How to Get Motivated to Exercise When You Don’t Feel Like It

To get motivated to exercise when you don’t feel like it, you need a game plan. #1~ Have a game plan! Being prepared with a written out workout plan for the day will make your time more efficiently spent at the gym and ensure a quality workout without wandering around thinking about what to doContinue reading “How to Get Motivated to Exercise When You Don’t Feel Like It”

Energy Smoothie

Welcome to my kitchen! Today I am sharing with you how I make my Fat Burning Energy Smoothie. I love to have this smoothie in the morning as a meal replacement or in the afternoon as a snack when I’m on the go. This particular smoothie is great if your looking to boost your metabolismContinue reading “Energy Smoothie”

Glute Activation | The Key To Building A Great Butt

Glute Activation- The Key To Building A Great Butt Glute Activation is critical to a great leg workout. It is the number one way to ensure you are activating your glutes properly (and not just your thighs) during your workout. Glute activation is an exercise that you do prior to staring your leg workout orContinue reading “Glute Activation | The Key To Building A Great Butt”

Top 7 Guidelines for Vitality and Energy

EAT REAL FOOD: Eat a variety of whole, fresh foods — and avoid packaged and processed foods as much as possible. I recommend including a wide and colorful variety of fresh, whole foods that will activate, replenish and nourish your body, while avoiding common irritants and harmful foods that drain the body of energy, suchContinue reading “Top 7 Guidelines for Vitality and Energy”

5 Rules That Will Guide You To A Healthy, Flat Belly

Your gastrointestinal tract takes on a lot of stress. If you eat processed foods, those require a lot more work from your digestive system than whole foods. Plus, eating food on the run (rather than chewing mindfully and allowing your saliva to help break down food) means that your pancreas has to work harder.

Transformation | Chris

Before- 185lbs Sept 2014           After- 168lbs Feb 2015 “In March, I was diagnosed with an auto-immune issue coupled with Candida (yeast imbalance throughout the GI tract). My physician gave me a minimal food list and no help. Mera looked at my options and developed a menu including tasty recipes that made theContinue reading “Transformation | Chris”

8 Things Happy People Do Every Morning

For many of us, mornings begin in a rushed panic. We allow our alarm clocks to buzz at least a dozen times before we decide we have to get out of bed. We then rush around our homes half-awake trying to get ready for our day. In a hurry, we stub our toe on the bedpost, forget to put on deodorant, and don’t pack a lunch because we simply do not have time.

6 Hormone-Balancing Foods For Women

Eating the right foods can make a massive difference in your mood. A high-nutrient diet can reduce symptoms of hormonal imbalance like mood swings, depression, weight gain and acne — and it can improve your energy levels and overall outlook on life. Below are some of the best foods to include as part of your regular diet to help balance your hormones.

8 Ways To Promote Hormone Balance

One of the most common hormonal imbalances in women is estrogen dominance, which can mean elevated estrogen or simply estrogen that is unbalanced by progesterone. Estrogen dominance is associated with conditions like PMS, endometriosis, and fibroids. Luckily, there are some simple ways to help reduce estrogen dominance.

6 Healthy Eating Tips For When You Have No Time

Meal prepping saves so much time for future snacks, lunches and dinners, because much of the work is done. With the dressing already made and the vegetables washed and pre-cut, it takes just as much time to make a healthy, hearty salad as it does to get McDonald’s on the way home from work.

8 Common Traits Of Happy People (That They Don’t Talk About)

Happiness…it’s the term thrown around more often than any other term when people are asked what they are looking for in life. A loving partner, a fun high-paying job and endless world travel are also among some of the most common answers. However all of these are preference-based means to the one ultimate end, which is happiness. Being so sought after, I thought I’d comprise a list of common traits that seem to be found in happy people. I’m talking about the genuinely happy people, and not just those who appear to be so on the surface.