You start with a nice, refreshing glass of iced tea. Then, you skip the white sugar and add two Splendas for zero-calorie sweetness. Wait. Someone told you those increase sugar cravings, so you use raw sugar instead. Hold up. Someone else told you that raw sugar is still sugar to you go for agave. Oh, no. Agave syrup has a distinct taste and it has more calories than...
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The SWEETER Things in Life!
4 Simple Ways to Unplug in a Plugged-in World
It takes a lot more than a cup of Chamomile tea and a massage to achieve a sense of relaxation these days. Well, the former might do the trick, if you can adequately enjoy them while checking your Facebook, responding to emails, tweeting, blasting out pictures on Instagram, tagging your location and taking calls simultaneously. The art of being alone, a very restorative...
Beat Exercise Boredom with Rad Beats
There are those days when it requires divine intervention to muster the motivation to cruise to the gym. On these days (which usually coincide with pushing the snooze button 8 times and having a bad hair day), it takes all the coercion, pep-talking, cajoling and willpower to get there. We are oh-too-familiar with the feeling, but have gotten fairly comfortable...
Pounding it out
It's Friday, and Southern California is once again confusing the hell out of us by serving up endless sunshine amidst what should be the core of winter. Despite this, we are drenching our Splits gear in the smell of coffee, infusing the high performance fibers with the smell of mochas and crumb cake rather than sunscreen, salt water and seagulls. We are posted up...
