Exercise Your Mind

When hormones begin to fluctuate, stress levels skyrocket, and appetite begins to do strange things, some people find it very hard to eat, and others find it very hard to stop eating. When you are ravenous all the time, or just stress-eating, it’s tempting to justify overeating. ...read more

One of my biggest pet peeves is deceptive food labeling. For example: a single bottle or can of a beverage often lists multiple servings. What are all these weird-sounding ingredients? And why is this list so ridiculously long anyway? All great questions! ...read more

I can't say it enough: Exercise is essential to losing weight -- and keeping it off. Sure, there are tons of ways to get your heart pumping, but here are three types of workouts that will optimize fat loss and accelerate your results aesthetically and athletically.

There is so much confusion out there about macronutrients. Every time someone wants to write a new diet book they try to reinvent the wheel, and one of the key ways they do that is by playing with the macronutrient ratio of meals or cutting out a particular type of food. ...read more

Weight maintenance is something that many are confused by. They often feel if they don’t continue to work as hard and diet as fastidiously as they did while losing weight that they will gain the weight back. This is not the case. ...read more

The equivalent of the couch potato in the digital world is being glued to your laptop, tablet or smartphone. If you're having a hard time losing weight, take an honest look at your daily habits for things that could be sabotaging your efforts. Are you Netflix-bingeing on the regular? ...read more

Many women tend to think that protein powders are for body builders only, (people who want “gains”) but this isn’t the case. Clean protein supplements make a great healthy snack and have plenty of health benefits.

First off, if you are reading this because you are pregnant (I hope), congratulations!  How exciting for you and your family.  What a magical time in all of your lives.  Enjoy it!

Who’s tired, raise your hand?  And hands around the world shoot up like rockets.  As a culture we are overstressed, overworked, burn the candle at both ends trying to do and be it all for everyone. ...read more