Will Walking Burn Fat?

❓Does walking 5-6 miles a day put you in the ‘fat burning zone’?… 👏🏻Great question!… . 🙄The whole idea of the fat burning zone is a bit of misinformation…. . 📚Studies show that low intensity cardio (walking on a treadmill for example) will burn fat & doing higher intensity exercise (like HIIT, interval training, burst … Continued

How Do We Get Fat?

💥Ever wonder how we get fat? There may be a multitude of reasons why the process happens… BUT, there’s actually a simple metabolic process that causes us to store fat that’s pretty much the same for everyone [stick with me]. 1️⃣High blood glucose elicits the release of the hormone insulin. 2️⃣This speeds the uptake of … Continued

Fat Burning…So Where Does the Fat ‘Go’?

Have you ever wondered what actually happens when you lose weight? More specifically, when you lose fat? What happens? Where does it go? Surprisingly, when you ‘lose fat’ the fat cell doesn’t actually go anywhere. If you have a ton of fat cells in a trouble spot, the best you can hope to do is … Continued

EP 8 – Where Does the Fat Go?

Shawna K
Shawna K
EP 8 - Where Does the Fat Go?
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Have you ever wondered what actually happens when you lose weight? More specifically, when you lose fat? What happens? Where does the fat go? In this podcast, I’ll give you a little insight as to what actually happens when you lose weight. Is it just me that’s ever wondered where fat actually goes? Does it … Continued

#1 Killer of Confidence and Motivation

The absolute worst thing you can do is compare yourself to others. You will ALWAYS fall short because there is always someone out there who is leaner or more beautiful or (fill in the blank)… The ONLY person you should compare yourself to is the person you were yesterday. Your goal should be to improve … Continued

Have you taken the stubborn fat test?

  Guest Post from Mauricio – Author of Stubborn Fat Fix Let’s face it, everybody has certain areas of the body in which they lose fat faster from than others. Yet no matter how much exercise and dieting we do, we just can’t seem to lose that list bit of unwanted stubborn fat.   Even … Continued

Be Stubborn. Be Humble (Health lessons from my Dad)

I want to give a shout out to my good old dad. I flew my dad to Calgary for his 82nd birthday (and we also celebrated the 10th anniversary of my fitness boot camp the same weekend). We had a great few days together. Now my dad has had some health challenges since he had … Continued

The Scale – Friend or Foe?

  Battling the power of the bathroom scale is one of the toughest head games in the whole fat loss challenge.  We let a random number control how we feel about ourselves and it isn’t right. Put your hand up if you’ve ever weighed yourself and let the number you see then dictate your mood … Continued

Your AMAZING body…(your BEST fatloss tool)

As women we need to do strength training. Building some muscle boosts our metabolism, aids in fat loss and sculpts a great shape!   Yet, most women offer reasons for why they’re still not strength training including lack of time to get to the gym, the intimidation factor of all those machines at the gym, … Continued