Kelly Osbourne has been sharing insights into a newfound holistic health journey after declaring that 2020 was "going to be the year of me" back in December 2019. The 35-year-old Australia's Got Talent judge and former Fashion Police judge is doing so openly, as she's done most of her entire adult life she was just 18, after all, when her family first appeared on MTV's The Osbournes in 2002. As the second child of musical icon Ozzy Osbourne, Kelly has never shied away from tough questions or conversations about her father, her mother Sharon, or her younger brother, 34-year-old Jack; and when it comes to her own story, she seemingly lives her life as an open book, as she's recently proved yet again in a new Instagram.

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"Today I'm feeling #Gucci," she shared in the caption of her Instagram post, referencing her vibrant ensemble and a fresh face of makeup. But what really sent fans into a frenzy over this particular photo was an honest admission from The Real host Jeannie Mai's mother: "Oh my gosh, you lost a lot of weight." Kelly quickly quipped back: Thats right Mamma Mai, I lost 85 lbs since I last saw you. Can you believe it?

Soon after, People reported that Kelly shared a photo of a dress tag that suggests she now wears a size 2, approximately, which she feels great about. "Yes, I'm bragging because I worked hard and it feels so good!" she captioned the story slide.

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Kelly previously shocked Dancing With The Stars fans who followed along with a dramatic transformation back in 2009, after filming ceased on The Osbournes. Throughout much of the last decade, Kelly has been open about her eating habits and new fitness routines, but it wasn't overnight that she committed to a healthy lifestyle. Her health journey also balances on sobriety, something that she openly discusses: "With almost 2 1/2 years of sobriety under my belt, I still struggle with confrontation (which was NEVER a problem when I was using)," she shared on Instagram. "It's time to put myself first, stop taking on other peoples sh*t, and be the badass sober woman I was born to be.

Below, a look back at how Kelly's health journey has influenced her growth throughout the years in her own words.

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Kelly began to open up about her struggles with diet and nutrition, and how it parlayed into her battle with addiction, around five years after the finale of The Osbournes. In an emotional interview with Shape magazine in 2010, Kelly admitted that harsh criticism from viewers and the press catapulted her into a dangerous emotional state.

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"I was called fat and ugly in the press almost my entire life I understand that being judged by others comes with the territory, but it broke my heart and ruined my self-esteem," she told Shape. "It sets you up to hate yourself in a huge way. I was so angry about the things people said about me. I truly believe it's the main reason I turned to Vicodin and ended up in rehab three times. I just hated myself."

Before she first signed up for her role on Dancing With The Stars in 2009, Kelly admitted that emotional eating led her to uncontrolled weight gain. "I replaced the drugs with food and just got fatter and fatter I'm an emotional eater. When I get upset, my diet goes out the window." During rehearsals, Kelly said she'd often be unable to keep up with dance partner Louis van Amstel because "because I was eating such terrible, fatty food and feeling so exhausted." In the same interview, Kelly adds that this low moment later kickstarted her new interest in optimizing her nutrition.

According to reports from The Sun, Kelly's weight often fluctuated in the years after her appearance on Dancing With the Stars. The newspaper reports that Sharon helped her daughter connect with her first trainer at the time, Sarah Hagaman, and Kelly was able to reportedly maintain a weight loss of around 50 pounds by 2016.

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But her sustained weight management may have also been influenced by the adoption of a new diet. The Mirror reports that her relationship with vegan chef Matthew Mosshart in 2012 ended up pushing her to loosely follow a plant-based diet that she's mostly stuck to since then. It's unclear if Kelly is currently following any one diet plan (there are some reports suggesting she may also be intermittent fasting), but it's clear that a focus on holistically healthy dietary staples is something she's committed to. "Once I learned how to work out right and eat right, its one of those things that you just have to commit to a life change rather than being on a diet," she told Huffington Post Australia. "Because a diet doesnt work. You lose weight and you stop it and it will all come back. So you just have to take baby steps, commit to something and stay true to it."

Back in 2012, Kelly sent fans into a frenzy when she did a swimsuit styled magazine spread in Cosmopolitan Body. She told the magazine that she had never been happier in her life up to that point, but that her figure (and her weight loss progress) only played a small role in that development. "People think I lost weight and that's what made me happier. That's not true: I had to learn to love myself first," Kelly shared at the time. Losing weight was just one benefit of putting the hard work in and sorting myself out on the inside first through therapy. That was one of the scariest times of my life. I swear Ive never felt more naked, because I had to actually be me and couldnt mask it.

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For Kelly, it seems that her health journey may be more about realizing self love and admiration, rather than pleasing others by fitting into what she thinks of as a prescribed image. "I'll never be the kind of person who thinks, 'I'm so hot.' I don't want to be," she told Cosmopolitan Body. "But I learnt to respect and love myself something that I didn't think I would ever be capable of." And it seems Kelly's own value of self worth isn't influenced by fad diets or trends, but more so about the long haul change. "If you want to change your body you cant just diet; if you do that, you lose weight, then get fat. Youve got to commit to a whole life change and teach yourself a whole new lifestyle.

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In 2013, in the middle of filming Fashion Police, Kelly experienced a debilitating seizure an event that caused her to think about the big picture. "I never want to take my good health for granted. The seizure was 60 seconds, but those 60 seconds will change my life for the better forever," Kelly told Self magazine. "I've worked hard to get into shape, and I'm going to continue. Not because being 'skinny' is important to me, but because I want to feel good."

The Masked Singer alum admitted that she openly refers to herself as a "former fat person" and that despite all of her work up to that point, she often had to stop herself from obsessing over achieving more progress. She told Self a major step towards inner peace was avoiding scales altogether: "I don't weigh myself. If you like what you see in front of the mirror, then what's the f---ing point of getting on a scale?" While Kelly said that she thinks a bit of "healthy envy" may motivate others to jumpstart a new fitness routine, she also stressed at the time that her own progress isn't defined by others around her. "You have to realize that you're never going to be exactly that person. Wishing you were Angelina Jolie or Jennifer Lopez isn't going to change the fact that you're not. Why not start working with what you do have instead of what you don't?"

Prior to joining Dancing With the Stars, Kelly admits that her diet wasn't composed of wholesome staples ("I used to eat chips and cookies and drink soda all day long," she told Shape). But after reaching a goal weight in 2010, Kelly said she knew it was time to stop restricting herself entirely, and add back some of her favorites in a balanced fashion. "I indulge with pizza and cheese I love Brie and have cookies sometimes," she told Shape. "But now, when I'm full? I stop eating! It may have taken me 26 years to figure it out, but I've finally learned how to do it right."

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Like most balanced diets, Kelly later revealed that the biggest challenge is finding a middle ground in moderation. "Everything has to be in moderation, and to find that place is easier said than done. It really is," she told Huffington Post. "I always 'cheat' I eat my fattiest meal in the [morning]. If I'm craving pizza, I'll have it for breakfast, salad for lunch, and oatmeal for dinner."

After her spin on Dancing With The Stars in 2009, Kelly embraced fitness as a longstanding part of her routine and in 2014, she opened up on the kinds of workouts that she had turned to at the time. "[Working out] is something I really enjoy doing I never thought I'd be that kind of girl," she told InTouch Weekly. "I do up to half an hour of cardio, and I also do circuit training, yoga, and Pilates I mix it up."

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Kelly's low-key approach to breaking a sweat made headlines in 2013 when she shared that a love for hula hooping helped sustain her weight loss. "I have a Hoopnotica hula hoop [and] I use It every day, and it's made my back and arms stronger," Kelly told Self. "On Saturday nights my friends and I put on ridiculous outfits and hula-hoop and dance when everyone else is at 'da club.'"

Her love for intense fitness sessions may have evolved into a newfound passion for high-intensity interval training (HIIT), a workout that pushes you to condition your cardiovascular system with intense bursts of anaerobic exercise. Kelly's personal trainer Lacey Stone recently detailed the fitness routine that she works through with clients at her Los Angeles-based THE WALL Fitness: "Some of my favorite workout moves have been around forever because they work," Stone told Hollywood Life in February. Stone's go-to workout involves sequences of squats, deadlifts, push-ups, bicep curl shoulder presses, and tricep dips, among other moves. Id recommend you do a circuit like this 2 to 3 times per week and spin class or any sort of cardio class 2-3/week, she told the outlet.

As she's been in the public eye for most of her life, Kelly has tackled her sobriety issues head on in the past including a relapse in 2018, which she opened up about publicly on Instagram. Her battle against substance abuse has also played a role in developing her own sense of self worth and her identity, Kelly has previously shared. " I am [in a great place]. I am almost two years sober and it's completely changed my life I didn't think I could do anything if I wasn't drunk or high, because I was scared of everything. I let it get the better of me," she shared on a live episode of British talk show Lorraine.

She added that her struggles with sobriety and subsequent treatment in life has helped her accept her own imperfections. "I have accepted the fact that and I know I have said this throughout my whole life but I really understand it now that I am not perfect and I am never going to be and I dont want to be."

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According to recent research published in the journal Nutrients, consuming extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) can lower your systolic blood pressureor the top number of a blood pressure reading that is important in determining your risk of heart disease.

Consuming two to four tablespoons of EVOO per day can keep your heart healthy in the long run.

Extra virgin olive oil (EVOO) has often been associated with its heart-healthy benefits, but a recent study in the journal Nutrients offers further clarification, emphasizing that the type of EVOO you use actually does matter.

Quick primer: There are three main grades of olive oilrefined, virgin, and extra virgin. The latter is the least processed, and it tends to be higher in a compound called polyphenols, which are micronutrients with antioxidant properties.

To determine whether polyphenols really make a difference on major cardiovascular measures like blood pressure and arterial stiffness, Australian researchers recruited 50 participants with an average age of 38, and had them consume 60 milliliters (mL) of either high polyphenol EVOO or a low polyphenol version for three weeks. Then, they took a two-week break and switched to the other kind of EVOO for three more weeks.

The researchers found a significant decrease in systolic blood pressurethe top number on a blood pressure reading that indicates how much pressure your blood is exerting against artery walls when the heart beatswith the higher polyphenol consumption.

Systolic blood pressure is considered more important when looking at risk factors for cardiovascular disease, particularly for people over 50 since the number tends to rise with age as your arteries become stiffer. The lower this number is (within a healthy range, of course, which is between 90 and 120 mmHg), the healthier your heart is.

Neither diastolic blood pressurethe bottom number on a blood pressure readingor arterial stiffness was affected, but the systolic results were enough to be promising, researchers concluded. They stated that this study provides evidence that a diet that includes EVOO can prevent cardiovascular disease in a multiethnic population.

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That last part is important, too, because the prevalence of high blood pressure in African Americans is the highest in the world, according to the American Heart Association. Plus, it develops earlier in life for African Americans than other races.

For everyone, though, high blood pressure increases risk of serious conditions and events like heart disease and stroke.

In terms of why consuming EVOO (like this one) would improve systolic pressure overall, the researchers noted that past studies have shown that polyphenols can improve function of the endothelium, the thin membrane that lines the heart and blood vessels.

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EVOO has been shown to have many other benefits as well, according to sports dietitian Joy Dubost, Ph.D., R.D. She told Bicycling that its central to the Mediterranean way of eating for a reason.

This is a healthy fat that does everything from improving heart health to making you full for longer to providing vitamin E and antioxidants, so its anti-inflammatory, she said.

Although the recent study utilized a low polyphenol version, be assured that the majority of EVOO has the good stuff, and adding two to four tablespoons to your diet can keep your heart healthy. Researchers noted that the extraction technique used to make the virgin version preserves polyphenol concentrations, while refined olive oil tends to use chemical processing, which significantly lowers the phenolic content.

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It may be the special diet adopted by gastric bypass patients, not the surgery itself, that results in many of the biggest benefits associated with the weight loss procedure, according to a new study. The findings come from Lund University, where one of the studys lead authors Nils Wierup explained, What we previously thought was an effect of the operation is actually due to the diet.

Gastric bypass surgery a procedure that makes the stomach smaller and re-routes the small intestine isnt just associated with weight loss, but also important metabolic changes that include an improvement in the bodys ability to handle blood glucose and potentially the rapid reversal of type-2 diabetes.

These have largely been thought to be the result of both the strict diet that someone adopts before the procedure, as well as the procedure itself. However, this new study looks into each aspect separately and has found that the majority of these benefits can be linked to the special pre-surgery diet itself, not the gastric bypass procedure.

Peter Spgel, one of the study leads, explains, More than 90-percent of everything that occurred, happened as a result of the diet. Very little changed after the surgery. This is contrary to the previous belief that hormone changes caused by the surgery played a big role in these beneficial outcomes.

However, there is a catch in the sense that many people arent able to stick with a low-calorie diet for a long period of time, particularly if they have trouble controlling their impulses around food. The gastric bypass surgery makes things easier by reducing the size of the stomach and how much food it takes for the person to feel satisfied.

Beyond that, the surgery itself does impart a certain degree of benefits not related to the diet, namely an increase in the hormones GIP and GLP-1. Additional research will explore the function of these two hormones to determine what role they may play in the patients health changes.

As for the diet itself, gastric bypass patients usually are first put on a six-week diet that involves consuming limited foods and fewer than 1,000 calories daily. This is intended to cause weight loss and shrink the liver, making it easier to perform the surgery.

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The keto diet is a high-fat, very low-carb diet that is strict and very restrictive. In this diet you have to restrict your calorie intake to under 50 grams per day. Your body converts carbs to glucose, which is then used as energy. When your body is starved of carbs, it needs an alternate source of fuel. So, instead of glucose, your body starts burning fat for energy. This process is known as ketosis. Basically, you have to starve your body of carbs to reach this state of ketosis. While in this state, your body will use ketones as an alternate source of energy. Ketones are byproducts of fat breakdown produced by your liver. Also Read - Blackheads on your nose or chin? Spot treatment can work wonders

This is a variation of the standard ketogenic diet. But there are major differences between the two. In this variation, you follow the standard ketogenic diet for 5 to 6 days in a week. Then for the other 1 or two days, you increase your consumption of carbs. In this variation, these high-carb days are referred to as refeeding days. Many people prefer this to the standard keto diet because it replenishes the bodys depleted glucose reserves. On the refeeding days, your body comes out of ketosis. Advocates of this variation believe that it improves muscle growth and strength. Also Read - PTSD: The most common myths busted for you

This depends on individual preferences. Ideally, you need to follow the strict keto diet for 5 to 6 days per week, adding 1 to 2 days of higher carb intake. On the 5 to 6 days, keep your carb intake to below 50 grams of carbs per day. Healthy fats must be about 75 per cent of your total calorie intake in these days. So, load up on eggs, avocado, full-fat dairy products, coconut oil, nutty butters and fatty meats. Keep proteins to around 1520 per cent of your total calorie intake. Now, on your refeeding days, have more carbs to bring your body out of ketosis. Carbs must comprise 6070 per cent of your total calorie intake, protein 1520 per cent and fats must be around 510 per cent of your total calorie intake. Also Read - Quarantine weight loss tips: Motivate yourself to shed those lockdown kilos

Get your carbs from healthy sources like sweet potatoes, brown rice, quinoa, oats, butternut squash and beans and lentils. These carbs are loaded with vitamins, minerals and fiber. Avoid refined carbs like sugar and desserts.

To return to ketosis after refeeding, fast for 16 hours of the day. You may also indulge in some high-intensity workouts on the days following refeeding. This will bring your body to the state of ketosis faster.

Advocates of this variation believe that this may aid in muscle gain. It may also bring down the occurrence of Keto-related side effects like keto flu, which includes feelings of nausea, fatigue, headaches, constipation, weakness, difficulty sleeping and irritability. You will be getting more fibre in your diet and it will be easier to stick to the diet. However, one possible downside of this variation in the keto diet may be unwanted weight gain on refeeding days.

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While her daughter Briana sticks to the Keto Diet, Vicki Gunvalson is giving another popular eating plan a try. In her Instagram Stories, The Real Housewives of Orange County alum used a berry-studded breakfast casserole to help her announce some lifestyle news: She's just starting the Whole 30 Diet.

The trendy eating plan encourages cutting out alcohol, sugar, dairy, additives, and more for a month; its advocates say it resets the metabolism. "I have heard so many good things about the Whole 30 Diet," said Vicki in her Instagram video. "So, I'm starting tonight. My first thing is gonna be this coconut-pumpkin breakfast bake." And she was prepared for more.

Vicki had also gone online to printout some "really great" recipes that inspired her to stick with the plan for 30 days, and she'd prepared grocery-shopping lists as well. Based on what Vicki hadprinted off, it looks like Whole 30 Sloppy Joe bowls,coconut-lime chicken, almond-crusted pork chops, and chicken-sweet-potato-cashew pastaare all in her future.

"How many of you have done Whole 30?" the insurance pro asked her followers. "It's like, all about eating whole." And so far, Vicki's made it look wholly delicious:

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Food can impact our weight, cholesterol, and blood sugarbut new research suggests our diet can also affect our mind. Your lifestyle and what you eat can actually impact your future development of cognition issues or memory issues, so with the increase in Alzheimers and other neurodegenerative issues, it brings hope that lifestyle really has an impact here, explained Carrie Bloemers, a registered dietitian with Lee Health.

The MIND diet stands for Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay. The MIND diet is a research-based protocol for nutrients that are beneficial to our brain So it can help to protect against memory and cognition issues as we age, she said.

Using principles from the Mediterranean diet, the MIND diet encourages fish that are high in omega threes, nuts and seeds, vegetables, whole grains, and berries. Foods high in saturated fats, foods high in extra salt and sodium, high blood pressure is a risk for some of these memory type issues, just because it will break down the vascular system and therefore the blood flow to our brain as we age, Bloemers said.

When it comes to keeping our memory and cognition strong, health experts also encourage an active and social lifestyle. Theres been research about even just daily walking and staying active and how thats protective, she said.

Other things like puzzles, games, reading, and social activities can also help to keep your brain stimulated.

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Theres not much Daniel Cormier hasnt accomplished during his 30-plus years in combat sports. He wrestled at the Athens Olympics, he's a two-division champion in the UFC, and hes become one of the best commentators not just in mixed martial arts but in sports generally. Check, check, and check. So after he announced his plan to retire from the sport this past June, its only fitting that the final act of DCs storied career will take place on Saturday at UFC 252, with his third matchup against current heavyweight champ Stipe Miocic. Each man owns a victory against the other, and a win here gives Cormier the chance to take his final bow with gold around his waist. A perfect capstone, he calls it.

GQ caught up with Cormier three weeks out from the trilogy bout, deep into the throes of training camp, to talk about what it takes to prepare for a main-event fight in the UFC against one of your biggest rivals, and to reflect on those notoriously difficult weight cuts of the past.

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GQ: UFC 252 is rapidly approachinghow are you feeling both mentally and physically right now?

Daniel Cormier: I feel healthy, which is one thing that I didnt have going into the second fight [with Miocic]. And by being healthy, it allows me to be much more confident. Not just in the fight but in my ability to prepare for the fight. So everything has been really good to this point. I feel great.

This is perhaps something that is changing on a daily basis as we get closer to fight night, but from a nutrition standpoint, what does your day look like this deep into a training camp?

I wake up early every day. Im always up early. 5:30, 6 oclock. So I get up in the morning and I just cruise for a little bit. I dont get started right away. But right around 8:30 or 9 oclock Ill have a shake. Its whey protein, some fruit, peanut butter, oat milk. Thats kind of my breakfast. Im not a big breakfast guy, so I dont wake up and have a bunch of eggs and everything. I usually like to have something light on the stomach before I go to train. So thats what I usually eat in the morning, and Ill start drinking water to get fluids in. But all I really have in the morning is that shake, normally. Maybe a cup of coffee. Then I go to practice from 12 to 2, and after practice Ill usually have a pretty big meal. Yesterdays meal for lunch was grilled chicken with some Jamaican rice, which was really good. Some rice and peas. Everything is super clean and healthy. Its not going to be the rice that has a ton of coconut milk or the other seasonings that usually come with the rice and peas that youre used to getting.

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None of the fun and exciting seasonings during training camp.

But it was good! And again, Ill be drinking water. Maybe Ill have a kombucha. Kombucha is really the only thing outside of my nutritional drinks that Ill have instead of water. Most of the fluids I take during the day is just water now. And then for dinner, I had klua pigthe Hawaiian barbecue. I had some klua pig with steamed rice. It was a good day yesterday. Theyre not always like that, but yesterday was a really good eating day.

You mentioned kombucha. Are you throwing kombucha in there just because you like it, or is there a specific benefit for you?

For me, its because it tastes different. The things I usually drink, like Gatorade and soda, I cant have right now. The kombucha has some of that fizz that kind of just feels good. Plus, its not water.

When youre not in camp for a fight, how different is your day-to-day diet?

What I do outside of camp would not be considered in any way, shape, or form a diet. [Laughs] Its a free-for-all! Im eating whatever I want, man. But, you know, whereas my nutritionist might make a healthy version of jerk chicken right now, Ill go and find the jerk spot thats hidden in the hole in the wall. Ill eat Louisiana food as much as I possibly can.

My nutritionist, Ian Larios, has done a really good job of incorporating some of the foods that I love, but healthier versions. He made gumbo the other day. A Louisiana staple, obviously. But he made it with super-clean ingredients. Hell make red beans and rice, but its all super-clean ingredients. If I could make the healthier versions myself, Id be much better off for it when Im not in training camp.

Is it hard for you to switch up that mindset when youve gone so long not having to be overly concerned with what youre putting in your body and then having to put some restrictions on yourself when preparing for a fight?

Its tough initially. Especially late in my career. Ive fought once a year for the last few years. So for eight months Im essentially having whatever I want, and then all of a sudden the portions are a lot smaller, the food is a lot cleaner. So its an adjustment right away. But the first thing we do every single time is replace all the sugary drinks with water and try to flush my system to get it prepared to go back to work. Thats always step number one: Get enough good fluids in me where I can even handle the workload that comes with training camp.

Something I found interesting: For your second fight against Stipe, both of you went into that fight around 10 pounds lighter than you were for the first fight. For you, was there a specific reason for that, even after winning the first fight?

I think that was conscious, knowing that it was going to be a long, grueling fight, so cardio was going to be very important.

And how does that inform the weight that youre hoping to come in at for the third fight?

In the last fight, if Im being as honest and truthful as I can with you and the world, my cardio failed me. Right now theres not necessarily a certain number on the scale, but rather the right weight that allows me to compete at the optimal level where I can go hard for 25 minutes with a guy that has a ton of skill thats as good as anyone in the world. So its helped me in the sense that I know now how to manage my conditioning better. But its not a number on the scale. Its more about being physically fit. We understand and know what we need to do in order to give us the best chance to win.

There was a span of time where you were fighting at light heavyweight, having to drop down to 205 pounds. Youve been open in the past with how much of a struggle that was for you to do. What is the biggest difference for you at this stage when preparing for a heavyweight fight versus light heavyweight?

Its so much easier to go to training. The reality is I was cutting so much weight, it was almost like a fat camp. We were focusing so much on making the weight that it was hard to just go train. Regardless of what I was doing, my practices at 205 were in full-on sweat suits. I had sweatpants, a sweat top, always long-sleeve shirts. I was never able to train comfortably because I had to make sure that every single practice resulted in a certain amount of weight off.

I feel so much more comfortable now, because I can go to practice knowing that the goal is to get better and nothing else. When I was fighting at 205, I was starting camps sometimes at 250needing to lose 45 pounds just to get on the scale for a championship fight. And never having the extra pound because it was all title fights. So it was extremely difficult, and it feels good now to compete at a weight that is more natural to me. But I look back on those days and Im very proud. I dealt with the adversity of making the weight, went out there, and beat some of the best fighters the world has to offer.

I remember you saying at one point that the move to the light heavyweight division would be something that would help you live a healthier life. Being a couple years removed from making those weight cuts, given how brutal some of them were, do you feel now that fighting at light heavyweight for those four years was perhaps more detrimental to your health?

No, no, no, no. I still feel that it was better for me, not only physically but mentally. It allowed me to do things I wasnt sure I could do. I wasnt sure if I could make 205. It was six pounds less than I was making when I was wrestling. So it allowed me to learn some things about myself. I learned that I can do just about anything if I put my mind to it. Every time I stepped on that scale, it was almost like a win, because I had already cleared the first hurdle of the fight. I knew that once I got on the scale at the weight that I was supposed to be at, I would be prepared to compete because I put in so much work just to get there. I know getting on the scale at weight shouldnt feel like such a big victory, but it was every single time.

Do you have any predictions on how this third fight against Stipe is going to go?

I just know that this fight, I wont lose my mind like I did last time. Im going to be more focused, more prepared to win this fight at whatever cost. The last fight I thought I fought okay, but I didnt fight to my true potential. This time youll get to see me for all that I am, and all that Ive been throughout the course of my career. And not many fighters get that third, so Im lucky that the UFC has put me in a position where I even get to chase that.

And given that its almost certainly the last fight of your career, how good does it feel to get to go out on your own terms, in a trilogy bout against one of your biggest rivals for the title?

Its a fairy tale. We talk about fighters going out on their own termsmost fighters dont get the opportunity to go out on their own terms. Thats just not the way the game works. Im lucky to have done the things that Ive done and built the relationships Ive built where the UFC has given me this opportunity. Ive had a good run. And itll be a celebration, because Im winning this fight.

The Real Life Diet of Bryson DeChambeau, Who Bulked Up to Boom Long Drives

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Light, crispy and absolutely delicious oatmeal cookies that you can make at home.

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Cookies and biscuits are the perfect accompaniment to a piping hot cup of tea. Don't you agree? Whether it's a tea-time break in the middle of the day or your evening cuppa, crunchy little treats dipped in chai gives an instant bout of energy. In India, dipping a biscuit in chai is quite a ritual. From biscotti and cookies to shortbreads, there are so many variations of snacks that one can choose.

But did you know that your beloved cookies can be protein-rich too? Yes, those buttery-sweet treats can be a pack of healthy delights with the addition of rolled oats! Here we have an interesting recipe of biscuits that are not just tasty but are also healthy. And the best part is that if you are watching your weight, then you can include them in your diet without any second thoughts.

(Also Read: 11 Best Biscuit Recipes)

Oats are an incredible source of protein and fibre; and as per health experts, oats boost energy, aid in weight loss, lower blood sugar levels and reduce the risk of heart attacks. It is also a super versatile food that can be added to multiple dishes to make some of the most delicious and healthy treats. These oatmeal biscuits, for instance, is nutritious and yummy mix of butter, honey, oats, coconut and flour that are baked to perfect crisp. And all this would take just about 30 minutes!

These oatmeal biscuits keep us full for a longer time and fuel our body with energy. While this recipe uses castor sugar as well, you can skip it if you want it less sweet.

Find the full recipe of oatmeal biscuits here.

Try these biscuits at home with your next cup of tea and share your experience in the comments section below.

About Aanchal MathurAanchal doesn't share food. A cake in her vicinity is sure to disappear in a record time of 10 seconds. Besides loading up on sugar, she loves bingeing on FRIENDS with a plate of momos. Most likely to find her soulmate on a food app.

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WASHINGTON, DC The North American Meat Institute (Meat Institute) today submitted written comments to the U.S. Department of Agricultures (USDA) Food and Nutrition Service Center for Nutrition Policy and Promotion regarding the Scientific Report of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.

These comments are an extension oforal commentsMeat Institute Vice President of Regulatory and Scientific Programs Susan Backus provided during the USDA and Health and Human Services Virtual Meeting on the Scientific Report of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee.

Consumer health is a key consideration in producing meat and poultry products, which not only includes offering nutrient dense protein food products but also improving and maintaining the safety of the meat and poultry supply, Backus says in the written comments, Meat and poultry products play an important role in a healthy, well-balanced diet and the industry is committed to offering diverse nutritional products. Including meat and poultry in the diet allows consumers to more easily fulfill their essential amino acid and nutrient requirements. Dietary guidance should be practical, affordable, and attainable, and should measurably improve the health of Americans as part of healthy dietary patterns.

For a copy of the written comments, gohere.

For extensive information on meat and poultry nutrition, go here:https://www.meatpoultrynutrition.org/

The North American Meat Institute is the leading voice for the meat and poultry industry. The Meat Institutes members process the vast majority of U.S. beef, pork, lamb, and poultry, as well as manufacture the equipment and ingredients needed to produce the safest and highest quality meat and poultry products.

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