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! For many women embarking on a weight loss program, one of the first steps they take is to switch from regular soft drinks to diet soft drinks.  It’s an easy way to cut some calories – about 150 per 12 ounces of pop.  Why don’t …

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! Vitamin D, known as the ‘sunshine vitamin’, is crucially important to our health.  It’s estimated that 85% of Americans are chronically deficient in vitamin D, and your probability of being deficient is even greater if you have dark skin.  In fact, even if you do live …

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 all know that the best way to eat healthy as much of the time as possible is to prepare and eat meals and snacks at home.  But despite our best efforts, it’s simply inevitable.  At some point, we’re going to end up needing breakfast or …

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! Protein is a crucial ingredient for any woman’s weight loss plan, and is all the more important to build lean muscle.  Protein is used by your body to repair muscle tissue, which is why it’s so important to get some protein in right after your workout. …