Reading Time: 5 minutesRecently I was chatting with a gentleman who works in sales and we got on the topic of entertaining potential clients. It’s pretty common practice to take these prospects out for dinner and drinks, which can sometimes result in a night of heavy drinking for the sales representative. I also learned that each has their…
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Reading Time: 7 minutesYou’re making good food choices, exercising consistently, and still not seeing results. What gives?
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Reading Time: 4 minutesFor many people school isn’t particularly fun. Sure, you get to visit with your friends or you might even have a class or two that pique your interest. This is usually outweighed by the required courses for your degree that bore you to death. (Does anyone actually like bio-chem? Or statistics? How about an entire…
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Reading Time: 5 minutesFollow these strategies to avoid holiday anxiety and weight gain.
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Reading Time: 5 minutesLessons from an international-traveling newbie.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesAre vitamins necessary as part of a healthy diet?
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Reading Time: 5 minutesHow can you eat whatever you want and not gain weight? Learn how.
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Reading Time: 2 minutesTry this high protein key lime cheesecake recipe. It’ll become a new family favorite!
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Reading Time: 8 minutesWhen should you relax on your diet? How frequently should you include your favorite junk foods? This article covers a new approach to nutrition that will increase both adherence and success of a weight loss diet.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesHave you ever tried losing weight, thought you were doing everything correctly, and still didn’t see the progress you wanted? Sure, there are a number of reasons why you weren’t seeing the results, but what if the changes you made to your diet weren’t actually that helpful–or even downright useless? There are numerous myths surrounding…
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Reading Time: 4 minutes[Originally written June 3rd, 2017] I’m sitting in a hotel room in Sacramento, CA, nearing the end of a long week-and-a-half stint of travel. Memorial Day weekend was spent in Toronto for a fitness conference (5-hour drive both ways), arriving back home for a quick two-day break before heading back out on a flight to…
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Reading Time: 4 minutesAre all calories created equal? Does 300 calories of cookies affect you the same way as 300 calories of broccoli? Total calories consumed is the most basic variable to be considered when striving to lose weight. Quite simply, you can’t lose weight unless you consume fewer calories than you burn. However, does it really matter…
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Reading Time: 10 minutesWhat is the secret to combatting emotional eating and the shortcomings of willpower? Start by defining who you want to be.
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Reading Time: 4 minutesI was driving early the other morning, around 5:00am when the cold air felt like the atmospheric version of my alarm clock–unforgiving, annoying, and if it were wireless I’d probably have thrown it across the room. I was listening to some talk radio show on whatever station I had on. One caller had phoned in…
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Reading Time: 3 minutesWhat is the single biggest risk factor for being overweight? Being surrounded by other overweight people. This includes friends, family members, and spouses. In fact, the strength of this “social network” risk factor is in that particular order—with an increase in the likelihood of being overweight by 57%, 40%, and 37%, respectively.1 How many times…
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