Can I lose weight eating Fast Food?
Let’s just start this post by making something very clear, when I lost my weight (roughly 80 lbs), I knew very little about nutrition and how things ACTUALLY work. So there’s no judgement here if the information I’m about to give you is 100% opposite to what you though was…
Why your Diet isn’t Working!
It’s not uncommon for our clients’ friends and family members to ask them this question: “What EXACTLY did you eat to lose all that weight?!”. It makes sense, with so many of us struggling to make progress… let alone reach your weight goal, when you come accross someone who has actually…
You’ll never guess how she did it!
How Laura lost 100 lbs in 12 months! If you’ve ever tried to lose weight you know it’s NOT easy. We start off great and shortly after something happens that throws us off, we slip and have a hard time getting back on track… we struggle for a bit and…
Shari Molchan – Becoming a Tough Mudder
I am becoming a ‘Tough Mudder’! Now some of my friends would already call me that… 😉 But the official title is coming on June 18 in Whistler when I participate with my team from Driven Performance Fitness and Miguel Diaz! This is the end of my…
Juicing for Weight Loss – The Results
If you haven’t read Part 1 – “Juicing for weight loss – Good or Bad”, Click here The Results After juicing for 7 days (Miguel) and 5 days (Katie) we’ll break down our findings: Foods consumed During this experiment 90% of our intake was organic juices from…
Juicing for Weight Loss – Good or Bad?
(To see the results scroll down) Why Try Juicing? Katie and I have been asked what we think of Juicing several times. Specially after Katie posted her thoughts of that movie on Netflix “Sick, Fat & Nearly Dead” it was clear that a lot of people are intrigued by juicing in…
Weight Loss Nutrition Workshop
At the turn of the new year we collected some feedback and it was clear that Nutrition was the most challenging part of your fitness journey. Based on this, we set out to have our first Fitness Nutrition workshop of 2015 to discuss our nutrition challenges. Some great questions were…
What should I eat?
Who hasn’t asked themselves this question?! Especially when trying to stick to a nutrition goal, we know how confusing it can be to figure out how many calories you should be eating and what macro nutrient ratios to aim for. There is a ton of information on-line and it can be very…
Healthy Thanksgiving
It’s that time of year again. The holiday that is pretty much defined by the delicious food cooked in your kitchen (obviously I know the real reason behind Thanksgiving but let’s be realistic we are all thinking about pie) Now some of you might be dreading this day of turkey…
Men are what their mothers made them
How do you start a post about the person to whom you owe everything that you are and will ever be? I couldn’t wish for a better mother. She’s a woman that, before anything else, was a mother, and at a very young age. She practically lived and breathed for…