One question many of my clients ask me is "Should I follow a gluten-free meal plan to feel better?" This is a great question to ask as the market for gluten-free products has exploded. This type of market makes gluten-free enticing for many to dabble with in the effort to improve health.

However, let's talk about the gluten-free myth and the key principal that gets lost in all the gluten-free hustle and bustle.  You don't want to miss this important health concept.

Make it healthy! - FRAN

We have lived through the low fat, high protein, and low carb craze.  Yet we still don’t know which craze we should be following with our nutrition.  Let’s stop over complicating healthy nutrition.  Start following these healthy principles 95% of the time, and your nutrition will taken care of.  You will finally have the answer to the question "am I eating healthy enough?" 

You gotta make it healthy - Fran

We’ve all been there, we are traveling and our nutrition choices turns into a free for all!  You are either starving, or completely uncomfortable because you ate too much at the restaurant.  Well, there’s a better way.   

Is “healthy nutrition traveling hacks” an oxymoron?  Some might think so, but I’ve been coaching nutrition for long enough to know that when you can continue to manage your blood sugar while traveling, then you win because the guilt is gone and you maintain your energy. 

If you travel or take any type of vacation during the year, you need these strategies to keep you from falling off the healthy nutrition wagon and struggling with your health because of it. Make it a healthy week - Fran

As a health coach, I take pride in guiding clients in their creation of healthier lifestyle habits.  Sometime this is easier said than done.  I’ve been a part of many, many goal setting session with clients and over the years, the clients who went beyond just goal setting had greater results.  They were able to stick to the program long enough to make it a lifestyle.  So what did these clients do? They take goal setting to the next level as just having a goal, is not enough motivation for obstacles and struggles you will encounter.  Make it healthy! - FRAN

We are living highly stressful lives and the stress is impacting our nutrient absorption.  Your body is speaking to your through your gas, bloating, constipation, diarrhea…are you listening?  These symptoms are not normal!

Implementing simple yet effective strategies will impact your nutrient absorption as stress is not going away, but how we deal with the stress can change how well your digestive tract functions. 

Learn how to build a “shield” of protection by increasing your nutrient absorption from the food you are eating to create a higher performing and more energetic body.   - Fran

Your Body Fat Percentage is an important measurement of health.  If you are carrying more body fat than muscle mass, this will impact your health by decreasing your metabolic efficiency.  We all have learned and know that if we can only increase our metabolic rate, we can lose weight and live healthier.

But - the physiology behind increasing your metabolism is to carry more muscle mass as muscle burns more efficiently than fat. Let's learn how to increase your muscle mass, while decreasing your body fat percentage.  It's possible, and many people are having lasting change as the strategies I share are a long-term plan that will impact your health tremendously. 

Now, lets all start living to build muscle mass and decrease body fat.  Make it an amazingly healthy week! - Fran

Are you looking for the next best program to make you successful with your weightloss and health? I have a little secret to share.  It's not "the program" that will keep you on your health journey, it's the goals you set and how you measure those goals that will keep you going.  

If any of you know me, you know that I frown when you tell me you use a weight scale. So if you don't use a weight scale, what measurement tool should you be using?  Let's find out...

Make it amazingly healthy - Fran

CLICK HERE TO CALCULATE YOUR BODY FAT %

We've all been there. We decide to live a little healthier and we start the journey with weighting ourselves, then we continue the madness and measure our success on the journey by weighing ourselves daily. Well lets learn why this strategy will sabotage you more than help you. 

Make it amazingly healthy! - Fran

Why do most of us have the best intentions and yet, we can't stick to a long term healthy eating plan?  It's your lack of willpower right? WRONG!

Ask anyone who eats healthy or has lost weight and kept it off and they will tell you, relying on your willpower is the WORST strategy you can use.  Phychologists will also agree that willpower will not carry you through difficult nutrition moments. So what do you do?!

Let's learn how you can outsmart this intricate beast we all call willpower can start working FOR YOU & not against you...

Make it an amazing day! - Fran

Want to fight inflammation in your body through the foods you eat.  Any pain or disease in the human body originates from inflammation.  It's doesn't stop there, healing fats can help lower triglycerides, reduce plaque buildup in your arteries, and can help slightly lower your blood pressure.

Let's bulletproof your body through the use of healing fats. 

The problem is that the world of dietary fat is so complicated, yet it really doesn't have to be.  Let's learn about the powerful healing fats & 3 quick food sources you can start incorporating into you diet easily. 

MAKE It Great!- Fran