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Shaline is a New York Times bestselling author, celebrity fitness trainer, and obsessed

with helping you live your dream life.

I grew up eating the worst nutrition possible.

I remember coming home from school and being excited to have pop tarts and then a couple

hours later, some toasted bread with butter and sugar.

We'd wash that down with grape soda.

I'd eat some fudge.

Breakfast was always one of those crunchy, bright colored cereals that the first ingredient

is sugar.

Everything we ate was processed and we just didn't know better.

In fact, I didn't really start to learn much about nutrition until well into my career

as a fitness professional.

Even when I was teaching fitness classes and working as a personal trainer, I knew very

little about nutrition.

I was taking my cues and thinking that I was educating myself by the trends that were

happening.

In other words, there was a period of time where I thought eating fat-free was the healthiest

thing you could do.

I just didn't know better.

And as they say, when you know better, you can do better.

But we can't count on trends or what's happening on the covers of magazines or sometimes

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