Goal Setting For Weight Loss

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Goal Setting For Weight Loss

I can’t tell you how many people I see on a weekly, monthly, yearly basis that want to lose weight. It’s my job, it’s my life and it’s my mission to help them succeed. There is probably nothing more rewarding in my career than when someone tells me I made an impact on their weight loss journey. Yet, one thing I’ve come to realize is that many people set a weight loss goal but they don’t know exactly how to get there or how to execute that goal. Guests of our fitness retreat consistently tell me they want to lose weight. Whether someone wants to lose 10, 15 or 40 pounds, the question is how will they achieve the goal?

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Breaking Your Plateau: How To Get Unstuck

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Breaking Your Plateau: How To Get Unstuck

Does this sound familiar? You’ve been working your tail off. You’re consistent. You go to the gym religiously. Your food is in check. You’re drinking enough water and journaling every crumb that goes in your body and every calorie that is burned. This time you’re going to do it! The first few weeks you saw results and you were so motivated, right? And then the results started tapering off even though you were dedicated and sticking to your plan. All of a sudden, your progress came to a halt. So now what?

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Health Benefits Of Aromatherapy

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Health Benefits Of Aromatherapy

If you’ve read the blog before, you know I love aromatherapy and essential oils. I diffuse them in my home. I use them topically and I love them for a hot bath and even a room spray. Essential oils and the practice of aromatherapy aren’t just to make your home or yourself smell better. There are some wonderful health benefits as well. Have you ever used essential oils? If you haven’t or even just want to dig a little bit deeper, this article is a great one to discover some of the health benefits of aromatherapy.

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5 Best All Natural Muscle Gels

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5 Best All Natural Muscle Gels

I love two things – working out and all natural body care products. I’ve been looking around for a while for some all natural muscle gel or muscle rub cream that actually works. As you can guess, owning Vita Vie Retreat means that my activity level is very high. I am running around with our fitness retreat guests on a daily, weekly and monthly basis. In addition, I get my own workouts in my free time and love to run and play golf. So I am no stranger to tight and tired muscles… just like all of you.

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General Vitamins and Supplements For Overall Health

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General Vitamins and Supplements For Overall Health

Should you supplement? That’s really the question. Although no supplements are absolutely essential, low intakes or even borderline low intakes of calories, macronutrients and micronutrients are more common than you might think. Of course, it’s better to get all of your vitamins, minerals, phytonutrients, healthy fats and more from food but if your diet isn’t well balanced enough, it’s almost impossible. Unfortunately, over the years food quality has declined so many people need to add some basic supplements to get everything they need.

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Essential Oils To Diffuse For Stress Reduction

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Essential Oils To Diffuse For Stress Reduction

Who isn’t stressed out these days? We’re living in a fast paced, high energy world. Whether you’re feeling stress from work, school, family, friends or relationships, it’s everywhere. There are many ways to combat stress including meditation, deep breathing, yoga, massage, reading a good book and so much more. Essential oils can be a fantastic way to beat stress and ease your tension while you’re at home.

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Creating A Healthy Lifestyle: The Weekly Ritual

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Creating A Healthy Lifestyle: The Weekly Ritual

Creating a healthy lifestyle can be exciting in so many ways. The thought of a healthy body and mind motivates so many people. Thinking about it and actually doing it are two different things though. If you’re someone who is busy with life, kids, career, relationships and the various other things that can get in the way, you know that sometimes we’re thrown a curve ball.

Whether you’re trying to create or maintain a healthy lifestyle, lose weight, improve health and health markers or improve at a sport, chances are healthy eating, fitness and stress reduction are all part of the equation – or need to be.

I’ll be honest. I’m someone who has to be prepared or my week spins out of control – FAST. I always tell my coaching clients and fitness retreat clients that being prepared is half the battle. I developed my own weekly ritual to help me conquer food, fitness and fun. Check out my tips below.

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Top 5 Tools For Measuring Weight Loss

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Top 5 Tools For Measuring Weight Loss

You have a goal to lose some weight. Great! Now what? First of all, having a goal is a great start. Establishing both short and long term goals is a good idea to keep you on track. Setting a goal you can reach in a relatively short period of time (2-4 weeks) will help keep your mind and body in the game if you have a longer term goal. Tracking your goal is even more important so you know where you’re at. Here are our top 5 tools to measuring your weight loss progress.

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