Fitness and Nutrition Accountability

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I love when Gretchen Rubin talks about the four tendencies. One is not better than the other, but if you don't utilize goal setting habits suited for your tendency, you will not be good at achieving your goals. We cannot all follow a cookie cutter plan to achieve a healthy lifestyle. And once we "reach" the lifestyle, we still need to grow or we will become stagnant. — I am in a mentoring program, and we set sticky goals every month. It has been amazing to […]

Habits Become Your Lifestyle

Losing weight itself isn't hard. It is the changing of your lifestyle that causes people to put up road blocks. You need to lose your excuses and find your why. You may even lose some friends, when you start living healthy, it forces them to take a good long look at their own health. Some people would rather shut you away than face their own reality. — To be healthy requires physical and mental health. The English word “health” comes from the Old English “hale”, meaning […]

Weight Loss and Healthy Living

Are you feeling sluggish? Maybe you need to take a better look at what you are feeding yourself. You can drastically change your mood, energy levels, and focus level by improving the foods you eat. — How do you feel today? Do you feel good with lots of energy? Or, do you feel drained […]

Four Steps to Improving Your Eating Habits

I like to dish out the tough love, a lot of times people think they can't afford to eat organic when really their priorities are skewed. If you do have a tight budget, there are a few ways to get more organic into your budget, and there are some foods that are more ok if not organic. — I often hear, “but I can’t afford to eat healthy.” For most of you, I call B.S. It […]

What If I Can’t Afford Organic

What is the difference between fat, protein, and carbohydrates? Do I really need them all? How do I diet and lose weight? — I used to work at a big box gym, and I would send my clients emails. I felt […]

Update of a Client Email on Food

Running is such great exercise. Where do you go to find information on recovery though? I have taken some of my thoughts and put them all in one place, so the information is centralized. Running is hard on the body, so you need to take care of your body post run to maximize improvement, and decrease recovery time. — I was recently asked about post running recovery, and I thought I would share my thoughts and insights […]

Post Running Soreness

It seems to be a fad these days, people going gluten free. Expecting miracle cures. When you live with chronic pain, or you have member in your family with too much energy, severe social problems, or can't settle the thoughts in their head, you would love a cure. While gluten free won't be that cure, it can drastically improve the situations, and I am more than willing to roll the dice and see if we can get lucky. — Our family has decided to go gluten free. It is scary and exciting, and eating outside of the […]

Gluten Free Family

Forget balance, Seeking Harmony Becka's Boot Camp Some people struggle with finding the balance within their day to day life. I believe the problem is in their search for balance. I think harmony will yield better results. Why does each child need the same number of presents worth the same exact amount of money? Why should we find ourselves feeling guilty that we are spending too much time focused on one area of our life. Or worried when we are engaged with family we should be doing something else completely?Stop seeking the impossible and realize just how great your life already is! — So often people talk about how hard balance can be. Balancing work and family, a clean house and […]

Forget Balance, Seeking Harmony

Not everyone likes to set goals. Mostly because a lot of people fail to take action on their goals. Some people have a hard time determining who or what they want to be and accomplish in an entire year. Your goals can change and grow during the year as you change and grow, as long as you are making time to re-evaluate and are taking action to achieve your goals. Inaction on goals creates broken dreams. — It is time for many to think about resolutions and new goals and changing lifestyles. It is a […]

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