Intermittent Fasting: A Key to Running for Weight Loss?
Each time a new diet trend comes out, I find my eyes involuntarily rolling in to my skull and a sigh escaping my lips. Which is largely what I thought when Intermittent Fasting for weight […]
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5 Tips for How to Eliminate Bloating for a Flatter Stomach
A few years ago a great functional medicine doctor introduced me to the idea of fixing my digestion to lose those stubborn pounds {and freaking feel better!}. I’d never heard of this concept and since […]
Racing Weight or Underfueling? Get Lean and Strong
Is there a perfect racing weight? Can you maintain muscle mass and be a distance runner? Will being stronger make you a better runner? These are all questions that have been coming up more and […]
How to Lose Body Fat: What I Wish I’d Known Before Attempting to Lose Weight
How to lose body fat, I wish that was the question I had asked myself instead of being so focused on the scale. Watching that number like a hawk, listening to my mom talk about […]
Losing Weight as A Couple: Lessons Learned and Tips
How do you lose weight after 40 when your spouse is still eating all your “forbidden foods”? From personal experience (through my 20’s and 30’s) I can tell you it’s not easy to have cookies, […]
Eating and Exercising to Burn More Fat
After finishing my Metabolic Efficiency test, I had some action steps to take to start burning more fat and more importantly, I was committed to getting results. I really wanted to find out if this […]
Metabolic Efficiency: Improve Fat Burning, Endurance and Prevent Bonking
I first shared a story about metabolic efficiency in 2014, as I watched a fellow runner slowly transform her body. After listening to her talk about struggling with weight despite being a distance runner for […]
3 Intuitive Eating Tips: Practical Ways to Get Started and Stop Counting Calories
Calories In < Calories Out = Weight loss. The formula seems simple enough and so for anyone who has undertaken a weight loss journey it starts here, but eventually it’s not enough. I was no […]
Why Your Workout is Causing Weight Gain
Nothing is more frustrating than stepping on the scale after consistently eating healthy and working out and gaining weight instead of losing. Worse yet, you’ve crushed your longest run ever, yet the following morning Grrrrrr […]
Food Labels and Personal Labels: Runners Diet Plan Breakdown
Once I started talking about running for weight loss, you showed up in droves with questions galore. I get. In 2002, I was early in my weight loss journey as a junior in college. The […]