At some point you might have seen a fitness enthusiast post about how they are incorporating high carb and low carb days to accommodate their training schedule. Many people will plan to consume higher carbs on days where they train more intensely (especially lower body days). This same concept can be a useful tool for…
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How I Use #DessertEveryDay As One Of My Nutrition #SuccessStrategies
Ladies, Listen Up! Eat The Dessert! 🍪🍫🍩🧁🍨 Whatever food you truly love and enjoy, you can get to a place where you work it in. Whether it’s sweets or salty snacks, don’t avoid foods you love. Life is too short to not enjoy yourself and it will actually help you make more progress to include…
Free Meals, Refeeds, and Diet Breaks: What Are They + Are They For You?
I got an overwhelming response of interest in a post about the difference in a free meal vs a refeed. I also thought covering a diet break would be helpful to include. So let’s dive in! While tracking macros is a great approach to being able to incorporate foods you love on a routine basis,…
#GiveMe30HabitProject 09.01.2020 {#Moderation365}
Welcome to the 21st habit in the #GiveMe30HabitProject!! See this post for all the details and backstory! This month’s habit is to dip your toe in the water and see what it’s like to practice #Moderation365! The challenge this month is to pick one thing that would make your nutrition a little more enjoyable and incorporate it…
Five Tips For Developing New Habits {FTT}
Even the most exciting of new habits can die very quickly for a variety of reasons. Sometimes we forget them, sometimes we might not feel like doing them, sometimes we may feel like we don’t have time for them, etc. It can get even more complicated if you are trying to establish a habit that…
How I “Splurge” When Dining At Restaurants
Are you an oyster fan, yay or nay? 🦪 Oysters (raw or steamed) can be an excellent #MacroFriendly option when dining out. Macros per 3 ounces: ~70 kcal, 2g fat, 4g carb, 8g protein. Depending on the size of the oysters, you may have 6 to 12 ounces in a dozen. They taste phenomenal with…
Five Tips For Navigating A Rough Day {FTT}
Confession time: this one was born out of finding myself in one of those struggle bus days. I hate being in a funk, especially when I feel like I can’t get out of it, but there’s always something we can do to try to move things along—or at least prevent the spiral from going further…
Five Tips For Navigating Trigger Foods {FTT}
The ultimate goal with the foods we enjoy—regardless of if they are highly nutritious or not—is to be able to practice mindfulness and moderation and eat foods that make you feel your best. You want to get to a place where you can include all foods sensibly and always #LikeHowYouEat. Food is meant to be…
#GiveMe30HabitChallenge 08.01.2020 {Feed the Positive}
Welcome to the 20th habit in the #GiveMe30HabitProject!! See this post for all the details and backstory! This month’s habit is to “feed” the positive! Amidst a global pandemic, surfacing awareness of deep issues of social injustices, and the harsh reality of human oppression, the negative media is rampant. It’s hard not to experience some negativity running…
#GiveMe30HabitProject 07.01.2020 {Burpees!}
Welcome to the 19th habit in the #GiveMe30HabitProject!! See this post for all the details and backstory! This month’s habit is all about challenging yourself to do something uncomfortable! This month’s challenge is to do burpees, specifically 20 burpees every day for the full month. It does not matter when or how you do them, just as…
Five Tips For Accomplishing A Dream Goal
As many of you know, I recently completed my first book manuscript and sent it to the publisher. This was something that required a great deal of focus and dedication. Projects like this are not something that we can approach half-heartedly or for the wrong reasons. With that in mind, here are five tips for…
Five Tips For Muscle Growth {FTT}
Most anyone who has been training for any duration of time knows the basics of progressive overload: time under tension, volume, density, frequency, etc. But there are things you may be overlooking that implement those principles in ways that are leaving some of your potential for gains on table. These are by no means all…
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