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Eat, Move & Improve provides insight and information to help you improve resiliency and performance through Mind, Mouth and Muscle.

Your 3 Overlapping Work Days

You’re most likely squeezing in three days worth of work each day – your scheduled work time, the time before, after and in-between, and your responsibilities when you get home. How are you training to be able keep up? Continue reading

Resiliency Challenge: The Big Turn Off

There’s something many of us do on a daily basis that can take 22 minutes off our lives for each hour we do it: the sedentary act of watching TV. Your challenge this week is to minimize your television watching. In the process you’ll also be minimizing your exposure to junk food marketing and advertising, poor health, low energy and more. Continue reading

Resiliency Challenge: How Low Can You Go?

Low glycemic snacks are a steady source of energy, minimize stress on your system and are less likely to be stored as fat. Learn what quick and easy snacks make better choices. Continue reading

Resiliency Challenge: Eat Your Ice Cream From a Wine Glass

This week’s challenge is to use your brain’s subconscious tendencies to eat less. By eating off a smaller plate or drinking beverages out of a smaller glass you consume less without even knowing it. Continue reading

2012: Live It Like You Were Dying. Because In a Way, You Are.

I’m normally not one for New Year’s Resolutions, as I believe every day of the year is an opportunity to make a renewed commitment to important things in your life. However, I recently came upon “Top Regrets of the Dying” and it struck a chord with me how important commitments beyond eating and exercise are to our well-being. Based on what dying patients regretted most about their lives, here are a few things to think about for 2012. Continue reading

Resiliency Challenge: Pull Your Trigger

Odds are, you may have made a commitment this week to change some of your current habits and routines. Habits are hard to break because by their very nature they are non-conscious, and we don’t think much about them. In order to add some consciousness, set up a trigger to remind you to practice your new behaviors. Continue reading

Resiliency Challenge: Make Your Gratitude List

As someone who’s goal oriented, I have a tendency to put blinders on and fixate on what’s next…on what’s not working yet and where I’m trying to go. I celebrate success for a few seconds, put it behind me, look forward again, and refocus on the next “thing”. Continue reading

Resiliency Challenge: Take the Stairs

Your assignment this week is to take the stairs whenever possible – it’s a great way to manage your energy and burn extra calories. You’ll also find out which is faster: the stairs or the elevator? Continue reading

Resiliency Challenge: Hara Hachi Bu

This week’s challenge is to only eat to about 80% full at meals – what the Japanese call Hara Hachi Bu. Continue reading

Six Goal Setting Tips + One Crazy Face

Have you started thinking about your goals for 2012 yet? Here are a few tips for success from my latest NBC KARE 11 Health & Fitness segment. One of my goals should be to stop making insane facial gestures… Continue reading

 

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