Are Your Friends Making You Fat?

As a young child, my mom used to always tell me "You become like the kind of people you decide to hang around". Apparently, her point was valid.

5 Ways to Break Through Your Weight Loss Plateau!

So you've hit a plateau in your weight loss. Where do you go from here? I have a few suggestions for you that will help you melt that stubborn fat much faster than anything else.

5 Awesome Free Weight Loss Resources

I am frequently being asked if there are any free, quality dieting and weight loss resources out there, and I am happy to say that there are! I have listed some of them below..

The 1 Thing We All Do that is Slowly Killing Us

We all know that most Americans lead a pretty sendentary lifestyle, there's no doubt about that! We have desk jobs, we watch lots of t.v., we rarely exercise. We are, in fact, a country notorious for eating too much and not moving enough. But did you know that doing this one thing we all do, even if you exercise everyday, still raises your risk for heart disease considerably? Read on, my doomed friend!

How Shakeology changed my life!

I gained about 30 pounds when I was pregnant with my second baby (learned my lesson the first time when I gained 60 pounds!) so I thought I was doing pretty great. I shed the weight pretty quickly, but it came back on pretty quickly as well. They tell you breastfeeding helps you lose weight, but what they don't tell you is that you need to have some kind of control over what you eat. Oops, my bad.

How to cheat on your diet and still lose weight!

Cheat on your diet and lose weight! Sounds crazy, right? In an age where it seems like every study ever done is now contradicted, I thought I would google this topic and see what I came up with. Fortunately, it did turn up some results, and I think you will be rather pleased with them!

Should we blame bad genes for being overweight?

We have all heard someone at one point or another blame their "bad genes" for them being overweight. While I have always brushed it off as an excuse, science shows that the theory is, in fact, true but there is something such an individual can do about it!