Fitness and Nutrition Accountability

healthy habits

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

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

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

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 […]

#NewYearNewYou

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

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