Working from home comes with perks and drawbacks. Avoid the work from home weight gain with these nine practical and realistic tips. Working from home can be a serious blessing as well as a bit of a burden. Yes, you get to avoid the commute, can work in...
Stop Dieting And Start Losing Weight For Good
This post contains affiliate links. I appreciate your support! To see this blog post in video, check out the Facebook live here. “My diet starts on Monday.” “That is not part of my diet.” “I am going to cheat on my diet.” Oh diets. We love to start them and hate to...
Working Out and Eating Healthy When You Have No Time
These 10 strategies will help you make eating better and moving consistently an every day part of your life. Even when you are strapped for time, you can still focus on your health goals. Happy Friday Eve! We do not have anything too out of the ordinary on the agenda...
Stop Waiting Until Monday and Lose Weight Faster
“I can eat whatever I want today, my diet starts on Monday.” “I’ll start my new diet and workout routine on Monday.” “It’s fine that I eat this, I’m starting a cleanse in two weeks.” “I’m not doing anything today. My training starts on Monday.” Sense a theme here? So...
8 Common Barriers to Exercise and How to Overcome Them
This post contains affiliate links. I appreciate your support! Happy Monday! This is a particularly bittersweet Monday for me as Zoey is starting full time daycare and I am heading back to work. Since I’m a teacher, I’ve been lesson planning behind the scenes for the...
How to Put Your Supports in Place to Ensure You Reach Your Goals
Last week, I had you sit down and really determine what supports you needed in order to be successful in reaching your goals. If you missed that post, and the free worksheet to do your thinking on, head back over to it and start there. Without it, this post will not...
Working Out is Only Half the Battle: Why You Need a Health Coach
While studying to become a personal trainer, I learned a great deal about the human body, especially the chapter on over and under active muscles. Even with all this knowledge, I felt like something was missing. While the program touched a bit on the mental side of...
6 Questions to Ask When Re-Evaluating Your New Year’s Resolution
Ah, March. The time of year where the majority of winter is behind us, spring break is on the horizon, and New Year’s Resolutions have long since been left behind. We don’t spend time reflecting on, and analyzing, the ways in which we want to better ourselves for an...
9 Ways To Stay Healthy When You Have No Time To Workout
The past few weeks have been busy. Things like teaching four separate classes, grading, coaching cross country, helping put in the new kitchen, and camping, this is the first weekend I haven't had a full agenda. And it has been glorious. The downside to all that go go...
9 Questions to Ask to Stop Being So Tough On Yourself and Start Embracing How Far You’ve Come
We live in a world of instants. Instant communication, instant coffee, instant results. In fact, much of the fitness industry is built on “instants”. Lose 10 pounds in 2 days, 24-hour detox, 6-pack in 6 minutes a day. All these thing promise quick results with little...
How to Set SMART-R Goals (with Printable)
Often times a client will come to me expressing the goal of losing some specific amount of weight, but has no framework for how she wants to do it. While weight loss is a perfectly fine goal, and serves as a base, it lacks the substance of tough questions like, “how”,...
How to (not) Train for a Triathlon in One Week
*This is a spoof post and none of what I say should be taken as real training advice. If you want to know how a serious triathlete trains, and get real tips, check out Kristen at Glitter and Dust.* Find a sprint triathlon happening in your neighborhood for that...