Should You Eat Before or After You Exercise?

Unfortunately, a lot of people believe that you shouldn’t eat before you workout in the hopes that the calories your body burns will be taken out of your fat stores.

While this is somewhat true, it’s much more important to fuel your body with some food before you exercise.

I won’t get technical at this point, but [...]

Boosting Your Metabolism – 5 Easy Tips

Burn more calories and fat by boosting your metabolism

Metabolism is your body’s ability to burn the food you eat and use it as energy to fuel your body throughout the day.

Unfortunately, due to age, genetics, lack of physical activity and poor nutrition, a lot of us have “slower” metabolisms. This means that our body takes [...]

Here’s what my mom does when she needs to lose weight fast

I’ve watched my mom struggle for years with her weight. She has me to thank for her weight gain 27 years ago. She used to be stick thin until she gave birth to me. That’s when her bum took on a life of it’s own.

Ever since she started gaining weight when I was a baby, [...]

If you’re going to drink, make it red wine

Those jingle bells are getting louder every day, and lots of you may have already attended numerous Christmas parties or gatherings. There is one big day (or three big days in my family) where we all gather around to eat and drink all day long. Starting on Christmas eve and ending [...]

How I Gave Up Late Night Snacking

A few months ago, when I was in a relationship, late night snacking was becoming habit for me again. Unfortunately for me, the guy I was dating happened to own a pizza franchise here in town. That meant we could order pizza any time we wanted with a few clicks of a button on my [...]