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Audio Blog: Lose Weight By Trying Not To

How much do you want to weigh? I know you have a number in mind. Maybe it’s 180. Maybe it’s 150. Maybe it’s 135. Maybe it’s getting under 200. Whatever it is, we women all have a number we want the scale to read when we step on it.
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Recent Nutrition Study Explores Weight Loss, Processed Foods, and Calories

You’re sitting at a table, hungry for a snack, and only have two food choices in front of you – a few apple slices, each piece dabbed with a bit of peanut butter or a glazed donut. Apple slices and peanut butter are obviously the healthier choice, but then you notice a note card that is placed upside down in front of each plate.

Health, Your Greatest Wealth

In my "ReINVENT Your Health" 6-week online course, I teach about growth, fixed, and mixed mindsets, but what about an inner abundance mindset? It was a treat to be a recent guest on Jolen Philbrook’s “Inner Abundant Mindset Podcast,” where she helps women move past their limiting beliefs and toward a “wealthy” mindset.
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Beware: Not All Spring “Leaning” Challenges Are For You

It’s the time of year when I start seeing a lot of weight loss challenges that promise to help you “lean in spring” coming up on my Facebook newsfeed. I’m not surprised because when I was a trainer, this was the time of year the gym started getting busy again, second to January, because April seems to serve as sort of a “wake-up call” to get back in action if they’ve been neglecting the health and fitness goals they set out to accomplish in the beginning of the year.

The Type of Motivation Needed For Healthy Changes That Last

If you want to be healthy for the rest of your life, you MUST be motivated by this.
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The Biggest Misconception About Exercise and Weight Loss in Midlife

If you’ve been frustrated with the speed of your weight loss and you’ve been exercising more or harder than ever, you have to read this.
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Good Nutrition Isn’t Complicated

The diet industry tries to lead people to believe that nutrition is complicated, when it’s actually very simple – it’s healthy, whole foods in an appropriate quantity.
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Frustrated with the diet industry? Join the club.

Last week, I shared with you a new term I created: Modern Health Enthusiast, in order to set the tone for the next five weeks where I’ll be breaking down my 5 Ways to become a “Modern Health Enthusiast,” inspired by the recent Time magazine article “The Weight Loss Trap”.
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When It Gets Hard and You Want to Quit

We’ve all been there, especially if it’s a Sunday… We’re at the grocery store with our shopping cart full and ready to head to the checkout line. As I make my way to the front of the store, I scan the length of the lines, “What checkout lane should I chose?” The one with the shortest line, of course. I get in the shortest line and wait… and wait……… and wait… Oh! But that line next to you? It’s moving rather quickly now. Your line is taking too long and you think, “I’d be foolish to stay in this line if that line over there is moving more quickly.”
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Weight Gain: What does menopause have to do with it?

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Weight gain… What does menopause have to do with it?! Perhaps less than you think. So before blaming menopause for all of your recent or longstanding weight gain, consider this...