Does your food guilt kick in when you hear the phrase “chocolate cake?” Do the terms “bad,” “decadent,” or “sinful” come to mind? A hard truth I learned as a dietitian is that knowing more about my food doesn’t mean I won’t crave (and eat) my fair share of chocolate […]
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From the Beachbody On Demand Blog – October 22, 2018 | By: Trinh Le, R.D. Everywhere you turn, there are bowls of Halloween candy that are full of spooky ingredients like sugar, fat, chocolate, soy lecithin, polyglycerol polyricinoleate, sodium metabisulfate, resinous glaze, and carnauba wax — yum! OK, let’s be honest […]
Focus on Your Fitness Balloon Fiesta has come and gone here in Albuquerque and we are more than three weeks into fall. Most of us came off of summer with pretty good levels of fitness and hopefully being pretty healthy. But now we are inside more, cold and flu season has […]
Simple Truths One of my favorite websites for motivational and inspirational videos, is Simple Truths. I turned to it just yesterday to find a video that I love entitled, “What It Takes to Be Number One” with the words and voice of legendary football coach Vince Lombardi. I wanted to post […]
I am a Team Beachbody coach and I use Beachbody products. I don’t get paid to use the products. I use the products because of the quality, the sourcing and because they do what they claim to do. Just like you, I have to find ways to save on Shakeology […]
According to the U.S. News & World Report Best Diet Rankings of 2019, the Mediterranean diet is #1 overall. One minute, the villain is fat, then it’s carbs, then sugar, and so on. Fad diets and food trends come and go, but the merits of a few diets have stood […]
If you want to make lasting, sustainable changes to how you eat, try these 8 ways to start eating healthy and try to add one or two healthy habits at a time. Eating healthier doesn’t have to be hard, stressful, expensive, or inconvenient. It also doesn’t have to happen overnight […]
Whether you’ve made a detailed list of new year’s resolutions or you’re just going to try to be a little healthier, the struggle to stay on track is real. It definitely helps if someone has your back family, friends, or a group of like-minded people who can keep you accountable. And it […]
Eating healthy on a budget versus what you hear, “Healthy food is expensive.†It’s an excuse we’ve all heard (or told ourselves!), but cost more than what? A gym membership that you never use? Juice cleanses? Packaged foods and fast food? Eating out every day? Buying food any food can […]
The immune system helps you stay healthy, and the food you eat helps to support it. At the end of the day, it is always best to get the molecular building blocks for a strong immune system from the foods you eat, and nature absolutely provides us with […]
The good news: You can get great abs by eating healthy. The bad news: No matter how much physical effort you put into sculpting a smokin’ six-pack crunches, planks, squats, cardio, HIIT no one’s going to see them if they’re covered by a layer of flab. 7 Ways to Eat […]
Should You Try Intermittent Fasting? From the Beachbody On Demand Blog, October 11, 2017 | BY: Denis Faye, M.S. The Short Answer: Ah, intermittent fasting! Yet another attempt by modern humans to suffer the way our ancestors did in hopes of becoming more awesome. Technically, intermittent fasting has been around […]
Some people can’t start their day without eating breakfast. Others can’t stand the thought of eating breakfast. If you needed to eat breakfast to lose weight, I wonder if it would change their mind? From the Beachbody On Demand Blog, November 4, 2016 | BY: Kara Wahlgren Breakfast is the […]
I just got an email from Forks Over Knives and want to share this article, “Is the Sugar in Fruit Healthy or Unhealthy?” Forks Over Knives “empowers people to live healthier lives by changing the way the world understands nutrition”. That’s why I want to share this article. It is […]
From the Beachbody On Demand Blog, October 11, 2017 | BY: Rebecca Swanner and Kirsten Morningstar Eating healthy doesn’t need to be complicated or boring! Here are 55 low-calorie snacks – all under 150 calories – that are easy-to-prepare and will keep your taste buds happy! 1. Mini tostada […]
Let’s be frank: Cooking for one can be challenging. And it’s not just single folks who face this issue. If you’re trying to eat healthy and the family wants to stick with their old standbys, you’ve probably tried to figure out how to eat healthy, feed your family, and stay […]
Today was not a good day for me to work out. Each morning, before anything else, I do a Polar orthostatic test with my Polar V800 and then I do a heart rate variability test with the Elite HRV app. Today I was a “5” with abnormally elevated parasympathetic activity. […]
As a time saver after my workouts, I add three ingredients to the blender when I make my Beachbody Performance Recover. The first two work together. One is about half a cup or so of orange juice and the other is Trader Joe’s Power Greens which has spinach. The acidic […]
From the Team Beachbody Blog Shaun T is back with an exciting new home workout exclusively on Beachbody On Demand – SHAUN WEEK: Insane Focus, starting June 12th. It’s not Shark Week, but Shaun Week – a seven-day, high-intensity workout that includes the best moves from Shaun T’s fat-busting programs […]
A new study says that excess protein is making you fat. But, here’s why you shouldn’t base your diet on certain headlines. It used to be that fat made you fat. Then the culprit was carbs. Now, a team of researchers from the University of Adelaide in Australia suggests that […]
Let’s be frank: Cooking for one can be challenging. And it’s not just single folks who face this issue. If you’re trying to eat healthy and the family wants to stick with their old standbys, you’ve probably tried to figure out how to eat healthy, feed your family, and stay […]
I don’t smoke, drink, do drugs or go to parties. I run. What’s your stress reliever? I think that we can all agree that stress is a killer, too often, literally. I have had so much stress in the past eight years, sometimes what could even be categorized as super […]
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What’s a “take down date”? We’ve been blessed with sales on Beachbody Challenge Packs for years but that comes to an end with the release of the Annual All Access Beachbody On Demand and Shakeology Challenge Pack. Now, for just $199.00, you get a Challenge Pack with Shakeology, you can […]
From the Beachbody On Demand Blog, October 11, 2016 | BY: Denis Faye, M.S. The Short Answer: It’s absolutely OK to have a cheat meal! If the rest of your diet plan is tight, there’s nothing wrong with cutting loose once or twice a week. In fact, the shift in […]
Country Heat is a fun and simple dance inspired workout that will help you to burn calories while you move your body to the beat of some of your favorite songs. You can purchase Country Heat for $59.85 by clicking here or you can get it for just $10.00 in […]
According to the National Sleep Foundation, among adults in the United States, up to 40 percent of the population has problems falling asleep or feeling sleepy during daytime hours. A brand-new study published in Respiratory Medicine found that consistent exercise in subjects who suffer from sleep apnea significantly improves sleep […]
Can you really get a good workout in just 22 minutes? Yes and I should know because I have 22 Minute Hard Corps and I know that you will love the workouts and the program as much as I do. What you will love even more is saving a lot […]
Eating more than your body needs over and over again is the best strategy for weight gain. Rocket science? Of course not. Most Americans have figured out how to tip the scales with70 percent now falling into the overweight or obese categories. But what happens inside your body when you […]
Instagram users upload 80 million photos on a given day. Granted, many of them are blurry selfies, memes, baby pics, and landscape shots, 99 percent of which have been mutilated by a gross misunderstanding of filter etiquette. But a bundle of those 80M is also of food: colorful salads […]
How do I know that the 3 Day Refresh works? Because I bought it and used it and got just the results that I was looking for – dropping a few pounds and feeling “refreshed” and ready to resume my clean eating and superfood nutrition with Shakeology. Break the Cycle […]
Last night, I read a Joyce Meyer devotional, “Promises for Your Everyday Life – a Daily Devotional” with the title above. I am going to share it in its entirety below because it is exactly what we should be thinking as we plan out our lives. “Some of us […]
Yesterday I created a new accountability group entitled, “Fitness Simplified, Nutrition Simplified“. I want to share with you how I stay healthy, fit and how you, too, can do it like I do for about $4.00 a day. Every day, I have the opportunity to do a workout following a […]
Stress has plagued me (like a plague) for years. My rock for staying healthy has always been Shakeology and it has worked for me for over 5 years. Last summer, though, I was just feeling really drained and by chance, stopped at a Pharmaca for the first time […]
For National Nutrition month, Team Beachbody is putting together a collection of five recipes for you to try every week. These delicious recipes are all easy to make and, of course, good for you. Here are the Week One recipes for you to make, eat and enjoy. Crispy Oven-Baked Chicken […]
By Denis Faye – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter About a year ago, I decided to take back my night. It had been three years since my divorce, a hellish experience that had completely robbed me of my ability to sleep. 3 hours was an average night. 5 hours was […]
By DeLane McDuffie – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter With Mardi Gras beginning today, many of you will be experiencing some of that Cajun/Creole/Louisiana flavor. Test your knowledge of the following Louisiana staples. What cocktail is reported to be America’s first? Creole pharmacist Antoine Peychaud invented the Sazerac […]
By Zack Zeigler – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter Which do you want first the good news or the bad news? The bad news? You got it, glass-is-half-empty exerciser. Here it is: There is no magical way to speed up your metabolism. So all the mystical pills and potions that […]
By Kara Wahlgren – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter Want to lose weight? Get a promotion? Take over the world? Here’s how to make sure your New Year’s resolution becomes a reality. First, the bad news: The odds are stacked against you. A few years ago, psychologist Richard Wiseman conducted […]
By Denis Faye – from the Team Beachbody Newsletter Like many a poor sap trying to make the most of this hectic world, my mind tends to churn like a washing machine filled with ferrets. Even in the most tranquil of moments, dozens of thoughts scrape and bite to get […]
You want it all, so you work out intensely day after day after day. What does Tony Horton or Shaun T or Chalene know. You don’t need no stinking day off. But then, oops, you are a little tired and don’t feel like working out. You […]
By Zack Zeigler – From the Team Beachbody Newsletter As the weather gets colder, it forces us to do things like wear clothing that covers our midriffs and spend more time trapped indoors with people who have runny noses and hacking coughs. To stay out of the infirmary, we need […]