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FOODS GET A HEALTHY TWIST

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MAKE THIS YEAR YOUR HEALTHIEST EVER!

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10 Editor’s Letter

12 Contributors

14 Viva Experts

15 Behind the Scenes

16 Giveaway

19 Eco Chic

71 Grocery Basket

78 Inspired Living

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DepartmentsBEAUTY & FASHION24 Beauty News

25 Get the Look

26 Back to Basics Enhance your features

the natural way.

34 Beauty Terminology

HEALTH38 Health News

40 Health Q&A Liver detox

44 Stay Healthy This Winter! Make this your healthiest year ever.

46 How to Find the Right Personal Trainer

48 In Focus

50 26 Ways to Lose Weight – and Keep it O�

OUR COVER STORY54 Keeping it Together Roselyn Sanchez

FOOD60 Surprise! It’s Good for You Your favourite comfort foods get a healthy twist.

70 What’s in Your Fridge? Bailey Chase

YOUR LIFE74 From Runway to Design Reality Five ways fashion trends are inspiring home décor.

75 Balanced Living Laura Regan

76 Portly Pooches and Tubby Tabbies Does my pet have a weight problem?

80 Travel Nemacolin Woodlands Resort

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If your resolutions have already fallen flat maybe your thinking is a bit too grand. It’s been engrained in us to dream big each January. When the calendar turns over, we suddenly feel the need to promise everything from daily workouts to a sugar- and alcohol-free lifestyle. With the start of each new year we’re basically setting ourselves up for failure.

Change doesn’t happen overnight. If your January resolutions have already dissolved, I challenge you to dream a little smaller this year. Rather than promise the world in January, why not challenge yourself to change one small thing at the start of each month. For me, my yoga practice has fallen fl at and taken second place to a busy lifestyle. Instead of making sweeping, year-long promises that are general and easy to ignore, I decided to buy a month-long yoga pass on January 1st and commit to doing six classes a week for the entire month.

While doing downward dog every day is far from easy, it’s a doable goal with a realistic time limit. Will I stick to six yoga classes a week forever? No. However, it may help me fi nally hold a crow pose for longer than fi ve seconds, lean out my muscles and loose a bit of my holiday weight. Doing yoga so often has also reminded me of how much I love it. So while I may not continue with six weekly classes all year long, I will likely stick with three or four.

In February I vow to nix sugar. Again, it is a promise I won’t keep forever but my hopes are that seeing how good a sugar-free diet makes me feel will inspire me to eat less of it for the remainder of the year.

This issue of Viva is packed with ideas to help you lead a healthier and more productive life. Whether it’s hiring a personal trainer to take your workouts to the next level (page 46), cooking healthier meals (Surprise! It’s Good for your, page 60) or making a small change towards better health (page 44), I challenge you to take one piece of advice and incorporate it into your life this month. The following month, try another. Before you know it you’ll have embarked on a healthy makeover that’s built for success! Now, that’s a resolution you can stick with and be proud of.

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KEEPING ITTOGETHERACTOR ROSELYN SANCHEZ HAS OVERCOME THE ODDS TO SUCCEED IN HOLLYWOOD. SHE SHARES SOME OF HER SECRETS FOR SUCCESS AND HOW TO STAY POSITIVE EVEN WHEN LIFE THROWS YOU A CURVE BALL.

Roselyn Sanchez moves around a lot. From her home in Los Angeles, California, to her native Puerto Rico (where her family still lives) to Atlanta, Georgia

where her comedy Devious Maids films, and the occasional sojourn to Vancouver, British Columbia where her husband Eric Winter films Witches of East End. Wherever she goes, the busy mom of three-year-old Sebella is a pro at keeping it together.

Sanchez has been busy fulfilling her dreams and passions since the age of four when she dutifully attended weekly ballet classes with her mother. At five, she started taking piano and singing classes. She soon joined the San Juan Ballet, and by 15 she was acting in commer-cials and music videos. In 1993, the five-foot-five beauty became Miss Puerto Rico Petite and, a year later, she won the title of Miss America Petite.

From there, a move to New York seemed like the best decision for her career. Sanchez’s mom

was reluctant for her daughter to leave Puerto Rico for the Big Apple. She has, however, over-come the odds. “I had a big dream,” she says. “I’ve always been a big dreamer.”

Maybe it’s her upbringing that contributes to Sanchez’s ongoing success, or her ability to bounce back even stronger when rejection interferes. Maybe it’s her happy marriage or her passion for motherhood. Or it could be her mom’s words that have always echoed in her brain and added to her strong, inde-pendent idealism. “My mother said never to let anyone cut my wings,” says the 41-year-old. “I was married briefly before and every-one told me he wasn’t right for me. I consider myself a smart woman, but when love hits you, you become dumb. Fortunately I was able to wake up really fast and thought about what my mother had said about not allowing any-one to cut my wings. You really, truly have to believe in yourself. At this point in life, noth-ing really a�ects me – I’m used to the yes’s and no’s in my work.”

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IN GOOD HEALTHBeing a former dancer, Sanchez is accustomed to her body moving regularly whether it be daily stretches, 30 minutes of cardio on her home treadmill or some type of dance. “Ballet, jazz, modern – with lots of stretching involved. Stretching is good for any injuries in terms of healing your body.”

Good health also calls for a positive body image. While Sanchez says she’s proud of her abs, even after having a baby, it’s her lower body that causes her anxiety. “I’m thin, but I’m curvy because I’m Puerto Rican. I have to be mind-ful of my thighs and backside,” says Sanchez.

The day Sanchez was told she was pregnant she weighed 114 pounds. “I’ve never been able to get back to that weight,” she says. “I’m 118, which is my sweet spot; 114 pounds is just not going to happen again.” You have to be happy with what’s healthy and attainable for you at that point in your life.

In order to stay healthy, Sanchez sticks to an organic eating plan for her family. She also tries to educate Sebella on healthy eating. “When we go to Puerto Rico, the food is mostly fried so we have to control it a little. I don’t cook – don’t like to and I’m not good at it,” she unabashedly admits. “So it’s not always easy to control, but I do my best.”

WISDOM AND STRENGTHAdmittedly very content and happy in life, Sanchez is aware there is always room for improvement – especially when it comes to her hot temper. “I have matured and improved when it comes to not losing perspective on things. I still have a big issue with people who raise their voice to me,” she says. Over the last few years, Sanchez has learned how to prop-erly breathe to counter her temper. “That was a di�cult learning curve for me. Now I know to breathe and communicate instead of having my temper flare.”

Her life is not without the usual daily stresses most working moms experience. “So when I feel something is really intense, I just go for some quiet time to gain some wisdom and strength. That’s my mantra: wisdom and strength.” In fact, the self-described “ambitious and perseverant ” woman keeps a gold ring with her at all times as a constant reminder of this refrain. “Inside the ring, it says wisdom and strength.” VM

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