In order to be successful at anything you do you need to know WHY you are doing it. Understanding the WHY helps to give you purpose and when you are working towards a goal it helps to give you motivation to keep working toward that goal no matter the obstacles. Since my favorite topic is working [...]
Its the time of year when gym ‘newbies’ are flocking to the gym to fulfill their New Years Resolutions – whether it’s to follow a flat stomach workout, lose 10lbs, tone your legs, get rid of flabby arms or to get a flat stomach. No matter the goal – for many it may be their [...]
Its a New Year and you’ve promised yourself a New You. You’re trying to change what you eat and get to the gym; however sometimes time is not on your side and before you know it the day is over without a workout. Its time to solve the time crunch problem and make sure that [...]
07 February 2010
Making sure you eat every few hours ensures that your metabolism is revving and the pounds are coming off – even when you aren’t at the gym. Think of eating every few hours like putting a log on the fire to keep it burning. Just like a fire needs energy (or a log) to keep burning strong [...]
02 February 2010
Just weighed myself this morning and I lost 3lbs! WOOHOO! However, its not really anything to be TOTALLY excited about – considering I haven’t really eaten real food since Friday. I ended up getting a stomach bug this past weekend and spent the whole time in bed. Most people would LOVE a weekend like that – [...]
27 January 2010
Many girls growing up lack self-esteem. Its an unfortunate common problem that many of us can relate too. Some women grow out of that ‘awkward’ stage quickly – realizing their natural beauty and feeling confident about themselves. While for others (many of us) it takes a few years and one moment of inspiration to change [...]
27 January 2010
Cooking on a flat stomach diet when trying to reach your goal can be one of the hardest things to do. You come home after a long day of work and the last thing you want to do is cook – oh I know – I was at work for 12 hours today and ran out [...]
24 January 2010
Woke up this morning and decided to step on the scale to see how my progress was going for the week. I’m usually a big advocate of not relying on the scale to determine your weight loss success and progress – as their are a variety of reasons as to why one day you have [...]
21 January 2010
Its been a week and a half of dieting – not just watch what you eat dieting so its okay if I have a chocolate today or maybe some pasta because I went to the gym – I’m talking HARDCORE dieting. Like carbohydrates and I are those friendly neighbors that you see once or twice [...]
18 January 2010
Does this sound familiar? As a high school athlete you go to every single fast food joint possible after practice – starved and no real idea about what you really should be eating in order to be better. You’re young and you’re hungry – thats all that matters. Then you hit college. You don’t know any [...]
14 January 2010
Have you tried a ‘fat-free’ diet before and it didn’t really work like you expected it to? You thought you were going to shed pounds of fat, when you actually only shed half of that? You ended up getting frustrated and gave up on the diet – wondering WHY it didn’t work. I can tell [...]
13 January 2010
While trying to lose weight, we all spend hours carefully reading the labels on every food product – trying to find the food with the least amount of fat. However, if you read the label wrong, you may get the wrong type of fat in your product, therefore sabotaging your own weight loss process. There is [...]
09 January 2010
What you do today effects what happens in the future. Same thing goes for what you put in your body and how you take care of yourself. Recent studies have found that what we eat today can have great affects on we look and feel for years to come. Considering we are all trying to beat [...]
