September 26, 2016September 26, 2016
If you have had your head buried in the sand for the past few weeks you may not realize that tonight is the MOST EPIC EVENT EVER if you are...
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September 21, 2016November 5, 2018
One of my clients said that she doesn’t want to do bikini competitions or anything like that; she just wants to lose weight and get healthier. I encouraged her to think...
September 11, 2016September 11, 2016
Frankly, I’m beyond impressed with the hundreds of women who have written to me asking for advice to incorporate a healthy lifestyle into their busy lives: single moms with two...
September 8, 2016
One of the key reasons why people give up on their fitness goals is because it’s hard. It’s tough to eat chicken and asparagus when your family eats KFC and...
September 6, 2016
It’s 10 weeks until my next bodybuilding bikini competition. This time I’m doing a different division (sports model) with the Musclemania/ Model Universe federation. For this division there are three...
September 3, 2016November 5, 2018
Labor Day is upon us. As we say good-bye to summer with our last barbeque, let’s make that salad a little healthier. “But, Lisa,” you say, “aren’t salads already healthy?”...
August 29, 2016August 29, 2016
What are the stories you tell yourself? Comedies? Tragedies? When I’m feeling down you can see it in my face and my features. My shoulders are slumped, I’m looking down...
August 24, 2016
For many mothers it’s that most wonderful time of the year: when the kids go back to school! Trips to crowded amusement parks where the healthiest option seems to be...
August 21, 2016August 21, 2016
This week was like a giant “American Grit” reunion for me. It started with the Olympics. Watching those athletes in action makes me feel like such a whiny-ass when I...
August 11, 2016August 11, 2016
Bodybuilding is a sport like no other because it combines hardcore badass weight lifting with the pageantry of a modelling competition, complete with sparkly costumes, make-up and lots of photos....
August 4, 2016
Everywhere you look there are signs for back to school sales, bringing a collective sigh to children and a sense of shock to parents that summer is indeed coming to...
July 31, 2016July 31, 2016
Sixty-eight per cent of the electorate thinks American is on the wrong track, and almost the same percentage of Americans are overweight. To me, Trump is like a fad diet. ...
July 23, 2016
Sometimes people ask me how I made it through my first bodybuilding show, considering I was middle aged, overweight and had never done anything remotely similar in the past. My...
July 18, 2016
If you really want to test the bounds of your marriage, do a reality TV show. As incredible an experience as American Grit was for me personally, my husband saw...
July 11, 2016November 5, 2018
When You’re on a Diet and Your Family Isn’t Ah, family; the ties that bond and gag. This topic could be an entire book in and of itself. When I...
July 6, 2016July 6, 2016
Writing my memoir, “She’s Losing It!” and doing military training exercises on the John Cena reality TV show American Grit may seem like different experiences, but they had a lot in common. In...
