2021 is upon us and I would like to wish you a very Happy New Year!  Once the clock reached midnight and you bid adieu to 2020, you know what follows…  New Year’s Resolutions!  While the subjects of people's New Year's resolutions can run the gamut, consistently topping the list year after year is losing weight!  Unfortunately, many people are doomed before they start because they have an instant gratification mindset.  Sure, they want to drop a few sizes.  But if it all doesn’t happen by January 15th, their motivation goes out the...

  As a nutrition coach, I can say with 100 percent confidence that no matter what other health concerns someone may report to me, right up there at the top of their list is wanting to lose weight! And a scenario that I’ve heard time and again goes something like this: Let’s say you want to lose 20 pounds.  So you start eating healthier and exercising, and lo and behold, the weight begins coming off!...

  Here’s a good one for you. This morning as I was preparing to write today’s blog, I went online to a site that claims to calculate your ideal bodyweight.  I put in my parameters—frame size, height, weight and gender—and guess what. It came back and said I was one pound OVERWEIGHT. Me—the person that consistently eats a healthy diet, works out vigorously six days a week, and at age 57 still wears a size...

  The saying, “Age is just a number” is usually said to comfort and reassure someone who reaches an upper milestone birthday and is feeling old! But recent studies have shown that there’s a lot of truth to that statement. Especially when you’re talking about someone who engages in regular exercise! Although it’s a dreaded word for many people, you can’t deny that regular exercise provides some pretty impressive health benefits, the most obvious being...

  Depending on where you live, I hope and pray whatever lockdown applies to you will be coming to an end soon.  But if these last six weeks have taught us anything, it’s that being quarantined and weight gain go hand in hand! If I’m singing your song, then listen up—because there are ways that you can stop the quarantine weight gain cycle and get back on track toward a healthier bodyweight! Here’s how: [[big4]]Know...

  According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the US currently spends about $3.5 trillion every year on healthcare—that’s about two and one half times more per capita than any other developed nation. You’d think that would translate into 330 million healthy citizens, but you would be wrong.  Americans are getting sicker and fatter by the day, and rank an alarming 49th in the world for life expectancy! There are many factors...