Dragging this morning? When hitting snooze isn't an option, listen to this heart-pumping playlist — plus try these other easy tricks to help boost your mood and energy levels. Plus, calling all avocado fans! These 5-minute baked eggs in avocado will be a new staple in your breakfast rotation.
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Avocado and eggs go together like peanut butter and chocolate, don’t you think? These baked eggs in avocado take only five minutes to make and are delicious for breakfast, lunch, dinner or a snack! While the avocado cups are broiling, spread a piece of whole-grain toast with Greek yogurt and top with smoked salmon and tomato. This will bolster the protein, fiber-rich carbs, and veggies in your meal.
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5-minute morning habits to boost your energy and mood
Monday's are rough. When hitting snooze isn't an option, there are some easy things you can do (beyond gulping coffee) to help boost your mood and energy levels.
TODAY show contributor and Peloton instructor Ally Love shared some of the simple energy-boosting tricks she uses to get herself going in the morning.
Start your day with a yoga pose. Love suggests easing into the day with a yoga pose like downward dog or forward fold to rush some blood to your head right when you wake up.
Add a shot of cold to your shower. Love recommends adding a cold splash to your shower. “Take a hot shower with a 15-second cold splash at the end — its shocking and reinvigorating!” she said. A cold shower may increase alertness and awakeness and decrease muscle tension.
Get dressed to heart pumping music. While you’re putting on your bright attire, blast some mood-boosting tunes.
WHO calls aspartame, an artificial sweetener in Diet Coke, a possible carcinogen, so it may cause cancer. Should you stop drinking diet soda and go to regular?
WHO calls aspartame, an artificial sweetener in Diet Coke, a possible carcinogen, so it may cause cancer. Should you stop drinking diet soda and go to regular?
Joy Bauer shares her favorite summer food hacks —
watermelon "sushi," cantaloupe kebabs, pineapple ices and hummus dressing — to perk up your seasonal produce.
Joy Bauer shares her favorite summer food hacks —
watermelon "sushi," cantaloupe kebabs, pineapple ices and hummus dressing — to perk up your seasonal produce.
