Are you an emotional eater?  Many women who’ve had difficulty with their weight may be struggling with emotional eating. While we don’t tend to think about it much, eating is a highly emotional experience on all levels.  Our cultural and family traditions revolve around food.  Throughout our lives, these experiences of enjoyable gatherings associated with tasty foods create positive emotional associations which become imprinted in our minds. Emotional eating begins when we seek out the …

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! Its smooth, buttery flavor might make avocado taste like a forbidden food, but it definitely deserves its place in your healthy diet!  While you might be tempted to banish avocado from your plate due to its high fat and calorie content, think again!  Research shows that …

While ‘everything in moderation’ may sound like a comforting, non-restrictive diet mantra, it could also be preventing you from reaching your weight loss goals. On paper, it does sound like a reasonable weight loss strategy.  No treats are forbidden.  You just have to eat them ‘in moderation.’ But what does ‘in moderation’ mean?  What size is a ‘moderate’ portion?  What frequency is considered ‘moderate’?  Each person decides that for herself.  And that may be where …

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 you need a quick pre or post workout snack on the go, a healthy granola bar makes a perfect snack.  There are lots of options at the grocery store, but they can be expensive, are often full of chemicals, or contain more sugar than a …

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! If you’re among the 60% of Americans that skip breakfast, you’re definitely doing yourself a disservice if weight loss is your goal!  Skipping breakfast messes with your metabolism and can lead to overeating later in the day.  But even if you DO eat the ‘most important …