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Healthy Holiday Favorites

Beachbody Super Trainer Autumn Calabrese shares her tips for staying on track with your healthy holiday favorites for the holidays. “It’s not one meal that throws us off track. You can enjoy Thanksgiving dinner and be fine. It’s when you eat Thanksgiving dinner for a week or it’s when you […]

Healthy Holiday Favorites to Improve Your Menu

Weight Loss Myths

Weight loss myths abound.  If you google “weight-loss tips”, you’ll get around 38 million results. Let’s point out some of those that are definitely myths. How many times have you heard someone say something like, “I want to lose weight, so I’m going to start taking these fat-burning pills!” Or, “I want […]

Weight Loss Myths that Still Abound

How to Stop Food Guilt

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 […]

Food Guilt – 5 Tips for Getting Over It

Healthy Holiday Workout Tips

According to our Beachbody trainers, these healthy holiday workout tips will maintain your mindset and keep you in check until the new year kicks in. The holidays are almost upon us and that means lots and lots of fun, food, and festivities. There’s no better time than the holiday season […]

Healthy Holiday Workout Tips from Beachbody Trainers

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Apple Raisin Cake

This Apple Raisin Cake is packed full of delicious ingredients like apples, raisins, cinnamon, walnuts, whole-wheat flour, olive oil, and honey. That said, it’s definitely still a treat, so don’t go overboard! All you’ll need is a big sheet pan. When it’s done, just cut into squares and serve. No […]

Apple Raisin Cake

No Excuse November No Excuse November is a promotion by Team Beachbody to take advantage of some of the best deals of the year on Challenge and Completion Packs.  With $20 off all Challenge and Completion Packs priced at $150 or more, there simply hasn’t been a better deal all […]

No Excuse November

Halloween Candy - The 17 Scariest

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 […]

Halloween Candy – The 17 Scariest

Can Probiotics Boost Athletic Performance

From the Beachbody On Demand Blog – October 17, 2016 | BY: Ben Sullivan Can probiotics boost athletic performance?  “From a research perspective, we still know so little about the microbiome’s role in fitness,” says Corrie Whisner, Ph.D., an associate professor of nutrition at Arizona State University. “It’s truly an untapped area which […]

Can Probiotics Boost Athletic Performance?

Why It's Harder Than Ever to Lose Weight

From the Beachbody On Demand Blog – April 10, 2017 | BY: Kristina LaRue, R.D.N., C.S.S.D. Why is it harder to lose weight than ever?  Even though for decades, leading weight loss experts have preached the same formula: Sweat more and eat less. And if you’ve ever thought that sounds too easy […]

Why It’s Harder to Lose Weight Than Ever

Focus on Your Fitness

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 […]

Focus on Your Fitness – Now is the Time

Finish

“Finish” Former New York Giants head coach Tom Coughlin and I share a love of inspirational stories, quotes and videos I learned yesterday. I was searching on Prime for a running video to watch and I saw, “Running for Jim“, the inspirational story of Coach Jim Tracy, his team and […]

“Finish”

Are You Ready to Do The Work? I must admit that I was skeptical at first about 6 Weeks of The Work, but I have spent a good amount of time getting to know Amoila Cesar and he is the real deal. Even if he didn’t have a compelling story […]

Are You Ready to Do the Work

What It Takes to Be Number One

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 […]

Simple Truths

Rising Above the Clouds

Rising Above the Clouds On Sunday, I was blessed to be able to run again on the Pino Trail here in Albuquerque on a day that would seem less than favorable for an enjoyable run. Light rain, 62 degrees (after it has been so warm, even in the morning) and cloudy. But […]

Rising Above the Clouds That Are Hanging Over Us

Running for a Lifetime

On September 1, 2019, I completed 53 years of running and I have basically been running for a lifetime. Now we’ll see what the future holds. On this day in 1966, I had no idea that meeting my friend Tom at the Raritan Valley Country Club for the first day […]

Running for a Lifetime

Morning Meltdown 100 - Save $30.00

Morning Meltdown 100 Challenge Packs and Completion Packs are on sale in August for $20.00 off.  With my promo codes, Morning Meltdown 100 is $30.00 off! What’s Morning Meltdown? It is the first Beachbody program designed to be done in the morning, so you can head into your day feeling […]

Morning Meltdown 100 – $30.00 Off!

Shakeology Ingredients - How They Work Together

From the Beachbody On Demand Blog – August 5th, 2019 by Denis Faye One of the things that makes Shakeology ingredients so great is the synergy of the ingredients – the way that they work better together. “The whole is greater than the sum of its parts.” —Aristotle It’s hard to […]

Shakeology Ingredients – How They Work Together

Morning Meltdown 100

From the Beachbody On Demand Blog – July 1, 2019 With her new program, Morning Meltdown 100, Jericho is going to help you unlock the very best version of yourself by helping you achieve an incredible goal: to complete 100 workouts! Your morning has the power to set the tone for […]

Stream Morning Meltdown 100

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Keep Pressing On in the Swiss Alps

I first posted “Keep Pressing On and Keep Believing” on February 24th, 2012.  I recently heard John Maxwell share the story and I wanted to share it again with you now. A famous mountain climbing resort in the Swiss Alps caters to businesses that encourage their employees to hike up […]

Keep Pressing On and Keep Believing

Ebony Lost 36 pounds with a Beachbody On Demand Challenge Pack

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 […]

How to Save on Shakeology and Get the Best Deal

At Least I Had a Sense of Humor

I just came across an editorial comment that I made in a newsletter that I sent out years ago.   I will say almost 4 years ago to be precise.   I must admit that I had a sense of humor!   My health and my life have changed dramatically […]

At Least I Had a Sense of Humor

If you have ever visited my personal social media profiles on Facebook, Twitter or Instagram, you may wonder why I never post about Team Beachbody or coaching or anything related to business.   That’s because there, I share my faith and I make it a point to share everything health […]

A Question of Ministry

Darlene Lost 84 Pounds in 15 Months

We all have trials, but weight loss has not been one of mine.  When I think about how Darlene lost 84 pounds in 15 months, I start to think about how much strength, determination and courage that must have taken.  Here is her story and how she used Beachbody On […]

Darlene Lost 84 Pounds in 15 Months

Transform :20 - Body & Mind Transformed

Remember step workouts from back in the day?   I do, but I sure didn’t have Shaun T leading me in the workouts! This breakthrough total-body workout might be intense, but Transform :20 with Shaun T will be the most productive 20 minutes of your day. It’s fast, it’s hard, […]

Transform :20 With Shaun T

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