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COMING CLEAN: 90-Day Challenge: Faster Fitness
By Courtney Lewis OpdahlStuck in a fitness rut? Give group training a try!
Weight Loss
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Ayurvedic Approach To Natural Fat Loss and Energy
By Heather and Damian DubéAyurvedic medicine believes the answer to healing is quite simple: harness your bodies’ natural ability and internal power to heal itself. They believe that personal health is an evolutionary, creative process that we must be engaged in at all times to create our best health and life through balance.
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Diet Is a Four-Letter Word
By Jill GrunewaldHolistic Nutrition Coach, Jill Grunewald explains why diets don’t work.
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COMING CLEAN: Adjusting My Routine
By Courtney Lewis OpdahlI had high hopes for January. With all the excitement around Commitment Day and New Year’s Resolutions, I was ready to tackle some new goals — and lose more weight to get closer to my goal range (depending on much muscle I put on/retain, that’s another 36 to 46 pounds to lose). It’s definitely doable,… Read more »
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Honoring The Ebb And Flow Of The Female Body
By Heather and Damian DubéYour body is brilliantly programmed to do what it needs, but often it requires us to get out of its way so it can lean towards its natural work and tendencies.
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COMING CLEAN: Getting Ready for 2013
By Courtney Lewis OpdahlI love the energy this time of year. So many people are reflecting on their past accomplishments and reevaluating where they go next. Maybe you call them resolutions, maybe you call them goals (Sarah Kay Hoffman at The Gutsy Girl suggests setting your intentions for this year). I’m a big fan of goal-setting, so I… Read more »
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What Napping and Fat Loss Have in Common
By Heather and Damian DubéNapping and added recovery improves everything from performance to speed to reaction times to muscle growth to natural healing.
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Coconut & Palm Oils: Great Fats For Improved Recovery, Metabolism & Fat Loss
By Heather and Damian DubéWhether you’re just looking for improved natural fat loss, energy, health, fitness, or performance, you should be employing MCTs into your nutrition as a fat source.
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Why Is Thinner Better?
By Melissa JoulwanI say these words with all sincerity and conviction: If we are eating well, training smart, managing stress, and getting enough quality sleep, we should accept our bodies as they come.
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Why You Shouldn’t Ignore Stress If You Want to Lose Weight
By Sheila ViersThese days life is moving faster than ever. You’re typing on your laptop, talking to someone on the phone, while having a secondary conversation with someone else physically right in front of you.
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COMING CLEAN: Dress-Size Challenge
By Courtney Lewis OpdahlThis year, I’m in two wedding parties: for my friend, Jessie, who married Kyle’s cousin in July, and in October, I’ll be a bridesmaid in Kyle’s youngest sister’s wedding. It’s an honor to be asked, but, as someone working on weight loss, one of the first thoughts that crossed my mind was the challenge of… Read more »
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COMING CLEAN: The Signs to Slow Down
By Courtney Lewis OpdahlI haven’t been a very good blogger. I’m admitting it, and apologizing, both to you and myself. I’m re-committing to regular blogging this fall, and I have a lot to share. Over the two years I’ve been blogging, I’ve learned a lot about myself, some of which I’ve shared and some that I’ve withheld. But… Read more »
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Lift to Lose Weight
By Andrew HeffernanIf you want to get leaner, say the latest studies and the smartest trainers, it’s time to start strength training.
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3 Surprising Reasons You Can’t Maintain Weight Loss After a Diet
By Sheila ViersIf you’ve ever gone on a diet and succeeded in achieving your weight loss goals, then I am willing to bet you can relate to what I am about to say. Maybe you can even guess what I am going to say because you’ve experienced one or even all three of these for yourself. You’d… Read more »
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Diet or No Diet?
By Sheila ViersDiet or no diet? That is the (really big) question. There are two schools of thought on this topic. On one side, you’ve got those that believe that to have self-love means that you should eat whatever you want without regard to your health or overall well being, and just accept your body exactly as… Read more »
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COMING CLEAN: Q&A With Biggest Loser Finalist Hannah Curlee
By Courtney Lewis OpdahlBetween my love of television and my desire to makeover my body, The Biggest Loser has always felt like the perfect combo for my leisure time. Of course, I’ve always been clear about how they are able to lose so much weight so quickly, but it’s something to keep in mind. It’s very easy to… Read more »
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Made-for-TV Weight Loss
By Dimity McDowellReality shows about weight loss dominate television. Why have they become so popular? And are they entertaining, inspiring, infuriating —or all of the above?
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25 Ways to Make Time for Fitness
By Gina DeMillo WagnerToo busy to work out? Doubtful. The truth: Finding moments to move is entirely within your grasp.
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“Ready for Action” Update
By Kristin OhlsonExperience Life checks in on the progress of our Healthy Challenge participants.
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COMING CLEAN: Moving Forward (and Getting Fitter)
By Courtney Lewis OpdahlSometimes I feel like Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite. “Oh man, I wish I could go back in time. I’d take state.” For me, I’d take my old weight. A svelte 129 pounds. But that was seven years ago. And even though I was slim, I wasn’t necessarily healthy. The road I took to get… Read more »
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COMING CLEAN: Holiday-Season Slimdown
By Courtney Lewis OpdahlLast year’s Thanksgiving meal was a turning point in my holiday-food consumption. Historically, I’d use the holidays as an excuse to eat anything and everything in sight. Thanksgiving, in particular, was about how much food I could get onto one plate and how many times I could return to the buffet. And I wasn’t going… Read more »