If you haven’t already you may soon start making goals to exercise and get healthier in the New Year.  There’s something about the start of a brand new year that makes us believe things will automatically change and we’ll start to become new people on January 1st.  Not surprisingly most people fail to achieve their goals and the majority have forgotten their…

I used to believe that I had to lose weight to be considered healthy.  My goals were consistently focused on losing weight and finding the energy to get through the day without diets that required diet pills because I was always too scared to try that. I tried just about every dietary theory out there that didn’t involve pills, and…

It amazes me how often people think there is only one way to lose weight – run a lot of miles outside or spend hours on the treadmill. Steady-state cardio activities like those are generally what I hear and see people do first (and sometimes the ONLY thing) when attempting to lose weight. And I admit, I used to be…