Aging Gracefully: Slow Down, But Never Stop Moving

You're young, full of zest, and ready to live a balanced and enriched life; it can be hard to imagine that time will continue to drudge ever onward (usually too quickly), that you won't always be young and able-bodied, but it's true. Before you know it, your body will start creaking as bad as your grandparents', with aching knees informing you of coming storms and bad backs that threaten your sleep if you so much as look at something heavy. Luckily, you don't have to just sit and let it happen -- which, ironically, is the problem. If you sit on a couch for 30 years, you're not really allowed to suddenly be shocked when walking more than a mile causes pain to radiate out of your hips and lower back. Motion is lotion: the sooner you start moving, even if it's just a little, you will age … [Read more...]

A Few Health Trends to Help You Have Your Healthiest Year Yet

With spring finally here, it's a good a time as any to start thinking about bettering your health and wellness. Making choices that will boost our health is something everyone should try to do, especially parents. With the average child catching between six and 10 colds each year, it's important to take your kids to a family health clinic for regular checkups and try your best to keep your family as healthy as possible. While this can be difficult to do, it's important we do our best. So to help you get started, we're going to talk about a few health trends people are jumping on this year. For starters, more and more people are giving plant-based diets a try. Whether it's because of growing health and nutrition research regarding plant-based diets, wanting to reduce their environmental … [Read more...]

The 7 Foods That Will Help You Lose Weight

What if we told you that you could lose weight by eating? That would not make a lot of sense right? Usually, it is our eating that creates a problem with our weight management goals later. But I am not talking about eating whatever you can get your hands on. I am talking about eating seven foods that have been considered to have the ability to help you lose that extra weight and get ready for the beginning of summer.  Remember, I do not offer you any magic tricks, we simply offer you a way to improve your diet and lose some weight by including the following foods in your everyday diet. The 7 foods that will help you lose weight Cruciferous Vegetables – In the group of cruciferous vegetables, you can find cabbage, broccoli, cauliflower and Brussels sprouts.  All of them contain … [Read more...]

A Woman’s Journey to Recovery Through Yoga

The act of giving birth should be added to the list of the wonders of the world. Bringing forth life into the world is one of the most beautiful, and at the same time, the most painful experiences anyone can ever go through. After giving birth, my body became completely different. It went through major changes during my pregnancy and the changes did not stop even after I gave birth. This is where exercise comes into play. Regular exercises are good for one’s health and well-being. What is Yoga? A good form of exercise is yoga. The simplest way of describing yoga is that it is the art of being still within oneself and at the same time gaining physical fitness. At least that is how I feel when I do it. During pregnancy, the fetus grows and as it grows, pressure is applied to the spine. … [Read more...]

8 Genius Fitness Tips for Full Time Working Moms

Yes, we've got them! Fitness tips for full time working moms and ALL moms.  We need them and we need to stick together! Working full time comes with a set of stresses. You need to be focused, and give your best efforts. Raising a baby is exactly the same. There’s so much for you to do, from laundry to cleaning, from cooking to organizing childcare. You can get help for a few of those things, like working with a laundry delivery service for example, but there are a few things for which you'll have to try to organize things yourself. It’s so easy for certain things to slip off your to do list, like keeping fit. Keeping fit is still important because, besides the health benefits, it’s one of the things that you can still do for you. Source: Daily Burn Prioritize your … [Read more...]

That Annoying Post About Gratitude

Gratitude. One word and so many eye rolls and heavy sighs. At least from a lot of people I know. It's a great idea in theory they chant. "Oh right, that journal thing?" Is another one I hear often. Yes. That's one way to look at it. Or you could think of gratitude like this instead. I get it. I really do. I find 30 days of gratitude sappy and I often end up feeling like a failure at it because after day 4 or 9 I have forgotten about posting my daily gratitudes. Is that a word? But what about looking at it this way? Subscribe to my channel for more good stuff, more information and if you have questions just hit me up in the comments. What if you start your day not turning on your phone and searching social media and emails first thing? Those two things create feelings of … [Read more...]

Work Out to Work Better

Ask yourself this question. Do you do it to stay fit or just fit into your pants?  Are you maintaining or achieving? Do you do it to perform better or just like the challenge of taking a new class or getting to the next level? Think about what you just read.  There's a correlation between how you work out and how you work and perform at your job.  If you are just biding time, getting in your 30 minutes in on the treadmill, so that you can say you 'hit the gym' then you might be doing the very same thing at the office or on the job. You clocked your hours, have a few power days, but overall you are coasting along. Did you ever consider how if you push yourself harder at the gym you might approach your work differently? Maybe you'll decide to make a leap to something new or … [Read more...]