The holidays are here. And that means food, lots of food! If you’d like to stay on your healthy routine during the holidays or if you’re just looking for some strategies to help you feel less challenged this season, I’ve got 4 tips to help you survive the holidays. Everything in […]
Belly fat is not only terrible for our health, it’s also one of the things we dread seeing when we look in the mirror or see pictures of ourselves. Belly fat is one of the biggest complaints I hear from clients. Especially because it seems to creep up on us. You hit a certain and […]
Flashback 17 years ago: I was teaching Cardio Kickboxing and Cycling and strength training on the machines at the gym and I was always sore. I remember hobbling down the stairs leaving the gym one day. You know the way you do two or three days following a good leg day? Only I hobbled down […]
Want to lose weight but don’t want to count calories or log every bite of food? One strategy is to eliminate (or cut back on) ultra-processed foods. Here’s why: A study found that when people were allowed to eat as much as they wanted, those who ate highly-processed foods ate on average 500 more calories […]
While I do believe tracking and logging your nutrition is a worthwhile learning experience, I know not everyone will do it. And the good news is, that’s not the only way to reach your goals. If you some weight to lose and you’re already strength training, making a few behavioral changes around eating will lead […]
When it comes to proper nutrition for weight loss, there are 3 things you can control: what you eat, how much you eat, and when you eat. Maybe you’ve made some improvements to the first two. But what about meal timing? If you’ve ever thought that eating large meals late in the evening makes it […]
Functional exercises are useful to the things you want to do. And unless you’re a pro athlete, you’re probably working out to get better at the activities of daily life. Think of all the movements you make all day long: carrying groceries, picking stuff up off the floor, getting boxes down from high shelves, standing on […]
If your progress has stalled despite working out and tracking your calories, you’ve hit a plateau. In order to break through the plateau and continue making progress, something needs to change in your nutrition and your exercise routine. This does NOT mean you need to eat less and burn more calories with more cardio. Here’s […]
If you have a fat-loss goal you know you also have a muscle-building goal. Don’t focus on losing weight because that will lead to unhealthy actions: cutting calories too low, doing excessive cardio, or falling for bogus scams like fat-burners, cleanses, or fasts. Instead, focus on building lean muscle. And that means strength training plus […]
If you want to lose weight, these are the 3 biggest weight-loss mistakes I see and their solutions: Weight-Loss Mistake 1: Not eating enough protein. Too often, women especially think they need to eat less to lose weight. Then they apply this false belief to protein. That’s crazy! Protein is your best friend when losing […]
