How Can I Make Restaurant Eating Healthier?
Eating is a deeply social and celebratory activity. It is something humans have always enjoyed, even way back in time. Ceremonies and joyous occasions often centre around food. With holiday celebrations now in full swing, this is the perfect time to be reviewing this...
4 Exercises to Strengthen Your Deep Core Muscles
Like any muscle group, it's critical to exercise the pelvic floor to strengthen it. I've found that people have the most challenging time building up strength in their deep core muscles. The pelvic floor and transverse abdominal (TVA, the really deep abdominals)...
How do I Know if My Core Muscles are Weak?
A lot of people come to me looking for help to strengthen their weak core. This is a great fitness and strength objective because having core strength is critically important! Core muscles get used in every movement and action we perform throughout the day. Our core...
Why I Stopped Piling on Sour Cream
I, like 90% of Canadians I know, gained a few pounds during the strict COVID-19 lockdowns and social distancing regulations that were applied here in Ontario. Unlike many others, I actually increased my activity level during COVID-19. I increased my weekly step count...
How to Be Social After a Period of Isolation
I'm not going to lie, during a couple of weeks back in the spring, when my husband and I were really into the habit of working from home, then relaxing on the couch while watching Netflix most evenings, the thought of being social and having 3 or 4 social plans over...
3 Dieting Myths to Watch Out For
There is so much information out there on what the 'perfect diet' is. Thousands of blogs, books and videos have been created on the topic. To make things more confusing, many of the various dieting styles contradict one another and nutritional advice seems like it's...
My Favourite Yoga Poses
Yoga is a great form of exercise that strengthens and stretches you all at once. There are so many yoga poses that get some muscles firing while simultaneously opening up the opposite muscles groups. I especially love yoga poses that help those of us who spend too...
Have a Positive Return to the Gym After COVID-19
Many of us, myself included, have avoided the gyms for over one and half years now. I didn't notice much of a change in my fitness routine because I'm lucky, I have my own studio set-up. I know how to continue building muscle with tools including the TRX, Swiss and...
Do You Dread Bathing Suit Season?
With summer finally here, there are a ton of people, females in particular, who aren't happy because they don't want to be seen in a bathing suit. And this is really too bad. Why are so many females embarrassed to be seen in beach attire? Why Bathing Suit Season is...
Bagged Salads are Critical to Me!
Consuming bagged salads, is absolutely the quickest and easiest, healthy lunch to make. I've been enjoying this meal idea for at least four of my weekly lunches for a few years now, and I'm still not bored of it! I love the fact that an average size of bagged salad...
My Second Try at a Healthy Hobby
So I stuck with it…a hobby that I started only last year - building and growing my own vegetable garden. I've expanded my veggie growing skills outside of the wonderful garden box Colin built for me last year by adding six garden pots throughout the backyard. These...
Active Meditation Helps Me De-stress
I've read about active meditation in the past, but I used to think you had to fully immerse yourself in the more traditional forms of meditation, like mantra meditation, to truly reap the rewards of this practice. During this stressful year, I learned how wrong I was....