Health, Healing, Weight…
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How Changing Coffee time Changed my Food Cravings, Energy, and Digestion
Does your daily routine start with rolling out of bed and pouring yourself a big delicious cup of coffee before even considering breakfast? That is what my daily routine consisted of. Wake up, pour my coffee, say my prayer for a good morning quiet time, and sip away as I entered into my morning bible…
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Nutrition is easy – So Why Does it seem so Complicated?
I’m taking a new and life-giving approach to how I spend my time and it starts on May 13th! Well, I’ve already begun pre-course requirements through the Institute of Integrative Nutrition. In 1 year, I’ll take my bachelor’s degree in Health and Wellness and personal trainer experience to the next level by being a Certified…
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Low-Carb Diet | Things I’ve learned about weight and being a woman
So many diet options and so many success stories. It leaves me with the question of “where is my ‘success’ story?” Can you relate? Keto Diet – it’s everywhere right now. Carbs are bad and fat is good. I feel like something along these lines has happened before, Oh yeah, that’s because it has, in…
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Healing Anxiety Toward Food and Weight
Food and me – It’s one of my greatest anxieties. I’m not sure when my obsession with food began, but I do know that it is where I turn every time I’m tired, sad, happy, celebrating, bored, angry… yeah, so I pretty much turn to food 24/7. Today, I’m beginning a journey to renew my…
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Jelly Bean Season, Sugar & uncontrollable Hunger
If you don’t know that jelly bean season is in full swing, you have not left your home or entered a store. I love jelly beans, always have! I couldn’t wait till we got our Easter basket when I was a kid, because for a short time we’d get jelly beans and “balk” things. Balk things are Cadbury eggs…
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How Food, my weight & Fitness became my Idol
I’ve always loved fitness. I’ve also, always loved food! I confess that I track my fitness and my food daily and at times obsessively. It’s been on my heart that this is an issue, even an idol in my life. Most of my time is spent planning the next meal (for my family or me)…
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Life is a Classroom, Who is Your Teacher
It was a sunny, cool spring morning. I woke up filled with guilt and shame because of the night before. I was out drinking, swearing and acting like a fool. It was 4 years ago, and I had just started my journey back to God. It was in its early stages of repentance and building…
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Weight Loss & the Cookie Cutter Mindset
The perfect edges that cookie cutters make in shaping a gingerbread man, a Christmas tree, stars and even Santa please my organized brain. I love the reliability of the cookie cutter’s ability to stamp out the perfect shape every time. I wish life and clean eating were more like the perfect edges of a cookie…
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The Real Secret to Weight Loss – Final Part Physical Wellness
We’ve finally arrived at the most well known dimension of wellness. As you can now see, your weight loss and overall heath is a lot more than diet and exercise. as a matter of fact, even your physical wellness is more than diet and exercise. Physical wellness promotes the balance of physical activity, nutrition and…
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The Real Secret to Weight Loss – Part 7 Occupational Wellness
The work you do should be fulfilling. If you are absolutely miserable in your job it will carry over into your ability to make healthy choices that lead to joy and happiness in your life.
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The Real Secret to Weight Loss – Part 6 Intellectual Wellness
If you’ve been following this blog series, you’ve learned the importance of learning more about yourself and others and how that knowledge can lead to a happier and healthier life. You’ve also probably seen how much all of these areas are linked to your overall health and the carry over impact of each. Our minds…
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Secret to weight Loss – Part 5 Environmental Wellness
Did you know that your health is related to how you treat the earth? Real secret to weight loss – Part 5
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Secret to Weight Loss – Part 4 Emotional Wellness
Social media emoji’s sum up almost every emotion we could possibly feel, and as you look through all the different options you can easily see that our emotions are very complex. If only dealing with our real emotions was as easy as picking the right emoji to send in a text. Have you ever been aware…
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Real Secret to Weight Loss Part 2 – Spiritual Wellness
Spiritual Wellness, in my opinion, is where being healthy and successful begins. It’s where we realize that we aren’t alone in the struggles we face and that within each struggle there is an opportunity for growth. When we don’t understand that we are part of something bigger and aren’t well with who we are –…
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The Real Secret to Weight Loss!
We can’t go far without hearing about the next best weight loss food, pill, drink, diet…Our culture is obsessed with skinny and being skinnier than “that girl.” The secret to weight loss doesn’t lie within a pill, a diet, or even exercise. The secret I’m going to share with you today requires more purposefulness than…
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10 Things the Fitness Industry is Lying about
The fitness world is where I have spent much of my career, but I left it about 2 years ago because of the stigma and judgment that I felt was placed on me as a fitness center manager and personal trainer and the constant battle against the lies from the industry. The pressure to look…