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Caution: Detour Ahead

Not where you want to be? Just because you aren't at that "place" you think you should be doesn't mean you are not on track. Just becaus...

6 Reasons Real Ingredients are Key to Health and Weight Loss

First, I think it’s important to clarify what exactly I mean by ‘real food’ so that we’re all on the same page here. Real food is whole s...

4 Simple Tools to Make Your Workout 85% More Effective

Did you think I was going to tell you to wear a heart rate monitor, eat complex carbohydrates an hour before your workouts or something l...

7 Ways to Get Your Kids to Eat Healthy

My mission is supporting mommas on a mission to nourishing themselves and their families with healthy foods, movement and self care tools...

The January Blues

Have you ever noticed that January is just kind of blah? Maybe it's the lull after the busy holiday season, or the cold, dreary weather t...

Achoo! Is your lifestyle behavior worth catching?

Lifestyle Behaviors are Really Contagious If you want to see change, you must first start within. It’s that simple and it’s that profound...

10 Healthy Holiday Reminders

The holidays can be a whirl-wind: shopping for presents, entertaining friends and family, sending Santa letters, and lots of cooking. Don...

10 Ways to Stay on Track with Your Workouts

Keep your eye on the why. Why are you working out in first place? To lose weight? To have more energy? Write it down and say it out loud...

It's time to slow down.

I don't sleep. I blamed it on my son, but now he is almost seven. Sigh. And I still sleep only around 4 hours a night. Truth. No exaggera...

"I'll be happy when..."

As a fitness professional I hear often "If I could just lose 20 pounds, then I would be happy,” “If I could just be back to pre-baby weig...

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