As a fitness professional; I’ve heard many myths about diet and exercise.  Everything from doing cardio is bad for your joints, to skipping breakfast saves you calories, to abdominal exercises makes your stomach bigger.  Here are some common myths busted. 

1. The food pyramid is for everyone. For many people, six to eleven daily servings [...]

    If you think you need surgery to lose the weight that is plaguing you, then you may want to wait a while.  Science is always evolving.  Now they have discovery a new chemical made in the gut called NAPE.  This chemical triggers the brain to stop eating. 

NAPE concentrated in the hypothalamus, an important brain [...]

    Chances are, you ate whatever you wanted during Thanksgiving.  Now the holiday is over, and it’s time to GET BACK ON TRACK!  Here are the tips that are going to help you fight the bulge.

Don’t wait till Monday to start working out again.  You could have 3-4 days to work off the extra calories [...]

 
    If you know that you love the holiday foods but you don’t want to gain the weight that comes with them; then adding in “Mini Workouts,” might be the best way to stay in shape over the holidays. 
   A “Mini Workout” is anything that helps you burn 100 or more calories in a short [...]

    
     If you think one day of the month can’t hurt your diet routine, then you might want to rethink how many calories you burn at the gym on an average day.  If you burn 500 calories at the gym each time you go and it takes 3, 500 calories to burn 1 pound [...]

 
   To have a good foundation for weight loss; you have to have a game plan.  Use these 4 strategies to get you on your way to losing weight and keeping it off. 
 
1 Feast on fiber for breakfast.
Along with protein and healthy fat, you’ll want a complex carbohydrate at most meals, especially breakfast. We suggest [...]

 
      Most people go to work and SIT, then they go to the gym and SIT.  Chances are they aren’t getting the result they want.  So here’s a simple trick to get you to burn more calories in an instant.
Workout Intensity Booster - ‘The No-Sit’
If you belong to a gym, then I bet you see [...]

     Hate the slow pace of yoga?  Then try this more intense version so you can burn fat, get toned, and lift weights all at the same time. 
    

This timesaving workout combines two popular forms of exercise into one total-body firming routine. Here’s how it works: While you’re lunging or balancing in a yoga pose, your [...]

 
 
   Change your thoughts; change your body!  If you think people can’t hear your internal thoughts then your wrong!  They can see them on your body.  Self hate can alter your body on the outside.  SO CHANGE it!  Replace your negative thoughts about your body image with POSITIVE thoughts and watch the fat melt away [...]

 
   Out of all the diets around, this might have to be one of the most interesting ones I have read!  It seems as though people are getting so tired of “conventional” diets that they are creating their own! 
 A year ago I had a herniated disc. I survived the operation with an intensive rehab session [...]