After decades of one step forward and two steps back, Lucy Hilton finally found her stride.For as long as she can remember, Lucy Hilton was overweight and her family’s Portuguese heritage meant a dinner table filled with bread, sweets, meat and potatoes every night. “As a child, I ate ice cream for breakfast while watching cartoons,” Hilton says. “Eventually, I stopped...
Having dropped 30 pounds, Tonyael Miller is now inspiring others to get healthy.A chronic yo-yo dieter, Tonyael Miller was stuck on replay: She’d follow an extreme diet from January through June, reach her goal weight in time for her birthday in July, then party the remainder of the summer. By winter, working out was a thing of the past. She was...
Even though you may loathe it, not all body fat is bad. In fact, having more of certain kinds can actually be beneficial.When talking about body fat, you likely lament those areas of excess cellular collection — such as your saddlebags, belly pooch and side-boob areas. This overage can be annoying when it comes to physique goals, and excessive amounts...
What you consume after your workout is just as important as what you consume before and during your session.You work hard when you hit the gym, so naturally you want to maximize your efforts. To that end, you hydrate, sip your branched-chain amino acids and make sure to take your performance supplements. But what you...
Enjoy yourself without dreading the aftermath this holiday season.Fast-forward a few weeks — it’s January 1, and you’re lying on the couch, surrounded by empty wine bottles and cookie tins, feeling bloated, defeated and angry with yourself for completely ditching your health and fitness priorities for a holiday-induced bender that destroyed all the hard work...
Fire up the grill and follow these guidelines for cooking salmon.Salmon consumption helps improve physique gains and improve heart health.Why hover over the stove when grilling offers the perfect opportunity to play with fire. Take your cooking outdoors to fire up a bounty of proteins that have sizzling flavor and the nutritive chops needed to...
Seventeen-year-old Margaret Koukos overcame years of childhood struggles to find a new passion in fitness.Indulging in a steady diet of pasta, frozen pizza, and mac and cheese wasn’t necessarily about enjoyment or taste for Margaret Koukos — it represented one of the few things in her own life over which she felt she had authority. Her parents were splitting up,...
After decades of misdiagnoses, Karen Hill Meyer can now run free.Her whole life, Karen Hill Meyer struggled to keep up. Physical activities left her exhausted and breathless, and she got winded simply from walking up a flight of stairs. And her diet of fried foods and late-night carbs certainly wasn’t helping.When she got to college, Meyer added blacking out to her...
Helping her older sister Autumn lose 100 pounds jump-started Amber’s career as a trainer and coach.My sister always had it together. In my eyes, Autumn had all the answers and — at 11 years my senior — she was the one I always ran to when I broke up with a boyfriend, started my period...
Want to try intermittent fasting? Here are a few things to note before diving in.The fitness crowd tends to throw shade at the idea of skipping meals and snacks to slim down, believing this will eat away at your hard-earned muscle, grind your metabolism to a halt and spur diet-derailing hunger pangs. These days, however,...