Category: Lifestyle
Every Day Diet Tips for Healthy Eating
Here’s my short list of a few diet tips that tend to fall under the radar of weight loss, eating right and living healthy! 15-Minute Water Rule: About 15 minutes before every snack or meal, drink a glass of water. This “rule” is great because it helps you stay hydrated, and reduces the potential for [...]
Four Tips To Keep You on Track for Game Day
Two things are happening this weekend: 1) It’s officially three weeks since you kicked off your New Year’s Resolution 2) It’s the second biggest weekend in football – Bears/Packers and Jets/Steelers Why are these two important? The social/party factor goes up exponentially. When people gather – they eat and drink – a lot. And they [...]
Confessions from the Locker Room
If you’ve every worked out in a health club, you’ve most certainly encountered the locker room. The locker room is a fabulous place to change your clothes, take a shower and most importantly, observe behavior that leaves you asking but one question…”Really?” My husband and I had a year-in-review conversation the other day, and peculiar [...]
If at first you don’t succeed…
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson I find these words to be particularly appropriate as we usher in the New Year. Whether you’re a resolution-maker, or just someone who has long-term aspirations, it’s rare that any plan or vision we might [...]
2011 Advice: Be consistent. Shake it up. Be a food snob.
Chances are if you’re reading this post, you’re: Fit: “I live it. I breathe it. I’m just reading for maintenance.” Resolution Fit: “As soon as Jan 1st gets here, the sweat will instantaneously drip off me…but not a moment sooner.” Intellectually Fit: “I like the idea of being fit, and could actually see myself working out. [...]
A Dose of Motivation for the New Year
Here’s a fresh scoop of motivation just in time for the New Year. A profile of three people whose lives have been changed because they’ve prioritized fitness and health into their lives. Bernie Salazar Before he was a contestant of season 5 of The Biggest Loser, Bernie Salazar was a 5’5″ 283-pound man who was [...]
5 Tips to Look Young, Stay Lean and Keep Strong Bones
1. Your Body’s Very Own Human Growth Hormone (hGH) is greatly regulated by three things: sleep, exercise and diet. If you’re sleeping five hours a night or less, eating nothing but frozen meals and getting very little exercise, you’re missing all the benefits of human growth hormone. These benefits include: increased energy increased fat metabolism improved bone density [...]
Healthy Picks: Stocking Stuffers and Great Gifts
With Black Friday just a few days away, I thought I’d give my two cents for my favorite health or fitness-related stocking stuffers and gifts. Yes, the run the gamut of healthy holiday gifts, but I love them and thought I’d share. From just under $10 to just under $400, this list has something for [...]
Foods that Moisturize: diet tips for winter skin
When I was growing up – particularly through the wretches of adolescents – I thought I was absolutely cursed with oily skin. My compact of Cover Girl powder and tube of skin-toned Clearasil® got hourly use from the moment I left for school until the moment I returned. I doubt I was alone in my [...]
Step Away from the Scale: weighing yourself too often can weigh you down
I have no hard scientific data to back up this post, just oodles of experience working with clients, and mountains of empirical evidence watching “scale addicts” jump on this ruler of happiness (or discontent) to see what’s changed from the day before. Don’t get me wrong, I think it’s important to know what you weigh. [...]
