You’re making good food choices, exercising consistently, and still not seeing results. What gives?
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Lessons In Leadership And Success From Improv Comedy
How can improv comedy help you succeed? Read more to find out.
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The Unspoken Power of Encouragement
Yet, without any words exchanged, here we were. Two strangers; me motivating her to keep going, and her the same to me.
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Why Weight Loss Is Harder Than A College Degree
For 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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Two(ish) Tips To Overcome The Anxiety of Holiday Weight Gain
Follow these strategies to avoid holiday anxiety and weight gain.
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3 Tips To “Fall” Back In Love With Running
Use these strategies to keep your love for running strong even as the temperatures decline.
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Why Not You? – An Inspiring Weight Loss Transformation Story
An incredible 10-year weight loss transformation story. Extraordinary people are created through daily actions and decisions.
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Follow This Advice to Build Your “FitFam”
Follow these 4 tips to build your fitness support system–your “fitfam.”
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Recipe: Key Lime Cheesecake
Awhile back one of my clients challenged me to create a healthier, high-protein key lime pie that would allow her to indulge in her cravings for pie without ruining progress toward her fitness goals. While I may have colored outside the lines just a bit by creating a key lime cheesecake, I promise it will deliver…
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Abstaining From Moderation
[Article originally published in Breaking Muscle] Business and self-development coaches will often tell you that the secret to success is to focus on your strengths, while either outsourcing your weaknesses or becoming just good enough at them not to mess everything up. This approach allows you to avoid spinning your wheels doing the tasks you…
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3 Fat-Loss Myths – Debunked
Have 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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Is A Calorie Just A Calorie?
I have a question for you: Is a calorie just a calorie? Total calories consumed is the most fundamental variable to be considered when striving to lose weight. Quite simply, you can’t lose weight unless you consume less calories than you burn. However, does it really matter where those calories come from? If you indulge in…
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How To Convert Your Loved Ones To A Healthy Lifestyle
What 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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So, You Hate Your Workouts? Here’s How To Beat The Dread of Starting Them. [Podcast]
If you often find yourself procrastinating to start your workouts, to the point of not doing it at all, then this podcast is for you. In this episode I discuss a concept called “affective forecasting” – predicting our future emotional states as a result of participating in some future activity. As it turns out, we’re…
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Optimize Your Hormones For Better Weight Loss
Hormones play undeniably important roles in the daily functions of our body. However, poor diet and lack of exercise can alter the effects of these hormones, stealing the precious, beneficial effects we get from them. The good news is this: even though a bad diet and no exercise can negatively affect the function of hormones…
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