You may have heard the term “Cheat Meals” before. It’s a common approach to dieting and nutrition where people “eat clean” or follow a strict diet for X amount of time. They then set a regularly occurring meal or day where they purposefully indulge in all the things they’ve restricted themselves from having throughout the diet phase. After this “Cheat”, …
Problems With The Wellness Industry And How To Solve Them
It may sound strange for me to say as a health and fitness professional, but I believe a significant portion of people being paid to improve health and wellbeing are failing to accomplish their goal, whether they realize it or not. It took me many years to realize that there are major problems with the wellness industry, and I want …
Healthy Tips For The Holiday Season
The past six weeks have been very interesting. Listening to the chatter in my network, I’m hearing a lot of grumblings about stress and excess workloads. I’ve also heard people saying how “thankful” they were for the Thanksgiving break away from work! Here are some healthy tips for the holiday season so we can stay on the right track. The …
Sugar And Sweets In Our Diet
Happy Monday! The subject of today’s topic we all have in our diets and it makes many foods taste great. However, it’s also wreaking havoc on our health. The consumption of sugar, and sweets, has gone through the roof over the past few decades and it shows. Type II Diabetes is everywhere, and many who don’t have full-blown diabetes are pre-diabetic …
You Become What You Eat (Literally)!
Let me repeat that…YOU BECOME WHAT YOU EAT! I think the gravity of it may have slipped by some people. No, this doesn’t mean if you eat fat you will be fat. It goes deeper than that. I’m talking about food quality. Yes, you actually become what you eat The food you eat is broken down, digested, and the nutrients …