So I met a buddy for a “Turbo Kick Boxing” class at the gym and it was definitely an experience!  The instructor started with asking who was new to the class and my friend and I shot up our hands without hesitation.  She warned us, “don’t judge this until your 5th session after you’ve learned [...]

As I sit here this morning and reflect on this past week, I can’t stop thinking about my research topic and one of my favorite novels: Pride and Prejudice.  And you know how I always say I’m fascinated by the interconnectedness of the different avenues of our lives, right?  Well, here are the top three [...]

I’ve blogged here before about how to calculate how many calories you should eat a day depending on your body and your goal.  I realize that once you have that info., you might not know what to do with it!  Calorie content is listed on the nutritional labels of all packaged foods you eat.  For [...]

We’ve all been dreading this word, but I have to say it…GYM.  I know, I know.  Immediately you groan and images of sweat and grossness are conjured.  Come on guys — exercise is an integral part of maintaining your health.  Here are the five ways I’ve learned to keep myself going back to the gym [...]

I am a calorie counter and to this day you will find me running tabs on my computer calculator or on a sheet of paper.  Knowing how much you’re consuming and how much you’re burning is a dummy-proof way to manage your weight whether you’re trying to lose or maintain it (or even gain if [...]

If you’ve ever seen me running at the gym, you’ve seen my brows furrowed and my lips pursed in anger. That’s me channeling the anger that ignites me inside, that pushes me to run for long stretches of time and allows me to finish feeling like I haven’t ran away from my anger, but confronted and beat it.  [...]

At nineteen years old, my twin brother Chris and I had enough with our personal “status quo” of obesity. Of course, we had had “enough” countless times before and danced the hokey pokey on the weight-loss bandwagon. But getting fed up and ignited to change something within us seems to be a recurring theme (see [...]