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Image Credit: Oh Nuts Can you name your favorite fruit?  I can honestly say that California Medjul dates rank up there with chocolate for me….they are very high in sugar and high on the gylcemic index, but, they are SOOOOO GOOOD!  On the Zone diet, two dates are considered one carbohydrate block (out of three [...]

But you can’t just eat any old egg. Just like everything on the diet nowadays, you have to know where it comes from. For me, choosing organic and cage-free isn’t enough, I want to know the farmer, that way I know my yummy local eggs are super fresh when I get them and that the hens are treated humanely. That is they are outdoors much of the day, they are not debeaked, and they are fed nutrient dense, organic feed.

Pictured above is a Fitness model featured in the May 2010 issue of Self magazine.  The article title was “Stop Cellulite Now” with this workout.  If you believe this nonsense, we need to have a LONG chat starting with this blog post…The majority of us have cellulite. It’s a fact.  You may be able to [...]

If all it takes is 15 minutes, you can do this while dinner is cooking! I’m all about squeezing in exercise whenever and wherever I can get it…I can recall instances of swinging a 25-pound kettlebell in my house while my children quietly played nearby. Or the time when my first son was just two [...]

My two boys seem to be constantly fighting — whether it’s sibling rivalry or fighting over a toy or they are just getting on each others nerves, I am constantly “putting out fires” and trying not to lose my own temper as well. Yes, I have a temper. I am not perfect. Parenting is the [...]

I am finally at a place with my eating that I feel like an Intuitive Eater, but still carry with me some of the habits and issues of someone with binge eating disorder (BED). It’s very frustrating and I was clueless as to where I was going wrong until I realized – It’s the little [...]

Moms need yoga!  Athletes need yoga! Everybody needs yoga!  However, since I am both a mom and an athlete, I have found that time for more exercise is extremely limited.  By practicing yoga you are going to feel calmer during and after your yoga session- even if it’s only 10 minutes.  Taking that time for [...]

 ActivewearUSA.com has partnered with Breathe for a fabulous giveaway!  If you aren’t familiar with ActivewearUSA.com, they sell yoga, pilates and fitness activewear and accessories from brands such as Pure Lime, Margarita Activewear, Body Language and Manduka. Yoga enthusiast Avi Woolman owns the site and only sells things she absolutely loves from brands that she personally [...]

Summer is practically here and that means it is Smoothie Season! I love smoothies year round, but there is something very satisfying and refreshing about downing an icy and fruity concoction after a hot, sweaty run One of the best things about smoothies is the possibilities are limitless when it comes to flavor and type. [...]

Ok friends, it has been a while since I gave myself a fun new challenge to spice my fitness goals up a bit. I do challenges (marathons) so I can keep the excitement going in life, SDRR is in less than three weeks so it’s time for a new one  A challenge pushes me and helps [...]

The last thing I want to do to my body is put fast food crap in it!  All that hard work, sweat, and early mornings should not equal a trashy meal when running around during the day.  My best advice for keeping it clean and in the Zone is to always be prepared.  Never leave [...]

Too many times in my life I have worried about the number on the scale. I am so OVER it! Well let’s be real — we all look at them. Recently I have had a lot of weekends that have been filled with parties, weddings, BBQ’s and other celebrations that have caused me to feel blah [...]

I love cooking. But I only know how to cook the stuff my Grams taught me – tacos, enchiladas, meatloaf…  As much as I get nostalgic for her food, they are not the healthiest recipes. They’re loaded with meat and often stuffed in a fried tortilla shell. This creates a problem because I want to [...]

When I first met Robin, I was a young mother of two much smaller boys… they were maybe 2 and 6-months at the time. Our family had just joined the YMCA and she was the Pilates Instructor at the Y.  Her outfits were outrageous, her lessons were so hard that you could not think of [...]

Last weekend, I had the amazing pleasure of biking my boys around a huge “party” during a bicycle event!  Yes, that is a bicycle with an attached homemade chariot!  I had forgotten about the pleasures of cycling just for the shear joy of it.  And, my boys were thrilled to death!  “Another one, mommy!” Seize [...]