A few weeks into the Whole Life Challenge, you will likely see some significant changes. Focusing on quality food choices, smart exercise choices, and even smarter recovery choices will, without a doubt, impact your health, fitness, and well-being. It’s very cool to see the number on the scale going down,…
When your partner or spouse doesn’t want to do something, no amount of cajoling or nagging can convince them. Our house is filled with giant collections of comics. I’ve tried over the years, but each time I pick up a comic book, I get distracted by the art and can’t…
I dropped my kids at their half-hour music lesson and said I’d join them inside in about ten minutes — I was going to meditate in my car. “What do you do when you meditate?” asked my eight-year-old son. “Is it like this?” He put his thumb on top of…
Have you ever tried to make a change in your life — one that is positive, enriching, and constructive — but come up against your own self-defeating behaviors? Maybe you decided to start exercising, eating well, or sleeping better, yet you felt compelled to act in ways that sabotaged those…
For the last fifteen years, I have been writing tailored diets for my clients, both online and in person, and the majority of my weight-loss clients have been women who have come to me after trying almost everything — thermogenics, diet pills, grapefruit diets, ketogenic diets, skipping meals, and so…
Water is the essence of life. Every living thing needs water to survive, right down to every cell in all plants and animals. Our bodies are made up of nearly 75% water and in order to thrive, we must supply all the cells in our bodies with adequate water so…
Before I had my daughter in 2005, at age 32, I spent my time boxing, surfing, traveling the world as part of my job with a tour operator, and fixing up a dilapidated beach house with my husband. I had lots of fun, but spent very little time doing things…
The last few months has thrown many of us off our game. As we’re re-establishing normal patterns, it helps to “get ahead” on as much as we can. Taking a few moments now to make things easier for ourselves in the future can pay off not just in productivity later…
One of the most confusing things we face in the modern world is what to eat. Michael Pollan wrote a whole book about it called “The Omnivores Dilemma.” We have not only so much food, but information at our fingertips that it can be a difficult challenge to feel like we’re…
So I had a thought. Some of your favorite foods may be just like those kids in high school your parents told you to stay away from — bad influences! There are a lot of foods it pays to cut back on just because they have clear negative effects on your body.…