When it comes to sleep–I’m all about the sleep quality versus how many hours I’m actually in bed. I can sleep for 8 hours straight, but I have a really hard time falling into what’s known as the REM cycle of sleep. This part of your sleep cycle is when you dream, process emotions and solidify certain memories–it’s very important for brain function. I could literally go months without having a single dream and after doing a bit of research…
Unless you’ve been living underneath a rock for the last year, I’m sure you all have noticed the current ‘it’ ingredient that’s popping up in supplements, dog treats, recipes, and now skincare products. CBD, different from THC, is a non-psychoactive cannabinoid that’s known to contain healing properties, but completely eliminates the high. So how is this new ingredient literally inhabiting every space in the health and wellness industry? Just call me Nancy Drew because I fell deep into a CBD…
Feel like you are working your ass off in the gym, eating right, drinking all the water, and just not seeing results? There are so many reasons as to why this might be happening, but one in particular that a lot of folks don’t consider is that you might not be doing the right workouts for your specific body type. I recently touched on this subject in an Instagram post and received an influx of body type related questions, as…
I love sitting back and observing which direction fitness will turn next. One year we’re 15 deep on the waitlist to Zumba, sweating our asses off in short shorts at Bikram yoga (pre Netflix documentary, yikes), or signing up for a Crossfit competition to see how much weight we can throw on a barbell and lift over our heads. One decade we are maxing out on step aerobics, praying that our asses get smaller and in the next we’re buying…
I had a lot of other blog posts on my list to write this week–ones about favorite jeans, benefits of Eucalyptus, wellness tips, an updated skincare routine–you know, the usual shit I’ve been writing about as of late. But, I haven’t been real on here in a minute and the topic of burn outs has been pulling on my heartstrings over the past couple of weeks. We as humans can burnout doing just about anything–it could happen in regards to…
This time of year I can’t get on any form of social media without seeing the word diet plastered all over my feed. Let’s get a few things straight about the word diet. The term diet (noun) is described as, “the kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats.” A diet is not associated with restriction, abstention, or constraint. In my not so humble opinion, I believe the phrase, “I’m going on a diet,” is outrageously outdated…
I’ve given almost every healthy diet fad a try, mixed up my workouts, sweat once or twice a day, and tried basically everything I could to minimize my stress levels and lose a little weight. It wasn’t until I completely switched up my morning routine that the weight started coming off with minimal effort. The small changes that greatly affected my health didn’t involve weighing out my food, prepping every meal into Tupperware containers, or working myself to death in…
Fitness comes in phases: Phase 1: The obsession Fitness is you. You are fitness. Everything about your life is fitness. Fitness overcomes every fiber of your being. Who even were you before your gym membership and weekly salads? Those days were seriously dark. The shirtless mirror selfies and snap chats of your steamed vegetables are in full force with no feelings of remorse. You have seen the light and are fully embracing green juice and kale salad. This phase comes to…