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 …
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12 Incredibly Easy Tips to Quit Sugar…Or Just Eat A Lot Less
I confess, I’m a sugar lover. I’ve even written a whole post about being a sugar free failure. And you know what, I finally realized that I’m just …
Running Weight Gain | Why You Might Not Be Losing
Marathon training seems like it should be a great way to lose weight. Why is it then that many runners gain weight? It’s not because running …
Does Muscle Weigh More than Fat?
One of the reasons I find many runners not lifting is they’ve heard that strength training makes you gain weight. Which often comes from hearing …
Runners Nutrition | January Run Club
In January our Virtual Run Club is exploring all you need to know about running nutrition, whether your goal is running for weight loss or just …
Healthy Runners Diet | How to Eat for Endurance
After a long break from marathon training, during the Pandemic I found myself prepping for the Chicago marathon, which turned in to training to run my …
Cortisol and Exercise | Impacting Sleep, Weight Gain and Adrenals
You’ve cranked up your training from half marathon mileage to run your first marathon or maybe your 20th, either way you’re putting in the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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, …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …