Remember our 4 different low-sugar individual cookies? Well we are adding to that collection of quick cookies that hit the cravings when they strike. What can we say we love cookies and love cookies that are quick to make.

Chocolate chia seed hemp protein single serving cookies that are egg, gluten, grain, soy, low in sugar, and dairy free.

And we just love chocolate and chia seeds together.

Now go check out our recipe for these yummy low-sugar vegan chocolate hemp protein cookies here.

Anyone else love chia seeds in there baked goods?  Anyone love chocolate cookies?

till next time,

xoxo

purelytwins

We all made it through another week!  And since we are heading out of town for Blend we did our best to clean out the fridge.  We also did our best to get work done yesterday but to be honest our mind was already in vacation mode. It was hard to concentrate as all we wanted to do was pack and get on a plane   (currently on the plane – HI from the sky!)

We did get up early to get a good workout in.

We did a 5 minute plank as our warm-up to get the body (and upper body) ready for the arm bust out that was next.  Which did you see our newest video talking about our new series for our youtube channel?

Thursday’s workout was #purelyfitlife #7 our arm bust out workout.

Remember slow progress is better than no progress. Keep going!! We tell our online clients that small changes, small steps are just as powerful as large ones!

Keep moving forward! You can do it!

Progress is progress

Using up the last bit of items in my fridge so the juice was a little small – made about 8oz.

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We are so excited to share something new we are starting!

This is something we have been wanting to do for some time, just never had time. Now that things are starting to settle down for the both us and we are getting into a system, we feel it is time.

Q and A with the TWINS

Hope you enjoy our little video

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How is everyone doing today? We hope you answered – great!

Our day yesterday was just superb.  Maybe it was that it was hot and sunny. Or maybe because we are getting closer to going to Blend. Or maybe it was that we enjoyed the perfect creamy protein shake.

Maybe it was a combo of everything.  Anyways we had excellent day.  Love those days when you just feel good all day long and you don’t let anything upset you. Anyone else?

To add to our feel good day we filmed another #purelyfitlife workout late afternoon. We did not workout first thing in the morning like we normally do. Even though we enjoy working out in the daylight we do love getting our workouts done first thing in the morning. But changing it up is fun too.

We also did our 50 push-ups for Michelle’s personal goal for #whatsbeatiful and did practice our headstands for my personal goal. #iwill or should we say #wewill haha

How is everyone else doing with your personal #whatsbeautiful goal? Are you keeping track everyday. Hopefully you are getting motivated and inspired by following our team as well as all the other amazing people doing the challenge!

Started our morning with lemon water. Talked about the agenda for the day. Took our morning supplements and gelatin like every morning.

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Girl chats are the best, right? Where you can talk about anything, laugh, and just be you without trying to impress. We are lucky to have many friends where we can just be us, and today’s post is from one of them. Teri is a dear friend, which we are lucky to live somewhat near her and get together when our busy schedules allow it!

Happy Birthday Lori & Michelle! I’m so excited to participate in your life lessons series…what a cool idea.

One of the most important life lessons I’ve learned is “You Never Know.” The past couple of years have been a bit of a doozy for me personally. Things have been h-a-r-d. Luckily I’ve had supportive family and great friends (like Lori and Michelle!) to get me through some rough spots.

But through the experience, I learned that you just never know what someone is going through and they might need delicate handling. You don’t know if they’ve recently lost a loved one, lost their job, lost their spouse, lost their self-esteem. You just never know what life crisis they may be experiening. So I’ve tried to be a little kinder, be a little more understanding when I get frustrated with friends or coworkers or complete strangers.

Be kind. Don’t be quick to pass judgment. Don’t expect explanations. Give people the benefit of the doubt.

Because you just never know.

Thank you Teri as you hit it on the spot.  You can follow Teri over on her blog, twitter, and instagram - afoodiestaysfit.

We TOTALLY agree with Teri’s wise words. You really never know what another person is going through! We all need to be a little kinder to everyone. With the internet these days there are a ton of ways for people to get mixed messages and all, so we all owe it to ourselves to be kind to others as well as to ourselves!

We would like to share a quote we pinned that we feel is appropriate:

Twins question: What do you think… do you think the world these days is too judgmental? To quick to make assumptions?

till next time,

xoxo

purelytwins

Only a few days left until we are flying out to Park City to hang out with amazing group of ladies!!

We have been getting some questions on why we are eating the certain things we are — mainly our carbs. We hope to dive into that topic some today.

Yesterday we did our #purelyfitlife #5 our 15 minute HIIT interval workout to start our extremely LONG day.  We were very productive yesterday and feel so proud of ourselves. More on that below.

Training hard everyday to make changes.

#lovethefitlife

Continue the great work friends! We are so proud of all of you and love seeing you guys doing our workouts with us!

Our day yesterday.  We enjoyed some warm lemon water to get things started.

We tend to eat our breakfast at least an hour after working out. We have been playing around with post workout meal times to see if we notice any changes. So far nothing major yet.

We sipped on our green juice as we cooked up our plantains and eggs. Our green juice was an orange, kale, romaine, cucumber and fresh ginger.

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Our good friend Lindsay discusses an important topic. We always learn so much from her – we learn more to be patient, but do crazy things…push yourself, yet respect yourself.  And most importantly have FAITH.

I’m thrilled to be here today, celebrating LIFE with Lori and Michelle. These two women are so special to me and I am excited for them to embrace the big 30!! Heck, I am right there with them. I’ll be 30 in 2 months! EEK!

But turning 30 is a good thing. In fact, it’s JOYOUS Your 20’s are where you go through a whole lotta trial and error and end up worrying WAY too much about silly things. Well, at least I did. You see, ever since I was a teenage girl, my dad would tell me “Linz, don’t sweat the small stuff.” For some reason those words stuck with me but I didn’t start to understand what he meant by “small stuff” until I was married. Ha, better late than never, right?

But it truly is the small stuff that holds us back, the small things that feed into worry/fear/self-doubt. These things tend  to add up if you don’t learn to LET GO and LET GOD direct you path.

Money, health, career.. .. these are all important things, but they are also small things that sometimes we have NO CONTROL OVER.

LOVE, LAUGHTER, LIFE, WELLNESS, and DREAMS. Yes, those are good replacements.

So we might not be able to control the so called “small stuff,” but we can learn how to react to them. It’s the thought whole perspective thing.

Is money worth arguing over? Are injuries worth ruining your future health? Is a miserable job worth the security? Hmm.. I believer we need to LET GO and…

Dream Big

Love Often and Laugh A LOT

Be WELL. Spiritually, mentality, physically (inner being, not outer), and emotionally.

Live the LIFE you were created for.

That’s the BIG STUFF, the stuff that makes the small stuff seem well… SMALL.

Cheers to Lori and Michelle! The life they have followed and the LOVE they bring to others! Happy 30^th.

Lindsay Cotter

Thank you Lindsay for sharing these words of wisdom. You can follow Lindsay on her blog, twitter, and instagram – lccotter. And she also has a bakery, which we have sampled. So if you are looking for healthy treats check out Healthy Bites. They are delicious and made with love!!

Not sweating the small stuff…oh boy do struggle with that.  Although ever since turning 30 we have been a lot better at truly letting go…be happy in the moment, worry-less, laugh more, and just be purely us!  Live life to the fullest in every moment and forget about the things we cannot control! And having faith that everything happens for a reason and that everything will be okay!

Twins Question: Do you struggle with not worrying over the small stuff? How do you focus on the small important things?

till next time,

xoxo

purelytwins

And we wanted to say we apologize for our new #purelyfitlife six pack ab workout and video did not get up till 10pm last night. We had some internet and computer issues. But hopefully everything is taken care of. Thanks for your patience. 

Ever since doing our 30 day gut healing journey it opened up our eyes to understanding and taking care of our gut. Since everything starts in the gut it is important to take care of it.  We are not 100% healed yet but we are SOOOO much better now. Our digestion is overall strong (most days) and our skin issues are slowly being figured out. More on that below.

Yesterday we did our #purelyfitlife workout 1 sexy arms routine. We warmed up with doing a 3 minute plank hold.

Along with ending our workout with 50 push-ups and practiced headstands to continue our #purelyfit #whatsbeautiful goals.

Staying focused and motivated!  Keeping working towards your goals! You will get there.

Lori’s day:

Started my day with a green juice with banana and eggs. I had one banana with 3 whole eggs and coconut oil. Juice was kale, romaine, cucumber, orange, one carrot and fresh ginger.

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Happy Move-it-Monday friends!
Are you guys ready for another ab routine? Today is #purelyfitlife workout #10 – all about getting solid abs!

Since our last 10 minute ab workout was so popular we decided to create another short, effective ab workout for you guys to try.

We all want lean sexy abs, right?

We all want a strong core, right?

This workout is made up of four moves that will work your core in all different ways. And these four exercises are some of our favorites. Moving your abs in different directions helps develop six pack abs.

Benefits of this ab workout:

• renegade rows – the hardest and most effective abdominal exercise because you use the primary function of the stomach muscles - stabilization. 
•  plank step on and offs – a great plank move that focuses on stabilizing your core while working your entire body.
•  v-ups –  work both the upper and lower abdominal muscles at the same time
• single leg bridge cross under – twisting your abs helps define them even more, plus this works the back side of the body –> your butt and hamstrings.

Getting a flat stomach is THE TOP searched topic for most people…men and women alike.

This 12 minute ab routine will help you get the abs you desire.

Are you ready to lean out your tummy area?

Here is the workout breakdown:

Remember to push hard and make it count.

We suggest:

• A-fits (advanced peeps) : use weights that challenge you – try to do 8 lbs or more
• B-fits (beginner peeps): use little or no weights. You can use your body weight to start off. Slowly increase the weights from 3 -5 -8 lbs.

Now do the workout LIVE with us!

Remember you have to be patient and work hard at growing your abs. We all have abs and yes a lot does deal with diet!

So if you truly want six pack abs to be proud of, you will need to change up your lifestyle. Get away from doing crunches and do more planks and other dynamic movements.

**sorry that it took so long to get this new workout posted. Thank you for your patience. Hope you guys enjoy it!

How was everyone’s weekend? Have a good Mother’s day?

We had a wonderful weekend. Having beautiful weather always helps too

Saturday we did a #zwow.  It has been awhile since we have done one and boy did it kick our butts.

Zuzana zwow #68.

A 12 minute burner. Plus did push-ups and headstands for #whatsbeautiful challenge.

Sunday was yoga with more headstand and push-ups.

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