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5 Ways to Preemptively De-Bloat for Halloween

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, …

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How to Know If You’re Addicted to Drama

About 10 months ago, I had an a-ha moment. I was out to lunch with a friend of mine, and the two of us were talking about someone we both knew, saying how we didn’t understand them or why they did what …

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Do Only Certain People Have the Right to Body Esteem Struggles?

I’ve been wanting to write this piece for a while — ever since my birthday post last July when I revealed that I was the most content and most comfortable with my body than I’d ever been, despite also being …

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“How Exercise Helped Me Get My Confidence Back”

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 …

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When Being Superwoman Turns into Being Super-Stressed Out: 4 Key Ways to Take Back Your Health

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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How to Get Your Ass Out Of Bed & Work Out in the Morning

From the ages of 22 to 27, I worked 70+ hours a week as a full-time fitness professional — personal training 12 clients/day, teaching 15 group fitness classes and managing a university fitness center. I loved it. But what I didn’t love …

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3 Ways I Used Kettlebells to Improve My 5k Time

Ahhh running, you devil you! I love you, I hate you. I love to hate you. Back in 2004, I ran my first 5k. And I don’t know about you guys, but when I’m running, all I want is for the …

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Should You Play to Your Strengths or Bring Up Your Weaknesses?

There are two schools of thought when it comes to time management, priorities and self-improvement. Some people say it’s wise to work to improve the ways in which you are not operating optimally in the world. In other words, spending …

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5 Tools to Ensure You Actually *Do* the Exercise You Know You’re Supposed To

If you’re a personal trainer, or you are an exercise buff or if you’ve even taken a general health or exercise 101 class in college, you have probably heard of the F.I.T.T. Model for how to create workouts. F.I.T.T. stands …

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Define Your “Healthy”

I’m not going to lie–up until a few years ago, I kind of sort of hated the term “healthy.” It felt so … blah. Like, vague and boring and like something your grandmother would care about. For me, throughout my …

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