Food for thought

This is the moment to recognize that one way or another, your whole life has been a series of steps toward or farther away from the you that you were always meant to be. Right now, at this moment you have a unique opportunity to go through a curated, guided  process, to identify once and for all who that new YOU really is. This blog was written for people like you, by people like you, to help you evolve and grow into that person.  The first step is simple and easy for some and quite challenging for others.  Depending on...

What exactly is the Mind-Body connection?  In my opinion, your thoughts determine how you treat yourself.  If you have a negative self image you don’t take care of yourself, but a positive one can mean just the opposite.  Some say it’s the power of positive thinking  or mind over matter, but these proverbs are way too simplistic. I think a positive self image and feeling of self worth are essential to meeting personal health and fitness goals. A negative or defeatist attitude combined with short-term thinking leads to a vicious cycle of self abuse. It often takes the form of...

We all want to lose weight, and we come up with these grand plans of how to do it: We will get rid of the “bad foods.” Or perhaps you want to fully embrace a specific food lifestyle like the Mediterranean or the french diet. Or are inspired to do an hour's worth of exercise each day, after only doing typically exercising for ten minutes? Embracing such extremes which encourage an “all or nothing”  mentality is not effective towards weight loss. When people assume such extremes, they will  not lose weight. They likely will  gain it back by  going back...

So as the holidays come about and more people discover that I  have adapted a Keto lifestyle, I am constantly bombarded in different ways the same question, “Aren’t you going to miss a normal Thanksgiving meal?” To answer this question... No, I won’t! Here’s why:  Old Thanksgiving: So let’s start with a couple of weeks before Thanksgiving, where I become consumed with losing as much weight as I possibly can. You might ask why I am doing this? This is because eating the foods always there at Thanksgiving, I will gain a lot of weight eating the very delicious but...