Easy Meal Prep Tips
Ever wonder what it would be like to open your fridge to find a full week of healthy, delicious food that’s prepped and ready to be eaten? Sure would make sticking with your diet and achieving fat loss a lot easier… Meal prep is a fantastic way to keep on track with your eating throughout the entire week. The idea is to plan out all of your meals on the weekend, most often on Sunday, then do the shopping and the prep at one time for...
Kill Those Cravings Once and for All
If you’ve ever tasted packaged junk food (and who hasn’t) then you know just how addicting it can be. There’s a reason for this – the food companies actually formulate each bite for maximum crave ability. This is done with a special tantalizing balance of sugar, fat and salt. But while junk food tastes pleasing…it’s detrimental to your fat loss results. Unclear on what exactly classifies as junk food? You’re not alone, especially...
5 Side Effects of Fat Loss
When you put in the focused effort to lose weight there are certain benefits that you expect to get. You expect to look better in your clothes. You expect to have more energy. And you expect to feel pretty happy about your accomplishment. Knowing that these benefits are waiting for you, just on the other side of weight loss, is often a strong enough motivator for you to put in the work required. However, I’ve found that sometimes you...
Why You Gained Weight Instead of Lost In The Gym
You head to the gym because you know that exercise burns calories and helps you to shed extra pounds. Knowing this, you may think that losing weight should be easy with enough exercise. However the truth is that if you aren’t accustomed to exercising and are out of shape, beginning an exercise program may actually lead to an initial increase in your weight. This fact, however, shouldn’t stop you from exercising, as you’ll...
Weight Gain: Yes, it’s happening
It happens to everyone. That moment when you realize that it’s time to do something about your weight gain. It may happen when you’re looking in the mirror or standing on the scale. Your first thought is to go on a ‘diet’ but as quickly as that enters your mind the ghosts of a hundred diets past return…along with all the frustration. Then you wonder, why bother? The weight will come back, as it always has. Then you’ll be back in front...
Your Doctor Knows Exercise Saves Lives
Your doctor feels like a broken record. That’s right—he’s sick and tired of telling you how important exercise is to your health because YOU DON’T LISTEN. He’s sick of explaining how so many of your health problems will improve or even disappear as the result of a consistent exercise program. He’s tired of tallying your controllable risk factors that include physical inactivity and obesity. So why does he continue to give you the same...
Motivation Key to Weight Loss
A dose of weight loss motivation will change your life almost overnight. The best part of my job is seeing clients achieve amazing weight loss results. Whether they drop a few sizes, lose the baby weight, get off their blood pressure meds or shrink their waist, the excitement is always contagious. There really isn’t a clear way to describe the euphoria that settles in once you’ve realized your fitness goal. You have to experience it....
Should You Be Eating That?
There’s no questioning the fact that the foods you eat go far in determining how quickly you’ll meet your fitness goals. And if you’re eating a number of your meals out at restaurants then you’re going to want to keep reading because the average restaurant meal contains more than 1,200 calories. Most people have no idea just how fattening restaurant entrées are. In fact, the following information may shock you. Here, in no particular...