The biggest obstacle I hear from the people I coach is that they “just don’t have time.” People are SO busy today with work, families, managing a house, and the million other things that come up. So, it’s too often that they find themselves grabbing food for convenience – food that not only doesn’t serve their bodies but that also ends up negatively impacting the family and their waistlines. This leads to further guilt and a vicious cycle begins. It breaks my heart to see t

What would it look like for you to change just 1% of your daily habits, behaviors or thoughts? What's the impact of 1% change? If you were flying an airplane and you flew off course by just 1%, there is a great chance you'd end up on another continent, let alone in the place you intended to be. The same thing goes for your health habits. If you change just 1% of your behavior, it can add up to big results. There are no neutral choices in life. Every choice you make every day

There’s a result you desire. Maybe it’s weight loss, maybe it’s to achieve a specific lift or run your first 5K, or maybe it’s to get off your blood pressure medication. Whatever the goal is, what I’m going to talk about applies. If you or someone you know has ever gone to extreme measures to lose weight – HCG injections, diet pills, surgery, starvation diets, etc. – the chances are VERY small that they were successful. And if they were, chances are that they couldn’t susta

Over my years in the fitness industry, I’ve worked with countless clients who have really struggled. They’ve struggled to get started. They’ve struggled to stick with it. It seems so often life just takes control and we buy into being too busy or too tired. The truth is that we are 100% responsible for everything in our lives. Where you are in your health and fitness is a result of your choices. Sure, things like disease happen that are beyond our control…but we still CHO

What’s the Big Deal about Carbs? Starchy carbs get so much attention when it comes to nutrition conversations because they are the biggest double-edged sword our bodies have to deal with. On one hand, all of our energy in the body comes from glucose molecules (carbs in their basic sugar form) but on the other, our bodies weren’t designed to be surrounded by so many readily available carbs. So when our body does get an onslaught of starchy carbs (usually from refined sugars in