Tweet Hope this Monday finds you well. I continue to battle costochondritis and am unable to workout. Just walking up a flight of stairs exacerbates the symptoms and pain level. I asked you last week to get a workout in for me. Did you? I am asking again. If you are healthy at the moment [...] Tweet Many of my clients are starting exercise either for the first time or after decades of not being physically active. I am sure you may be in the same boat. Your safety is very important to me,so I have a few tips to help you stay safe. Stop your activity right away if [...] Tweet It’s the food choices we make over the long run that make a difference in our health. I often have people comment that eating healthy costs too much. So I have some ideas for you to save money at the grocery store. Before going to the Grocery Store Eat before you leave. Don’t shop [...] Tweet I haven’t added to my BLOG this past week,as I have been very sick with costochondritis. If you have not heard of it you are not alone. It’s the inflammation of the cartilage that connects a rib to the breast bone. It feels like you are being suffocated. Here’s hoping you never get [...] Tweet I often get emails asking for weight loss advice. I always respond and try to be as helpful as possible,but candidly it is difficult to give the best possible advice without a client health/fitness history and nutrition/fitness assessment. Today I am going to share the persons question and my response,as I am [...] Tweet If you are working on a healthy weight loss and management plan it is imperative that you read food labels when you shop. Here are a few tips on what to look for. Check Serving Size and Calories. All the information on a food label is based on the serving size. Be careful—one serving [...] Tweet If you want to be successful sticking to an exercise plan you have to drop the excuses. This is the first step. Think about excuses you may come up with in advance and then create a plan to get rid of the excuse. I have listed a few I have heard many times through [...] Tweet In my last two posts I went over the macronutrients;carbohydrates,proteins,and fats. Today I am going to cover micronutrients. Micronutrients include vitamins,minerals and trace elements. If you read the first post of the series you understand my goal was to simplify nutrition. As I pondered what to write about the micronutrients [...] |
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With Karen's education and eighteen years experience in the preventative health,nutrition,and fitness fields and personal experience battling weight,she could not ignore the growing obesity epidemic,especially after the announcement by the surgeon general stating,this would be the first generation to die before their parents due to obesity. This is not a legacy Karen wants to leave behind.