Despite how people typically think about it, weight loss is actually very simple. It isn’t EASY – in fact I admit it’s incredibly difficult – but it is simple. Eat less, exercise more; consume less, burn more; indulge fewer times…

Until recently, the only experience I had with yoga was trying it and hating it. I took MANY classes – I didn’t just try it once and give up – but it really wasn’t my thing. Granted, though, I was…

In Weight Loss: My biggest mistake was extremity. I approached weight loss with an unrelenting and unwavering impatience; I wanted to lose as much weight as I could, as fast as physically possible. I knew on some level that rapid…

“The greatest weapon against stress is our ability to choose one thought over another.” – William James If I hadn’t felt so close to my dear camp friends – a comfort one can only feel around the group of people…

I only thought about being a trainer; I didn’t think about being a female trainer. I didn’t realize that I was, and would continue to be, making a statement about feminism and femininity by choosing to follow my dreams into the gym.…

Especially following an eventful weekend and a case of the Sunday scaries, I definitely still feel the need to regroup, recharge, realign and reset every Monday morning. Now, though, it has very little to do with my body and everything…

I lived the first 18 years of my life morbidly obese, and I credit those days with providing me a broad span of values outside of what I look like. I could never let my body define me because it…