A blog dedicated to optimizing your life through nutrition, circadian rhythm, fitness, health tips, recipes, and research from the latest studies on nutrition and wellness.  No nutrition topic left behind here.

Reasons You Aren't Losing Fat

Diet and exercise not cutting it? Here’s what you might be missing…. What’s in your hand, your pocket, on your bedside table while you sleep, an essentially everywhere you are? The little rectangle we all carry around. More…

30 Day Total Body Reset

Ready to hit the reset button on your body? Ready to lose the weight?Gain more energy than every before?Improve digestion and gut health?Enhance your sleep?Jumstart your metabolism!? Sign up for the 30 Day Total Body Reset where you…

Final Week to Sign up!

Do you love SUP as much as I do? I would love to show you my love for SUP and I invite you to come get certified to teach what you love along with me! This Saturday, May 30th is my on the water PaddleFit Core Certification. Sign up by clicking…

Prevention, Protection, and Staying Calm - COVID-19

Staying healthy at home is on the mind's of all of us currently, but we also need each other and we need answers, to learn how to prevent, protect, and keep ourselves calm during this pandemic. That's what this one hour video class is designed…

My Thoughts on The Current Public Health Concern...

“A machine that runs on a wide variety of fuels, emits on recyclable or biodegradable materials, accepts a wide range of informational inputs, performs amazing feats of data processing, and produces a wide variety of output functions may…

Puffiness & Weight Gain

You may have heard that conditions like diabetes and heart disease are on the rise, but what you may not have heard is that it’s really not about how much sugar one is consuming, but rather how much PUFA one…

The Facts About Food Addiction....why it's not your fault.

It's called the "bliss point."  Food companies and their chemists have researched and developed the perfect combination of salt, fat, and sugar in any certain processed food or fast food that sends blissed out taste receptors on your…

#1 Truth I've Learned After 1 year as Mermaid Momma....

This rad little girl of mine is almost one year old.  I hear many mom's say, "I can't believe how fast it went by! She's growing so fast." I don't feel that way.  Why?  Because of the truth I learned early on when we first brought JoZi…

What a 40 Mile Paddle Taught Me

It was a dense fog, and 5:30 in the morning but I was determined. I had my 40 miles in mind, my map in a waterproof bag, a good bout of water and my favorite homemade energy bites, and a stealth-bomber of a SUP board – everything I needed…

What's up with Gluten-free?

Why Should I Go Gluten-Free? What is Gluten?   Almost every store you walk into now has "Gluten-free" products lining the shelves, or better yet, a whole "Gluten-free" section.  What's the deal?  Does going gluten-free really matter, and…

9 months ago...

  9 months ago I had so many theories of how I would be as a mom and what my adopted daughter would be like. Then....I actually became a parent and all the theories I had, went out with diaper pail trash! So that's my first tip here,…

Top 10 Must Haves for Any Mermaid Momma

Top 10 Mermaid Must-Haves for Any New Mom Diapers, bottles, wipes, lullabies, playtime, naps, diapers, bottles, cleaning bottles, laundry, bathtime, more diapers, more wipes, more bottles...repeat.  That’s what my typical day looks like…