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 …

 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! Are you using the wonderful array of herbs and spices at your disposal for cooking?  If not, you should be!  First and foremost, they’ll help make your home cooked food taste amazing which in turn helps you enjoy your meals and feel satiated more quickly.  Enjoyment …

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! Starting to worry about the Christmas cookie table a little bit?  All those cookies , the eggnog, the pies…that’s a lot of sugar, frosting and fat.  Well, there’s always a healthy tweak for every treat!  And even if not all the cookies on the table will …

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! More and more these days, we’ve begun to hear the axiom that weight loss is 80% diet and 20% exercise.  In fact, more trainers and experts have begun to talk about it online are starting to recommend this strategy for weight loss and weight maintenance. For …