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3 Steps to Save Your New Year Resolution
We’re a week in and if you’ve already fallen off the resolution wagon, all is not lost!!! So don’t give up on it just yet. Read on for three tips on how to save it.
Thou Shall Give Into Temptation (Bundles)
Temptation bundling gets its name because it’s taking a habit that you may think of as a temptation-type habit and stacking it with a habit that may not be as tempting, but you know is good for you and you want to establish it.
You Don’t Have To Get Back In Shape Alone
Even as a health coach, I don’t want to get and stay healthy all on my own. I’m sure I could, but I don’t WANT to. It’s so much more fun with other people. Helping cheer them on when they’re crushing it; motivating them when they’ve fallen off a bit. It’s the other people that make it so much more fun and do-able.
Are We All Insane?
Because when it comes to our health, I’m seeing the same questions pop up over and over and over. Not because we truly don’t know the answers (I think most people do), but because we want a different answer than the one we’ve been getting.
How to Find What ACTUALLY Works
As humans we have a difficult time taking our time when it comes to our health … or anything really. We want results yesterday – which is funny because we’re wired NOT to want change. If we start smaller though, we can find what ACTUALLY works.
The 4 Hardest Words: I Need Your Help
we’ve made progress and have learned to recognize when we need help. And we have no trouble telling ourselves we need help. We’ll say it to ourselves inside our heads; we’ll whisper it under our breath to see how it sounds out in the world. However, the issue is when we need to ask for help from someone specifically.
The Skinny on Being Called Skinny
facebookinstagramFor the first time in my adult life that I can remember, I was called skinny (envision me with a "mind blown" emoji expression here). I grew up a husky kid - for real, I wore husky jeans all through adolescence - so skinny has never been in my...
Exercise: You Don’t Have to Suck It Up
All the social media snippets of grunting and sweating and coaches screaming about more burpees has given exercise a bad name. So if you find yourself hating [insert exercise] then try something else!
Your Vacation Didn’t Blow Your Healthy Habits
Because our brains are really good at what they do, our habit stacks aren’t lost after a week of skipping them on vacation. In fact, our brain doesn’t even consider it ‘skipping’ because it wasn’t the time or place for the habit stack to occur. Which means that when you return home and get into your normal routine of things.
Why Being over 200 lbs was the Best Thing that Ever Happened to Me
When my husband saw the scale inch up over 200 lbs, I literally saw him shake his head. Shake. His. Head. And I didn’t murder him. That’s real love, y’all.
This Diet Fad Needs to Go
One of the weirder fad diets that has hung around FAR longer than it should is the idea of liquid diets. Weight loss is hard enough for most people, why would you want to make it even tougher with more hunger pangs and never getting to feel like you’ve eaten enough?
How to Lose Weight the Same Way You Gained It
You can see how this is the reverse of how you fell off the wagon in the first place. All we’re doing here is reversing the process with small swaps and small choices that begin moving the needle in the opposite direction.
Top 4 Benefits of A Running App
Deciding what you want the running app to do is where we begin. Running apps can do a few different things: serve as a coach of sorts; provide community (likes, comments, etc); track your run stats; or get you started.
Nine Ways to Get Moving in Just 5 Minutes
Between work, family and catching the latest Real Housewives episode, who even has time to go to the gym these days??
Grab these 9 ways to get moving and start getting fit again in just five minutes!