Healthier Cookie Dessert Recipe

FAVORITE COOKIE RECIPE 

Peanut Butter Protein Cookies

Super EASY and only 7 Ingredients 

1 Cup of Peanut Butter
1 scoop Chocolate Shakeology
1 egg white = about 50g
1 Tsp coconut oil
1 Tsp of Cinnamon
1 Tsp of Vanilla

Dark Chocolate topping (optional)
1 Tbsp melted coconut oil
1 Tbsp Hersey dark chocolate cocoa powder
1 Tbsp chocolate Shakeology

Oven 350. Spray a cookie sheet with COCONUT OIL and then mix all ingredients together. Mix makes 8 COOKIES. Bake for 10 mins. Take out (mix dark CHOCOLATE topping and drizzle on top of cookie) then place in refrigerator for 10 mins.

Where You Live Affects Your Body Image!

Wow I totally am happy to see that other women think like I do! When I left Texas to go to U of AZ, I definitely felt more pressure to be thin. Many of the girls were from the coastal towns in California. This didn't get better when I moved to Florida! But nice to know I wasn't alone! Crazy isn't it ladies?

"Your ideal is based in part on your visual 'diet' or the bodies that you see," says Martin Tovée, Ph.D., a psychologist at Newcastle University in England who has studied how different environments affect our body image and preferences. "If you're in a culture or society that places importance on a thin body and it's considered attractive and high-status, you suddenly think, I want that!" A couple of years ago, Tovée and his colleagues traced what happened when women from an area of rural South Africa—where curves were highly valued—moved to the U.K., where the ideal body mass index (BMI) was much, much lower. Within 18 months, the South African women had modified their body preferences to thinner physiques, a pretty seismic cultural recalibration. Tovée adds: "Your ideal shifts as your environment changes."