Posts Tagged ‘metabolism’

Acai Berry: Nature’s Superfruit?

By Sheila • Dec 27th, 2008 • Category: Fat Loss, Nutrition

As featured on Figure Athlete.

If you are even remotely involved in the health and fitness industry, I’m willing to bet that you have at least heard of the açaí berry. The buzz around this small fruit, and its believed antioxidant and anti-aging properties, has increased exponentially — largely due to its attention on Oprah.
Herein lies [...]



Don’t Let the Media Mess With Your Mind

By Sheila • Oct 2nd, 2008 • Category: Mind and Spirit

Confessions of the typical American woman’s mind:
Oww, your hand is hurting. You squirm as you try to readjust. Standing at the grocery store checkout line, you are kicking yourself for grabbing a handheld basket rather than biting the bullet and getting a cart. You look down at the red crate style basket, overflowing with spinach, [...]



“The Metabolic Repair Manual” by Leigh Peele

By Sheila • Sep 10th, 2008 • Category: Fat Loss, Review

When I initially began training with Leigh several years ago, the very first thing she did was put me on a program abiding by the fundamentals of The Metabolic Repair Manual (MRM). I had been eating too little, working out too much, and hadn’t had a training break in over a year. I was literally [...]



My Story, Part 2

By Sheila • Aug 28th, 2008 • Category: About, Fat Loss

Hope you enjoyed Part 1 of my story. Ok, where was I, ah yes…
The Party Years
As I proceeded through my college years, I started to get into the “partier” mode, which is ironically what lead me to my husband, now fellow health and fitness fanatic, Ryan. I won’t go into too many details about his [...]



My Story, Part 1

By Sheila • Aug 27th, 2008 • Category: About, Fat Loss, Nutrition

In order for you to truly understand and trust what I share here on Live Well 360°, I feel that I need to tell my fat loss story from beginning to end. I have definitely done my “homework” on the topic of what not to do and have paid the consequences on this journey at [...]



Top 10 Reasons To Be Inspired By Exercise

By Sheila • Aug 24th, 2008 • Category: Fitness

I get a twinge of sadness sometimes when I speak to people who tell me that they don’t work out because they “can’t” - it hurts their joints too much, or they ache for days afterward, their body physically fights their activity efforts. I feel sad because I don’t think that they realize what a [...]