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Home Workout: Tabata Intervals – 4 Minutes to Fat Burning!

By Tara Ballard Home Cardio Workout: No equipment needed! Tabata training is a form of high-intensity interval training consisting of 20 seconds all-out effort, followed by 10 secs rest, for a total of 8 rounds or 4 minutes. Here is a …

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A Tool to Boost Productivity: Your Monday Checklist

I hear many clients and friends say that “they are all over the place” and I have been there many times too: so much to do that nothing gets done. The mountain of “stuff” seems too high to climb, so …

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“Knowing” Versus “Doing”

“The greatest gap in life is the one between knowing and doing.” –Dick Biggs, author This is a theme to which I think many women (and men) can relate. We know WHAT to do, but for God-knows-what-reason we just cannot …

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5 Reasons We Don’t Get Into Bed Earlier & Solutions for Fixing Them

You knooooooow you don’t get enough sleep. You knooooooooow you need to get in bed earlier. You knooooooooooow you would feel so much better if you just got more shuteye. And yet night after night you stay up later than …

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Wednesday Workout: Lower Body Burn

By Emily Saunders On Fridays, Tara and I usually workout together for a quick and brutal high volume lighter weight leg day.  By Friday we are both worn out from  lots of early mornings and usually pretty sore from the …

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Recipe: Chocolatey Almond Butter Cookies

Ingredients: 1/3 cup almond flour ½ tsp baking soda ¼ cup almond butter ½ tsp vanilla 1 scoop chocolate whey protein ¼ cup almond milk ½ cup oats 1 tbsp unsweetened cocoa powder 1 tsp stevia 1 egg Preheat oven …

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My Very Unsexy Eating Strategy

There is nothing sexy about a sustainable eating plan. It’s boring. It’s always the same. It’s moderate. There’s no thrill of the up-and-down. And many times it is equated with being “easy.” Which, of course, is my point. By definition, …

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3 Weeks to Tight: 10 Quick & Dirty Rules

First off, a disclaimer of sorts: I kind of hate this tactic, even though it works short-term. The reason being, any time you implement unsustainable measures with nutrition or training, they are just that–unsustainable. And when the point comes that …

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Why Your Healthy Diet Is Not Helping You Lose Fat

Yesterday, Metabolic Effect posted an article from their blog that got a lot of attention: A “healthy” diet is not necessarily a “fat loss” diet. It’s a great, insightful post that had many people saying, “I get it!” This idea …

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4 Lessons in Stick-To-It-Ness: Practice, Challenges, Victimhood, Gratitude

Good day! It’s the 2nd week of the new year, and I hope all of you are still on your fat loss lifestyle journey! I hesitated about posting (again) because I was not 100% compliant last week and as a …

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