Here Are 7 Strategies To Help You Eat Healthy While Others Don’t Your family has asked you to go out to a restaurant for dinner. Your first thoughts are, “Oh no! I can’t go out to eat! There are so many temptations, and I just don’t think I can stick to the diet I just… [Read More]
Why You Need To Set Up SMART Goals
3 Tips To Jump Start Your Week
Flex Your Largest Muscle To Get Results
Are You Tough Enough?
How You Talk To Yourself Will Determine Your Weight Loss Success or Failure
3 Words That Can Work For You!
How To Avoid Temptation When Losing Weight
Trying to lose weight? Find out why resistance is futile when you avoid temptation, why avoidance is going to sabotage you, and why you need to file for a divorce! The struggle is real… Or is it?? You function from two parts of the brain: your primal brain and your sophisticated brain. Your primal brain… [Read More]
How to Overcome Defeat While Losing Weight
How do you overcome defeat when you are trying to lose weight? Here are 5 tips to overcome defeat and lose those inches for good. You Need to Be the Scientist To Overcome Defeat I like to tell my clients to think of themselves as a science experiment. Take the emotional part out of it. If you “fall… [Read More]
Why You Don’t Do What You Say You’re Gonna Do
“I Will Pick You Up At The Airport” If I said “hey I’ll pick you up from the airport when you land”. You’ve landed…and you wait … and you wait…I’m not there. I don’t call or text. I don’t call later. Nothing has happened to me. No car wreck. No reason other than I changed… [Read More]
Shape It Up Fitness on Empowerment Group Podcast
How Triggers Derail Your Progress
Imagine you’ve just come home from work. It’s been a long day. Your kids are probably arguing. Your husband or spouse is kind of grumpy because they too had a long day at work. You come home and you still have to make dinner. You don’t want to make dinner…what do you tend to do?… [Read More]
Having A Plan A
Do you have a plan? There are some women over 40 who are waiting for the perfect moment to start a fitness program and it’s never going to happen. Is this you??? I’ve got news for you. It’s never going to be the perfect time. It’s never going to be the perfect climate. There’s always… [Read More]
Diet Deprivation:Why Diets Make You Feel Deprived
So, don’t yell at me but diets don’t make you feel deprived… YOU make yourself feel deprived. SAY WHAT NICOLE??? Please don’t get me wrong…. you do NOT need to be on a diet to be successful at weight loss. Say you have set a goal for yourself to eat a certain way for this… [Read More]
Are You Your Own Worst Enemy?
Are You Your Own Worst Enemy? We all have a little voice inside our head (maybe you’ve named yours Jiminy Cricket – just kidding :-)…we hear this voice all day long. Sometimes it tells us positive things and then other times not so positive. This little voice can become your own worst enemy! Like when… [Read More]
Create A Habit For Great Night’s Sleep
Create A Habit For Great Night’s Sleep If you create a habit that you do every night, you will be signaling your body that it is time for bed. I hate to say it but it is very much like Pavlov’s dog. It is important you create a habit that fit’s your individual style. These… [Read More]