Summer is here and with it, begins change. Children start looking forward to the end of their school year. The day gets longer, and people start preparing for their summer vacations. With the excitement of this time, it is important to not forget practical realities. While it is fun to daydream about a future trip, [...]
Polycystic Ovary Syndrome otherwise referred to by its initials PCOS, is a hormonal disorder that affects many women causing fertility problems, weight gain, male-pattern hair growth, acne, and water retention. This is due to the ovaries producing higher than average amounts of the male hormone, androgens, interfering with the ovaries’ production of eggs. The exact [...]
Mother’s Day is the perfect opportunity to embrace time with family. To help you create memories that will last a lifetime, we’ve rounded up 7 awesome ideas to get your gang active this Mother’s Day: Dance the day away. Whether at a studio, an event, or even in your own living room - dancing is [...]
Picture this. It’s morning. Your alarm goes off. You drag yourself out of bed after hitting the snooze button three times. It’s an emergency coffee situation. How will you ever make it through the rest of the day? By 10 o'clock you are tired and have your daily mantra echoing in your head “must [...]
As I was looking through article after article about how to spend Valentine's Day when you're single, I felt a little discouraged. Some were saying to reflect on past mistakes, some were saying how to love yourself despite being single, and some were saying to take yourself out on a date. While for some, [...]
If you are like me - you wake up in the morning, get ready for work, glance at your fully stocked pantry and mope that there is nothing to take with you as food for the day; especially nothing that is particularly filling or healthy. We sometimes underestimate the importance of food and what [...]
The Keto diet is taking the health world by storm. The diet has a wide variety of benefits such as rapid weight loss, blood sugar control, increased mental focus and reported therapeutic applications. In this post we will explore the best foods to eat on a Keto diet and why. However, we first need to [...]
Top Keto Mistakes The keto diet is an eating plan that is designed to get your body into a metabolic state called ketosis. You do this by starving your body of sugars which are found in carbohydrates. That forces your body into a metabolic state where your body converts fats into chemicals called ketones by [...]
The holiday time often brings overindulgence. With parties and sweets, it’s hard to keep up with your fitness and nutrition goals. With colder weather the couch or a warm bed seem so much more inviting than working out in the gym. During the holidays people feel they have so much to do there is no [...]
Start Your Year Right with SMART Goals Around the end of the year, we start to come up with New Year's resolutions. We may have long conversations with friends or family members about goals we have, what we want to accomplish, and how we need to make changes in our lives. However, how many [...]
