By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer Stress! Ahhhh!! Hair-pulling, teeth-grinding stress. Especially this time of year, right? Pile on the stress, pile the food on the plate, pile on the pounds. ALL ABOARD THE STRESS TRAIN We often hear so much about how stress is a factor contributing to why we aren’t reaching … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer>/em> We are just two days away from the biggest food-focused social gathering of the year: Thanksgiving! If you’ve been working hard towards your goals for some time, then you are probably in one of two camps as we approach this holiday feast: • Treat it as a … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer Setting goals is easy. At least at first – the actual goal setting part. A thought pops in your mind of something you want to achieve, so after some pondering you throw it out there into existence – you tell someone, you post it on social media, … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer If I had a dollar for every time someone said something along the lines of, “I’m fine with workouts, it’s the nutrition that gets me,” or “The exercise part is no problem, but food is my downfall,” I’d be able to take a very long vacation. BIGGEST … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer What if I told you that you didn’t have to drastically cut your calories and feel like you’re starving all of the time, or eliminate all of your favorite foods from your life in order to start seeing positive physical and internal health changes? Or that there … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer Ignorance is bliss. When we were young, we probably didn’t know that our favorite foods, snacks and treats weren’t the healthiest things for us to eat. We also may not have known what types of people were “good” or “bad” for us to hang around or choose … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer You’ve no doubt heard the old saying “your word is your bond.” When we hear that, we may think of our promises or commitments we make to other people. But what about the promises you make to yourself? How much do you trust that you will keep … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer Have you ever asked yourself some of the really, really hard questions – the deeper questions – as to why you may be sabotaging your fitness progress? 1. Why do you make the choices you make when it comes to nutrition? 2. Why do you choose to … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer It can be really tempting to set high goals. I mean, we are praised and rewarded and may get quite a bit of attention if we announce to the world that we’re going to start training to run a marathon. Or if we set a goal of … SEE MORE

  By Naomi Rabon, NW Fitness Team Trainer In my nearly 20 years of experience in the fitness industry, the number one reason why people seem to not be able to stick with a fitness program long enough to see results and achieve their goals is succumbing to the “all or nothing” mentality. If you … SEE MORE