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Benefits of Telephone Based Nutrition Coaching
According to John Hopkins Medicine successful weight loss is literally just a phone call away. A successful clinical trial following participants in a telephone based weight loss coaching program revealed significant weight loss that was maintained for 2 years plus. As a nutritionist in San Diego, this is wonderful news in support of my current San Diego nutrition coaching programs that are all telephone based. The study, compared two ... Read more »
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Dangers of a Medifast Program
As a nutritionist in San Diego, I come across current or past users of the Medifast products and program fairly frequently. The most common feedback about the Medifast program is the clients are able to initially drop weight quickly. The problem comes when they either plateau, or gain back that weight after quitting the program. As a San Diego weight loss expert I felt it was time to ... Read more »
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Strength Training Benefits Mental Health
When we think about the benefits of strength training most often times we focus strictly on the physical benefits, lowered risk of heart disease, better insulin sensitivity, increased metabolic rate, improved body composition and posture. Many times we forget to look at the mental benefits from strength training. More recently research has turned towards discovering what positive impacts strength training has on participant’s mental health. You will find that there ... Read more »
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The Real Truth About Canola Oil Nutrition
Since the early 1990's canola oil has been touted as a healthy oil option for high temperature cooking. It has been revered for it's low fat, low calorie capabilities, and its high source of omega-3s compared to its saturated fat counterparts like butter, lard, and coconut oil. Extracted from the rape seed this oil, has become the new substitute for cooking with corn or soybean oils. After much research, scientists ... Read more »
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2012 Is The Year To Make Your Goals A Success!
Welcome to 2012! As a nutrition and lifestyle coach, plus San Diego fitness trainer, I understand the importance of setting goals. Statistically, 90% of health related goals are never accomplished. Why do you suppose that is? There are a few factors that can contribute. Read below to find out what they are, and how you can move past these obstacles into a brand new, ... Read more »
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The Most Effective Fat Loss Solution Available
As a La Jolla personal trainer I have heard it all. Everyone is looking for that remedy to losing weight and quickly. After years of working in the field, and doing years of countless research and experimenting I have come across a break through solution to quick and effective fat loss. Before my big reveal, let me add that I plan to market and package my solution ... Read more »
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Why You Should Hire a Personal Trainer
I was training one of my San Diego personal training clients the other day, correcting her on her form and technique with an exercise when she made a very smart and observational statement. She simply said, even when I think I am doing the exercise perfectly, there are small corrections that you make that makes a world of difference with how it feels. She followed that statement with ... Read more »
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Where is Your Motivation?
One of my favorite commercials is the Kaiser Permanente message about motivation. It jokingly approaches the concept of losing your motivation and how to find it when it comes to your exercise program. And the 3 key points it makes is: 1) find what you enjoy doing that is physically active, 2) find a partner (a ping to your pong), 3) remind yourself of why it is that you exercise, ... Read more »
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Tips to Make Time to Workout
I specialize in working with busy individuals. Most of my San Diego personal training clients are entrepreneurs, high ranking executives, professional working moms, all very busy individuals. And all of them come to me with the same problem; I don’t have time to exercise. They let everything else in their life take precedence over exercise and eating right that before they know it they have gained weight, feel lethargic, and ... Read more »
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Metabolic Typing Diet, What Is It?
As a holistic certified San Diego fitness trainer I have a firm believe that not all bodies are created equal. As with the outside of our bodies differing slightly from one person to the next so does the inside of our bodies. As such, we cannot all thrive of the same type of diet. A very brilliant man by the name of Weston Price conducted research back in the 1930's looking at the ... Read more »
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Break Your Sugar Addiction & Stop Sugar Cravings
For many of us sugar is almost like crack, we think about it late at night, we wonder when we are gonna get to enjoy it next, and let's face it some of us are cranky without it. Sounds a bit unhealthy does it? You don't feel that way towards broccoli do you? That's because sugar can be addictive. And unfortunately it can be your enemy when it comes to ... Read more »
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Health Tips For Women
Being a female San Diego fitness trainer I work with a lot of female clients. I would say females make up about 80% of my client base. That being said, women have the hardest time losing weight, and getting fit on their own. Most often times it relates back to the woman's basic instinct to put everything before herself, including family, significant others, career, friends, etc. Women have ... Read more »
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A Simple Way To Lose Belly Fat And Shed Pounds
Get rid of, or at least minimize this item and you will help reduce belly fat, and have an easier time losing wight. It's an item that makes up 50% of the average American's diet. Any idea? Bread....refined flour and sugars. The average American consumes entirely too much carbs, much more than their body needs to function optimally. Have you ever looked at the ingredients in most of the popular ... Read more »
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Do You Suffer From Neck and Shoulder Pain?
Alright it's time for an emergency test from the National Breath Better Association....okay so I made that up. Now in all seriousness let's test something. Take your right hand on your belly, and your left hand on your chest. Close your eyes and start to breath normally. Now, open your eyes and look down as you continue to breathe. Which hand comes out more than ... Read more »
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How to Detect if You Have Been Over-Training
As I come closer to my figure competition, I can tell that my body is in need of some recovery and relaxation. I have been training hard for the past 3 months, and haven't had the chance to allow for a break. I plan on taking a full week off from working out right after competition to allow my body to recover fully before training again. The reason being, if ... Read more »
