5 priorities for fat loss and optimal health

Posted on May 24, 2017May 26, 2017 by Suanna Geater

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...

Emotional eating signs, triggers, and tools to help

Posted on May 17, 2017May 22, 2017 by Suanna Geater

While emotional eating may not be one of the 4 diagnoses of eating disorders according to the American Psychiatric Association's Fifth Edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5), published in 2013, it is definitely disordered eating. If you are interested in reading more about the eating disorders, The National Eating Disorders Association has an informative article about them and the Psychology Today website has an Eating Disorders and Emotional Eating Test th...

Should I Detox?

Posted on May 11, 2017 by Suanna Geater

Springtime! Dontcha love it! Everything is going green, the temperatures are beginning to get warmer, the days are getting longer, there is the sweet scent of all the spring blooms in the air....Aaaaaaaand the questions begin about detoxing and/or cleansing. Should I do a cleanse/detox? I so which one is best? How should we detox? and on and on. I get it. People want to slough off the ickyness of having been cooped up all winter and feel like they want something to make them feel fr...

You really eat that crap?

Posted on April 22, 2017April 26, 2017 by Suanna Geater

Hahaha, I get the question in the title a LOT. Yes, I really eat that. That really was my breakfast one day last week. I do not eat things like this all the time of course, but on occasion, yes I eat McDonald's food. It is not bad, it is not good. It is food. I also had a big ass ass salad for lunch, veggies and cheese for snacks, a small ass salad, some veggies and a steak for supper that night. Oh and a a sip of everyone's mixed drinks to! Food is not inherently bad or good. The wor...

Half the Woman I used to be….and yet soooo much MORE!

Posted on April 12, 2017April 13, 2017 by Suanna Geater

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...

Diets Don’t Work……and the secret to what does

Posted on April 5, 2017July 18, 2017 by Suanna Geater

Snagged this image from informhealth.com on a post they did back from 2013 about diets. This is showing many of the different diets out there....from 2013! There are lots more now! From The Atkins Diet to The Zone Diet and all those in between. There are more diets out there than you can shake a stick at. I am sure you have tried several of them. Maybe even lost some weight on them. The book stores have shelves and shelves of different books, the grocery stores have all the different diet ...

Are You a Drinker? Do you drink too much? Too little?

Posted on March 28, 2017March 29, 2017 by Suanna Geater

Drinking is good for you……but not too much. Are you a drinker? If so, are you drinking too much? Or are you a sometimes drinker or a seldom drinker, and are you getting enough to drink? And how much should we really be drinking? I’m a drinker! I always have a bottle of water…or some coffee and on occasion a diet gingerale or some lemonade beside me so that I can take a sip every so often. I keep myself well hydrated for the most part. But then I also lead a minimum 11 fitness classes...

WoW…They’re So GREEEEN!

Posted on March 24, 2017March 24, 2017 by Suanna Geater

Ok, confessions time here. The title of this blog is corny as all get out, and if you are a child of the 80's and you are a James Spader fan then you will know the title of this blog is a terrible reference to one of my very favorite movies from way back when. Tuff Turf. I mean seriously, whats not to like. Cool clothes, great music, and a Teen heart throb :) All of which have absolutely nothing to do with this blog post, but for some reason I could not get it out of my mind....and yea, I am...

No More Calorie/Macro Obsession

Posted on February 28, 2017 by Suanna Geater

If you have ever been on a diet, many of them want us to count something like calories, or fat grams or how many carbs we eat (macro-nutrients.) We have to measure or weigh all of our food and spend lots of time trying to get the exact count perfect. At least this is what I did for a long time. I am betting you have had experience with it to. Ok, this is super embarrassing for me to admit, but at one time I was unbelievably obsessed with making sure I ate the EXACT amount of calories or m...

3 Powerful Words

Posted on January 25, 2017February 12, 2017 by Suanna Geater

The 3 Most Powerful Words to remember to help you achieve a sustainable healthy lifestyle I was chatting with someone the other day who began their journey towards a healthier life a few months ago. They are on the verge of giving up for several reasons. The first reason is impatience. They want it all right now! The fat loss, the 6 pack abs and eating all the foods they see everyone eating. The second reason is that they expect perfection doing something that is difficult ...