tracidmitchell
Traci D Mitchell is a health and fitness expert, and founder of The 40-Day Shape Up. Traci has been featured on The TODAY Show, and numerous other programs talking about foods that are right for your body type. When she's not talking about healthy foods, she's talking about functional fitness or working with clients to help them live a healthier lifestyle.
My 30 Day Spring Cleanse Is On!
My friend, Debbie, got married last year in Montana to a really great guy. The two of them live in Chicago, but love Montana, so they opted for a destination wedding. The reception was a couple months later in Chicago. She’s a cowgirl at heart and the reception was proof of that. One touch that [...]
Sweating: 10 Great Benefits
Sweating. Some of us can’t stand sweat, but most of us are ok with it – at least when it comes to working out. Years ago, I dragged a friend of mine along to a spinning class for her first time. When she finished, she looked like she had a good workout, but in no [...]
My Favorite Shoe for Exercise: Broken Down & Beat Up
Last year while running a half marathon in Chicago, I spent some time talking with a guy who was running barefoot. The ball of his foot was taped to protect his skin from glass and debris. Clearly, I wasn’t racing hard, or I wouldn’t be chatting with a stranger about his lack of shoes, but [...]
Scale Crazy: 8 Tips To Manage Weight Without Using A Scale
When I was in college, I used to workout in my dormitory’s fitness center. I joined it for something like $60 a year (if that). It was cheap, open long hours and easy to get to…just an elevator trip away. That was college, and I wouldn’t exactly refer to myself as “fit” at that point [...]
Healthy Snacks, Pity Food & How Not To Gain Weight Traveling
I am on spring break right now with my family! Before I left my house, I made sure we had everything healthy we needed to eat…at least while traveling. As an aside, “healthy snack packing” wasn’t exactly my forte years back. I’m from the Milwaukee area. Before I moved to Chicago, where I currently live, [...]
A Food Journal & New Workout to Boost Your Fitness
Have you ever started a healthy eating diet, only to be derailed by a night out, a wedding, a family vacation or some other event that takes you out of your routine? Getting back on track after falling out of routine is often the lynch pin of maintaining a healthy body, particularly with my clients [...]
Spring Break Fitness: How I Plan to Stay Fit While Traveling with Kids
In less than a week I will be leaving for vacation with my family. We’re going to Dublin, which is where my husband is from. We go often enough, so I feel like I can prepare for just about whatever we need, including my own personal workouts. My husband is a swimmer. While he always [...]
5 Minute Metabolism Booster
I would love to say that every single workout I do is structured and has a purpose. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. Every now and then, I get to the gym and don’t know what to do because I didn’t plan anything out. I don’t like just jumping on a piece of cardio to work [...]
7 Diet Myths Debunked
Yesterday I was talking with a couple friends about diets. Not in the “I-need-to-go-on-a-diet” way, rather in the “it’s-important-to-eat-a-heathly-diet” way. In the world of marketing, specialty foods is big business. Organics, gluten free, allergy free, lactose free…food is definitely not what it used to be. There is a lot of misinformation about diets out in [...]
5 Workplace Diet Disasters
Before my career revolved around wellness, it revolved around marketing. I worked in an office, had access to dozens of restaurants for lunch and was 30 feet away from an incredibly likable coworker who always had a full bowl of chocolate sitting on his desk. Honest to God, I think every time someone grabbed a [...]
