We cannot put a date on it and it happened within the past 5 years but one day Jonathan just started cooking… and I let him.

I’m not afraid to admit that he makes 99.99% of our food. And I love it.

We’ve had a few questions about how to bake chicken from clients so we thought this would be the perfect opportunity for him to also teach me.

Jogging isn’t the answer.

If one of your fitness goals is to lose body fat, we can help.

By focusing your training on building muscle by lifting increasingly heavier weights, you increase your lean mass (muscle).

After a twelve hour day at the gym on Day 1, I could already begin to feel that this was going to be a physically challenging week. I ate a little more food than normal that evening (about 230 additional calories) and was sure to get to bed early.

A quick lesson on how to weigh your meal as you make your plate

by Jonathan Fletcher

Weighing and measuring your food can be intimidating when first starting out. How the heck are you supposed to eat a normal meal with 6 or 7 ingredients without using every plate in the kitchen to weigh everything?

IT IS POSSIBLE!

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➤ In 2017 there were approximately 61 Million members of gyms in the United States

➤ Planet Fitness is the highest grossing gym with revenues of 1.5 Billion in 2015

➤ 80% of people who have a gym membership do not go regularly (less than 2x week)

➤ 80% of people who join a gym in January have quit going at all by May

I (Blakley) grew up in Louisiana and this was a stable at dinner time.  Recently my mom and I cooked this dish together and put a healthy twist on one of our favorite dishes.   Since Jonathan is the self proclaimed ‘chef’ in the house… I had to teach him so we can eat it on the regular.

It’s a great wintertime meal and if you don’t mind leftovers you will be eating on it for a few days!

Our bodies are amazingly adaptable.  They can overcome just about everything we throw at it. 

 → Did you know that if you chronically under eat you can disrupt your body’s metabolism?

Under eating means consuming LESS calories than you are burning.  Also known as dieting.  If you’ve been on a diet for an extended period or have gone through many bouts of extreme dieting, your body knows it and it adapts to the lower food intake.

So what does that mean and why do we care?

Zumba, Kickboxing, CrossFit, Orange Theory, Sweatin’ to the Oldies, P90X… 

What do all of these methods of achieving fitness have in common?  They are all the perfect program!  They all work!  They can all get you fit.  They can all give you the results of your dreams! Ok, I don’t know about Sweatin’ to the Oldies, but the rest can!  

How can that be you ask?