Category: Blog

Behind You Is Pain…Ahead Of You Is Pain (And Redemption)

Come here, take my hand. I’d like to show you something. A quick glimpse at the highlight reel of my life and career shows smiling faces, happy children, a thriving business and a loving wife. You’ll also see successful clients, personal records in the gym of those clients, and positive reviews of their experience at […]

Fear Of Fatness?

I recently read the book “‘You Just Need To Lose Weight’ and 19 Other Myths About Fat People” by Aubrey Gordon. My friend and fellow coach, Sumi Singh, recommended it to me. Sumi is also an avid reader and I generally take her book recommendations to heart. I had no awareness of the author and […]

Longevity (According To Gram)

Last year’s post about life lessons, written with the help of my Grandmother, was one of my most popular posts of the year. This article will be released on the week that Gram turns 90. I’m always fascinated to hear what advice anyone can give to living a longer life. Of course, it’s an n=1 […]

A Letter To Terry

Terry, I don’t know how I can get this message to you.  This year will mark three since you left us.  And I still can’t seem to shake your presence from my life.  I know I spoke about this before, in a piece I wrote that was so painful and so cathartic to write. Yet, […]

Fast Food…For The Record

I find myself coming to the defense of fast food quite often. It’s not because I think it’s high in nutrients nor do I think it should comprise the majority of someone’s diet. Fast food (I’ll define it as food that you purchase and receive through a drive-thru window) comprises maybe 5% of my total […]

(More) Completely Random Fat Loss Tips

1-Catastrophizing your food choices does more “harm” to your diet than the actual food you ate. So you ate a pint of ice cream..so what? It’s done. It’s over. Move on. Those calories are consumed, accounted for (whether you counted them or not), and you can’t rewrite that part of the story. Change the next […]

Nasty Little Habits

I’ve struggled with nail biting for over 30 years. It started when I was in junior high and I recall my parents buying some type of polish that I could put on my nails as a deterrent. The taste of the polish was bad but not so off-putting that I was able to stop the […]

You Don’t Have Enough Discipline

I doubt I’ll ever run out of content for this site. Between my interactions with clients face-to-face and online, my continuing education, what I learn from coaches who inspire me (and those who don’t), there is no shortage of information to share with you. Sometime recently, I saw a post by a coach who I’ve […]

The Belly Fat Solution

Ask any coach who coaches fat loss what questions they hear the most and something along the lines of this will be at or near the top: How do I get rid of this belly fat? And I’ve been asked it so many times in my career that I have to catch myself from having […]

The (Im)Patience of Fat Loss 

I can probably count on one hand (possibly two) the amount of people I’ve worked with who are in no particular rush to lose unwanted weight.  Most everyone wants the weight off yesterday.  At a base level, I understand it. By time someone comes to my door (in my brick and mortar business or through […]