Summer and fall are the season’s in which most people find themselves struggling to find balance with their healthy eating habits, exercise routines and managing their weight. It’s hard: summer BBQ’s and refreshing cocktails followed by countless evening options for entertainment that seemingly always get in the way with your gym time. Then there’s the…
An avid baker and online fitness and nutrition coach, I find it important to find recipes that not only answer the sweet tooth calling but offer ingredient modifications. If your goal is weight-loss, muscle-gain, or weight maintenance it’s still important to discover away to have a healthy relationship with baked goods so we can eat…
“Rule your mind or it will rule you.” ~ Horace I’ve been doing a lot of research on this topic lately and want to dive into it with you. It’s the idea that what we tell ourselves, our bodies and brains believe to be true and forms our reality, including our stress levels. The ages old…
There’s a secret to tapping into unlimited stores of motivation that can empower us to persevere even in the hardest of times. Be it in business, fitness, or staying committed to a new hobby, the secret to developing lasting motivation is not one habit or productivity hack but instead, where we focus our energy. This…
Throughout the hundreds of 1:1 training sessions I’ve had with clients, there are common questions about their diet. Clients share with me their biggest nutritional struggles and successes with the expectation that I have an answer to solve all their diet needs: how to stay on track with their eating, how to eat foods they…
What does it really take to carve your physique? I don’t get asked this question as much as I should. Instead, I get asked “how much longer until I start seeing the lines in my arms” or “I’ve been working out for a month, why aren’t my muscles coming in.” When it comes to training…
When was the last time you worked hard for something that paid back 10-fold? Are you willing to work hard and struggle for a promotion at work, your dream relationship, or the physique of your dreams? This is the question we must ask ourselves when starting out on the path of anything large: be it weight…
Most of us don’t have a problem scheduling and maintaining our time in the gym or pursuing our active lifestyle. But some of us do. Even more, some of us want to see more results as evidence for our time spent training our bodies. This is hard to achieve simply through a few workouts a…
When I decided to stop running long distance due to injury, I was terrified about how my body would respond. It was the fear of staying small and skinny that kept me running through pain. I started lifting weights, I was a cardio queen. I loved the thrill I would get when my feet hit…
We’ve all been there, we hit the groove with getting to the gym and we’ve finally started eating healthier.It starts off like this: “I was doing so great until”__________: “My job started getting crazy, I moved to a new city and it disrupted my routine, I got sick, I lost motivation.” Then something happens and…