, ,

Holiday Health Without The Hustle

, ,

We often hear about the need for a "holiday survival kit," but just using the word survival suggests the season is something difficult we must simply endure. The truth is, the holidays provide a wonderful chance to build connection and lean into celebration.

This season, avoid the all-or-nothing trap of thinking you must "start over in January." The most lasting success is built by practicing flexibility now. Learn to use the Dial Mindset Method to adjust your effort based on life's reality and the Nutrition Continuum to make small, incremental upgrades to your eating. Your goal is not perfection, but consistency, which leads to confidence and long-term health success beyond the holidays.

, ,

Unlocking Your Daily Energy Budget For High Performance

, ,

Energy is not endless, but you do have some control over it when you apply strategic recovery. I teach you how to recover like an athlete by mastering the 90-Minute Rule. This approach transforms the cumulative stress of work, training, and parenting into lasting focus, higher productivity, and resilience across all parts of your life.

, ,

Simplifying Your Half-Marathon Fueling Plan: A Nutrition Experiment of One

, ,

A lot of nutrition guides for half marathon training are overly complicated and aimed at elite athletes, which can be intimidating for the average runner. This blog post is about taking the pressure off by treating your fueling as a personal, no-math-required experiment throughout your 12-to-16-week training cycle. As a health coach and personal trainer, my goal is to give you simple, straightforward guidelines so you can figure out what works best for your body, ensuring you have the energy needed to train well, recover fully, and cross the finish line feeling strong.

, ,

Rethinking "Clean Eating" Why Your Food Language Is Keeping You Stuck

, ,

In this blog post, I explain why terms like "eat clean" and "cheat meal" can actually undermine your long-term health efforts. As a health coach, I see how this kind of rigid, judgmental language creates frustration and keeps good people feeling stuck. Since no one can even agree on what "clean" means, it turns enjoying food into a confusing moral struggle. I share how letting go of this black-and-white thinking is the key to making sustainable progress. Your health journey should feel supportive and fit your real life, not an impossible ideal.