Women Fitness International Magazine December 2021

EDITOR'S NOTE “It's never too late to go for a dream or make a change in your life. You can reinvent yourself, build a new career and maintain a positive outlook on life, at any age - even when your world is collapsing around you.”Michele Laine 2021 has been a challenging year for all of us, but we can’t let that stop us from living our best lives in 2022! Maybe it's time to set new boundaries. Setting boundaries will allow you to protect your physical and mental well-being without the need to cut people out of your life completely. The celebrity of our December year-end issue is Julie Bednarski, the founder of Healthy Crunch (snacks) started with a mission is to innovate favorite everyday foods & make them better…

COVER STORY Julie Bednarski Healthy Crunch founder Changing The Game ONE BITE AT A TIME After being hospitalized due to her debilitating eating disorder, Julie left her day job to focus primarily on a new healthy lifestyle for herself. Julie's entrepreneurial personality and over a decade worth of experience as a chef and registered dietician led her to start creating recipes to satisfy her cravings while still eating right. Once experimenting with rejuvenated kale chips and receiving positive feedback from family and friends, Julie started the Healthy Crunch Company with the goal of creating foods to make "you feel good inside and out!" Healthy Crunch has keto-certified, gluten-free, paleo-certified, vegan, and school-approved option, allowing everyone to enjoy delicious snacks without compromising their health. From kale chips to trail mixes, the…

Pregnancy CONCEIVING NATURALLY With Herbal Aid Infertility is a term that is generally applied when a couple fail to conceive following unprotected sex over a period of a year to eighteen months. Many infertility treatments, focus on the actual mechanics of fertilisation, when often the overall condition of the body is the key to successful conception. Herbs have been used for hundreds of years to treat every ailment that exists. After all, plants were the only medicine available to our ancestors and the human race has survived, so they must have been doing something right! There are many root causes that can inhibit the processes necessary for fertilization, such as stress, illness, a hormonal imbalance and poor diet. These are just some of the factors that can affect the organs…

Mental Health An Interview With Big Sky Actress Dedee Pfeiffer By Charlene Bazarian Dedee Pfeiffer believes it’s important to “Look at life through a lens of curiosity, not resistance.” The actress and single mother of two teen boys currently portray Denise Brisbane, a smart and sassy office administrator on the ABC breakout hit drama series, Big Sky. Pfeiffer knows the importance of looking at challenges through a lens of curiosity firsthand. Big Sky marks Pfeiffer’s return to acting after a ten-year absence where she was raising her two sons, battling addiction, getting her bachelor’s degree in psychology, and eventually a master’s degree in social work. Pfeiffer is obviously curious about a lot of things. Pfeiffer had played Sheri Winston in the sitcom For Your Love and Rachel Blanders in the…

Healthy Eating TOP 10 WAYS TO Effective MEAL PLANNING Meal planning is a time-consuming job when it’s done from scratch week after week. However, it doesn’t have be complicated. A small investment of time creating a menu plan can reap great rewards. In fact when meals are well-planned in advance there are lesser chances of a blow-out. By understanding and incorporating these tips into your daily or weekly meal 1 Begin By Gathering Your Favorite Recipes. Jot down, flag pages of cook book or even print out your favourite recipes. In any event, bring them all to the table when you’re ready to begin. Note that if some of your recipes are so well-loved that you prepare them from memory and don’t even know where a printed version might be,…

Beauty & Fashion EYE MAKEUP Palette For Spring/Summer 2022 After connecting virtually for far too long, makeup lovers rejoiced the playful return of new eye-makeup fashion trends for Spring/Summer 2022. NYFW is back, and so is makeup! This season, designers are celebrating with colour: From pops of color smudged across eyelids to illuminated skin and rosy cheeks. The runway seems alive with makeup looks from the best brands in the business. New eye shadow palettes 2022 includes eye shades of pastel colors, such as porcelain, cashmere, almond, latte, deep olive, stable, cafe, mocha, honey beige, agate and so on. Makeup artists have gone on to create a color splash with a mixture of different, bright colors. They may look beautiful with colorful casual, evening dresses. Smoky eyes with fire-colored eye…