I was late getting week two written up when I realized that week three was shaping up exactly the same way…so this post is a two-fer and covers both! As you may recall, I had two goals for week two: get to the gym at least twice in addition to teaching my fitness class on […]
Read More Intermittent Fasting: Weeks 2 and 3Welp…..here I am at the end of my first full week of intermittent fasting. First week impressions: Not as challenging as I thought it would be The entire experience is not starting out the way I thought it would start My energy seemed no different….until today I feel like this is a very sustainable practice […]
Read More Intermittent Fasting: Week 1DISCLAIMER: this post is an account of my personal experiences and is not for self-diagnosis. Consult with a professional before making changes to your health plan. Getting a good groove in how and what I eat has been constant battle for me. Daily we are bombarded with information on what is good, what is bad, […]
Read More Intermittent Fasting: Getting StartedAs I started investigating how to better get on top of my health, and especially my eating habits, I kept running across this term. “Macro”. #Macros #MacrosCoach #IfItFitsYourMacros #MacroShot It was everywhere. Clearly macros were important to people, but I did not understand what a macro was. “Macro” is short for macro-nutrient. When measuring the […]
Read More What the F**k is a Macro, Anyway?*Disclaimer: this post is to share my personal experiences and is not to be used for self-diagnosis. One day I was headed in to work on the bus. It was crowded and I was in a standing spot toward the back, patiently waiting for my stop near the end of the line. Just about half […]
Read More It’s What’s on the Inside That MattersIn this commercial, photoshop, environment we live in it is easy to fall in to the trap of thinking fitness = skinny. However, fitness has absolutely nothing to do with “skinny”. Let’s start with the technical definition of fitness. Fitness is to be fit or, as Merriam Webster puts it, “the quality or state of […]
Read More What is this thing called “fitness”?