Fitness and Nutrition Accountability

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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

You don't begin living healthy when you reach a certain size or weight. You begin living healthy when you make healthy choices. — As you know, I have a million reasons why you should work out. Weight loss isn’t a main […]

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

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

They say all the time that health is a continual journey. I have really seen that for myself this year. If has taken me 35 years to get to this place. I have had good mental health, good physical health before, but I had never really put it all together in a conscious sort of way. Man, it feels fantastic. But I can't stop growing from here, maybe I won't make as many changes to my routines, but I need to keep pressing on. My life depends upon me continuing to keep going. — I have a post-it that sits on my computer. It is at the bottom of the screen, so […]

Becoming Never Ends

Healthy and happy go hand in hand. And the opposite of happy is unhappy, not depression. You don't become healthy at a certain size or way of living. You make choices and instantly start becoming happy and healthy. Your mental health has a key role in your physical health. — My top goal for 2015 was to get into the best heath of my life. Tough goal when […]

Reflecting on 2015

Are you lying to yourself in order to rationalize your actions? Are you settling for less than your best? The lies you tell yourself hurt yourself, not your trainer or husband or kids as much. It does still affect them though. — Have you ever stopped to think about the lies that you are telling yourself? Have you said them […]

Lies versus Truths

I've been mindful this year. Next year I will be more intentional. It has been great to be on a journey to improving myself as I am improving more than just myself along the way. — We hosted thanksgiving breakfast for my family yesterday, and then went to my in laws for dinner. It […]

Thanksgiving Reflections