Recommended Reads

Recommended Read: Eat Meat and Stop Jogging

  If you're a vegetarian, then skip over this post. I respect everyone's moral stands and choices on whether or not they eat meat.  The author of course wants to sell books so he needed a catchy title and here we have: Eat Meat and Stop Jogging. The purpose of this book is to counter ... read more >

Recommended Read: Goals By Brian Tracy

This book is said to be one of the best selling books regarding the subject of Goals.  I first read it years and years ago and what I liked about the book is that at the end of the every chapter there are questions to answer so you can get clarity on what your goals ... read more >

Recommended Read: The Power of Focus

There are distractions all around us. More than ever we are bombarded with ways to waste our time and get all thrown off track.  To be successful, we must focus on the tasks at hand and not get distracted by the latest shiny object. Enter: The Power of Focus! This is one of my favorite ... read more >

Recommended Read: Breaking Free From Emotional Eating by Geneen Roth

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 >

Recommended Read: It Starts With Food

  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 >

Recommended Read: The Eat Clean Diet Cookbook

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 >

Recommended Read: The Slight Edge

"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 >

Recommended Read: The Power of Now

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 >

Recommended Read: The Compound Effect by Darren Hardy

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 >

Recommended Read: Why We Get Fat by Gary Taubes

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 >