Hello friends! You all know how passionate I am about health coaching and how much of a GAMER CHANGER having a coach can be! However, coaching itself is such a truly transformative experience. If you think that you would benefit from a whole life makeover, I want to give you another option featuring someone I trust and love dearly. And that is my beautiful cousin Emmy! Emmanuelle Georges, founder of Love Your Being, is a certified life coach. She obtained her certification at the Life Coach Training Institute in San Francisco. She has worked extensively with women and is passionate about empowering them. Emmanuelle works with clients individually, gives group…
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Top 7 Life changing Plant-based documentaries to get you inspired
Hello friends! When I was 18 years old and headed to the Big City, I was on a direct path to change the world. I had a CLEAR vision of what I wanted to do with my life. I KNEW that my future was in health and wellness and I assumed that meant becoming a doctor. It made complete sense. I loved science, especially biology, and I got good grades. I wanted to help people get healthy and knew that the medicine offered an opportunity to have an amazing impact. Yet, by senior year of college I wasn’t so sure anymore. Suddenly I had this enormous task of tackling the…
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10 Benefits of Intermittent Fasting you cannot ignore
Hello friends! Contrary to popular belief, we don’t really need to eat as often as we do. Some diet plans suggest that we eat 5-6 times a day. This idea ends up making us eat more than we need to every day. Eating that much can have a very detrimental effect to our weight loss efforts. If you are struggling to lose weight and you follow these types of plans, you may want to read on to learn that there is a better way. See, when we eat we trigger insulin which is released into the bloodstream. Insulin is the hormone that tells our cells to take in glucose. Glucose…
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Your ultimate HIIT guide: 20 High Intensity Interval Training workouts that you can try today
Hello friends! So I know far too well just how hard it can be to find a workout style that truly works and gets you the results you desire. I’ve tried A LOT of different workout styles and only one has really changed the game. That’s why today I want to talk about HIIT, or High Intensity Interval Training. It is by far my favorite type of exercise! If you are serious about reaching your fitness goal, HIIT is definitely worth a try! There are so many benefits to HIIT workouts and I’ve got some awesome examples and options to get you started! But first, what is HIIT? HIIT is…
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Your mini guide to defeating bad habits for good
Hello friends! So consider this quote: You are a sum of your habits. Think about it. You wake up to the same routine every day. Sleep. Work. Social life/family/kids. Every day (for most of us) the same. Those habits you have developed shape your life, your well-being, and everything you care about. They shape who you are as a person and direct your path. While it’s definitely necessary to break out of routine when you can, there is great power in using this structure to your advantage in your wellness journey. We all have bad habits, that’s a by-product of being human. But there are some habits that can really…
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Willpower, Motivation, Discipline. The success trifecta
Hello friends! So starting a fitness journey is hard. Staying committed is so much harder. The feeling at the end is priceless. So how do we get there? Well there are certain components of the human experience that are big catalysts for change in your life. Working on these things could be the difference between getting the body you want and staying stuck in the same place. They are motivation, willpower, and discipline. When you think about what these words really mean and the part they play in your fitness journey, you will learn to cultivate them and finally make good on all the promises you made to yourself. Motivation…
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60 Tiny shifts that add up to BIG results!
Hello friends! So there is a lot of pressure put on us to become our “true selves” overnight. There are way too many YouTube videos about how this person lost 100 lbs. in 6 months or that person dropped 6 dress sizes in 3 months. It’s totally unrealistic! No one is successful that way, not for long. Getting in shape is a marathon not a sprint. Cliche but true. Success is a collection of a million choices that all work together to create big changes. We need to look at the choices we make every day that lead to the results we see. The best way to get started is…
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5 Different ways to measure your weight loss progress
Hello friends! So losing weight is probably one of the hardest things any one individual will ever try to accomplish. There is a billion dollar industry trying to help people reach this seemingly impossible goal. Millions of people are in this battle with themselves to succeed and finally have the strong, sculpted body of their dreams. One of the hardest parts of this journey is not seeing results fast enough. We check the scale too often and don’t really see beyond that number. When it doesn’t change in our favor, we become frustrated and lose sight of what we are trying to do. So getting past that number is so…
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The #1 Thing You Need to Give Up to Lose Weight
Hello friends! There are so many things that make the Standard American Diet so unbelievably unhealthy. Fast food and processed food cause so much damage to the body and really affect it’s ability to function at its peak. Learn about my take on the solution to these problems HERE. However, there is one component to these foods that is really the root of many major healthy issues. I know you don’t want to hear it but the #1 culprit in weight gain and disease is…..SUGAR! Sugar is more or less the devil and is getting in the way of your weight loss success. Don’t believe me? Below are some of…
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7 Myths about plant-based eating that are keeping you from changing your life
Hello friends! So one thing I am very passionate about is plant-based eating. During my service year in Los Angeles, I consumed a lot of information about the plant-based lifestyle (not diet). I dove head first into that life style and really changed everything I was eating. I was lucky to find the documentaries that really sold me on the the amazing benefits of eating this way. My top 5 are: Forks Over Knives Hungry for Change Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead What the Health Food Matters Click HERE to learn more about my favorite plant-based documentaries. People get really sensitive when you suggest that meat and dairy could be…
