You drank the kool-aid or someone twisted your arm and convinced you to log your daily food intake. It’s a worthwhile effort because guessing and estimating will only get you so far.

And there is really no better way to accurately know how much you are eating.

If you’re getting serious about losing fat or building muscle, how much you eat makes all the difference.

The downside of using apps like MyFitnessPal is that there’s a bit of a learning curve and it can be a little overwhelming in the beginning.

We’ll, you’re in luck because we are here to:

1. Walk you through the steps that will get you going in the right direction.

2. Show you the common problems when you set your goals up.

3. Show you how to log food/meals the right way.

4. Show you how to get more accurate with your food quantities when logging.

The snack bar aisle in the grocery store is approximately a quarter mile long these days. It’s loaded from head to toe with open boxes of dozens and dozens of choices all in well designed slick packaging. The names sound sexy and intriguing and the packaging usually boasts of the ingredients and usually some number of grams that the snack contains. Just about all of them (at least the ones we’ve tried) taste pretty darned good and there is a flavor for everyone from nut flavors to birthday cake.

We have our favorite “bars” and as we head down the aisle to grab them there’s typically at least a few people standing there with glazed over eyes trying to figure out which one they should be eating to be healthy.

We looked at 10 snack bars for this article.

"Oh my achin’ back!”

Since about 80% of adults experience low back pain, this phrase is uttered constantly.

Low back pain is everywhere and is one of the top reasons that people miss days from work.

Let’s look at some of the details of the structures of the low back, the different injuries/conditions that people can develop in regards to low back pain, and what you can start doing about it today.

Is Intermittent Fasting the missing piece in your fat loss journey? Read on to find out...

All good contractors have access to the different tools that might be needed to get the job done well. If the craftsman (or woman) knows what they’re doing they don’t just randomly grab a tool from the toolbox and use it for every task regardless of what they’re doing.

The same goes for us as nutrition coaches.

We deal with real people in the real world and no two people are exactly the same. That’s why we have to have different tools available to us to use.

Intermittent Fasting is one of those tools in our toolbox.

Lately there are a few “trends” in the weight loss space. Maybe you’ve tried this one for yourself or you know someone who is currently doing it.

We’re talking about intermittent fasting or I.F.

If you have a friend who’s had success with I.F. there’s a good chance they’ve told you that it will work for you.

Let’s dig in today to the topic and discuss :

• What exactly I.F. is and isn’t.

• Potential benefits and overblown claims.

• What you should know if you want to give it a try.

Are you a vegetarian or thinking about becoming a vegetarian but also want to build and maintain muscle?

Has someone told you that it’s impossible to do?

Let’s set the record straight.

Enough was enough. You made the decision to make a change. To get serious. Something motivated you to start and so you did. You were nervous, excited, fired up and off you went.

That motivation that got you going kept you going, at least for a while.

You’ve been here before. You’ve gotten this far more than once.

But now the motivation is fading. It’s getting difficult to be disciplined now that the honeymoon is ending and the work still needs to be done.

You’re thinking of throwing in the towel and quitting. Again.

Should you quit? Should you give up?

Before you do, ask yourself a few questions. The things that you tell yourself will give you your answer.

If you’re reading this you probably have some interest in health and fitness. You might have even taken steps to get in shape by exercising. For some this might mean taking the stairs instead of the elevator and for others it might mean going to group classes several times per week. You might remember those first few weeks and months of fast progress where you were stronger every time you stepped into the gym and likely even saw some changes in the mirror pretty quickly. But then progress slowed down and those quick gains didn’t come so quickly. Months might of even gone by without you noticing any changes in the mirror.

We know what the problem is because we've been in your shoes and we've seen it play out in ourselves, friends and client’s lives time after time.

You’re fighting a losing battle by working against yourself every hour that you're not in the gym. It’s a “two steps forward, one step back” thing. It’s not that you’re lazy, it’s just that you don’t see what you’re missing because you’ve never been taught the importance of one thing and then put that knowledge into practice.

I’m talking about your nutrition. The food you eat and the drinks you drink.

I know what you might be thinking… “But I work out!” Or maybe you’re thinking “Yeah yeah, I know… Don’t eat pizza. Don’t eat bread and certainly don’t have alcohol”.

This is the lack of understanding that I referenced earlier.

You don’t even know what you don’t know yet.

You don’t know what and how much to be eating to see the physical changes that you want.

Got a bad rotator cuff? How about a “torn” rotator cuff?

Do you even know what the heck the rotator cuff is?

There seems to be a lot of misinformation and misunderstanding surrounding the rotator cuff out there. Heck even some people who have a diagnosis from a doctor or even have surgery don’t really understand the anatomy of the shoulder or what their problem really is.

Let’s clear up the mystery today once and for all.

We’ll talk about shoulder anatomy, the muscular of the rotator cuff and some common issues and treatments for rotator cuff symptoms and injuries.