Now is the time to Bring IT!  Tony Horton reveals basic health and fitness facts, with a strategy for success, in his latest book Bring IT! … the Principles, the Routines, the Moves, and the Meal Plan. Each segment offers simple solutions to help you reach your personal goals of increasing energy, losing inches, and being in control of your life.  At age 53, Tony Horton is a bundle of energy but offers this statement … “true success in life … and in health and fitness … comes when there is balance”.   Bring IT! is the perfect example of teaching you the importance of nutrition, exercise, and rest!  You don’t have to workout 24/7 to reach your goals!  Finally, someone…

Are you kidding me?  How does one “not stress” when the housing market plunges, stock market crashes, and cost of living rises.  Struggles with finances cause household budget cuts of “luxury items” such as fitness club memberships, spa treatments, and healthy foods.  Unfortunately, this cycle of stress creates weight gain, lack of energy, anxiety, and depression. Stop seeking balance in a life that is always in constant motion of juggling family, jobs, finances, and schedules. Instead, create harmony and fluidity with five simple steps to reduce stress and increase your energy in just seven days! First things first … sleep! Research shows sleeping at least 7-8 hours every night reduces weight gain, decreases cortisol naturally, and restores energy.  Learn to…

Remember when your Dad, or Girl Scout leader, taught you how to use a compass as a method to guide us out of the forest when we might get lost?  It was fun to play with for a while and then we lost it somewhere in a junk drawer. Today, there is a different compass we can use when we are in the never-ending cycle of diets, intense exercise, work pressure and family obligations that take us off the path of a healthy lifestyle – it is the Circadian Compass.  It is the inner compass that guides you to a place of overall wellness and success.  Circadian rhythms affect our waking and sleeping patterns, hormone and energy surges as well…

Every day you are bombarded by a plethora of diet programs designed to deprive your body of intuitive eating and your mind of critical thinking.  Confusion creates stress … hormone levels elevate … belly fat increases … frustration to lose weight begins… Today is the day to create a practical and emotional plan for a dynamic lifestyle.  Allow yourself the freedom to relax, renew, and restore your mind and body to its natural rhythm. Begin to review your current nutritional status … do you consume a high percentage of processed foods?  Do you consider yourself an emotional eater?  Or do you follow the latest fad diet? Choose to eat real food to support a vibrant mind and body … fresh…