5 Reasons why you shouldn't quit on your Healthy Lifestyle in December For the past few weeks I have warned my Group Fitness Classes to continue coming to class as we approach the end of the year. It is so easy to say, "I'll start again in January" but seeing that most people quit on their ... read more >
The biggest misconception in the Fitness Industry is that Compulsive eating or Emotional Eating is about not having "WILLPOWER" or "NOT WANTING IT BAD ENOUGH." People's issues with food may have developed in childhood and are not about the food. It's about something deeper. Until we are willing to go deep with clients about what ... read more >
I recently had a conversation with a client about having an "all or nothing" mindset. Sometimes we think just because we are not doing EVERYTHING that means we aren't doing ANYTHING. It is much better to exercise 3x per week consistently for 6 months than to exercise 5-6 days per week for a month and ... read more >
One of my clients shared that she was starting the whole 30 program and so I decided to look into the program myself. I ordered the book, It Starts with Food and I was once again reminded how much impact Nutrition has on our bodies. From all of the research that I have been ... read more >
When I ask people what their biggest struggles are with nutrition, it's usually planning and preparing their meals. It can be overwhelming to be creative and when you're busy and not sure of what to eat, that's when we get takeout, fast food, or a high sodium/fat processed meal. The Eat Clean Diet Cookbook has ... read more >
"You're either on your way up or you're on your way down" That is one of my favorite life mottos and it's a central theme of the book, "The Slight Edge". According to author Jeff Olson, people are either on the way up on the success curve or they are on the way down to ... read more >
For years I have wanted to read this book because whenever people would talk about it, they would mention how it was transformative and really changed their perspective on life. I read an article where Oprah said that when people came to her house she would give them a copy of the book because it ... read more >
The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy Darren Hardy was the publisher of Success Magazine and he is a successful businessman himself. His message is that there are no shortcuts to success. What you think are the "little things" are the very things that will take you off course. You don't get bit by elephants but ... read more >
The beginning of May marked the day where I said goodbye to the ambition of trying to be a Figure Competitor. It was at the Nor-Cal Fitness Summit where I spoke with the awesome Chrissy Z who asked me that poignant question: At What Cost? Since that year there have been some ups, downs, and ... read more >
Why We Get Fat is the follow up book to Gary Taubes' best selling Good Calories/Bad Calories Both books examine why calorie counting is futile, why high carb diets have produced nothing but failure, and why almost everything we've been taught about weight loss/management is wrong. Good Calories/Bad Calories is like the War and Peace ... read more >