The following is a guest post written by my friend, Shira Nelson, owner of Mom Beyond Baby, a fitness and fat loss brand for moms who want a no-BS approach to eating, exercising and actually enjoying life. After years of …
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The following is a guest post written by my friend, Shira Nelson, owner of Mom Beyond Baby, a fitness and fat loss brand for moms who want a no-BS approach to eating, exercising and actually enjoying life. After years of …
read more >I think we can all agree that getting comments from haters and randos is NBD, really. It might sting and you might not get it (like, why tho??), but usually we’re able to brush it off pretty quickly. But what …
read more >You may not know this, but I have 3 younger brothers—all very different but all equally talented. Without bragging too much, one’s still in college getting an engineering degree, one’s a professional dancer in Chicago and one is a personal …
read more >During the first year at JillFit, we took on a lot of 12-week Fat Loss clients. We’d write them a customized meal plan, an individualized workout program and we’d give them access to one of our trainers for ongoing coaching via …
read more >Admittedly, I kind of hate when anything is off-limits. Feelings of deprivation lead to eventual overindulgence, which is why building satisfaction into your eating—using things like preemptive cheats, non-negotiables and increasing the #SatisfactionFactor of your meals—is so important. In fact, …
read more >Ugghhhhh, motivation. WHYYYYY are you so elusive? I get emails all the time from women asking me to write on motivation and I want to, I really do, but it’s difficult because … sometimes I’m just not that motivated either! BUT. …
read more >Yesterday, I was talking to a good friend of mine who is also an online fitness entrepreneur and I was relaying a story from about 5 years ago, when I was deep in my obsessive physique phase — hours on cardio …
read more >I’ll never forget the first time I ate maltitol. For those of you who don’t know what maltitol is, it’s a sugar alcohol, a sweetener. And though it’s technically a “natural” sweetener, let’s just say that the gastrointestinal effects are, …
read more >There’s a psychological technique called “The 5 Whys” that is used in anything from business problem solving to interrogation to solutions for individuals to figure out the absolute core cause of something. You ask the question “Why?” 5 times to …
read more >Something that comes up a lot with women is the concept of self-care and asking for help, understandably. I think so many of us women want to be able to do it all, have it all, and be it all, …
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