Finding the time to workout and balance a healthy diet are challenging enough as it is, but add Holiday parties, gift shopping and an extra hectic schedule to the mix and you have a recipe for potential disaster – unless you make a plan. Resident Trainer, Bonnie Pfiester, shares 3 tips to help you stick [...]

Sometimes it’s just easier not to think about all the calories that will be sitting on the table Thanksgiving Day – but just because you don’t think about them doesn’t mean they aren’t there. If you want to eat healthy, here are 6 simple ways to trim fat and calories this Thanksgiving. 1. Stick with [...]

While you’re reading this article, there’s someone somewhere making the decision to start getting in shape. In many ways, you could easily argue the holiday season isn’t the greatest time to start a diet – but is there really ever a good time? Each year is riddled with holidays, birthday parties, anniversaries, graduations and celebrations. [...]

When you work hard to exercise and eat healthy, it becomes a mission to find healthy foods you like. And, unfortunately, all it takes is one reporter to do a story on a particular food to steer you the wrong way. Even if a food is indeed healthy, we tend to latch onto the “healthy” [...]

When you think of a gym, do you think of bodybuilders trying to pick up chicks? Well, if that’s your first thought, maybe you haven’t been in a gym in a while – or at least a good one. Thank goodness gyms have changed quite a bit over the years. When I worked in my [...]

Most of us have met someone who lives on the elliptical machine or aerobics room. Although they appear to workout so much, they may be the same weight today as they were 6 months ago. Why? I believe many people are working overtime trying to burn off what they aren’t willing to cut out of [...]

As theoretical physicist Albert Einstein once said,  “the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result.” You don’t have to receive the Noble Prize to relate to this statement. I think we’ve all caught ourselves, at one time or other, in the vicious circle of insanity Einstein [...]

Everyone is looking for a short cut to lose weight. Although I prefer people not live on diet tips alone, diet tips can definitely help jump-start weight loss. A few years ago Steve and I were teaching a fitness and nutrition class to the Indian River County Sheriff’s Office. In this class I gave a [...]

America is known for spending more than we can afford – and the same goes for our eating. Stored fat is like maxed out credit cards. America eats what they want, whether they can afford it or not. People walk around carrying this enormous caloric debt, storing previously borrowed calories on their backside, and there’s [...]

“I tried every diet in the book. I tried some that weren’t in the book. I tried eating the book. It tasted better than most of the diets.” – Dolly Parton When I think of Dolly’s quote I think of how my mother also tried every diet in the book before she finally lost her [...]