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 …

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 known for some time that sugar, and in particular, high fructose corn syrup play a large part in the obesity and diabetes epidemics in the United States and throughout the world.  Anecdotally, many of us have also heard or experienced firsthand the ‘addictive’ effects that …