Category: exercise

Nutrition Principle #5 to Losing Weight and Looking & Feeling your Best

Nutrition habit #5 – Control your Portion Sizes This is an important principle – you’ve got to pay attention to your portion sizes. We are victims of a society that is hooked on supersizing everything…supersize drinks, monster size cookies, muffins and bagels and astronomical sized restaurant entrees. For many of us, it may not be…

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Nutrition Principle #4 to Losing Weight and Looking & Feeling your Best

Nutrition Habit #4: Stop Eating Three Hours before Bedtime If you have planned your meals correctly throughout the day, you shouldn’t need to eat anything right before bed. Often the calories that are consumed after dinner are those that are eaten not because you are hungry and need the energy but because of habitual patterns…

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Nutrition Principle #3 to Losing Weight and Looking & Feeling your Best

Nutrition Habit #3: Plan your meals so that you consume 5 small meals and snacks throughout the day See if you recognize yourself in any of the following. You skip breakfast, guzzle coffee all morning and then, practicing great self-control, you eat a tiny lunch. By mid-afternoon, you are starving and so you grab a…

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Nutrition Principle #2 to Losing Weight and Looking & Feeling your Best

Nutrition Habit #2: Drink More Water Did you know that 50-70% of our total body weight is water? The brain is composed of 70 percent water, lungs are nearly 90 percent water and our blood is about 83 percent water, which helps digest our food, transport and eliminate waste and toxins, mobilize fat, and control…

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Nutrition Principle #1 to Losing Weight and Looking & Feeling your Best

Nutrition Habit #1: Consume a balanced diet that is rich in FiberCarbohydrates (CHO): are fruits, vegetables and whole grain breads, pastas and rice. Carbohydrates in your diet will be sent to your liver and either burned for energy or stored as fat (70% conversion ratio). Did you know the only energy your brain can use…

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Missing a Workout is so much more than Missing a Workout!

Consider how much discipline it takes to workout three to five days a week. Think about how hard it is to keep stretching beyond our comfort zones and how challenging it is to exercise at high intensities. Consider the self-resolve required to eat healthy foods and drink lots of water every day when temptations surround…

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Here are your next 3 Muscle Conditioning Exercises you can do anywhere!

Today is Day 2 of your Pumping Nothing workout. Remember, your body is the BEST piece of equipment ever and you can keep it strong, fit and conditioned with absolutely no equipment whatsoever! Review yesterday’s posts for more tips. Here are the next three exercises to add to your Pumping Nothing Muscle-conditioning workout. Try about…

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By challenging yourself, you challenge others!

“Do something everyday that scares or challenges you!” I love this photo of my friend Tamara as she jumps off a 20 ft cliff into Crater Lake. She inspired me to jump shortly after – a big accomplishment since I’m crazy scared of heights. That’s how inspiration works. Someone sees someone else do something cool…

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