Tag: exercise
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January – A time to start the next challenge!
Each month within our practice, I host a wellness challenge of sorts. We go from steps to strength training, circuits to mobility, cardio minutes to nutrition check-ins. It is a way to up the ante if you will. You may be doing very well with your nutrition and wellness but feel in a rut. January…
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Blogpost: I Don’t Have Time
This is such an ironic statement for adults to make with regard to anything, but it really does not make any sense when it comes to health. If your children said they did not have time to do their homework because they had to watch their favorite TV show, it would be unacceptable. No discussion.…
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Half Way Through the Year… Time to Check In!
A Thursday Thought from Dietitian Addie We check our email, we check how many likes or followers we have on social media, but how often do we truly check in on our health? Typically, we pay attention to our health when something goes wrong or at the first of the year when the hot topic…
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Blogpost: Stretch your metabolic success
Everyone does a stretch now and then. Sometimes just to relieve a kink and other times a mindful stretch to release tension. Part of the practice of Yoga is to attain a new position a little further than the last attempt. It can be good to stretch muscles out after a workout. These attempts at…
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Are you focused on achieving health or a number?
A Thursday Thought from Dietitian Addie Focusing on either maintaining or improving your current health is FABULOUS! Virtual HIGH-FIVE to you for noting the importance of taking care of your body by both what you eat and how you move! But are you truly looking at health changes or are you just a slave to…
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Podcast: The First Thing to Do is Start.
Welcome! and Thank you for listening. Instead of looking at how fast you can get healthy, perhaps let’s focus on getting a little better everyday. January is the month to go out hard and try to become healthy as quick as possible so that we can revert back to our old habits as soon as…
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Podcast: What Group Are You Trying to Please and a Little Science to Boot!
Welcome, and Thank you for listening. This week’s nutrition discussion centers around choosing. Is dairy worse than sugar? Is it ok if it might be plant based? Do you really want to leave your comfort zone and join those of us who are focused on health? We will discuss that topic and the topic of…
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Podcast: How Surviving a Marathon is a lot like Surviving the Holiday Season Plant Based
Welcome and Thank you for listening. I finished the marathon but it did not go as I had wished. I probably should have seen it coming and adjusted accordingly, but it was the last marathon of the year, and I wanted to make sure I gave it my all. Unfortunately, my all occurred at about…
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Blogpost: American Heart Association Says Just Move!
New physical activity guidelines were released by the American Heart Association (AHA) at the annual meeting. They added to the current guidelines. However, approximately 80% of Americans are currently not meeting the previous guidelines. What! Of course physicians are quick to point the finger and pull out presciption pads to write for BP and cholesterol…