What if I told you we could reach your goals without dieting? How about this - What if I told you we could reach your goals without tracking calories or macros? Diet has been a buzzword for DECADES. Actually, over a century. In fact, CBS News published an article in...

What’s your favorite cheat meal? You know the one you mark your calendar for to enjoy once you’ve reached your goal? Ice cream? Pizza? Cake? Chipotle burrito? During every training cycle, I pick out something to eat or a place to go after the meet. Now, it can’t be...

Fat loss isn’t new. HOW to lose fat isn’t new. Create a deficit. Whether that is a result of increasing exercise, decreasing food intake, or a combination of both is how you begin to mold your deficit to you. So WHY is it still so hard to lose fat? One of the major...

There’s definitely a love-hate relationship when it comes to menu planning. It’s a fun little game trying to figure out what I’m going to want a week from now. My dad always says that I’m a girl so I have the freedom to change my mind, and we (the rest of my ladies...

What is it about dieting that makes us want to hide it from everyone else? Why are we afraid to tell others that we’re trying to lose a bit of weight? What makes it so easy to share our location at a bar on Friday but so difficult to do the same at the gym on Monday?...

In high school and college, I would get SO frustrated when stuck on a physics or chemistry problem. I went to class, read the books, and took GREAT notes, so how is it possible that I could not crack the code to these problems? After I got over my extreme frustration,...

You said 2019 was going to be the year of YOU. You promised each month that it was YOUR month. Then you swore that with the school out and the beautiful weather it was finally time to take care of YOU. The reality is that you’ve been trying to lose weight for a long...

Who isn’t trying to get a little bit healthier, lose a few extra pounds, or tone up some areas? Because everyone is trying for even the slightest health improvement, I hear of the diets, supplements, and tricks that people just started and swear by. Then a few weeks...

Or you want that 5K or half marathon to feel a bit easier this fall… Maybe you’re just ready to start living life again… You know what to do – eat cleaner foods, watch your calories, exercise more, etc. Do you know what the real key to your success is? Consistent...

Research, social media, and popular belief have taught you that the relationship of calories in versus calories out it is most important when weight loss is the goal. You probably have or currently use an app like MyFitnessPal to keep track of every little calorie...

Wouldn’t it be nice if when we woke up in the morning and said, “I’m going to eat healthy today!” that it just happened? I don’t even know if there’s a number big enough to quantify the number of times I have sworn this time to be THE TIME where change sticks. Nearly...

It doesn’t exist. I got you didn’t I? Great way to start things off, huh? Not too long ago, I would have dropped what I was doing to read this article because I wanted results and I wanted them NOW. There aren’t too many diets or meal plans I haven’t tried. I always...