When starting your fitness journey it is so easy to caught up in fear. When we haven’t followed a program before, we don’t know if it will work or even if we can commit. So we begin to doubt, and self doubt leads to fear, and fear leads to failure. There is NOTHING wrong with …
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That’s right, it’s never too early to prepare for the holidays! Halloween marks the beginning of holiday temptations and the holiday season is the hardest time of year to keep your health and fitness in check. We are constantly surrounded by holiday parties, buffets and delicious treats. If you have fallen off track in …
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When I was in school, our lunch tables consisted of two groups: the packers and the buyers. Now a lot of students wanted to buy because it was convenient and because they were a lot of unhealthy choices we could make- like pizza and fries everyday! This definitely carries over into adulthood! So are you …
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I grew up in a typical Italian household. We were taught that we had to eat what was on our plate. Our portions were huge. We expressed our love through food, planed family gatherings around food, and ate TONS of pasta. So I never really had a concept of moderation, and I learned to LOVE …
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We are all a work in progress and always striving to get better. We have to remember that we are human and we all share the similar challenges in life. With that being said, you cannot beta yourself up if you have a failure. Instead, acknowledge it and appreciate and fail FORWARD! Here are some ways …
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Its amazing how much we learn from our children and from their experiences. My son has been taking karate since he was 4, and he is currently a black belt. We both have learned so much through this process as I have spent countless hours watching (sometimes with my eyes closed!) and processing what he learned with him …
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BE YOU Being happy doesn’t happen for most of us naturally; it’s something we have to work on. One thing that helps me is by being very careful about who I choose to surround myself with. Being a younger sister, a father’s daughter, fitness instructor, member of a video team, and a single mom, I …
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What one word describes you best? It’s so difficult to come up with, but here are some questions to help you think about it (from Keira’s THE REAL YOU). What does being real mean to you? What could you do to be truer, genuine, and authentic? Are you real? In your everyday life, at work, …
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What holds you back from doing something you have always wanted to do? It’s your fear. And that fear is yours, not anyone else’s. Why and how does fear holds us back from achieving the results we want? We all fear something, someone, and it holds us back from achieving what we want in life. …
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