Blog — health

Life can be pretty chaotic sometimes. While a nutrient rich, whole foods diet and exercise regime is a great way to keep yourself healthy and happy, sometimes it's not enough. Stress can play a major role on your overall progress, especially your physical and mental health. Certain hormones that excrete during stress, like Acetylcholine and Cortisol, can hinder your weight loss journey or muscle building progress. This results in poor recovery, slower metabolism, and chronic health concerns over time. You can become frustrated with all the hard work you're doing, which in turn causes more stress and the cycle continues. Trust me,...

What do you find the most difficult? Eating healthy or exercising daily? The internet is comprised of various marketing campaigns promising results for the body you want in an unrealistic timeframe. I think there is plenty of expert advice available that is helpful. Unfortunately, not helpful for EVERYONE because EVERYONE has their own unique challenges, goals, and expectations from a service. It is always important to ask yourself questions before starting any fitness or health regime: What would make you the most satisfied? Is your goal to cut out refined sugars? Is your goal to learn effective meal prepping techniques?...

I love fall! I have to say, its probably my favourite season, cozy sweaters, cute boots and of course all the apple pie and pumpkin spice flavours that come out.  The weather may be colder this time of year, which also makes it easier to turn to comfort foods. Hearty soups, warm beverages and bigger meals tend to be the theme during the fall season. In fact, its a really nice way to bring friends and family together for dinners, parties and gatherings that are surrounded by good food. As with fall, I also love breakfast. Its been my favourite...

Energy, its all around us. We feel it, use it and sometimes, can abuse it. It seems as if the world has slowed down these days, people have taken more time to be alone or with family or friends. But this doesn't discount the other side of this global pandemic... where does our physical health lie? Maybe you have been putting more time and energy into work, or maybe you started spending more of your free time exercising, or maybe you finally decided to start that major project you've always wanted the time to do! I Think all of these...

When your to-do list has chapters, when you have to be up at 5am, when you are totally swamped, most of todays population tends to gravitate towards one thing... Coffee. About 83% of adults turn to or drink at least 1 cup of coffee per day according to the National Coffee Association (Yes, this association exists!) It seems to be not only the drink of choice to get us through rough times, stressful moments or long days, but its also been touted as some what of a "health" product.  October.1st is International Coffee Day! It has become a day used to...