cider vinegar (SO good for you, add to dressing), and garlic flavored olive oil. 

On the 21 Day Fix program, you also get 2-5 teaspoons of oils or nut butters each day. I use my 2 teaspoons for almond butter, also found at Trader Joe's - no salt or sugar added, just almonds!

 That's just a list of a few things you can buy at Trader Joe's to stock up for the 21 Day Fix, or clean eating! If you're local - I'll be walking a group through Trader Joe's here in NJ on a few Sundays coming up. Contact me for details! 

The 21 Day Fix also comes with the colored containers pictured above, 30 minute workouts that are able to be modified, a complete nutrition guide and 30 days of Shakeology. 

To join the next Challenge Group just fill out an application here!