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...
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June 28, 2016November 5, 2018
4 Tips to Stop Caving to Cravings There was a study done a few years ago at Connecticut College that was very interesting. Rats were divided into two different groups. The first...
June 22, 2016
My bedroom closet is filled with boxes from my mother’s house. She died a year ago. My garage has a stack of relics from my husband’s uncle. He’s been gone...
June 17, 2016
I’M SO BORED!!!!! “This mean plan is boring. I’m tired of eating chicken (or fish, or steak) and vegetables,” said EVERYONE who ever transitioned from the Standard American Diet (SAD) to...
June 16, 2016
As a personal trainer (and as an individual who lost 1/3 of my own body weight) excuses are something I’m quite familiar with. While it would be easy for me...
June 14, 2016November 5, 2018
Are you tired of getting derailed from your fitness journey? Yesterday I blogged about Excuses We Use To Eat Crap. Each day I will be blogging about some strategies to...
June 13, 2016November 5, 2018
Excuses We Use to Justify Eating Crap We Know We Shouldn’t Eat Picture this: You’re kicking butt and taking names at the gym. Someone offers you birthday cake, you say...
June 7, 2016
In the past 18 months I’ve done 7 bodybuilding competitions, buried my mother, ran a Spartan Sprint, did a Level 1 pole competition and filmed a reality TV show. In...
May 25, 2016
Remember how I told you that I was going to be on Great Day Houston to talk about American Grit and my book, “She’s Losing It!” about how I lost 50...
May 24, 2016
If you can find the answer to this one question, then you will have the key to unlock your own weight loss transformation and keep the pounds off forever: WHY...
March 27, 2016
One of the biggest concerns my clients share with me is that they are going to gain weight on vacation. Heck, that’s one of my biggest concerns too! Sometimes we’re...
March 21, 2016
In high school and college hours upon hours were spent with my friends dissecting, analyzing and evaluating our relationships with our boyfriends. Word placement, tone of voice, secret intentions, theories...
February 1, 2016November 5, 2018
Guess what really important event is coming soon? The Iowa caucuses? Groundhog’s Day? The Super Bowl? Yes, my birthday is coming. I’ll be 42, thanks for saying I look...
January 25, 2016January 25, 2016
I am a very positive person. Unless I’m talking to myself. Then I’m a total b**** to me. I’m not sure why I’ve always been so down on myself but...
January 14, 2016January 24, 2016
We are midway through the first month of the New Year and I don’t know about you, but I’ve got the munchies. Even though I’m eating 10 million times better...
January 12, 2016January 24, 2016
We’re headed smack into the middle of the month. How are your resolutions going? A lot of the women I speak to and clients I work with start their weight...