This is about to be your year! Have you determined an intention to take action? That is actually what a New Year’s resolution is… A determined intention. How determined are you? So often New Year’s Resolutions are made and kept for only about two weeks at best. This is typically because of an all or nothing mentality AND/OR the fact that there are too many unrealistic “rules” to the goal. Some of you don’t make them at all for fear of failure based on your past behaviors. Her

The truth is, being healthy isn’t so complicated. It boils down to a few simple standards that then other healthy habits begin to flow out of automatically. And I’ll just start by saying that following the same “Diet” that your mom, aunt, best friend or whomever, had “success” with, is NOT a healthy woman habit. In fact, most popular fad diets encourage unhealthy behaviors that will almost ALWAYS backfire in the end. So take to heart these following habits and if you aren’t a

Let’s be honest….We ALL want a nice butt. So when anyone brings up, or we think of our ‘backside’, our tushies are the first thing that comes to mind. We want to make sure it’s strong and looks good. However, there’s SO MUCH MORE to your backside, and in fact there is an entire chain of muscles there. The Posterior Chain. It is extremely important and yet very neglected. As humans, we have a subconscious tendency to only work on what we can see….the front of us! We are consta

I am a Hope Dealer. Why do I call myself this? What is Hope? And what does it have to do with Fitness? Do you have to have Hope to be Fit and Well? Let’s delve in to these questions and answer them. The dictionary says that Hope is to look forward to something with desire and ‘reasonable confidence’. To feel that something desired ‘may’ happen. First, allow me to address what this has to do with your “fitness”. You feel a certain way because you think a certain way. If you ar

NUTRITION IS THE MOST VALUABLE ASPECT TO YOUR PHYSICAL HEALTH, FITNESS AND ABILITY TO EXPOSE MUSCLE Whatever your fitness or healthy goal is, be it to lose weight, expose muscle, or improve overall health, your eating habits must be in check in order to reach it! What we put on the inside, we wear on the outside, and effects our health, no matter how much we exercise! Now, it is important to exercise, and it helps sculpt and shape our body, but fat loss or gain is mainly base

Yes, it is true that often a poochie belly is from a collection of fat and needs to be corrected with nutrition. Food will play the BIGGEST role in removing fat from your middle! Eating often eliminates the body’s mechanism of storing fat for survival and regulates hormones, staving off cravings for fattening foods and lessening cortisol, a hormone that contributes to belly fat. Combining protein and quality carbohydrates is key, and equally as important is limiting foods wit

So why do I call myself your 3 part Wellness Coach? We are triune beings. We are made up of 3 parts. Our Mind, our Body and our Spirit. We aren’t fully well unless all 3 are healthy. You really cannot be your best self without nourishing them all. As a practitioner with all the credentials needed to help you lose weight, get tone, get physically stronger, totally fit, and everything else that goes along with your physical appearance and physical health, I happen to know that