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! What is mindful eating?   It’s not a diet.  In fact, you can eat what you desire.  The idea is to eat it with more attention paid to the food, rather than eating unconsciously as most of us do most of the time. Mindful eating involves approaching …

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’re all aware that the yummy food in restaurants can hide a lot more calories than we may think. Many popular restaurant chains have calorie counts available for their dishes on their websites, and it can be shocking to learn just how chock full of calories, …

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! Fall is such a wonderful time of year that brings with it all of the tasty harvest vegetables and fruits….including PUMPKIN!  Do you love the flavor of pumpkin, but find yourself tempted by all of the tasty looking high calorie pumpkin treats out there?  Yes, in …

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! Celebrities are all about trends.  Along with each season’s fashion trends, celebs seem to switch up their go-to diet foods, too.  Sometimes it begins with a new piece of scientific research surfacing, or a celebrity guru trainer will start preaching the gospel of a new tropical …

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! About a month ago I wrote an article about clean eating entitled “What’s It Really Mean to Eat Clean: The Celebrity Clean Eating Trend,”  to shed some light on this buzzword that so many celebrities, bloggers and health-focused women use to describe their eating habits.  As …