Perfect Fit Personal Training- Health and Fitness Blog

I love body weight workouts;you can do them anywhere, no equipment needed. Check out this article I wrote on body weight workouts for LIVESTONG.com last year: Do you do body weight workouts? What are your favorite body weight exercises?

Hello out there! Please check out my latest article, published in this month's Parents Canada magazine: http://www.parentscanada.com/family-life/how-to-make-time-for-mom-time Let me know what you think...how do you make mom time?

It's always easier to pop a pill and forget about it, but is that really the best way to get healthy, and lose real weight? Here is yet another "fad diet" pill to get you losing weight, fast. What do you think? http://www.cleveland.com/healthfit/index.ssf/2012/06/anti-obesity_pill_belvig_gets.html

I wanted to share a link to a great naturopath here in North Vancouver. Her name is Dr. Sacha Elliott and she's at the Lynn Valley Town Center. Check out her blog here: http://drsachaelliott.com/2012/06/25/naturally-thinner/ Thinking of going with a naturopath? Dr. Elliott is a great choice! If you already see a naturopath, what made you choose that type of doctor over a traditional Western doctor? Have a great night, Nicole

Are raspberry ketones the next weight loss miracle drug? Wait a minute, if there is a MIRACLE weight loss drug out there, why aren't we all skinny? Why is the diet industry still pulling in millions of dollars yearly? If you've heard of rasperry ketones and think that they may be the next "it" pill for weight loss, then please think again and read this great article from the Globe and Mail: Raspberry Ketones and Weight Loss What do you think is the best way to lose weight?

How many calories are you actually burning in a Zumba class? Here is a study done by the Journal of Sport Science and Medicine that looked at just that: http://www.jssm.org/vol11/n2/21/v11n2-21text.php Do you do Zumba ? What is your favorite thing about it?

Meal planning apps are the way to go if you're trying to lose weight! Have you tried one yet? Here's some info from a new meal planner called Ziplist: Eating out. Unplanned trips to the drive thru. Impulse buys at the grocery store. Fad diets. It’s a fact: sensible meal planning incorporating a healthy balance of foods is the only way to prevent unwanted overeating and snacking to help you lose weight successfully and keep it off. Enter Ziplist, the popular digital shopping list and recipe box resource known for making the lives of everyday cooks infinitely easier. Ziplist just launched the simplest way on the web to plan a week’s or month’s worth of meals, making it virtually effortless for dieters and fitness enthusiasts to plan out the healthy foods they should be eating each day. Ziplist’s free Meal Planner enables users to create a meal queue – just like Netflix for things you want to make sometime soon. Users can assign dates to different meals based on how much p