The Gym Rat’s Guide to Guacamole
Join gym rats, Arielle & Haley as we dive into all things health, wellness, and fitness. Grab your coffee, pre-workout, or electrolytes and come along for a friendly conversation!
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35: Ready, Set, Mom: Training for Races After Baby
07/16/2024
35: Ready, Set, Mom: Training for Races After Baby
Join your Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they discuss training for events! Performance training looks different for each activity but the over sentiment is the same.These Gym Rats discuss the importance of setting up a strong foundation before diving into traditional race performance training, executing slowly after baby, and the importance of your family being involved in seeing you work towards and acheive a fitness goal. The memories are the best part! Find your Gym Rats on Socials: Arielle Bloom Insta: @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton Insta: @balanced.living.co
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34: Beyond the Baby Blues: Fitness Struggles After Birth
06/24/2024
34: Beyond the Baby Blues: Fitness Struggles After Birth
Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they catch up with their babies in toe on life, motherhood, constantly adapting to new seasons, and ofcourse their health and fitness. After an intro portion catching up on how the Yanez family is adapting to life as a family of four and the Heatons now have a 6 month old, the ladies chat about where they are at in their postpartum fitness journeys. These two remind each other that the fitness improvement tragectory post baby is not linear. It looks different from person to person and pregnancy to pregnancy. While Arielle is freshly postpartum with a newborn and already back in the gym, Haley is struggling with some severe diastisis and multiple hernias. Find your Gym Rats on Social Media: Arielle Bloom Instagram: @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton Instagram: @balanced.living.co
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33: Fill Up Your Cup: Navigating Motherhood as a Mom, Wife, and Individual
06/03/2024
33: Fill Up Your Cup: Navigating Motherhood as a Mom, Wife, and Individual
Join your hosts Arielle and Haley as they check in with newly postpartum Arielle and baby Charli about how adjusting to life as a family of four is going. Discussions around husbands being excellent fathers and taking their self care. Starting your own self care journey as a new mom in order to fill your cup and avoid creating resentment in your relatinship. Enjoy some fun banter around how new parents so easily divide and conquor and forget to invest little moments in each other. Grab your beverage of choice and enjoy this real mom talk. Find your Gym Rats: Arielle Bloom @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton @balanced.living.co
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32: And Then There Were Four: Arielle's Birth Story
05/20/2024
32: And Then There Were Four: Arielle's Birth Story
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31. Breathing Down Low: How Diaphragmatic Breathing Supports Pelvic Floor Health
05/06/2024
31. Breathing Down Low: How Diaphragmatic Breathing Supports Pelvic Floor Health
Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they dive deep into proper breathing technique and how it effects our anatomical health and ability to move without injury. Whether it be in the gym, in daily life, men, women, pregnancy, the diaphragm breath and our core control effects us all and how we prevent injury and flow with stability. Prior to getting into the fitness talk, Arielle and Haley catch up on being super pregnant, expecting baby number 2, the strugles of breast feeding, tongue function issues, slow weight gain and really new momhood. Both hosts are eager to welcome the next Gym Rat into the Yanez household! Find your Gym Rats: Arielle Bloom @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton @balanced.living.co
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30. Unfiltered Perspectives: Huberman Scandal, Challenging Feminism, and Boy Mom Realities
04/17/2024
30. Unfiltered Perspectives: Huberman Scandal, Challenging Feminism, and Boy Mom Realities
Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they take a break from fitness and health to gab about some current events. Let's get socratic, the ladies discuss the Huberman Scandal and why the phrase "Never meet your heroes" almost always applies. This tailspins into a conversation around radical responsibility and some of the holes in modern feminism that leave a large chunk of our population behind. Discussing how this has affected and will continue to affect boys of the future. The gals try and wrap their heads around what this really means for their own baby boys as boy moms in todays society. Connect with your Gym Rats: Arielle Bloom Instagram: @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton Instagram: @balanced.living.co
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29: Cracking the Code: How Chiropractic Care is Healing Generations with Dr. Morgan Plantamura
04/01/2024
29: Cracking the Code: How Chiropractic Care is Healing Generations with Dr. Morgan Plantamura
Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they welcome Dr. Morgan Plantamura of Truly Chiropractic in Austin. Have you heard of Neuro based Chiropractic Care? How about the Webster Technique? Dive into all things chiropractic care that is geared toward balancing our nervous system and the way we adapt to stress. Dr. Morgan maps out what it looks like to be a patient in this type of office including the types of diagnostics and technologies utilized, the techniques for special populations like pregnancy and pediatrics, and the philosophy of our C1 vertabrae and its relationship to the vagus nerve and stress. Join for educational goodies as well as uplifting and positive stories of families conceiving after long journeys and children on the autism spectrum making eye contact with their moms for the first time, all thanks to the support chiropractic care provided to them. Resources discussed in todays episode are listed below" Connect with your Gym Rats here: Arielle Bloom @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton @balanced.living.co
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28: Sweat & Stories: Girls Gabbing & Modifying Workouts
03/18/2024
28: Sweat & Stories: Girls Gabbing & Modifying Workouts
Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley while they catch up on their lives. With Baby #2 coming very soon, Arielle is running into all those pesky inconveniences toward the end of pregnancy that you just don't think about until you get there. Sore pelvis, cant reach your legs to shave, and much more. All the while, Arielle completed the Crossfit open and the ladies discussed how she went about modifying the exercises in the open to accomodate her belly, her mobility, and her energy level. Reach out and connect with your gym rats on Instagram: Find your Gym Rats: Arielle Bloom @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton @balanced.living.co
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27: Habit Heroes: Small Changes, Big Impact
03/04/2024
27: Habit Heroes: Small Changes, Big Impact
Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley in a discussion all around creating habits, how to choose them, introduce them, create consistency, and build the healthy lifestyle that serves you best. As Arielle's baby girl is growing inside the womb, Haley's baby is growing outside the womb and making appearances within this episode. These tangential mama's are both sharing their tips and secrets toward building habits reasonably throughout all the stages of life, including when you are so busy it feels like its impossible to do anything for yourself. Find our Gym Rats on Social media: Arielle Bloom Instagram: @Arielle-bloom Haley Heaton Instagram: @balanced.living.co www.balancedlivingco.com
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26: From Conception to Cradle: Mastering Prenatals for Fertility
02/19/2024
26: From Conception to Cradle: Mastering Prenatals for Fertility
Join gym rats Arielle and Haley in a discussion around preconception prep and the main pillars to address in readying your body for creating, and growing, your mini me. The episode starts off with a catch up on Haley's experience with breast feeding thus far and how its always a great idea to reach out to professionals and get mutliple opinions. If you are looking for clear and simple tips to optimize your fertility, this episode gives an overview of how to address your mental, physical, and spiritual health specifically for fertility and pregnancy. Be sure to read what we consider the gold standard of everything pregnancy nutrition by Lily Nichol's: "Real Food for Pregnancy" and "Real Food for gestational Diabetes". Additionally, her new book "Real Food for Fertility" is out now. Find your gym rats: Arielle Bloom Instagram: @Arielle_Bloom Haley Heaton Instagram: @Balanced.living.co www.balancedlivingco.com
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25. Butt Stuff: A Guide to Growing Your Glutes in the Gym
02/05/2024
25. Butt Stuff: A Guide to Growing Your Glutes in the Gym
We love a good glute training session in the gym. Why? Not only did we (Haley and Arielle) both lose our glutes after giving birth, but we worked really hard for them before that! Listen in this week for why glute training is so important, and what you can do to grow your glutes (without spending hours in the gym, or lots of money on plastic surgery). If you want to learn more about growing your glutes, or want to chat with Haley or Arielle more about any topics we've covered so far on the podcast, don't hesitate to reach out! Find Haley on instagram here: Find Arielle on Instagram here:
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24. Sleeping Safely: A Guide to Cozy Cosleeping with Your Baby
01/22/2024
24. Sleeping Safely: A Guide to Cozy Cosleeping with Your Baby
Did you know that In other parts of the world, mothers cosleep with their babies from the day they are born? Cosleeping is really only stigmatized here in the U.S. In this week's episode, Arielle and Haley discuss cosleeping: the benefits, how to do it safely, and why even if you don't plan to cosleep you should know about the option for your own growing family. Here are some resources mentioned in this week's episode: Safe Infant Sleep by Dr James KcKenna The Big Letdown by Kimberly Sears Allers Find Arielle on instagram here: Find Haley on instagram here:
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23. Revolutionizing Resolutions: A Fresh Start for the New Year
01/15/2024
23. Revolutionizing Resolutions: A Fresh Start for the New Year
Do you set New Year's Resolutions? Haley and Arielle don't, but they do something else (they argue even better) instead! Listen in on this episode for: Baby reflections and updates from Haley Setting intentions vs goals at the start of the new year Questions to reflect on from the past year When to actually set goals for the year Treating your family like a small business Shirtless Andrew Huberman (you're welcome 😉 ) If you need support in identifying and setting your goals, reach out and let's chat! Find Arielle here: Find Haley here:
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22. Miracle in Motion: Haley's Birth Story
01/03/2024
22. Miracle in Motion: Haley's Birth Story
Just a few short weeks ago, Haley and her husband JP, welcomed their baby boy into the world! Arielle and Haley sit down to chat about Haley's home birth experience, including her very short labor, and Haley shares some of her insights as a first time home birthing mama. As always, find us on Instagram: Find Arielle here: Find Haley here:
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21. Decoding Personalities: Navigating the Enneagram for Self-Discovery and Growth
12/25/2023
21. Decoding Personalities: Navigating the Enneagram for Self-Discovery and Growth
Join the Gym Rats this week as we talk to our guest, Jess McElroy! Jess is a Clinical Laboratory Scientist, Nutritional Therapy Practitioner, and Enneagram Coach. In this episode, we dive into what the Enneagram can show us about ourselves, we figure out Arielle's Enneagram, and we talk about how you can get your own Enneagram identified if you're interested! Find Jess here:
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20. Transforming Your Physique: Unveiling the Secrets of Body Recomposition
12/18/2023
20. Transforming Your Physique: Unveiling the Secrets of Body Recomposition
Join the Gym Rats as we talk about the basic principles of body recomposition! Use these basic principles in your training and nutrition to achieve the body composition you want. Arielle's 12-week Strength/Hypertrophy Program: Use the code STRONGYEAR24 to get the program for $55 until 1/6/24! Other Hypertrophy programs we love: FLEX: Paragon Training Methods:
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19: Gifts of Presence: A Minimalist's Approach to Holiday Giving
12/11/2023
19: Gifts of Presence: A Minimalist's Approach to Holiday Giving
Join the Gym Rats in discussing why Millenials are obsessed with Minimalism and how it helps your health. The ladies dive into how this translates into the holidays and ways we can utilize love languages, experiences, and practical needs a part of our gift giving strategies. Explore all things personality tests, like aura quizzes, and how that correlates to your organization/pull towards minimalism and ways you can start to incorporate it into your life. Mind Body Green Aura Quiz: Mystic Michaela Know your Aura Quiz: Haley's Favorite Holiday Movies: The Night Before The Fatman The Grinch The Family Stone Arielle's Favorite Holiday Movies: Love Actually The Grinch The Holiday Find your hosts on social media: @Arielle_Bloom @balanced.living.co www.balancedlivingco.com
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18: Perfume to Poison: The Dangers of Fragrance and Healthier Alternatives for Your Home
12/04/2023
18: Perfume to Poison: The Dangers of Fragrance and Healthier Alternatives for Your Home
Join the Gym Rats in discussing how scents effect our health and how we can find healthier alternatives to purchase or to make at home. Ever wondered what ingredients are used to create the fragrance in your perfume, candles, laundry detergent, wall plugins, etc? Well Arielle and Haley break down some of the common materials found in these products, what we know about their manufacturing and their effects on our health. Between carcinogens, allergens, respiratory irritants, and others, learn how you can shop smarter and create delicious holiday scents out of natural ingredients that don't negatively impact your health and positively impact your nose! Mentioned Resources: EWG Skin Deep https://www.ewg.org/skindeep/ ThinkDirty https://www.thinkdirtyapp.com/ Trash Panda Home made scents: Make your own candles: Find your hosts: Arielle Bloom @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton @balanced.living.co
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17: Bones & Brawn: Osteoporosis, Nutrition, and Strength Training
11/27/2023
17: Bones & Brawn: Osteoporosis, Nutrition, and Strength Training
Join the Gym Rats in a discussion around Osteoporosis and the increased rates we have been seeing over the last decade and a half. Why should we be concerned about Osteoporosis earlier than later, how our food and minerals effect our bones, and the forms of exercise that not only are proven to slow bone loss, but also encourage new bone growth. This post Thanksgiving episode starts off with a little friendly catch up between the Gym Rats on their holidays, their cranberry sauce preferences and childrens toys. Listen in to chat all things bone health with two friends. Please rate and review so we can keep growing our audience and reaching more Gym Rats. Thank you all! Find your Gym Rats: Arielle Bloom @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton @balanced.living.co
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16: Podium to Pull-ups: A Retired Olympian's CrossFit Evolution and Mental Fortitude
11/20/2023
16: Podium to Pull-ups: A Retired Olympian's CrossFit Evolution and Mental Fortitude
Join the Gym Rats in a fun interview with Rafa Quintero, 2x Olympic Men's 10m platform diver turned mechanical engineer with a passion for his newfound hobby: Crossfit. Explore the background behind this athletes success within his first sport and how he is now utilizing his previously learned skills, mental strategies, and ability to control his fear, to aid him in progressing within the sport of Crossfit. These friends dive into all the fun facts, like what you love and love to hate about Crossfit, biggest challenges as a new crossfit athlete, including some unsoliscitated nutrition advice to this new up and coming competitor. You can follow Rafa's journey on Instagram here: @rafa_quintero Find your hosts: Arielle Bloom @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton @balanced.living.co
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15: The Gratitude Workout: Managing Stress, Diet, and Fitness During the Holidays
11/13/2023
15: The Gratitude Workout: Managing Stress, Diet, and Fitness During the Holidays
The Holidays have arrived! With Thanksgiving right around the corner, join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley as they discuss how to enjoy your holidays without fretting about the scale and other stressors. These two gym goers cover all aspects of stressors around the holidays from managing family dynamics, travel stress, decrease in movement and increase in all your favorite holiday dishes. The holidays are definitely not about restriction but about creating memories with loved ones and enjoying yourself over community gatherings and delicious food. See how the ladies stay on track while getting their fix of all their favorite foods. Find your hosts: Arielle Bloom: @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton: @balanced.living.co
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14: Cold Weather, Strong Defenses: Boosting Your Immunity Naturally
11/06/2023
14: Cold Weather, Strong Defenses: Boosting Your Immunity Naturally
Halloween is over and the holiday season is in full force, usually accompanied by colder weather and runny noses and coughs. Does the temperature change really cause viruses to spread more easily? Join gym rats Haley and Arielle as they cover the heavy hitters that truly effect your immune system strength and some of their favorite tools to support these systems. Enjoy an intro where the gals share about broken wells, showers shutting off, and a neighboorhood cat playing their feelings for free milk and a nap by the fireplace. Products: Find your hosts: Arielle Bloom @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton @balanced.living.co www.balancedlivingco.com
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13: Mind, Body, and Tangents: Pro Athletes vs Average Joe's and Equity in Sport
10/30/2023
13: Mind, Body, and Tangents: Pro Athletes vs Average Joe's and Equity in Sport
Its Rogue invitational here in Austin! Join Gym rats Arielle and Haley as they discuss Tia-Clair Toomey's return to competition post baby as well as the dangers of comparing ourselves to professional athletes. The tangents spiral quickly into discussing equality versus equity in sport and opinions on the differences between male and female athletes, their sports, and the fan bases supporting them. Stick around to hear about obscure sports that your hosts participated in growing up and how the skills learned in these activities have molded their training styles today. Before diving in, both hosts catch up on their recent travels and continue to discuss their obsession with water Tumblers. Cheers Gym Rats! Find your hosts: Arielle Bloom @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton @balanced.living.co
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12: Double the Joy: Adapting for a Second Pregnancy
10/16/2023
12: Double the Joy: Adapting for a Second Pregnancy
Gym Rats Haley and Arielle share an exciting announcement that, suprise!.... has to do with more babies! Dive into a fun conversation between two expecting moms about their personal journeys so far in their pregnancies. Learn from Arielle about the wisdom she gained in her first pregnancy and delivery and what she is focusing on/changing with her second. Listen to discussions around Birth Plans and when they can be really useful. Additionally, join their brainstorm around how moms can feel more empowered in their births while turning the volume down on judgy mom culture and fear tactics. Find your gym rats: Arielle Bloom: @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton: @balanced.living.co
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11: Pain-Free Living: Exploring Sciatica Solutions with PT Ashley Mak
10/09/2023
11: Pain-Free Living: Exploring Sciatica Solutions with PT Ashley Mak
Gym Rats Arielle and Haley welcome Physical Therapist and Founder of "I Fix Your Sciatica" Ashley Mak to discuss all things back pain and physical therapy. We get Ashley's professional take on what Sciatica is, why back pain is so common in our modern society, things we can do in our day to day life to prevent/improve joint pain, and even fun extras like preferred footwear, and mattress rotation, for overall joint health. Be sure to check out Ashley's podcast "I Fix your Sciatica" on all platforms and those listeners living in the San Francisco Bay Area can capitalize on meeting with Ashley in person for your physical therapy needs. Find Ashley Mak: Instagram: @ifixyoursciatica Find your hosts: Arielle Bloom Instagram: @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton Instagram: @balanced.living.co
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10: Underrated or Overrated: Hot Takes with the Gym Rats
10/02/2023
10: Underrated or Overrated: Hot Takes with the Gym Rats
Join Gym Rats Arielle and Haley in a fun edition of "is it underrated and overrated?" Discussing the gnitty gritty of all the Hot Takes the audience submitted related to our health and fitness. The episode begins with some fun stories that dog lovers can relate too and after some friendly catch up, the Hot Takes begin. If you have ever wondered about timing your protein with workouts, opinions on Avocado toast, morning routines and even our thoughts on Alcohol, this is the episode for you. Find our hosts on their websites and instagrams: Arielle Bloom @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton @balanced.living.co
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9: Coach Tara LaFerrara Unplugged: On Strength and Thought Work
09/25/2023
9: Coach Tara LaFerrara Unplugged: On Strength and Thought Work
Join gym rats Arielle and Haley as they peak behind the curtain of the Coach behind the TL Method, Tara LaFerrara. An accomplished personal Trainer, coach, and fitness influencer well known for her quippy and informative social media content, dives into her journey behind becoming the coach and athlete she is today, what she focuses on the most with her clients, and discussing mindset and thought! Ofcourse, all of this juicy conversation around shifting mindset takes place among some classic Gym Rats tangents and are followed up by some exciting announcements. Tara's podcast, "The Tara Talk" will be available Tuesday October 3rd. Be sure to follow her on all platforms. Tara LaFerrara: Instagram, Threads, & TikTok @taralaferrara @tl.method Find your hosts: Arielle Bloom: Instagram: @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton Instagram: @balanced.living.co www.balancedlivingco.com
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8: Scale vs Self: Tracking Fitness Progress without your Bathroom Scale
09/19/2023
8: Scale vs Self: Tracking Fitness Progress without your Bathroom Scale
Find yourself continually trying to track your progress solely by relying on the dreaded scale in your bathroom? Join Arielle and Haley in walking through multiple different modalities that you can utilize to help track your progress. From easily accessible at home methods to advanced technologies that breakdown detailed data points, theses fitness and food minded mama's break down all the tools you need to know about and how to know how to use or find each one. Also enjoy some fun shoutouts towards other rockstars in the industry like Tara LaFerrara and be sure to rate and review to let us know what you think! Mentioned accounts: Instagram: @taralaferrara Find your hosts: Arielle Bloom Instagram: @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton Instagram: @balanced.living.co www.balancedlivingco.com
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7: Unlocking the Precision Medicine Puzzle: Navigating Autoimmune Diseases with Dr. Erin Donaldson
09/11/2023
7: Unlocking the Precision Medicine Puzzle: Navigating Autoimmune Diseases with Dr. Erin Donaldson
Join host Arielle Bloom and Haley Heaton in a fun conversation navigating all things inflammatory markers and autoimmunity. Precision Medicine Physician, Dr. Erin Donaldson, walks us through the opening of her new virtual practice, her motivators behind pursuing medicine, and the basic things we can all watch out for in our everyday lives in order to decrease inflammation. She includes some tips and tricks on how to advocate for yourself and your health and also gave a sneak peak into her new course on all things autoimmunity and how to manage it, coming this fall. Before we dive into all the juicy details, there are some fun personal stories that take place at the top of the show to kick us off on getting to know Erin on a more personal level and what she gets up to outside of being a doctor. Find her at her website and on Instagram: @thedoctorerin Find your hosts: Arielle Bloom: @arielle_bloom Haley Heaton: @balanced.living.co
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6: Plant Power or Pitfalls? Understanding Anti-Nutrients
09/04/2023
6: Plant Power or Pitfalls? Understanding Anti-Nutrients
It's all over social media, "Only Eat Plants" or "Don't eat plants at all!" Tune in to hear all about what these anti-nutrients and phytochemicals are, their purpose, some considerations, and their benefits. Nutritional Therapy Practitioners and fitness coaches Arielle and Haley, break down everything you need to know about veggies, some of the best ways to prepare them and who may want to consider temporarily removing them from their diet. Follow along our hosts on instagram: Arielle: @arielle_bloom Haley: @balanced.living.co Or at their websites:
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