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! Many of us tend to ignore breakfast. Either we don’t eat breakfast at all, we eat a breakfast that’s not big enough or nourishing enough (say a banana and a coffee).  At best, we eat the same tired breakfast every morning…plain scrambled eggs can get old …

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 may just be the very first fad diet of 2013.  In their new book, The 8 Hour Diet: Watch the Pounds Disappear Without Watching What You Eat, the authors purport that you can eat anything you want and as much as you want during an …

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! During the winter it can be more challenging to get enough vitamins and minerals in our diets.  There aren’t as many fresh fruits and vegetables in season, and it’s a time of year that we tend to eat more starchy foods like potatoes and squashes.  Incorporating …

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! So, we’ve all been there, and we’ll all be there again at some point.  Sometimes we manage to get stuck away from the house, end up starving, and we don’t have a snack with us.  When this situation coincides with us also being on a road …

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 long heard and believed that our failure or success on diets was a matter of ‘willpower’ or ‘mind over matter.’  Our inability to exercise portion control (try sticking to a single 100-calorie snack pack of Oreos, Ritz or some other junk food) has been chalked …