Think about your physique like your house. What desperately needs fixing (high blood pressure/diabetes)? What would you like to renovate (lose a few pounds/tighten and tone)? Renovation and design always costs money. Think about how much it costs to tear down a wall, add an extension, even recover your couch. It ain’t cheap. If you [...]

1. DO lift heavier weights. In order to see the results you want, you have to challenge your muscles. That means lifting a weight where you can preform 8 – 12 (15 max) repetitions of the exercise. On the 12th (15th) one, you should be struggling to lift the weight. If you can breeze through [...]

Thanks so much to all those that participated in the Rename the Recipe contest. Here are the top 5 picks. Tomato, Turkey & Beef Goulash Hardy Beef and Barley Stew Tomato Soup Mishmash Lumberjack Stew Mom’s Winter Warmer AND THE WINNER IS ……………….. LUMBERJACK STEW If you haven’t made Lumberjack stew yet, CLICK HERE for [...]

We’re still stocking your cupboards and refrigerator with healthy food. Snack are so important! in the heat of hunger we grab what’s easiest. If you have something healthy right beside you- that’s what your going to eat. Plus you’re less likely to get famished because you have emergency snacks where ever you go. Whether it’s [...]

Short answer. No. VS I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – you have to eat to lose weight. But you have to eat the right things. If a cookie is 2 points on Weight Watchers and a glass of milk is 2 points. The glass of milk and the cookie are NOT [...]

If there is one thing I know for certain, it’s that even though I sometimes DREAD working-out (and yes, even I can dread it) I know with 100% certainty that after the work-out is over, I feel 100% better. I’m AWAYS happy I worked-out. I’m always PROUD of myself for getting off my butt and [...]

At the end of 2009 we talked about cleaning out your refrigerator, cupboards, car and purse.  If you have not done this already, now is a great time to throw away all the processed, salt ridden, trans-fat hidden foods in your house. CLICK HERE for a list of what to toss. I promised I would [...]

So often I hear the complaint that salad takes too much time to preare. And if you don’t have dressing in the house, then forget it. We’ll I think I solved that problem today. This is the easiest, yummiest salad and it takes seconds. Here is what you do: Open a bag of lettuce. I [...]

Have you ever been on a treadmill and it says you burned X number of calories. You walk away thinking you can really have that double chocolate cake now! Well, I’m sorry to say that the treadmill was  lying to you. You may come away thinking you burned close to 600 calories when in actual [...]

It’s very hard to find healthy energy/protein bars. Most of them are filled with chemicals, fake food and tons of sugar. They are branded andmarketed as healthy, but for 99% of the bars out there- healthy – they are not. This is why I love the LARA bar so much. It’s simple two ingredence make it top [...]