Category: Exercise

  • Rethink Your Motivation for Healthy Living

    With the proliferation of weight loss programs over the years, you have been “trained” focus on results before anything else. Think about it. when you start a diet, the motivation is the visual you have in your mind of being thinner, stronger and feeling like a new man or woman, right? But the natural course…

  • Listening to Your Body for Better Health!

    …..the reality was my body had been trained to crave what it needs not what I wanted. I realized at that moment, it’s all about listening to my body, NOT my “diet head”, it’s about being healthy.

  • An Ode to Holiday Indulgence!

    A bit of some pie, a slice of the cake, January’s coming, resolutions I’ll then make. I won’t worry now, what time I would waste, I won’t eat that much, simply a taste. I promised myself, I’d diet next year, I promise I will, you’re reading it here.In the scheme of things, what’s a pound…

  • Give Up Resolutions. Find Solutions.

    As we  shift in to the frenzied holiday season, healthy intentions are left behind. Once the chaos of the holidays takes control of our lives,  January 1st is the day of salvation. But you know, and I know,  New Year’s resolutions rarely have lasting power. Granted, we’re far away from January 1st, however many people…

  • Taking the Time to Be Healthy

    “The reality is this, if you focus on living a healthier lifestyle, the weight will be where it needs to be. In fact, my clients that focus on changing their lifestyle, are the most successful at achieving a healthy weight that is lasting.”

  • Fall Brings an Opportunity to Set New Goals!

    “Though I look forward to the changing leaves, and gorgeous fall scenery, it’s important to consider exercise plans for the fall/winter season. After all, as the seasons change so does our lifestyle.”

  • Perfect Body or Money? Where’s Option C?

    This past week, USA Today came out with a story that polled about 1000 people asking if they would rather have a million dollars or a great body. 1 out of 4 would rather have a perfect body than a million dollars. I don’t know about you, but I was wondering about health. Why wasn’t…

  • Successful Weight Loss Comes Down to One Thing….Being Ready

        This past week I hosted my 6th orientation at my studio for my 6-week Weight Loss Challenge. For the orientation, I had yet another speaker that has successfully met “the challenge” to tell her story. (Check out our other success stories).  This week, Reality Fitness welcomed Marty Hammond and she shared how she…

  • Class Proves Exercise Trumps Age

    “You don’t stop running because you get old, you get old because you stop running.” This quote was shared with me by a student in a spinning class that I recently visited for my newspaper column. Gil, who’s smile is contagious, was a walking motivational quote. Another of his favorites, “You’re never too old to…

  • 3 Words That Changed a Life

    As many of you know, I have been implementing a weight loss challenge at my studio that has turned out to be, well, amazing. Because of the incredible results our clients are experiencing, I am asking them to come back at the orientations we hold each month and share their stories. Let me just say,…