Blog Posts by QuickieChick

by QuickieChick Laurel House.
Running on the Beach
More than helping to fulfill both the intentions of "Getting Fit" and "Losing Weight," exercise can help you quit smoking, minimize your alcohol consumption, stress less, and increase your energy. How?

1. Lose Weight
Exercise is known to help you Lose Weight and Get Fit by improving cardio function (translation: strengthening your heart), toning your muscles, and improving your health as a whole.

2. Increase Your Energy
Exercise can Increase Your Energy. Odd but true, exhausting yourself during a "good" workout, the kind that leaves you wet with sweat and your muscles sore in the morning, actually energizes both your body and mind. Yes, people who workout tend to have more energy throughout the day, even if they had to wake up early in the morning to slip those 60-minutes of sweating in, then those who snooze instead.

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by QuickieChick Laurel House.
Real or Faking It?
Your styles clash- He's a jack hammer and clearly believes that faster = better. You prefer slow and deep. (Maybe you need to get back to basics... READ: How to Kiss)

You are almost raw, desert dry, and totally over it.

You're thinking "can you just hurry up and finish?!"

…It's simply not going to happen.

WATCH: Better Sex- Quickie Workout in Bed to Up Your Libido

You:
A. Fake It and give the guy a break
B. Feign suddenly "remembering" that you're supposed to call your mom, meet with your professor, finish a paper that was due yesterday.
C. Fess Up, in a nice way, that it's not going to happen tonight. Maybe even make up an excuse like "I'm just super tired," or "I just have so much on my mind."

Want to actually SEE It? QuickieChick, In Bed, Tells It Like It Is… On Faking It

If you selected A- Fake It- sure, you might have gifted him with a false confidence that he's great in the sack, but the reality is that he actually doesn't knowRead More »from When it Comes to Sex... Should You Fake It?

by QuickieChick Laurel House.
Position of the Day Playbook

Have you ever wondered just how many calories you burn during sex? The answer is... it depends. Some positions are completely lopsided- while he is working it, sweating, and toning, she is just laying there like a lump on a log. The best sex incorporates several positions that, similar to a workout, combine moves that tone your muscles, test your flexibility, get your heart rate up, and calm your mind. With that motivation in mind, I studied up on a fun book that combines sex and calories burned for him and her called "Position of the Day Playbook." Here are a few major burners to try:
Start at the Beginning... READ: How to Kiss

1. The Twister Stalemate
The Twister Stalemate
You know how difficult twister can get. You've worked up a major sweat by the time somebody finally falls. Imagine having sex at the same time. For optimal calorie burning, the woman should be on the bottom, both feet planted on the floor, with her arms wrapped around the man. The man is on hands and

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by QuickieChick Laurel House
QuickieChick's Intention Board
Sad Fact: 84% of the people who resolve to get fit in the new year, never follow through.

There tends to be two times when we suddenly rev up our fitness lifestyles and go full force to get healthy:
*New Year's Day
*The Death of a family member or close friend

And how do we respond to such a shake-up? Immediately, we jump-start our healthy food and exercise regimens. We fill our refrigerators with whole grains, fruits, vegetables, and low-fat foods. We reinstate our gym memberships and somehow find the time to hop on the treadmill or slip in a yoga class three times a week. But just weeks into our new healthy regimens and the severity of reality begins to fade as we start to slack off. Suddenly, our days are again "too full" to exercise, and we stop at the fast-food drive-through in a desperate attempt to throw some sort of nourishment down our throats. We are back to the grind and waiting for another reality-jolting reminder of just how precious and

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by QuickieChick Laurel House.
QuickieChick baking holiday cookies
Love to Bake? Chew Gum to stop eating all the dough! It's such an easy trick that can save you from eating a day's worth of fat and calories.

Just a Bite?
If you're anything like me, you're a sucker for cookie dough. Problem is- that little hunk of raw dough, when cooked is transformed into a huge cookie! Within a few "just a little hunk" bites, you have eaten a half dozen cookies and didn't even know it! And then there is the issue of not having quite enough space on the sheet pan for all of the cookie dough... oh well, may as well just eat it, after all, you don't want it to go to waste. No! Wrong tactic. Wrap that little bit up in plastic wrap and toss it in the fridge for later. There's nothing wrong with baking just 2 cookies on a whim! The way I think of it is this: imagine taking that "just a bite" hunk of dough and affixing it to your thigh or butt. Why? Because that's where it will reside if you allow yourself to eat those unnecessary bites

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By QuickieChick Laurel House
Having Sex Helps Up Your Immune System
Before you feel that telltale tickle in the back of your throat or experience that first sneeze, try some of these weird ways to keep your immune system strong so you can avoid getting sick in the first place:

1. KISS (AND WHILE YOU'RE AT IT, HAVE SEX)!
Yes, kissing can help you fight off colds and flu. By exchanging bacteria back and forth, you are actually enhancing your body's natural defenses and boosting your immune system.

2. LISTEN TO MUSIC
Research has shown that those same sex-boosted IgA proteins also rise when listening to music like jazz, bluegrass or soft rock for 30 minutes.

MORE WEIRD WAYS- LIKE FOODS AND CROCHETING, TO NOT GET SICK

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By QuickieChick Laurel House
QuickieChick Laurel House walking her pup
If this doesn't motivate you to do SOMEthing today, I'm not sure what will. Especially because it is just so simple.

Preventative medicine can mean anything from cancer screenings to eating healthy food, drinking and smoking less to keeping cholesterol levels down. But really, what type of preventative prescription has the biggest impact? Dr. Mike Evans, founder of the Health Design Lab at the Li Ka Shing Knowledge Institute, an Associate Professor of Family Medicine and Public Health at the University of Toronto, and a staff physician at St. Michael's Hospital, created this short illustrated lecture spoken in total layman's terms about the type of preventative medicine that has been shown to have the most substantial impact on your health. More so than pretty much anything else. So what is it? Well, first I will tell you that this treatment has been shown to:
REDUCE:
Knee Arthritis Pain
Alzheimers and Dementia
Diabetes Risk
Hip Fractures in

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by QuickieChick Laurel House
Quickie Workout in Bed
The moment you bound out of bed in the morning (maybe a touch of an exaggeration), you're already harried, hurrying around, trying to fulfill all of your day's demands. Believe me, we're all "too busy" to find time to work out… which is why you have to make time to work out. If that is still too much of a pie in the sky ideal, get your workout in before even getting out of bed. Before your gridlocked schedule squeezes out any spare second that you could possibly devote to your exercise, find the time in bed.
READ 10 "DIFFERENT" WAYS TO MOTIVATE TO DIET & EXERCISE

Studies show that slipping several quickies into your day can be as effective, if not more, than a straight one-hour sweat session. In the morning before you get out of bed, in the afternoon when your head goes brain dead, and at night before finally dozing off, are three perfect opportunities for 15 minute quickies. Not only will these workouts help you lose weight and burn fat, but they will

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