Your Strategic Plan for Fitness

Do you have a strategic plan in place to get your body in the best shape ever? As in all business endeavors, you need a strategic plan that will resonate throughout your mind body and spirit for effective implementation.

Smoked Trout or Salmon with Dill Sauce

A truly fast meal, when time is of the essence! Choose your favorite smoked trout or salmon, no need to cook it! Perfect with Caesar salad and lots of tomatoes. Go light with the dressing, to stay low-fat, low-sodium.

The Joy of Writing

From the time we learn to write, usually around Kindergarten or first grade, we use the skill of writing nearly everyday for the rest of our lives. As a matter of fact many of our personality traits are revealed in our own handwriting.

The Truth About Women and Heart Disease

Heart disease is the number one killer of American women. That’s it, that’s the truth. One in four American women will die of heart disease. Women, more often than men, die as a result of a heart attack.

Look At The Mirror, Not At The Scale–Muscle Weighs More Than Fat

All too often, we judge our physical health by how much we weigh. What a mistake! The number on a scale will only give you a limited assessment of what your physical health really is. Your body weight is comprised of the weight of your bones

Sweet and Simple Snapper

“Keep it sweet and simple,” that’s what my husband always says. This simply sweet succulent seafood is superb. You’ll need to set aside some time to marinade it, so you might want to do some pre-prep the night before.

Explaining the Exercise Principles – Part 1

When I was a kid I was active from sun up to sun down. I couldn’t wait to go outside and play. My day was filled with running, biking and swimming and I never gave it much thought. I didn’t need to be prodded or rewarded for going out to play.

Reduce Dietary Fat, Particularly Unhealthy Saturated Fat

Use minimal amounts of oil and oily foods. Minimize or avoid entirely fried foods, red meat, creams, fatty salad dressings, cheese, and high fat desserts like ice cream.

Super Food Scrambled Eggs A Favorite From Breakfast at Karens

Super charge your day with a energy-boosting breakfast. This fast and easy meal is perfect to eat any time of day, you don’t have to wait until morning to enjoy.

Explaining the Diet Principles – Part 1

You have examined your present way of eating and have decided to make healthy changes in your food choices. But do you know that diet is more than just about the food you eat? It’s also about your eating habits, as we talked about earlier in Part 1 of the Fitness4Her Diet.

When You Say Something Often Enough It Starts To Ring True

You’ve probably heard before that speaking positively to a child will do more for his self-esteem than criticism. Encouraging a child to study and making learning fun, will help him to develop his skills better than calling him stupid or trying to shame him into studying.

Five Ways That Exercise Improves Your Sex Life

Exercise improves endurance and that’s highly desirable when it comes to an exciting love tryst. Sex is a fitness endeavor after all, if you improve your overall fitness level your endurance in other areas will also benefit.

Smoky Turkey Chili

Smoke filled flavor with a Southwestern flair. Come home from a hard day and belly up to the bar, then scoop up a bowl of this heart-healthy chili and dream about golden sunsets and deserts. This colorful blend will remind you of an Arizona sky.

Your Brain and How it Functions

In my member post Think to Shrink, I talked about the power of the brain and how to effectively use its force to bring about change in your life. In this post, I want to focus on the brain and how incredibly hard this organ works to keep the body functioning.

Workout Motivation: 20 Ways to Get Going

I often hear people say, I need to workout, but I just can’t get motivated. Even seasoned athletes experience highs and lows occasionally before getting started.

The Exercise Principles

She who has health, has hope. She who has hope, has everything.

Sharon thought all of her problems were over when she got the big promotion at work. She had worked so hard for it, staying late at the office and taking work home.

Escarole Mix

My Great Grandma Titone ate Escarole everyday and she lived to be 106 years old. It’s a great addition to any Italian dish.

Stretching Will Keep You Flexible and Safe From Injury

You’ve probably heard that you should stretch before and after exercising And you may even be thinking that stretching takes too much time. But by not giving your muscles time to stretch you could be setting yourself up for injury.

Rev Up Your Workout to Improve Your Game

Is your workout routine getting boring? Are you having trouble staying motivated? It could be time for a change. You may need to mix things up a bit and improve your game.

Fitness4Her Diet – Part 2

In part one, we talked about how your diet was your way of life. It is everything that sustains you and makes you whole. If you make changes to your diet, then you are making changes to your way of life.

Easy, but not Greasy, Muscle Building Meatloaf

Healthy oils are good for you, but who needs a meal that’s swimming in grease? Your whole family will appreciate this mouth watering meatloaf that goes well with Mashed Cauliflower and peas. Quick and really easy to prepare, this dish cooks up in about a half an hour.

Wet, Wild and Wonderful Water

Water is essential to good health. It helps to rid the body of toxins while delivering essential nutrients to our cells. It helps us to digest our food and keeps us hydrated.

Think To Shrink

Your mind is the main catalyst for bringing about change in your life. Your brain is so powerful that it can alter your mental and physical health. Have you ever worried about something so intensely that you made yourself sick? That is the power of the brain.

Monster Mashed Cauliflower

An often overlooked vegetable, cauliflower can be a reasonable substitute for mashed potatoes, although without the starch. This dish is a great complement to my mouth-watering meatloaf, Easy, but not Greasy Muscle Building Meatloaf.

Lose Weight By Eating More Often

Going for long periods of time without eating causes your metabolism to all but shut down to conserve fat and energy. A slower metabolism burns less calories. When you eat three large meals per day, you will tend to eat more at each meal and with a slower metabolism, it will be more difficult to burn off those calories.

30 Minutes To A New You Exercise Program

Did you know that there are 1,440 minutes in each day? The average American spends 180 of those minutes watching television. What do you do with your minutes every day? How much time do you spend exercising each day?

Extreme Oatmeal

This “Oh so nutritious!” breakfast will lower your cholesterol and give you the boost you need to get your day off to a good start. With all that you have to accomplish today, you need to begin with a healthy and delicious dish of hot oatmeal.

You Are Who You Think You Are

As she thinks…so she is.
Are you a winner or a loser? If you think you are defeated, then you are. If you think you are successful, then you are. Now, that’s not saying that you are successful in everything that you do, but you are successful at something, probably lots of things. The point is, [...]

The Fitness4Her® Diet – Part 1

Food is not the problem.
Food is the answer.
You may have heard some people refer to diet as a four-letter word. You know, one of those bad words that you should never repeat — a word so dastardly that it has been linked to the word die.

Aye María! Black Bean Quesadilla

These beans will have you jumping for joy! You can easily whip up this dish quicker than a pizza delivery. My Latino friends taught me this one. It´s a favorite with so many options. Variety is the spice of life.