A Summer Tasting Delight! This tasty treat has a few extra steps than many of our other recipes. However, it is a wonderful, healthy dish that is scrumptious enough to make it worth the effort! With a unique dressing and combination of ingredients, this salad is on my short list to take to the next […]

A client of ours who is pescatarian (i.e. doesn’t eat meat but eats fish) mentioned she’s thinking about maybe starting to meal prep for the week! Be still my heart! 😉 I tried to refrain from overloading her with information and ideas about meal prep since she really was just tossing the idea out there. […]

Awesome ideas are always coming into our wheelhouse via clients and other professionals! In an attempt to share these great resources rather than letting them stop with us, you can expect regular blog postings about them. Look for the Resource Share! heading. Feb 24, 2018  – vegetarian meal prep workshop in St. Paul Here are […]

While it’s personal training that gets all the credit for being PERSONAL, nutrition programs that aren’t personalized, are doomed to fail. Now I don’t mean a custom, just-for-you, never to be replicated by anyone kind of nutrition program, but if you haven’t consider how YOU, PERSONALLY will do with a program, you’re not giving yourself […]

Awesome ideas are always coming into our wheelhouse via clients and other health professionals! In an attempt to share these great resources rather than letting them stop with us, you can expect regular blog postings about them. Look for the Resource Share! heading.   Plant Nanny – Water reminder app that grows cute plants Tracking […]

About 6 months after getting my personal training certificate, my initial commitment to really turning my nutrition around was fading.  My good friend and personal training classmate asked me if I wanted to do this nutrition program with her. After looking at the details of Transition Lifestyle Solutions (TLS), it seemed like all of the nutrition […]

Having prepped my food most Sundays since 2012, my nutrition is 75% on cruise control. The other 25% is a mixture of positive and negative foods but I tend to take my liberties with cheese, sweets and other little treats in any given week. Many of the clients and friends I spend time with each week eat […]

PREPARE FOOD OR PREPARE TO FAIL I could list off all the changes I’ve made over the last 5 years to improve my own health and manage my weight. It has been a multi-step process to say the least. But I find that focusing on one change at a time makes me feel more focused, more […]

When I started prepping my meals ahead of time, it was a GAME CHANGER.  No longer did I set myself up for failure by not planning what I was going to eat.  Instead, I started to set myself up for success by being in control of when and where and WHAT food I ingested.  Over […]