Category: Body

Do You Like What You See When You Look In The Mirror?

Do you like what you see when you look in the mirror?

I can totally relate after just finishing up treatment for thyroid cancer and gaining 20 pounds, there isn’t much about my body that I like right now. So how do you go about changing that body image of yourself?

I’d like to give you a few tips because if you’re really suffering from poor body image or not liking what you see in the mirror, you’re not going to be your best self.

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Thyroid And Weight Loss: How One Affects The Other

Just wanted to touch base a little bit on thyroid and weight loss issues. I spent some really great quality time yesterday with an integrative medicine doctor who specializes in this type of area. And one of the things that came out of it was that as long as your thyroid is out of whack, especially those of us who are working to find your right dosage of thyroid medication, your body knows that is going on and it’s going to hold onto whatever weight it has.

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How Much Water Should You Be Drinking A Day?

I just finished teaching a boot camp to my amazing clients and it got me thinking—they were really struggling with getting enough fluids in. So we went over a few little guidelines on water and I thought, “You know what? How many of us don’t really even how much we should be drinking?”

So I decided to talk to you here today a little about what water does for us. So here we go!

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What’s Stopping You From Feeling Better?

This has been a really special week for me, and a tough week in the same time as it’s my farewell tour of teaching fitness classes here in Connecticut. Having everyone reach out to me and show up for my last classes has really been special. But it’s also been a really emotional week in many ways. You know, teaching my last set of classes I always envisioned I’d be at my peak of health and fitness. And I’m not there. And the frustration that that can cause.

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