Many things can improve your kitchen “coolness”. Use this 1-2-3 approach: The right equipment. A regular preparation system or ritual. A “can-do” attitude and willingness to experiment. 1. The Right Equipment Kitchen essentials make meal prep easier. Here are some must-have’s for your kitchen: Slow Cooker – Set it and forget it! You can easily make enough food …
How to Create the Ultimate Super Shake
Smoothies, super shakes, protein drinks, ever wonder why they are so popular? It is such an easy way to get a complete meals worth of nutrients without having to cook. Talk about convenient! How many times have you been so busy and by the time you realize it, it’s been 6-8 hours since your last meal? We are so busy …
Body Shaming – Are you sure you aren’t guilty of it?
Do you ever notice how things just kinda show up when you need to read them ( or see them, hear them, whatever)? Today is one of those days and this just happened to show up in my newsfeed: “Sometimes you gotta keep it real. When you grow up, you realize that being an adult means confronting truths that are …
Seven Myths People Believe About Fat loss
With the vast amount of information and advertisements about weight loss, it’s difficult to understand fact from fiction when it comes to fat loss. If you’re not seeing results with your wellness efforts, then you may be believing a myth and doing more harm than good.
Organize Your Life & Fitness
One of the most common things I hear people say about fitting in exercise and fitness plans into their daily lives is that they’re “too busy.” As a health and fitness coach,
Diets Don’t Work—Here’s Why
Diets are so common. We see them advertised online and in commercials, and overhear our friends and colleagues talking about the latest and greatest way they’ve found to lose weight.
10 Ways to Incorporate Accountability into Your Fitness & Health Goals
Fitness goals. We all have them and sometimes we work on them and well, sometimes we don’t. Have you ever wondered why that is? You have these great intentions that this time is going to be different. You set up your goals, you write them down, and the first couple of days are great and you’re kicking butt… then what …
Bread Alternatives for Nutrition & Weight Loss
When improving your nutrition, one of the things to consider is reducing or eliminating the consumption of bread products, especially those made with a base of white flour. This begs the question: What can you eat that to replace bread that can be just as filling, but will offer more nutrients? I asked the members of my Simply Fit group …
Recovery After Exercise: Rest & Play
Recovery is an important aspect of any workout, and it’s also something to consider in general each day. The demands of the activities and demands of our day-to-day lives are all things we need to make sure we recover from—and it’s not just our bodies that need to recover, our minds need to recover, too.
7 Ways to be just a little better!
Where are you at with your workouts these days? Do you want to try something new, harder more challenging? Does the thought of more of a challenge scare you; would that be too hard? Ask yourself, where are you on the spectrum?