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Are Your Snacks Sabotaging Your Fat Loss Success?
I don’t know what it is about feeling the need to snack at night, but I think most of us struggle with our eating after 5pm more than any other time of the day. So what do you do when you want results,...
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Jerk Chicken & Mango Salad
I was in the mood for something different last night so I whipped this together and it was totally delish!! After I posted it on facebook & instagram, a recipe was requested so here you go! Jerk...
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What the Kale is THAT!?
My friend GiGi is one Kale of a blogger. She totally cracks me up with her fun wit, but inspires me with her passion for eating healthy – and just making healthy living super fun. After one of her...
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6 Excuse Busters
#1 Excuse: I don’t have enough time. Excuse BUSTER: Everyone can MAKE time. We make time for things we enjoy. How much time are you on the computer? How much do you watch TV? Could you wake up one hour...
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BREAK-THE-FAST RIGHT! The Best & Worse Breakfasts
The word “breakfast” literally means breaking the fast. After not eating for hours during the night, your first meal of the day breaks the fast, raises your blood sugar, and revs your metabolism....
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10 Recipes for Healthy Veggie Chips
If you love your salty snacks at night, there are very few choices that may fit your caloric budget. Last night I was feeling adventurous. I looked in the refrigerator and took a mental note of what I...
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Why Losing Weight Gets Harder as You Get Thinner
When someone starts a new diet and workout routine they often feel the have a disadvantage but, when someone is overweight, they have more going for them than they think. On the flips side, thinner...
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Vacation from Work – and Diet
It’s been so quiet here at PFITblog for the last week. Why? Because I was on VACAAAATION!! Woo Hoo! But now I’m back and I’m ready to type until my fingers bleed! After our Team Max group (pictured...
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Stop the Fatcation: 6 Tips to Prevent Vaca Weight Gain
Fatcation: /fatˈkāSHən/ (n) While on vacation, you do more getting fat than sightseeing. I just got back from a fatcation, I mean vacation. Vacations can be scary for dieters, but just because you go...
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The Dieter’s (Smart) Shopping List
Eat Smart. Shop Smart. If you can’t shop right, you can’t eat right. Dieting and eating clean (low-fat, high protein, whole foods) starts at the grocery store. Below is a shopping list categorized by...
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Beginner’s Guide to PFITness
Whether you are just starting a diet or workout program, or you are REstarting your fitness program, you may need a little help starting strong. Since people are always asking me to help them with...
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Best Diet Tip of All Time
A FIVE GUYS burger with fries = 1,460 CALORIES. That could take 14 MILES to WALK OR RUN OFF! Know what it takes to erase extra calories: 1 Tall Salted Caramel Latte = 1 Hour Power Walk 1 Side of...
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Grocery Shop with Me! 7 Healthy Shopping Tips & This Week’s Grocery List
One of my facebook friends, Vanessa, commented on my omelet yesterday morning and said she’d love to see my shopping list. So I decided to grab my receipt and share what i got. First, I must confess....
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Why Do We Eat MORE When We Workout LESS?
Most of us have done this before. We skip a few workouts, and before you know it, we are eating crappy, eating too much, feeling fat, and just eating more and more. Here are 3 chemical reasons why we...
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Cooking with Quinoa: Turkey Meatloaf Recipe & More!
My husband, Steve, LOVES him some meatloaf! It’s his favorite dish I make. And, for people who really don’t like the texture of meat, it’s a great way to get more protein in your diet when you are sick...
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Strong in the Gym, but Not in the Kitchen?
I’ve never heard anyone say “I feel so fat, if only I could be stronger in the gym”. No, that never happens. What they say is, “I’m so fat, I just wish I could be stronger around food”. The fact is,...
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The Cost of Living: A New Way to Look at Dieting
We live by rules in every part of our life – finances, marriage, work and government, to name of few. But, we expect NOT to live by rules when it comes to food. For some reason we think those kind of...
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Dining on a Diet: 4 Easy Mistakes
One of the things I like to do is share my stupid mistakes so YOU don’t REPEAT THEM! Yep, I am not afraid to tell you just how bad I blew it. I may be a fitness professional, and although I know a lot...
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5 Ways to Feel Thinner in 3 Days
We all do it. We blow our diet over the weekend. We not only eat poorly, but we just eat too much. By the time Monday comes around, we feel fat and miserable – and we feel like we are 10lbs heavier...
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Muscle Meat Recipe: Food for Fitness
Two weeks ago, Steve was playing around with his LoseIt app to figure out what ingredients he’d need to make the ultimate nutritious meatloaf that was not only high in protein, but had a healthy dose...
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