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Healthy Fitness Challenge: Week 9, Day 5

Every weekday, join "The Mo'Nique Show" on a 12-week workout program with Hollywood trainer Jeanette Jenkins.

Inspiration/Motivation: Take the time to reach back and pull someone forward. A simple act of kindness could completely change someone else’s world.
Warmup: 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 1, 2, and reverse flow is an excellent yoga pose sequence to stretch the hips, lengthen the core & tone the entire body.
   
Exercise Tip: Take the time to focus on your breath. Inhale fresh oxygen into the body to help you create energy and burn fat & exhale carbon dioxide. In yoga or while stretching, you inhale to bring oxygen and fresh energy into the body and exhale to lengthen & release build up toxins & stress.
Meal Plan

Breakfast: Yellow Corn Pancakes Blueberries Bananas/Turkey Sausage
Snack: Freshly Squeezed Green Juice- 2 handfuls spinach, 1 apple, ½ lemon, ½ thumb size of ginger, ice & water

Lunch: Tuna Sandwich on Whole Wheat with Side Salad

Snack: Cottage Cheese with Whole Wheat Crackers & Tomatoes

Snack: Grapefruit

Dinner: Poached Salmon with sautéed asparagus, black beans & corn salad salsa

Dessert: Diced mangoes & strawberries

Nutrition Tip: Make sure your snacks contain some healthy fat or protein so they help you feel satisfied by keeping your blood sugar level down. 
Follow Jeanette on Twitter @JeanetteJenkins to ask your fitness and nutrition questions and for daily fitness/nutrition tips and motivation!

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