Inspiration/motivation tip: The best way to predict your future is to create it.

Workout: Yoga or Pilates to lengthen and tone your muscles, open your joints and release tension and stress from your body.

Exercise of the day: Warrior 2 is an excellent yoga pose to stretch the hips, lengthen the core and tone the entire body.

Exercise tip: Isometric exercises are an excellent way to strengthen muscles without putting additional stress on the joints. Isometric exercises are an excellent choice for people who are suffering from tendinitis, arthritis, joint pain and joint injury.

Meal plan

Breakfast: yellow corn pancakes, blueberries, bananas, with turkey sausage

Snack: freshly squeezed green juice—2 handfuls spinach, 1 apple, ½ lemon, ½ thumb size of ginger, ice and water

Lunch: tuna sandwich on whole wheat with side salad

Snack: cottage cheese with whole wheat crackers and tomatoes

Snack: grapefruit

Dinner: poached salmon with sautéed asparagus, black beans and corn salad salsa

Dessert: diced mangoes and strawberries

Nutrition tip: Breakfast and lunch should be your largest meals of the day 350–550 calories depending on your height and weight. This is when you need sustained energy to get through the day.

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