With time a precious commodity – most of us run in and out of the gym – without even considering spending time stretching our overworked muscles. However, spending five minutes a day doing stretching exercises for your legs can help you prevent major injuries that will slow you down. Most of us rarely stretch our legs [...]
If you are finding it hard to find the inspiration, drive, or motivation to get to the gym or stick to your flat stomach diet – then you NEED to go to the Arnold Sports Festival in Columbus, Ohio. I had the pleasure of attending my first Arnold Classic this year – March 4-7, 2010 – [...]
There is always a reason why you aren’t getting the results you want – especially when you are trying to get a tight and toned, cellulite free butt. Its figuring out WHY you aren’t getting these results after working out week after week that becomes the challenge. When you don’t see results you want – in [...]
10 February 2010
Goji Berries – the newest health food trend – are they all what they are cracked up to be? Will Goji Berries really help fight my liver? improve my memory? sleep better? What are Goji Berries? Knowing and having an understanding of any health food trend is important when determining whether or not it is something [...]
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 [...]
