Tips to staying fit while juggling your hectic lifestyle.

Tips and tricks to get back in shape for 2010. Make a resolution that you can stick to.

Its here again! You know that time of year where putting on the pounds is inevitable.  Things like picking at the Holiday party sampler plates, eating mall food while shopping for gifts, or drinking on a near daily basis will pack on those pounds. Fitness is a lot like money. We can burn through our gains much faster than we seem to make them. […]

Shaking off the Growing Obesity Epidemic 
 

As obesity rates continue to climb in the United States companies are scrambling to find a solution.  The decline of healthy eating and physical activity has led obesity rates to double in the last 30 years. According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), people who are obese are at […]

Two months ago, my friend Craig appraoched me on the tennis court and asked me how I stayed fit.  My answer was simple and will never change: “a good diet and plenty of exercise”.  This sounds very easy in theory but executing it is much harder than it seems.  Craig had packed on about 50 pounds over the […]

 
Summertime Eating

Hot temperatures, outdoor cooking, fun parties, family get togethers,  weddings and graduations. The list goes on where food is going to be a focal point in a celebration. How do you stay on track or keep to your new lifestyle changes you have made?  Do you use the celebration as a reason to break […]

Sugar plays a huge role in our lives today. We have acquired a taste for sweetness in our
foods. Often times after meals, we will have a “taste” for something sweet. Fruits do not
seem to satisfy our learned taste for the sweetness found in products made by sugar, i.e.
baked goods, candy, frozen desserts, etc.
Sugar is a […]

Over the years, our portion sizes for commonly eaten foods has grown tremendously.  How did this come to be?  In this day and age, cooking at home is a rarity and eating out is more common.  As our exposure to restaurant culture has increased, so has our thoughts on what makes an appropriate portion size.  […]

A good portion of what is making this item taste sooo good is almost 40% of the calories come from fat.

Sometimes the testimony of others gives us the strength to make changes in our lives.  Whether its the “if they can do it so can I” mentality or just identifying with some one elses techniques, sharing fitness stories helps.  It helps you appreciate your own hard work and it helps motivate others to make some necessary changes.
If you […]