When I first started running, I absolutely hated it. I would head out and push my pace as hard as I could. My lungs would burn, my legs would feel heavy and it left me feeling exhausted and like a failure, because I couldn’t finish my run - I’d end up having to walk at [...]
Women ask me this all the time… “What does it take to stick to a weight loss program, Jen?” Even by the phrasing of the sentence above, I immediately sense the disparity between a “program” and a “lifestyle.” You decide to do a cleanse, try Whole 30 every January, or P90X to get ready for [...]
When you think about what it means to be an “emotional eater,” the scene might look like this… A woman heads to the nearest convenience store and fills up one of those small metal baskets with cookies, package of mini doughnuts, ice cream, Snickers bar, Diet Coke, and a bag of chips. She heads back [...]
There is a majorly overlooked factor affecting your weight loss. There is a good chance you have no idea what it is. And, you need it if you want to get healthy - and stay that way! Can you guess it? It’s called sleep. Now, I see you reading this thinking, “Ok Jen, I know [...]
Have you ever been here? You start a weight loss program, detox, cleanse, group program (you name it) and the first few days you are rocking it. But then, it doesn’t seem as fun, or something happens in your life - personally or professionally - and you get thrown off a bit, and you stop. [...]
What’s one thing you do every morning? Every night? Or even around 3 pm every day? Think about it for a second... You may be asking, “Jen, why do you want to know this?” And my answer would be this… We are a collection of all of our habits - whether good or bad. Identifying [...]
I was scrolling through Facebook the other day and happened to see a link to Oprah’s Golden Globe Speech so I clicked on it and watched. I truly think she is amazing and although everything she said had value, this is the line that stuck out for me: ..”What I know for sure is that [...]
It’s my birthday week. I turn 43 years old today. The fact that my birthday is in January gives me double the opportunity to take stock of my life and the year ahead. For some reason it feels like I have this special super power to wipe the slate clean and start fresh. I have [...]
If there’s one thing women have in common it’s that we are really, *really* good at making ourselves feel crappy. We do this in a variety of ways from people pleasing to trying to be perfect; from catastrophizing to overachieving, or simply isolating ourselves and numbing out because feeling our feelings is simply too scary. [...]
Did you know that 69% of women in a long-term committed relationship (I’m talking about over a year or more with the same partner) will no longer have spontaneous sexual desire? That means about half of all women simply don’t want to have sex. And that, is not good if you’re wanting to live with [...]
