As a trainer/coach who was once proudly overtrained and chronically exhausted, I approach this topic with a deep understanding of the mind games that keep us from fully embracing recovery and therefore losing muscle, gaining weight, and plateauing at a not-so-happy place. Let me establish that for the Sweat crowd, I am addressing a group of people […]
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I am often approached about what, when, and how to make dietary changes in order to achieve fat loss results or break a plateau. Clean and lean eating are two trendy terms that need to be clarified. Eating clean and eating lean, for fat loss, are not necessarily the same concepts. While both lifestyles overlap in many
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I hope you were able to enjoy letting go a bit of your usual “eat right” routine. There’s a time and a place to not think of food in terms of fueling, or calories eaten, or carbs earned. A healthy lean eaters knows the value being mentally present with people and friends and not feel
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Repetition and consistency matched with FLEXIBILITY are markers of successful lifestyle changes. Are you going to be an angel Memorial Day weekend? No. Should you be? No. It’s what you do MORE OFTEN THAN NOT that has the greatest impact on your body composition and your future fat loss results. Knowing that cheats will be everywhere
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What are YOU changing for YOU?? DID you follow the #FitAndFlyByJuly Jump Start or are you ready to get on it today??? If you haven’t started hit the link above. A solid jump start is there to re-establish a good rhythm, help you understand your schedule, get rid of (many of your) cravings, and increase energy. It is
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We are about one week into our challenge and we have already had a big celebration to “contend with”…Easter. I hope you understand… it’s an EXCELLENT thing to do these challenges while REAL LIFE is going on. There is no such thing as the perfect time! In fact, I cannot think of any month in
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When I set the date w/ Maria Moore Photography to update Sweat’s pictures on its web page, I had about a 2 hour time frame where I frantically went into full blown diet mode. I basically planned a bikini competitors “diet down” plan for myself where there would be a strict, bland regimen of chicken,
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I’m no exception to the rule…I too have freak out moments about getting into a bathing suit. This year, however, I’m anxious about an upcoming photo shoot. As soon as I set the date with Maria Moore Photography, my mind went into full blown, old school, diet down mode. I began to picture a strict
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“Enjoy the journey. Not just the result.” is part of a letter Camyrn Manheim wrote to herself once she was a successful actress and was asked to give her younger self advice. Most of her letter spoke to my heart but those two small sentences in particular made me pause and ponder how many of
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As I’ve posted recently on FB and IG, I picked up Dr. Brain Wansink’s book Mindless Eating: Why We Eat More Than We Think and I absolutely loved it. In fact, I’m now reading his second book Slim By Design. While I cannot, in one blog, do either book any justice, suffice to say that
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