by Christy Holt | Apr 27, 2018 | food, general health, health & fitness, sleep, stress
Stress! Its causes are absolutely everywhere. Would you agree? Our natural “fight or flight” stress response can sometimes go a little overboard. It’s supposed to help us escape injury or death in an emergency and then return to normal after we’ve fought or...
by Christy Holt | Apr 20, 2018 | food, general health
Having any sort of food intolerance is no fun. Intolerances can cause obvious symptoms such as abdominal pain, discomfort, and nausea and some rather embarrassing symptoms such as flatulence and diarrhea. Still other less obvious symptoms are linked to food...
by Christy Holt | Apr 13, 2018 | aging, body positivity, food, general health, health & fitness, stress, Uncategorized
Okay friends, prepare yourself for a telling statistic about exercise programs…. According to Rod K. Dishman, Ph.D., director of the Behavioral Fitness Laboratory at the University of Georgia, nearly 50 percent of people who begin an exercise program drop out...
by Christy Holt | Apr 6, 2018 | aging, food, general health, health & fitness, hormones, sleep, stress
You are absolutely positive that you’re NOT eating more food or “junkier” food but you’re STILL gaining weight. What gives?! How is this even possible?!! You are NOT going crazy! And here’s why… We both know that the whole “calories in,...
by Christy Holt | Mar 30, 2018 | food, general health, health & fitness
A food preservative is something added to foods to make them last longer; to “preserve” them. Preservatives are added to foods that go bad quickly and have found themselves in all kinds of products in our grocery stores these days. Preservatives work to...
by Christy Holt | Mar 23, 2018 | body positivity, food, general health, health & fitness
Weight loss advice is so common (and contentious) now. There are competing opinions everywhere. I say, forget about “who’s right” and let’s focus on “what’s right.” Because what gets results is what I’m focusing on in...