Health and Wellness

How to Lace & Tie Running Shoes

A great walk or run starts with a pair of perfectly fitting running shoes. To make a good fit even better, try special lacing and tying techniques to prevent pain and blisters, or to loosen or tighten your shoes. The best way to tie your running shoes depends on how you want them to fit.…

What are Foods that Freeze Well?

Freezing is one of the easiest ways to make your groceries last—as long as you follow some basic rules: Cool foods before freezing, don’t refreeze after thawing, and wrap foods properly to seal out air and avoid freezer burn. Being able to rely on a stocked freezer full of your family’s ready-to-go staples requires a…

Most Effective Exercise – Skipping

There’s a workout that doesn’t feel like exercise. It’s considered a total body workout, exercising major muscles and your heart. It’s skipping. Skipping offers many health benefits including improved muscle tone, coordination, balance and flexibility. It is kinder to your joints than running and can be done almost anywhere, anytime. In this video, I show you…

Easy Ways to Eat More Vegetables Every Day

Incorporating vegetables into every meal can be difficult for some people –  this is why smoothies are so great! Adding vegetables and fruit together usually masks the actual vegetable taste and allows you to get the vital nutrients from produce in its raw state. During the summer you can freeze your smoothies you have a…

How to Stay Hydrated When You Don’t Like Water

It’s no secret: I hate drinking water. I’m just not one of those people, and I’d usually rather be doing anything else. But I also know it’s good for me, and so the question then becomes how to stay hydrated even when you hate drinking water. If you’re not the biggest fan of water but know…

Best Seasonings to Keep Meal Prep Interesting

Meal prepping the same basic meal weeks in a row can be awesome when you’re first starting out, but as you probably know — that gets boring fast. And it makes meal prep A LOT harder to stick with. How do you keep it interesting without using up a ton of time learning new recipes…

Best Exercise for Weight Loss

I have been getting some questions lately about what is the best kind of exercise to do for weight loss or fat loss, which can be the same thing. I’m sure you’ll say my answer is a cheesy, cliche answer that you’ve heard before. But it’s true. The single best exercise there is, hands down, is the…