Last week I was reading a book on strength training for women when I came across support for spot reduction or the training of a specific...

Timothy Ferriss, author of The 4-Hour Body, wisely wrote that "[c]onsistent tracking, even if you have no knowledge of fat-loss or...

Studies suggest that people eat the same volume of food day-to-day, regardless of the type of food eaten. So when we try improve our...

At last, the habit series has come to an end. By way of reminder, over the last several weeks we have dissected the habit loop--cue,...

Up until now we have been discussing how to create what Charles Duhigg refers to as a three-step "habit loop"--a cue, which triggers an...

For those of you who may have fallen off the physical fitness bandwagon during the pandemic, I have good news. Your diet is a better...

Based on the positive response to the last article, I've decided to share a bit about my own DIY kitchen experiences during COVID. Having...

The benefit of habits is that they kick in automatically, without much thought or effort. But to hard wire behaviors into our brain we...

This week's article was inspired by a recent personal experience: Due to COVID-19, specifically increased time at home and concern about...

When it comes to behavior change, we're often focused on the outcome rather than the process. But transformation rarely occurs without...

We've all undoubtedly heard that breakfast is the most important meal of the day. But many of the studies that underpinned that marketing...

We've already learned that habit formation has four parts: a cue, which triggers a routine, that produces a reward, that drives a craving...

When it comes to making a change in our life, whether it be related to physical or mental health, finances, work ethic, etc., we tend to...

When it comes to nutrition, it's easy to get bogged down in flashy headlines, measuring portions and the minutiae of micronutrients...

Why is water so important. We've all certainly heard that we need to drink 8 glasses of water a day, but we may not know why or if that's...

I Think I Can. One of my favorite stories as a child was The Little Engine that Could by Watty Piper. If you don't know the story, a...

When I think of sugar, I typically think of fresh-baked cookies, ice cream sundaes, frozen coffee drinks and, my favorite, red wine. But...

Implementing good habits takes work. It requires a conscious decision (maybe several conscious decisions per day) to do something that...

Don't listen to Mary Poppins. A spoonful of sugar may help the medicine go down, but it will also increase your risk of chronic...

The first step towards meaningful change is identifying what is important to you and the tangible steps you can take to achieve it. But,...