No Karen, this is not the year you will get healthy and lose weight.

I know a lot of people write this part of the year off, give up, go into hibernation, and say to themselves next year will be their year. -Arnold Schwartzenegger - The Pump Club Newsletter There is nothing magical about January 1st. -Arnold Schwartzenegger - The Pump Club Newsletter I was reading the Pump Club [...]

Some thoughts on motivation

https://twitter.com/BioLayne/status/1735324423371047214 Tweet from Dr. Layne Norton on motivation This week I wanted to address the study that Dr. Layne Norton mentioned in the tweet above. Now, most people don't read scientific studies and only take the information distilled (often incorrectly) by the media. The reason I wanted to do this is because many people think the reason [...]

Lifestyle Change, what does it really mean?

I have enough food for an army from Thanksgiving, so I'm doing a little deep dive on the term "lifestyle change". This idea stemmed from an MSN article "Lifestyle Changes" are Often Diet Culture in Disguise. It gave me something to think about because diet culture is everywhere, even when we are trying to get [...]

Beware the false prophet – Health and exercise gurus

Do you have experts you would recommend? Leave it in the comments below! Since many of you may set new goals in the new year for health and fitness, I wanted to talk about health and exercise gurus that you may find online. Anyone these days can call themselves anything they want without much consequence. [...]

Slow and steady wins the race when it comes to weight loss

I am acting in my husbands movie project this week, so I won't be cooking. I actually made Hoppin' John and Polish Bigos for my mom and the other actor ahead of time. That way I wasn't responsible for dinner every night and we had something healthy and homemade. This week I decided to talk [...]

Getting better…progress

I've been getting better, slowly but surely.  I'm now back to doing 10,000 steps (Slowly, not at my usual pace).  I'm also doing some gentle yoga.  Here's the routine if you ever need one: I keep lots of different yoga routines in a playlist on YouTube.  Five Parks Yoga and Fightmaster Yoga are my two favorites.  [...]

Don’t buy that gym membership! Save money by buying a few workout staples.

STOP!  Put down the credit card and pen!  Don't get a gym membership!  A lot of people this time of year buy gym memberships as part of a new years resolution.  I GUARANTEE you're wasting your money.  Gym owners love people who sign up for the gym and only use their membership for the month [...]