by LiftingMySpirits | Oct 21, 2019 | Nutrition
Candy month, pie month, cookie month… October, November, and December are loaded with treats! Feeling deprived – especially during the holidays – can knock people off their nutrition program. If you’re going to change your life, it’s necessary to figure out how...
by LiftingMySpirits | Sep 29, 2019 | Nutrition, Organization Tips, Weight Loss
Social eating can be a challenge for food tracking. It’s tempting skip tracking when you eat out. If you don’t eat away from home often, that might be a good call – a nice psychological break. But if you eat away from home frequently and...
by LiftingMySpirits | Aug 23, 2019 | Nutrition
If you’re working with a trainer or an online coach, or if you’re thinking about hiring one, there are some things you can do to get the most out of your investment of time and money. Ultimately, I believe it is the responsibility of the coach/trainer to...
by LiftingMySpirits | Jul 23, 2019 | Mindset, Motivation, Nutrition
This is a revision of the willpower post published on this blog on March 17, 2019. What is willpower? Until Roy Baumeister and others started to study it in the 1990’s, willpower was assumed to be a personality trait. But we were wrong!? It’s NOT a...
by LiftingMySpirits | Jun 12, 2019 | diet, Nutrition, Weight Loss
To loose fat, you need to be in a caloric deficit over a long period of time. However, our bodies are engineered to make it difficult. Your body will adapt and slow fat loss in response to your self-imposed “famine”. That adaptation can be a simple as...
by LiftingMySpirits | May 26, 2019 | Nutrition
DISCLAIMER: I am a Fitness Nutrition Specialist, not a registered dietician. What follows is information summarized from several published articles on the subject of nutrition for active and non-actives teens. Links to those articles are provided at the end. The...
