Live Fit and Sore

Category: Health/Nutrition

  • Redefining You

    I am so lucky to be able to give back to fellow athletes by leading the Whole Life Challenge efforts at my gym. 40 athletes are 17 days away from completing an 8 week total redefinition program — learning how to make the right choices and being present while making them. The pic was taken…

  • Bacon Flowchart

    Refer to this flowchart next time you are faced with a Bacon decision and are unsure of what to do…

  • Be Active In Your Food Choices

    Yesterday at work – we celebrated fellow employee birthdays for the month of May. Normally they have cake or cupcakes and I show up, give my happy birthday wishes and that’s it. But yesterday, they had Carvel Ice Cream cake. For those that know me well – they know that is my all time favorite…

  • Becoming a Kitchen Ninja

    I shared this post on the CrossFit Impavidus Whole Life Challenge Blog for the 40+ athletes now entering week 4 of their 8 week transformation… Let’s talk about the Kitchen and cooking! You may be a ninja in preparing foods. Notice I didn’t say creating or mastering the kitchen. I hope that this challenge will help…

  • Easy Paleo Recipe: Chunky Monkey “Ice Cream”

    Um, a friend of mine shared this recipe from Easy Paleo and OMG! it’s looks like heaven. I miss Ice Cream! It is such a comfort food for me, so I will definitely give this a try! Chunky Monkey “Ice Cream” 1 1/2 FROZEN bananas (I cut my bananas in half before freezing them) 1/2…

  • Kids are Getting Fatter!

    Kids are getting fatter, and many will have to do some serious calorie cutting to avoid that fate as they grow up. That’s the grim news from a new study that looks at how children have become heaver since 1971. It’s not news that the number of obese children has doubled since the 1970s, with…

  • Add More Spice to Your Life!

    Two times a year, I run a Whole Life Challenge for my CrossFit gym. It’s a way to really help people make amazing changes in their life, like I did almost four years ago. I love being able to directly have a hand in improving someone’s life. Someone who may have never even considered changing…

  • The Truth About Heart Disease

    As a family recovering from Cancer – I am very interested in looking at what chronic inflammation can do to our bodies and how it sets up a perfect environment for cancer and other diseases to thrive.  We are all so conditioned to believe what we are told in terms of proper nutrition and what…

  • What Eating Too Much Sugar Does to Your Brain

    What Eating Too Much Sugar Does to Your Brain Overeating, poor memory formation, learning disorders, depression  – all have been linked in recent research to the over-consumption of sugar. And these linkages point to a problem that is only beginning to be better understood: what our chronic intake of added sugar is doing to our brains. According…

  • Recipe: Bacon Taco Shells

    Here’s a recipe that sounds Delish: BACON TACO SHELLS I placed bacon strips on a paper towel, uncut because the bacon will shrink. You want to make sure that each slice slightly overlaps each other. That way when it cooks, they fuse together to make the shell. I microwaved my bacon for about 3 minutes.…