Breaking Free from Emotional Eating in Midlife

Breaking Free from Emotional Eating in Midlife

Emotional eating is a challenge many women face, especially in midlife. It’s not just about stress or sadness—it often reflects deeper needs for rest, connection, or self-care. While food can provide a quick moment of comfort, it rarely solves the root issues, leaving us feeling 

Weight Loss for Women Over 50: Your Real-World Guide to Sustainable Change

Weight Loss for Women Over 50: Your Real-World Guide to Sustainable Change

Weight Loss for Women Over 50: It’s Time for Real Change Let’s get real—losing weight after 50 can feel like an uphill battle. If you’ve been doing all the right things—eating healthy, exercising regularly—and still aren’t seeing results, you’re not alone. As we age, our 

Benefits of Intermittent Fasting in Perimenopause

Benefits of Intermittent Fasting in Perimenopause

Intermittent fasting (IF), particularly the 16:8 method, where you eat during an 8-hour window and fast for 16 hours, has been gaining attention for its potential benefits, especially for women in perimenopause. Benefits of Intermittent Fasting in Perimenopause: Weight Management: Weight gain, especially around the 

Tips for Dealing with Emotional Eating

Tips for Dealing with Emotional Eating

  If you are an emotional eater, you realize it’s a vicious cycle. You eat to deal with stress, sadness, or other emotions – but it ends up making you feel worse. Here are some ways to cope: DELAY THE URGE If you can delay 

8 Meal Prep Hacks

8 Meal Prep Hacks

They say when you fail to plan, you plan to fail. That’s often very true with clean eating. Setting yourself up for success in your quest for good health often includes meal prep. Here are some tips to make it easier and more efficient.

Fitness Motivation: TIP JAR

Fitness Motivation: TIP JAR

Even when you do your best do encourage healthy habits, your family often needs a little outside motivation to get moving in the right direction. A Family Fitness Tip Jar is an idea that could work for you. Here’s how to do it: As a family, decide on what your goal will be.  Make it something that gets even the least motivated of your crew excited. Don’t make it a goal that is too difficult 

Have 25 Pounds to LOSE?  3 Things You NEED to KNOW!

Have 25 Pounds to LOSE? 3 Things You NEED to KNOW!

1.  IMPROVE YOUR MINDSET What we constantly tell ourselves ends up manifesting in real life.  If you’re betating yourself up mentally, telling yourself you can’t do this, you’ll always be fat, or worse yet – that it’s not worth it — that YOU aren’t worth 

Why you should drink a glass of water when you wake up

Why you should drink a glass of water when you wake up

One thing I’d like to also challenge you ALL to do is to drink a FULL glass of water (12-16 ounces) first thing when you wake up. This is BEFORE your morning coffee, my friends. Water does such a great job of naturally detoxifying you. 

Work it OFF!

Work it OFF!

  Don’t beat yourself up over the Halloween Candies you ate.  Instead, get to work!  You Ate It. Now Negate It. Credit:  beachreadynow.com

Keeping a Health Journal

Keeping a Health Journal

  I recently picked up this journal at GOODWILL – totally unused, just $1.49. (You can get one HERE – It’s from the Wheat Belly series. Note that not everyone is sensitive to gluten, I’m not suggesting that… I just liked the format and price of this