When people think of mindfulness, they often think of meditation. They believe that it means you have to stop thinking. It’s not the case! Mindfulness means that you become an observer. You learn to cultivate awareness. Mindfulness and yoga can work together to enable you to practice mindfulness. Today, I explain what mindfulness is, how […]
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I purchased my Ketone monitor as an intermittent fasting newbie about two and a half years ago. Now that I am at my goal weight, I rarely use it anymore, but I still think it’s a valuable tool when you are on your weight loss journey. I recently saw an ad for the Lumen. Since
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Why would you want to focus on your quads with a follow-along routine devoted to yoga stretches for quads? Well, simply because it is more common than you think to be tight in the quads. I can now do the front splits and get pretty deep in my pancake and backends. Yet, I still find
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Haha! As I write this title, the question Should you fast without keto? It almost feels like a rhetorical question! Of course, not everyone who will land on this content knows how I have been preaching metabolic flexibility! How do you become metabolically flexible? By switching over from glucose to ketones regularly. You would not
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You don’t have to be flexible to do yoga, but yoga will improve your flexibility. Many flexibility exercises that are not called yoga are based on yoga poses. I discovered yoga after the age of 40 (read Starting Yoga at 40 or Later: Everything You Need to Know to learn more). Yoga has changed the
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Your mind has the power to make you sick or well. You can change your life by changing your mindset. That’s why I want to address the difference between a growth and a fixed mindset. We will start with an overview of the growth vs. fixed mindset comparison. Then, I will give you some easy
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Sometimes, it’s helpful to get back to the basics. This is what this post is all about. I decided to give you an overview of everything you need to know to lose weight with intermittent fasting by providing you with an ultimate guide to intermittent fasting for weight loss. It will become the ultimate resource
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I started yoga for flexibility at 44 because I wanted to do the splits. I had absolutely no experience and had never done the splits before. Guess what? After about six months of daily training, I got into the splits (I couldn’t stay there long, mind you). So, I persisted in my training to achieve
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I remember the first time I heard about weight set points. It made so much sense to me! No matter how much I ate or didn’t eat, my weight always wanted to gravitate towards a particular range. This range was about 10 lbs more than what I felt was my ideal weight. I learned that
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If you have been following me for any length of time, you know that the Warrior Diet (or the 20:4 method) is one of my preferred intermittent fasting methods. In today’s post, we dive into how fasting for 20 hours benefits you and into how you can make sure you are choosing the right intermittent
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