Playground Workout Challenge
It is HOT in Toronto this week. Actually, I hear that it is pretty hot everywhere this week. I’ve been teaching our outdoor Belly Bootcamp classes and trying to stay as cool as possible, but I am on a weight loss mission and lolling around in front of the air conditioner is not exactly a workout. One of the ways I am meeting my fitness goals and keeping my metabolism high is by hitting the local playgrounds for my kids as many days per week as possible. I recently wrote a blog about the...
Read MoreThe Eat-What-You-Love Diet
Last week I talked about the dangers of yo yo dieting and up-&-down weight fluctuations, specifically how they ravage the metabolism, leave you deprived of nutrients and energy, and are likely to lead to the dreaded “skinnyfat” syndrome. Yikes! One of the challenges I encounter with clients – particularly, female clients – is disordered eating. There are the “eating disorders” we associate with extreme eating challenges and mental illness: anorexia,...
Read MoreThe Danger of Yo Yo Dieting
When I hear that 62% of Canadians have lost weight over the previous 5 years but failed to keep it off, I realize I’ve been lucky in my life. I’ve had to lose weight after both babies, but I’ve never experienced wild fluctuations in my weight. I credit this largely to my very active lifestyle, which keeps my muscles primed to suck up the carbohydrates I eat, and stabilizes my blood sugar. Of course, I also eat healthily. I follow some pretty reasonable dietary rules and strive...
Read More10 Minute Workouts
For the past 4 months I’ve been using the Heart & Stroke Foundation’s Healthy Weight Action Plan to track my current fitness goals, eating habits and behaviours in my quest to blast off these last 5 pregnancy pounds. These “vanity” pounds are the toughest to lose but whether you’ve got a weight loss goal of 100 pounds or 10 pounds, keeping yourself accountable by tracking your food and measuring your progress is the only way to ensure you are actually working...
Read MoreThe Power Of Your Inner Child
I have a confession. Sometimes, when I’m teaching a Belly Bootcamp postnatal class and the babies are sprawled on the floor (or the grass, in the summer), it is the babies – not the mommies – who impress me the most. Don’t get me wrong. My clients and Belly Bootcamp mommies are impressive. I have a veritable stable of strong, driven, capable and confident women surrounding me every week, day in and day out. For that I am grateful, and it helps to keep me motivated in my...
Read MoreTrainer Weight Loss Secrets
It’s true that weight loss is a lot about energy consumption balance – calories in, calories out – and that your activity levels and the amount and quality of nutrients you consume have a direct effect on your body composition and size. But behaviour doesn’t always follow biology. In other words, your body will probably regulate your appetite downward when you’re less active and upward when you’re more active (the reverse is also true: your body will be more...
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