Benefits of Stretching

Your system is usually accommodating. It can be said to be accommodating. You have got to be ready to move together with accomplish that wi...

Is Food Addiction Real?

   Over the past six months I have been working on my thesis for my masters degree in clinical counselling. I was interested in looking at o...

Weight Bias and the Frenzy of Health

From TV shows to finding clothes that fit, it is obvious that our society has no patience for "people of size". I work within a ve...

Adding Resistance with Little Resistance

 Look at her go! She's so excited about exercise. Too bad her passion gets in the way of motivating the majority of novice exercisers. ...

The Common Myths of Exercise and Nutrition

I spent my day giving a talk on nutrition and exercise to the most inquisitive bunch I have ever met. In fact, they kept me 30 minutes after...

Health, Fitness, (and that stupid new year resolution)!

Do not judge your future success by your past.  Do it differently, change your process and you will change the results .  Before Christmas I...

Beware of the Health Nut

OH Pleeeeaaaaaassseee! They walk among us, chewing on their carrot sticks and wearing their yoga pants. They live in Nikes and look for any ...

Is Body Acceptance Bullshit?

Thank you for this uplifting thought. Unfortunately, I don't know how to accept my body when I am exposed to media messages telling me t...

The 3 Things I Know About Women

Although we still aren't there yet...we have come a long way...right? Happy International Women's Day.  Of course, when the day come...

If it Quacks Like a Duck....It's a Duck!

If you have kept your eyes on the news lately you would have heard about the Australian food blogger who came clean about lying to her reade...

Remembering the Good Old Days...

Today I am missing the way things were.  Things like customer service. I feel I notice good customer service more and more because there isn...

Veggie Actualization

Maslow was onto something when he offered up his "Hierarchy of Needs" model. He suggested that if your basic needs are taken care ...