I love making baked oats specifically because it almost feels like you are eating cake for breakfast, but it's healthy! To me, baked oats are a fall breakfast staple and nothing screams fall more than pumpkin. Typically, pumpkin spice recipes never really hit the mark for me. I am always expecting more of a pumpkin flavor but instead, I just get a whole lot of cinnamon & nutmeg. This is why one of the main ingredients in my pumpkin baked oats is actual pumpkin!

How many times have you tried to get “more flexible”? How many times did you try to increase your flexibility by simply stretching after your lifts? How long did you stick to that?

The truth is, if you want to improve your flexibility, you need to treat it the same way you would treat your strength program. To see true, drastic improvements...

Personality can determine how much you enjoy your workouts, how long your workouts should be, how likely you are to stick to a program, and so much more. Personality is what makes you, you. It is how you like to present yourself and how you choose to perceive yourself. So a workout that doesn’t align with your personality, is going against what you would normally choose to do.

Warm ups have notoriously been the forgotten or discarded piece of every gym rats’ workout. I get it, I didn’t do warm ups for a long time and I still have days that I skip warm ups. I might be short on time or just lazy and tired that day and don’t feel like doing it. But warm ups have the potential to level up your workout that much more. So lets get into what a warm up is & why they are important.

Exercise is meant to add to your life, not take away from it. So if you find yourself wanting to take a pilates class over going for a run, do it! Any movement is good movement, and you deserve to enjoy your workouts.

I was constantly putting my body through periods of extreme restriction, extreme binging, and sometimes, forcing it out of myself to hide from the shame and guilt I experienced. My body was not having it. I was experiencing some of the worst breakouts, I was losing strength, and I was so stressed out. I was always anxious, I couldn’t look forward to holidays, dinner with family, or parties, and I had so much trouble falling asleep. I definitely hit rock bottom and after a few months of this cycle, I decided I was going to go back to maintenance calories.

Homemade protein bars that actually have high protein! These protein bars are made from tofu and protein powder! These are versatile, easy to make, & so good!