Improve your fitness. Preserve your health.
If I could snap my fingers and make one dream come true, it would be for people to give eating real food an honest try so they could experience its many benefits.
Back in January I led a 2-Week Real Food Challenge with my Facebook community where we did just that. 130 courageous people ditched sugar, wheat, and high-refined vegetable oils for vegetables, fruit, lean protein, healthy fat and dark chocolate. And in 14-days (or less!) here’s what people reported: [Read more…]
Most of us understand that consuming alcohol and achieving our body composition goals don’t usually go hand in hand.
But do you know why?
Most people believe it’s because the alcohol “turns to fat” in the body. While this makes perfect sense logically, it isn’t actually what happens at all. [Read more…]
Regular workouts? Yep.
Staying hydrated? Check.
Eating enough fiber to keep an entire army regular? You bet.
You know the formula for losing weight. So why aren’t you losing it?
It could be that you’re sabotaging your noble efforts without even realizing it.
Here are 3 surprising reasons why the weight isn’t coming off. [Read more…]
Hopefully you’ve gotten the memo by now: Fat is not the enemy.
For a long time (read: the past three-plus decades!) we believed that eating fat made us fat and gave us heart disease, but the pendulum is definitely swinging. Most health experts now agree that “healthy fat” isn’t the oxymoron it once was. In fact, if a healthy body and mind are what you’re after, you simply must consume good fat!
This is great news for the mighty coconut, a fruit whose meat is largely composed of healthy saturated fat (again, not an oxymoron!).
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She said goodbye to heartburn, aches and pains, and a few extra pounds.
She said hello to a good night’s sleep and finally enjoying cooking for the first time in her life!
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