I often have people come to me frustrated because they have hit a plateau in their weight loss or they have begun to slowly gain a bit of weight and ask if I can give them a bit of advice. I always ask what their nutrition looks like. The answers range from I eat really healthy, or I eat paleo or I am keto or whole foods or something similar. Which is fine, but quite what I am looking for. So, I after another couple questions I find most often the culprit is hidden calories in their nutrit...
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5 Lessons I learned losing weight, getting fit and healthy
Back in July of 2012 if you had told me that in 5 years I would be an entrepreneur in the health and fitness industry I would have laughed you under the table....all while I was wearing my size 3x tank top, smoking a Salem Slim Light 100 and drinking a Diet Coke.
That year was a turning point. The youngest daughter graduated high school and my husband and myself had graduated to being almost openly hostile room mates instead of having any semblance of a marriage. I was completely disillusio...
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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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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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