I like to be held too. I like thinking that there’s some sort of system behind it all and I will be taken care of by some universal good-people-good-things-happen law. But there’s a time when the comforts become the weapons that may be our undoing. Fast food is cheap, and easy, and I’m genuinely busy. I worked nine hours which leaves five hours to get dinner, have a social life, watch Game of Thrones, run an errand, be intimate with my boyfriend and take a shower; I don’t hav

It's no great revelation that the very act of stepping into the gym is one of the hardest parts. I can't tell you how many naps I've taken in my car at the parking lot of the gym. It's like my mind throws a switch and makes me so sleepy that working out seems impossible. But if you can just step inside you'll already feel better about yourself no matter what you do once there. But what do we do once there? Part of what I do as a trainer is write programming for people who tra

It’s not that you’re getting old (well maybe it’s not just that you’re getting old!), our bodies just hurt sometimes. It could be an injury like mine, where I was hit by a car walking across the street and went through that turd’s windshield. Or maybe it’s postural, and you just haven’t noticed that you swoop your low back to pop that butt out. But low back pain is very common place and I work with clients daily on how to mitigate this. Have you noticed that that curious era

How many posts and stories have you heard since the 1st about all the things people aren't eating/drinking for a month? I'm all for a "cleanse" or anything that gets you back on track. But if what you're returning back to once this abstention ends is what got you here to begin with, you haven't actually accomplished much. The way you were is waiting for you. What if, instead of making the things you want into forbidden fruits, you taught yourself how to have them in your life