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! The holidays are almost here and stores, restaurants and coffee shops are filled with tasty-sounding treats with minty, chocolaty and spicy winter-time flavors.  It can be tough to resist the call of peppermint mochas, spicy orange chocolates and the multitude of desserts that appear at work …

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’s officially winter, and there’s definitely a chill in the air. Unfortunately, along with the colder temperatures comes cold and flu season.  But, by eating the right foods we can boost our immune system and greatly increase our resistance to the infections that seem to run …

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! I must have been living under a rock for the past year or so, because only recently did I hear about this diet whose name and headline really got my attention.  The diet is explained in a book, released last year called “The Carb Lovers Diet: …

  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 …