Teams. Groups. Community. It’s how we get things done best. It’s how we support each other and push each other forward. So why make fitness a solo mission? Why not rally up with a group that’s working together to aim at the same goal? Instead of going your New Year’s fitness goals alone, join us! MYB Workout Challenges cheer you through the month of January to hit a total of 22 workouts - not 22 consecutive workouts. You’ll keep track of your workouts on a group workout log (with me and everyone else in the challenge!). And there’ll be 24/7 motivation on move-your-booty.com. By month’s end, you’ll find yourself a fitter, happier, healthier (and hotter!) self!! Kick off January right! Don’t do it alone! Join MYBnation. To join, simply email YES to moveyourbootyblog@gmail.com We can do this!! Pumped! xoxo, Emily @ Move Your Booty #jumpstart #workoutchallenge High-res

Teams. Groups. Community.

It’s how we get things done best. It’s how we support each other and push each other forward.

So why make fitness a solo mission? Why not rally up with a group that’s working together to aim at the same goal?

Instead of going your New Year’s fitness goals alone, join us!

MYB Workout Challenges cheer you through the month of January to hit a total of 22 workouts - not 22 consecutive workouts. You’ll keep track of your workouts on a group workout log (with me and everyone else in the challenge!). And there’ll be 24/7 motivation on move-your-booty.com. By month’s end, you’ll find yourself a fitter, happier, healthier (and hotter!) self!!

Kick off January right! Don’t do it alone! Join MYBnation.

To join, simply email YES to moveyourbootyblog@gmail.com

We can do this!! Pumped!

xoxo,
Emily @ Move Your Booty

#jumpstart #workoutchallenge

5 months ago


MOTIVATION: throw away that scale.

We’ve been talking about it over here for a while now and now Tara Stiles is taking on the topic, too. THE SCALE.

This thing that’s supposed to know more about your body than you do. This thing that can control your mind, the way you see yourself and your mood. JUMP OFF IT! Nobody knows more about your body than you — we just gotta tune in.

Check out what Tara has to say: VIDEO: Throw Away the Scale (by TaraStilesYoga)


**BONUS - Tara walks us through her typical weekly grocery shopping — this healthy & fit chick knows what’s up. Also she baked you cookies. #eatrealfood


6 months ago
MOTIVATION: THROW OUT YOUR SCALE AND NEVER LOOK BACK I get amazing daily emails from my cousin Lisa every day. She’s a personal trainer, whirlwind mother of twins in NYC, a  4-time marathoner and the one who signed me up for my first race in Central Park at just 14 years old. But these aren’t just typical emails. They’re smattered with _tell-it-like-it-is life lessons_ as only she can spell them out. Examples include: “Fell on the street today. Great way to pick up men.” Or “Eating chinese food in bed, you only live once!” Her life lessons are too good to be kept to myself… so I present to you: “Life Lessons by Lisa.” Life Lessons by Lisa: Chapter One: Throw out your scale. As a personal trainer with years of experience working with women of all shapes and sizes, ages, backgrounds and body-image baggage, I can give you one sure-fire way to free all your peeps from the shackles of self-loathing and low self-esteem that cause us to doubt ourselves and limit ourselves from truly feeling good in our own skin: throw out the scale. The scale is truly your enemy.  From a scientific point of view, we all know now in 2012 that it does NOT reflect the difference between fat and muscle.  By stepping on it you are giving power to a weird machine that does not know you at all, to decide how you will feel about yourself that day.  Lost weight usually has gals feeling great - wow, what a stellar person I am, hard worker, beautiful! Gained weight: fat sloth, evil, lazy, nothing works, what’s the point, etc.  Get rid of the scale.  Scary stuff for sure as trusting your body day after day is much harder than letting a number tell you how to feel about yourself.  Sadly, no one even notices whether you have lost or gained 4 lbs!  Try it for a month’s challenge and see how you feel about yourself - make all your friends do it with you and trust me, you will be FREE of a pointless obsession that is sucking up your energy and spirit.  You will still have days when you feel heavier or lighter - hello this is life— we are human, we have good days and bad days—nothing is constant; that would be weird right? - but we are grown-ups and allowed to have ups and downs — stop allowing the scale to be another form of judgment in an already overly judgmental society.  throw it out and do not look back. Amen, Lisa!

MOTIVATION: THROW OUT YOUR SCALE AND NEVER LOOK BACK

I get amazing daily emails from my cousin Lisa every day. She’s a personal trainer, whirlwind mother of twins in NYC, a  4-time marathoner and the one who signed me up for my first race in Central Park at just 14 years old. But these aren’t just typical emails. They’re smattered with _tell-it-like-it-is life lessons_ as only she can spell them out. Examples include: “Fell on the street today. Great way to pick up men.” Or “Eating chinese food in bed, you only live once!” Her life lessons are too good to be kept to myself… so I present to you: “Life Lessons by Lisa.”

Life Lessons by Lisa: Chapter One: Throw out your scale.

As a personal trainer with years of experience working with women of all shapes and sizes, ages, backgrounds and body-image baggage, I can give you one sure-fire way to free all your peeps from the shackles of self-loathing and low self-esteem that cause us to doubt ourselves and limit ourselves from truly feeling good in our own skin: throw out the scale. The scale is truly your enemy.  From a scientific point of view, we all know now in 2012 that it does NOT reflect the difference between fat and muscle.  By stepping on it you are giving power to a weird machine that does not know you at all, to decide how you will feel about yourself that day.  Lost weight usually has gals feeling great - wow, what a stellar person I am, hard worker, beautiful! Gained weight: fat sloth, evil, lazy, nothing works, what’s the point, etc.  Get rid of the scale.  Scary stuff for sure as trusting your body day after day is much harder than letting a number tell you how to feel about yourself.  Sadly, no one even notices whether you have lost or gained 4 lbs!  Try it for a month’s challenge and see how you feel about yourself - make all your friends do it with you and trust me, you will be FREE of a pointless obsession that is sucking up your energy and spirit.  You will still have days when you feel heavier or lighter - hello this is life— we are human, we have good days and bad days—nothing is constant; that would be weird right? - but we are grown-ups and allowed to have ups and downs — stop allowing the scale to be another form of judgment in an already overly judgmental society.  throw it out and do not look back.

Amen, Lisa!

(via livelifefighting)

8 months ago
MOTIVATION: processed “food” is poison.  via Which Diet Works? - NYTimes.com: Almost every diet, from the radical no-carb-at-all notions to the tame (and sane) “Healthy Eating Plate” from Harvard, agrees on at least this notion: reduce, or even come close to eliminating, the amount of hyper-processed carbohydrates in your diet, because, quite simply, they’re bad for you. And if you look at statistics, at least a quarter of our calories come from added sugars (seven percent from beverages alone), white flour, white rice, white pasta … are you seeing a pattern here? (Oh, and white potatoes. And beer.) So what’s Ludwig’s overall advice? “It’s time to reacquaint ourselves with minimally processed carbs. If you take three servings of refined carbohydrates and substitute one of fruit, one of beans and one of nuts, you could eliminate 50 percent of diet-related disease in the United States. These relatively modest changes can provide great benefit.” The message is pretty simple: unprocessed foods give you a better chance of idealizing your weight — and your health. Because all calories are not created equal. Photo via instagram #eatrealfood / on Instagram http://instagr.am/p/P-zEJWrnNB/ High-res

MOTIVATION: processed “food” is poison. 

via Which Diet Works? - NYTimes.com:

Almost every diet, from the radical no-carb-at-all notions to the tame (and sane) “Healthy Eating Plate” from Harvard, agrees on at least this notion: reduce, or even come close to eliminating, the amount of hyper-processed carbohydrates in your diet, because, quite simply, they’re bad for you. And if you look at statistics, at least a quarter of our calories come from added sugars (seven percent from beverages alone), white flour, white rice, white pasta … are you seeing a pattern here? (Oh, and white potatoes. And beer.)

So what’s Ludwig’s overall advice? “It’s time to reacquaint ourselves with minimally processed carbs. If you take three servings of refined carbohydrates and substitute one of fruit, one of beans and one of nuts, you could eliminate 50 percent of diet-related disease in the United States. These relatively modest changes can provide great benefit.”

The message is pretty simple: unprocessed foods give you a better chance of idealizing your weight — and your health. Because all calories are not created equal.

Photo via instagram #eatrealfood / on Instagram http://instagr.am/p/P-zEJWrnNB/

8 months ago
MOTIVATION: 7 reasons to kick soda—INCLUDING DIET SODA—out of your diet. For good. (via 7 Reasons to Kick Your Soda Habit - Diet Center - Everyday Health) Soda is the single largest source of added sugar in the modern diet, and it’s also the leading cause of childhood obesity in the United States. You can click thru for the entire article, but I’ll sum it up for you real quick right here. 1. It’s making you fat. 2. It’s giving you heart disease. 3. It’s making you psycho. 4. It’s giving you diabetes. 5. It’s making you—and everyone in America—obese. 6. It’s fucking up your teeth. 7. It’s making our kids fat — our future, our future thinkers, our future military power, our future inventors, our future world leaders. GOT IT? Here’s how to cut back...  High-res

MOTIVATION: 7 reasons to kick soda—INCLUDING DIET SODA—out of your diet. For good.

(via 7 Reasons to Kick Your Soda Habit - Diet Center - Everyday Health)

Soda is the single largest source of added sugar in the modern diet, and it’s also the leading cause of childhood obesity in the United States.

You can click thru for the entire article, but I’ll sum it up for you real quick right here.

1. It’s making you fat.

2. It’s giving you heart disease.

3. It’s making you psycho.

4. It’s giving you diabetes.

5. It’s making you—and everyone in America—obese.

6. It’s fucking up your teeth.

7. It’s making our kids fat — our future, our future thinkers, our future military power, our future inventors, our future world leaders.

GOT IT? Here’s how to cut back... 

9 months ago

Health Uncensored: Waist Matters

My friend, Robin Friedlander, tells is like it is…

healthuncensored:

This is the reality. If your waist is wider than your shoulders, or creeping close, then you are in huge, huge trouble. The fat in your middle is a festering inflammatory stew spitting out cancer juice and artery-hardening, pancreas-killing, Alzheimer’s inducing, ragefull sludge.

You do not have to starve yourself. You do not have to be skinny. And I know, in some cases the genetic odds are stacked against you. But I don’t care. If you can do anything about it, get your waist circumference down and save yourself.

In the early days your pancreas may just protest a little and your low back and knees might only whine quietly, but to themselves they are saying, “I’ll show you sucker.” In time the diabetic foot infections, wheelchair-confining back and knee pain, and stroke inducing cardiovascular disease will have their way with you.

Note, the lack of a numerical inch limit for males/females here is deliberate. We are all individuals. You know whether you are emaciated and starving, nourished but trim, or if your belly is toppling over your waistband a little more each year. I don’t expect you to measure yourself. I give you more credit than that. Observe and be honest. 

No words minced,

11 months ago
MOTIVATION: eating good shit. (via the lululemon blog:) what’s up with kale? reap the benefits of kale Momma’s right (but isn’t she always?). Vegetables are jam packed with various vitamins and nutrients and kale is no exception. The dark green has an abundance of antioxidants that help fight off cancer-causing free radicals and can also aid in lowering cholesterol and reducing inflammation. nutritional value One cup (130g) of kale contains: over 1000% of your daily-recommended value of Vitamin K(supporting bone growth and regulating blood clotting) over 350% of your daily value of Vitamin A(helps vision, growth, bone formation, tissue repair and red blood cell production) 5g of fibre(like yoga, fibre helps the digestive system function and detoxify the body) 35 calories  Get the whole scoop on kale here!

MOTIVATION: eating good shit.

(via the lululemon blog:)

what’s up with kale?

reap the benefits of kale

Momma’s right (but isn’t she always?). Vegetables are jam packed with various vitamins and nutrients and kale is no exception. The dark green has an abundance of antioxidants that help fight off cancer-causing free radicals and can also aid in lowering cholesterol and reducing inflammation.

nutritional value
One cup (130g) of kale contains:

  • over 1000% of your daily-recommended value of Vitamin K
    (supporting bone growth and regulating blood clotting)
  • over 350% of your daily value of Vitamin A
    (helps vision, growth, bone formation, tissue repair and red blood cell production)
  • 5g of fibre
    (like yoga, fibre helps the digestive system function and detoxify the body)
  • 35 calories 

Get the whole scoop on kale here!

1 year ago
MOTIVATION: resolutions. ya know, actually doing them. LOVED reading this article as it reiterated all that we hardworking MYBers are already doing! Especially those partaking in the 22in2012 MYB January Jumpoff! Whatever your New Year’s Resolution, this article has some really fascinating information. Besides, you’re not the type to just make a random resolution and then not keep it, right? That’s SO cliche, anyway! Keep on rocking through January people! You can do it! (via  - NYTimes.com) An excerpt from New Year’s Resolutions Stick When Willpower Is Reinforced: “If you can make it through the rest of January, you have a good chance of lasting a lot longer.” …One of their newest studies, published last month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, tracked people’s reactions to temptations throughout the day. The study, led by Wilhelm Hofmann of the University of Chicago, showed that the people with the best self-control, paradoxically, are the ones who use their willpower less often. Instead of fending off one urge after another, these people set up their lives to minimize temptations. They play offense, not defense, using their willpower in advance so that they avoid crises, conserve their energy and outsource as much self-control as they can. Some helpful suggestions from the article’s research: SET A SINGLE CLEAR GOAL PRECOMMIT OUTSOURCE  KEEP TRACK  DON’T OVERREACT TO A LAPSE  TOMORROW IS ANOTHER TASTE  REWARD OFTEN  Read the full article here: New Year’s Resolutions Stick When Willpower Is Reinforced

MOTIVATION: resolutions. ya know, actually doing them.

LOVED reading this article as it reiterated all that we hardworking MYBers are already doing! Especially those partaking in the 22in2012 MYB January Jumpoff! Whatever your New Year’s Resolution, this article has some really fascinating information. Besides, you’re not the type to just make a random resolution and then not keep it, right? That’s SO cliche, anyway! Keep on rocking through January people! You can do it!

(via  - NYTimes.com)

An excerpt from New Year’s Resolutions Stick When Willpower Is Reinforced:

“If you can make it through the rest of January, you have a good chance of lasting a lot longer.”

…One of their newest studies, published last month in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, tracked people’s reactions to temptations throughout the day. The study, led by Wilhelm Hofmann of the University of Chicago, showed that the people with the best self-control, paradoxically, are the ones who use their willpower less often. Instead of fending off one urge after another, these people set up their lives to minimize temptations. They play offense, not defense, using their willpower in advance so that they avoid crises, conserve their energy and outsource as much self-control as they can.

Some helpful suggestions from the article’s research:

SET A SINGLE CLEAR GOAL

PRECOMMIT

OUTSOURCE 

KEEP TRACK 

DON’T OVERREACT TO A LAPSE 

TOMORROW IS ANOTHER TASTE 

REWARD OFTEN 

Read the full article here: New Year’s Resolutions Stick When Willpower Is Reinforced

1 year ago