Ch-ch-ch-CHIA!

Tweet Remember those black chia seeds you used to slather all over your Chia Pet or Chia Head?  Did you know that they’re edible??? I didn’t. About a year ago, I took a trip to Houston to visit my parent’s.  Sometime during my visit I noticed my mom was chugging this water bottle full of black...

Shakeology: It’s Worth Every Penny

Tweet How Do I Really Know If Shakeology Is Worth the Money When Everything Else Costs Less? I love breakfast.  I love it because it’s the most important meal of my day.  Studies indicate that having breakfast in the morning boosts your metabolism and helps your mind and body operate more efficiently...

Vegan Cleanse Results

Tweet On February 27th I decided to take the Vegan Challenge.  I cleansed my body by following a whole food plant based diet for 30 days.  Here are my thoughts and results… Before the diet started, I was concerned about my energy, or lack of, during workouts. It was a great surprise to learn that I...

Shakeology: A Cure for Cancer?

Tweet I remember the first time I was exposed to Shakeology.  I read all the nutritional benefits and thought to myself, “This can’t be true.  There are way too many benefits packed into a shake.”  Shakeology eliminates toxins more efficiently while allowing for better absorption of the...

The Power of Food

Tweet As many of you may/may not know…  I am currently doing an Vegan Cleanse.  So far, it’s been a great learning experience.  I’m discovering new foods (see: The Super Food You Should Eat) and learning a lot about how different foods affect my body. I wanted share with you this...

The Super Food You Should Eat

Tweet As some of you may or may not know, I am currently doing a Vegan Cleanse.  Surprisingly, it’s been a pleasant experience; not as bad as I imagined it would be.  It seems like every day, I’m learning something new.  I’m reading anything and everything that has to do with a vegan lifestyle. ...

Vegan Cleanse

Tweet Vegan Cleanse Did you know that the human body is not designed to digest cow milk and cow milk dairy products?  Yet, it is ingrained in our minds that milk is healthy, and we should drink a glass a day.  The truth is, as many as 75% of people in the world may be lactose intolerant and many people...

Tropical Shakeology!

Tweet CLICK HERE TO ORDER SHAKEOLOGY TROPICAL STRAWBERRY  It’s here!  Tropical Shakeology is the newest flavor in the Shakeology line.  As many of you know, I love Shakeology.  I drink it everyday and haven’t missed one day.  It’s improved my health, energy, and immune system. What...

Food Trackers

Tweet To get great results all you need to do is work out and eat healthy.  Right?  Well, not entirely.  Yes, you will benefit from working out hard, and yes, you will benefit from eating healthy foods; but if you want GREAT results you need to do something else.  If you want EXTREME results, you need to...

Hungry?

Tweet Looking back on my P90X journey, one of the biggest challenges was sticking to the Fat Burner diet.  In this diet, you are limited to a certain amount of calories and a certain amount of carbs; this was a big change from the unhealthy crap I was stuffing myself with before.  Besides the change in...

Jack3d Review

Tweet Do you ever feel like you’re not getting the most out of your workouts?  Do your workouts lack consistency and intensity?  If you answered yes to any of these questions, you should probably give pre-workout supplements a try.  Pre-workout supplements are made to help you get the most out of...

Where I Get My Supplements

Tweet As you all know I’m a big advocate of taking supplements.  When used correctly, supplements provide great benefits for the human body.  Unfortunately, there are so many supplement stores these days, it’s hard to find the best place to shop for them.  I wanted to give everyone my personal...

Creatine

Tweet Not too long ago, a friend of mine asked me about my thoughts on creatine and whether or not he should take it.  Creatine is one of my favorite supplements and something I recommend to everyone.  Before I cover who should/shouldn’t take creatine, let me tell you what it is. What is...

Are YOU Drinking Enough Water?

Tweet If you want to lose weight, build muscle, and live a healthy life, YOU NEED TO DRINK WATER!  And you need to drink a lot of it.  The human body is made up of 55% to 78% water, depending on body size.  It’s recommended by most doctors that we drink at least 7-8 glasses of water a day.  If...

Measuring FAT

Tweet Anytime someone starts a new program like P90X, Insanity, or The Asylum, the first thing they focus on is their weight.  Which makes sense, a lot of us start exercising or change our eating habits because we want to lose weight.  So naturally, we step on the scale every day, week, or month to see how...

Shakeology Review

Tweet The first time I learned about Shakeology was through an ad I saw while purchasing the P90X Peak Results Package .  I had never heard of this and I was skeptical about it’s promises.  My skepticism never went away because it was a challenge finding a credible review for Shakeology. A...

Nutrition Basics Part 1

Tweet Nutrition!  Nutrition!  Nutrition!  If you want to see results, it really starts with your diet.  What you eat makes up about 80% of your final results.  I know many people who workout multiple hours a day and they never see results because of their poor eating habits.  One of the most important...

My Muscle Building Diet (P90X Rd1)

Tweet This is my Phase 3 diet on P90X.  My goal in this round was to build muscle and keep the fat off.  I added more carbs and fat in this diet but I tried not to go overboard.  I also limited my carbohydrate intake to complex carbohydrates.  I started the last month of P90X at 155 pounds and ended the...

My Fat Burning Diet

Tweet This is the diet I followed during the first two phases of P90X.  My goal was to lose the fat in the first two phases and build muscle in the last phase.  This was a really tough diet to follow because I always felt hungry but it paid off!  I started P90X at 170 pounds and at the end of two months I...

My Supplements on P90X (Rd 1)

Tweet Here is a list of the supplements I took (and still take) on P90X.  They are listed in order from what I felt was the most important supplement to the least important. Shakeology Chocolate Flavor – This is the most important meal of the day.  This was the first drink I have when I wake up in the...