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    The Shocking Trend on Balanced Healthy Living on Inspire Transformation.

    06/01/2017 - By 

    I was having a conversation with one of my favourite health coaches ever, Naomi Teeter, and the word “balance” came up. Why are we all so obsessed with it?? Naomi has a very healthy view of what balance is and she is so down to earth about it that the conversation got me thinking, WTF is balance? So I started to write and a rambling stream of thought came out….as this….   Balance is trendy. All the self-help gurus tell us we have to focus on balanced healthy living.   But WTF is Balance????   If you looked at my…

  • How To Find Your “FitFam”

    06/05/2016 - By 

    It is raining outside after a long week of harsh heat and sunlight. Here in Calgary, we were not accustomed to the sudden heat. Spring to sudden desert-like weather made most of us cranky! Now it is, mercifully, gray and raining. The weather is cool and the ground is getting the moisture it so desperately needs. I have been dragging my body out of bed the last couple of days again. Yesterday, I did a little BBG HIIT training but all of the shoulder work had the bursitis in my right shoulder acting up, so I had to mix up…

  • Mental Fitness

    05/02/2016 - By 

    I recognize this tight, dry, squeezing feeling in my chest. I recognize this smell of sweat and tightened brow. I recognize this headache. It’s you, Stress. You are not welcome back. You come for the oddest reasons and you out-stay your welcome. There are many reasons for you, most of them my own fault. You see, I get stressed for no reason during February when it is gray and I get a touch of seasonal depression that no amount of busy work can squash. I also get stressed when I take on too much. Which I do- always. I even…

  • My “New” Journey

    15/01/2016 - By 

    I am an arrogant idiot. There, I said it. Or I was. I was one of those “I looked up some fit quotes and ten articles about fitness, and now I know everything” assholes. Well then, if I know everything, why was I yo-yoing between 10 lbs from a healthy weight to 60 lbs away from it for years? Why did I look in the mirror and still see 200lb me from ten years ago??   I always thought, since I am not obese anymore, I didn’t need help. Judgmental, control freak me said that if I couldn’t do it…

  • How Food Logging Made Me Fat and What I Did to Change it.

    11/07/2015 - By 

    Once upon a time I was a chubby teenager that turned in to a pretty large adult. It wasn’t about looks so much as energy level and health that snapped every thing in to perspective for me and made me want to change. That makes it sound like it was an a-ha moment for me. It wasn’t. I struggled for years and years. I was anorexic in Grade 9, and a binge eater all through high school.  While I was in University I got in to dancing at raves. That helped a lot to keep my weight manageable, but my…

  • Two Minute Love Poem

    13/06/2015 - By 

    Yours Forever. I want to make                      out with you in alleyways- I want to trace your cheek with the        tip               of                          my                                       finger. I want to lace my heart with yours forever. Our hands         always         held before we jump in to each other.

  • Working Out: Alexa Jean Fitness

    08/04/2015 - By 

        For the first time ever, I spent money on an advertised workout. I bought an ab workout off of Instagram with my friend and we are keeping each other motivated to finish the full 30 days. The workout is Sore to the Core by Alexa Jean Fitness. Shockingly, along with changing my eating habits, it’s working!! I can’t follow a strict diet. I get panicky and fail or I forget all the rules and fail. I’m too unorganized to count calories, don’t have a food scale to weigh food, and can’t be bothered to shop for meal plans…

  • What Workout is The Best Workout?

    25/02/2015 - By 

    I am back on the workout wagon! A break is exactly what I needed. It was a much needed area of repair and rejuvenate. The workout break was also prescribed by my physiotherapist, but sometimes you need to be told it’s okay to take a rest, or necessary. I have been doing my physio exercises and focusing on creating stronger muscles in certain areas so I have better form and don’t stress them out again. My form is better and I have been getting fewer headaches so it is definitely working.   Now when I do my weights proper form…

  • Making Progress at Physio

    24/01/2015 - By 

    I went to physiotherapy this morning and it was wonderful. I love the lady I go to. She listens and is very activity based in her approach, which suits me just fine. Plus at the end we do neat stuff to me, like wrap me in a warm blanket and send little pulses in to my shoulder blade. It felt as if teeny fingers were massaging me in a warm bath. Which I enjoyed and almost fell asleep to. After that she taped my back straight so my shoulder won’t slump forward like it wants to! It feels interesting to…

  • One Healthy Lunch

    05/11/2014 - By 

    I am currently being forced to eat gluten so that my doctor can test me for Celiac disease. I eat it at breakfast and go for healthier, as-gluten-free-as-possible, delicious options through out the rest of the day. Today I wanted something that reminded me of a sandwich- but  without the bread. I didn’t come up with a new idea really, but this is a really delicious bread-free lunch you may want to try. I made my own variation. So here are the steps.   Ingredients: 1 fresh and ripe tomato cottage cheese 1 egg Sriracha sauce salt and pepper  …