In the health and fitness world, we’ve been led to believe that if you exercise and diet, your excess weight will just magically melt away but first hand experience will tell you that this is not true. Although this may be the case for a small percentage of people, studies tell us that 90% of…
In our Haven program, we have just started a new series on ‘Overcoming Procrastination’. In our group, we all agreed that it’s a topic that we all do in varying degrees but most of us are stumped on how to eliminate this nasty habit permanently. If you have taken our monthly 21-Day Challenge then you…
The other day one of my son’s soccer coaches sent out a 3-page email telling the boys that they did not want success bad enough. At first I was offended that a coach would be so hard on 14 year old boys but after thinking about it, he was 100% right. Here’s a line from…
“How much should I weigh?” This is one of the most popular responses I get from clients when I ask them ‘what is your ideal weight?’ Whether you want to know ‘just how bad it is’ or you want to know what a healthy weight range should be for you, it is important that you…
After almost 30 years of working with people to help them achieve their health and weight loss goals, I’m able to see a pattern among the people that will get results versus the ones that will keep spinning their wheels. The ones that correct these mistakes see results, while those who are still committed…
Over the next week, I will be enjoying the beautiful cities of Madrid, Malaga and Seville. My 13 year old son is playing soccer in Spain and Portugal and we get the privilege of watching him live out one of his dreams. What an incredible opportunity for a young man. I always admire my son…
If you’ve ever tried to lose weight, you know that many of the frustrations arise not because we don’t know what to do, but because we do know what to do — yet we fail to do it. This can make the process of weight release more frustrating than it needs to be, because our…
As a Christian weight loss coach and personal trainer, one of the behavioural patterns I often come across in people that keep them overweight is the People Pleaser. People pleasers are always apologizing; they are afraid of what other people would think; they feel that they’re not good enough; they say yes when they often…