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! When most of us think of sushi, we do tend to think of a ‘healthy’ food.  And it’s true – many  fish and seafood including salmon, mackerel, herring, tuna and crab are an excellent source of protein and Omega-3s.  The seaweed used in the sushi rolls, …

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! While we might not quite be ready for summer and the warm weather to be over, there’s one thing that always makes us look forward to Fall.  Harvest time brings some incredible flavors that give us the warm fuzzies just thinking about it! Now that much …

What’s the worst possible food you can eat for breakfast?  The TRAP that so many of us ladies fall into? The WORST thing you can eat for breakfast is nothing at all! Many women think that the later they can wait in the day before eating a first meal means the less calories they’ll eat.  Tons of us strive to eat only lunch and dinner in a desperate attempt to lose more weight.  But if …

‘Clean eating’ seems to be the buzzword that all celebrities use these days to describe their eating habits.  Eating clean is also frequently touted in fitness magazines and blogs as the best way to lose weight.  But this term sounds kind of ambiguous, doesn’t it?  It sounds as vague as ‘healthy diet’ or ‘daily exercise.’  What is ‘clean eating’? Where did this term come from and how did it become so popular? In 2007, fitness …