No Progress? These 3 Smart Tips Will Ease Your Mind

Ok, so you dove head first into eating better, exercising like crazy, and drinking more water but you’re still feeling frustrated about your results… Maybe, after several weeks of killer workouts and spot-on nutrition, you recently hopped on the scale and expected to see more progress and a much smaller number staring back at you…

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Healthy Chocolate Popsicles!

Healthy chocolate popsicles are hard to beat on a hot summer day. Maybe you’ve just spent several hours at the pool, working in the yard or winding your way up a mountain trail and you’re feeling a little overheated from so much sun exposure. The sun is an interesting thing. A small dose every day…

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No-Equipment Exercises (Great for Travel!)

Sometimes I find the best workouts happen when I’m on vacation. Even if I don’t exercise for a long period of time there’s a shift that occurs in my focus, energy, and enjoyment. Taking a vacation is different for every person. Some like to stay active the whole time, exploring a new city and culture.…

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Father’s Day and What Dad Means to Me

Father’s Day offers the opportunity to reflect on the wonderful men in our lives. “Once upon a time, a Long, Long, LOOONG time ago… when I was a little girl…” I giggled uncontrollably even though I knew there was no possible way my dad had once been a little girl. But this is how every…

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Steak Salad for a Healthy Barbecue

Barbecued steak and summer go hand in hand. Why not make a healthy steak salad to satisfy your taste buds and nutritional goals? There’s something so intoxicating about the smell of a grill that makes our mouths water. The smoky, woodsy, herbaceous scents coil their way into our senses triggering an almost ancestral recognition — as…

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Healthy Travel Tips (In-Flight Exercises!)

Summer travel has begun and if you’re like me you have at least one getaway planned, which means a whole lot of… sitting. Using healthy travel tips makes traveling that much better, yet it’s nearly impossible to be active when getting where you’re going will involve sitting at the airport, sitting on the airplane, sitting…

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4 Simple Ways to Become More Grateful

If you want to experience more positive emotions, become more grateful, feel more alive, reduce stress, sleep better, express more compassion and kindness, and even have a stronger immune system all you need to do is say two little words: “Thank you.” The benefits of practicing gratitude are practically endless, but it doesn’t need to…

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Refreshing Soda Alternative: Minty Watermelon Fizz

We often hear that sodas are loaded with sugar, chemicals, and artificial ingredients, wreaking havoc on our health and leaving us feeling sluggish. Yet sipping a refreshing, fizzy drink can’t be beat. If you’re trying to break away from your soda habit, a healthy soda alternative is definitely the way to go! My Watermelon Fizz…

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Work Stretches (Right at Your Desk!)

We’ve all heard that Sitting Is The New Smoking — and it’s true — sitting too much is causing a host of avoidable health issues. If you work a desk job, like 86 percent of your fellow Americans, don’t despair. There are plenty of simple ways to combat the effects of too much sitting. Here…

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Don’t Underestimate the Value of an Alternative Workout!

Today the stars aligned. My schedule was clear. The weather was perfect. And my energy was driven to accomplish every household chore and yard work that had been piling up on my list. I didn’t even consider these tasks to be an alternative workout in that moment. I quickly scribbled an outline for my day:…

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10 Ways Taking a Break Helps You Succeed

Do you ever feel like life is too demanding and never-ending — with day-to-day work, project deadlines, responsibilities, social events, holidays, obligations, and chores? Sometimes you just need to get away. But if the idea of a taking a break — even a much needed one – leaves you guilt-ridden and buckling down for the long haul…

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Healthy Summer Salad Recipe!

 I hear from clients quite often that they are sick of salad. If they have to eat one more salad they’ll go mad. If a heap of lettuce, a few shreds of carrot and a cucumber slice or two is your idea of a salad then it’s no wonder you’re beginning to loathe them. Salads are…

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