Failure – The Best Teacher

🥳Celebrate your failures. And then forget them! Amnesia serves us better than guilt. Guilt is a wasted emotion unless it’s used to course correct. 🧁🍕Blew your nutrition this weekend? 💪🏻Skipped your workout? 👎🏻Lost your temper with someone? Beating ourselves up, staying stuck in the past, paralyzed to move on…these result from focusing on the FAILURE … Continued

Secret to Long Term Health Gains

🙅‍♀️If you don’t do the hard things now, you won’t find time to do them later. ..‬ ‪.‬ ‪🤦‍♀️It won’t get easier to…‬ ‪✔️build good habits…‬ ‪✔️plan a head…‬ ‪✔️remove temptations…‬ ‪✔️exercise daily…‬ ‪✔️meal prep…‬ ‪✔️cut back on processed foods…‬ ‪✔️get enough sleep…‬ ‪.‬ ‪📆Procrastinating on these things will only contribute to the equivalent of … Continued

Self Care – Don’t Wait

My mom would have been 78 this month🎂… . She died suddenly 5 years ago😞… . 💕I had the opportunity to sit with her for her last 10 days while she was in the ICU… . 😢She did not have an easy passing… . 😐The truth is, while she died suddenly, she was dying a … Continued

Choose YOUR Change – Just Start!

Time to be honest… I’ve been sharing a little more about my personal programming. In the past, I’ve been a little nervous to share what I do in terms of workouts/nutrition because I didn’t want to scare anyone off. I do lots of body weight training and ‘versions’ of exercises in my best follow along … Continued

Fitness Goals Versus Physique Goals

⚠️WARNING ⚠️ ✳️RANT✳️ I’ve become hyper-aware of SO many social postings or should I say ‘posings’ and it’s sort of irking me. It bothers me because these posts can be discouraging to everyone that’s busting their butts, sweating it out, DOING fitness, instead of just ‘posing’. After all, fitness is a VERB… We DO fitness… … Continued

Bathroom Selfie…

I hate bathroom selfies 📷… But I took this picture to make a point☝… I’ve gained 3 pounds (and I don’t care). I weigh myself daily only because it’s one form of feedback… My focus has been on getting ready for the CanWest Games (not on the scale)… My focus is on performance goals, not … Continued

Mindset Mantra to Lose Belly Fat

No time for fitness or self care?   🤔Mindset trick to get you more healthy.   ⏰Do you feel like you are always behind? Are you always chasing o’clock time to get things done?   Some people tell me they can’t possibly fit in any time for Fitness because they are so time poor.   … Continued

Progress NOT Perfection

This is Really the Key to Motivation 🔑 🤔A few small mindset shifts will change everything… Let’s focus on PROGRESS and not PERFECTION. Let’s COUNT THE WINS instead of focusing on where we may have fallen down. Let’s TAKE ACTION and motivation will follow movement. If you need some support, reach out to me, I’ll … Continued

Bad Timing for a Health Change?

Waiting for the right time to get healthy? I get it. 🎓It’s your sons grad. 🏖It’s your family holiday. 🕊Your best friend passed away. 🔨You’re renovating. 👵🏻👴🏻You’re taking care of elderly parents. 🍼👶🏻You’ve got a new grand baby. 👣You broke your ankle. ⏰Look, I know that life is busy and time is short. But guess … Continued

This is Why I Don’t Like You…

I know that’s harsh but let’s be honest… Have you been following me for a long time? If so, are you in the same predicament now as you were a year ago or even a few months ago? Imagine if you decided to do something about your health back then… You’d definitely not be standing … Continued