Four Tips to Help You Exercise with Baby at Home

Four Tips to Help You Exercise with Baby at Home

Schedule: Plan out your week by putting an “exercise”  appointment in your calendar or setting an alarm on your phone. If you set aside a specific time in your day, you’re more likely to show up and get your sweat on! Babies and kids need consistency and a schedule...
Ditch The Damn Scale!

Ditch The Damn Scale!

Now before you think I’ve completely lost my marbles, hear me out. The best way to show ourselves and our body the respect it deserves is to ditch the scale.  Stepping on a scale can, within seconds, turn a great day into a train wreck. Our weight can fluctuate wildly...
Minimum Effective Dose

Minimum Effective Dose

Okay Tina, what’s with the boiling kettle?  Boiling water is often used as an example when describing Minimum Effective Dose or MED.   Okay…..So what is a minimum effective dose and what does it have to do with exercise, fitness and eating?  I...
The 5am Club

The 5am Club

After hearing about it for many years, last month I decided to join the 5am Club.  Although the concept of the 5am club has been around for centuries (ei: “the early bird gets the worm” or “early to bed and early to rise makes a man healthy, wealthy and wise”) it was...
Toxic Positivity

Toxic Positivity

“Everything worthwhile in life is won through surmounting the associated negative experience. Any attempt to escape the negative, to avoid it or quash it or silence it, only backfires. The avoidance of suffering is a form of suffering. The avoidance of struggle is a...
5 Tips to Help You Slow Down and Enjoy Life

5 Tips to Help You Slow Down and Enjoy Life

This quote really resonated with me. I think back on the last 10 years of my life and there are big voids and gaps in my memory. There is an entire year that, even if my life depended on it, I couldn’t tell you one thing that happened to me…good or bad.I was...