New here?  Like Athlean-XX for Women on Facebook to stay up to date with new posts, great fitness and nutrition articles, motivations and inspirations, fitness challenges, Q&As, giveaways and more! Most of us have heard that Omega 3 fatty acids are important to include in our diets.  Omega 3s are generally associated with heart health benefits, and they are also helpful in increasing HDL cholesterol, decreasing cancer, and improving rheumatoid arthritis symptoms.  What you may not …

New here?  Like Athlean-XX for Women on Facebook to stay up to date with new posts, great fitness and nutrition articles, motivations and inspirations, fitness challenges, Q&As, giveaways and more! It’s getting chilly out!  Warm yourself up from the inside out by making healthy soups, stews and chili with the abundance of veggies available to you during winter time!  In my opinion, soups are their own sort of weight loss superfood.  In addition to warming you …

New here?  Like Athlean-XX for Women on Facebook to stay up to date with new posts, great fitness and nutrition articles, motivations and inspirations, fitness challenges, Q&As, giveaways and more! Yeah, it’s getting cold outside.  Sigh.  Winter is definitely on its way, bringing with it cravings for comfort foods.  The winter months are notorious for bringing on weight gain, and most of us acknowledge that we tend to eat more during these months.  What factors are …

New here?  Like Athlean-XX for Women on Facebook to stay up to date with new posts, great fitness and nutrition articles, motivations and inspirations, fitness challenges, Q&As, giveaways and more! We’ve all heard that the golden rule to weight loss and diet is ‘calories in, calories out.’  3500 calories equals a pound, so if we have a deficit of 3500 calories in a week, we’ll lose a pound that week, right?  Cool, so I can eat …

New here?  Like Athlean-XX for Women on Facebook to stay up to date with new posts, great fitness and nutrition articles, motivations and inspirations, fitness challenges, Q&As, giveaways and more! There are differing opinions all over the internet about just how much protein a woman needs in her diet to be healthy.  For example, the USDA recommends that adult women should get 46 grams of protein per day, but that doesn’t take into account activity level …