When your love what you do, you will never work another day in your life. I never really understood how true that quote was until a few short years ago. I spent a lot of years doing things I was good at for my job instead of doing the things I loved and it was not until I was in my 40's that I realized it and decided to go on a completely different path. Can we say scared AF?
It's actually kind of funny how I got started in the fitness industry and it is a story that has plenty of twi...
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Stop Stressing Your Way To Being Fat.
Stress management is the 3rd thing on my list of priorities to have for weight loss or just a healthy happy life. All of us are under stress every single day. From our jobs, our families, our friends and heck even our recreational activities can cause us stress. Dealing with high levels of stress on a daily basis without learning how to lessen the stress load leads to chronic stress. Chronic stress leads to a whole slew of health problems, and weight gain is definitely one of them.
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Sleep your way to weight loss
Sleep your way to fat loss? You're kidding me right? Nope. Making sure we get enough sleep every night is what I would consider the number 1 out of the 5 things I believe we should prioritize for fat loss. Many people in the health and fitness industry will have at least 3 or 4 of the same top 5 priorities, but maybe do not put them in the same order.
In my blog last week I touched on the 5 things to prioritize for weight loss. The reason I prioritize each of these things in this particul...
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5 priorities for fat loss and optimal health
What are your priorities? Want to lose weight but really not sure where to begin? We can open a browser window and Google fat loss or weight loss. Most likely it will come up with lots of different views, ideas, specific diets etc. The majority of them dealing with nutrition specifics like shopping and prepping and exercise specifics.... do this kind of training instead of that or whatnot. But what if we may be complet...
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Half the Woman I used to be….and yet soooo much MORE!
I am half the size I used to be....well actually less than half, and yet I am also sooo much more than I used to be. In the photo on the left was May of 2012 when I was wearing size 26 shorts...and those shorts were so tight I needed to be in a 28. The photo in the center is when I was at my smallest in Dec of 2014 at a size 6-8. The photo on the right is me this 2nd week in May 2017 in one leg of the same shorts from the photo on the right. I am currently comfortably in a size 10. My size k...
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