Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: In my gym bag I’m on the go, all the time -- from work, to my workouts, to running errands, to meeting friends for dinner and a glass of wine after a long day. I leave my house at 5:30am and normally I am not walking through my door until the sun By Hayley • May 08, 2013 08:22 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Spring Cleaning & Spring Eating Recipe 4 Click here and here for previous installments of Spring Cleaning & Spring Eating. This is the final installment of recipes for now and I really hope you had the chance to try one, if not all, of these dishes. In the kitchen I am like a fish out of water By Hayley • May 02, 2013 10:08 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Fear of failing Fear of failing is a common theme in many of the emails that I receive, countless emails from women who are afraid to join a gym because they do not know how to use equipment, or women who are afraid to try a class because they are fearful they will By Hayley • Apr 30, 2013 09:21 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Spring Cleaning & Spring Eating Recipe 3 Click here for previous installments of Spring Cleaning & Spring Eating. I was on Facebook yesterday and a friend had posted a photo of their egg white, spinach and quinoa muffins and the caption below read “cooling my quinoa-spinach breakfast muffins – yum”. Yum? Really? I am sure these muffins are By Hayley • Apr 25, 2013 10:13 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Small steps and weekly goals I need some guidance here Hayley. I’m 26, 5’9, and weigh 180 lbs. I’ve gained 40 lbs since graduating college. I juggle a full time job with grad school classes at night. It’s exhausting, especially compared with my life in college. In college, there was a By Hayley • Apr 24, 2013 09:41 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Spring Cleaning & Eating Recipe 2 Click here for last week’s introduction to Spring Cleaning & Eating and click here for yesterday’s first recipe. Yesterday we created a simple chicken dish and today we are going to use the leftover chicken in a salad for dinner plus lunch for tomorrow. This second meal is By Hayley • Apr 18, 2013 10:05 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Spring Cleaning & Eating Recipe 1 Click here for last week’s introduction to Spring Cleaning & Spring Eating. For this first week of recipes we are going to introduce fennel (a crunchy vegetable with a slightly liquorice flavour) and you will create three different meals using the items in your pantry plus a few items By Hayley • Apr 17, 2013 09:00 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Spring Cleaning, Spring Eating It is spring cleaning and I am in the process of purging my kitchen. In the process I have learned two things – canned food does expire (I had cans that expired in 2010!) and I have a completely empty pantry. This means if I pick up a recipe book I By Hayley • Apr 09, 2013 09:20 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Hair Ties for working out I have long, thick hair and I have always battled with it when I am exercising. Besides the fact that I have to wash and style it after a workout (which takes forever) I have always fought with how to tie it back when I am running. I hate the By Hayley • Apr 04, 2013 08:56 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Fitness Apps I never thought I would be one to use a fitness app on my phone to track my eating but in the fall of 2012 I was introduced to MyFitnessPal and in 10 weeks I dropped 15 pounds that had been gained over the summer. Here is why I think By Hayley • Apr 03, 2013 09:19 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Belly Flab and Spring Break Trust me when I say you are not alone in this fight to lose belly and hip fat. It is a billion dollar business and everywhere you turn someone is trying to sell you something that will solve all of your weight loss problems. Here is the truth –women are By Hayley • Mar 22, 2013 09:45 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: 30-45 minutes max Hi Hayley, In the last 10 years I have put on 40lbs since University. I am a Type 1 Diabetic and all my doctors, nurse and dietician tell me is it's 3x as hard for me to lose the weight. Not helpful and very frustrating. I'm By Hayley • Mar 21, 2013 09:13 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Your Workout Wardrobe I would be the last person to call myself a fashionista but I do know how to dress for a workout. Let’s face it – gyms are no longer a place to wear your frumpy white t-shirts and baggy shorts anymore. They are turning into a place to be seen By Hayley • Mar 14, 2013 09:04 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Consistency Consistency, in my opinion, is the most important word to consider when attempting to make a life change (such as trying to lose weight). I can not tell you how many times I have had people say to me that they have been trying to lose weight and months in By Hayley • Mar 13, 2013 09:10 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Glutes for running It’s almost Spring -- my favourite time of year! This is when a lot of us are ramping up our running. Whether you are training for your first 5km or a marathon, this is when your running mileage will begin to increase. Up to this point in your training By Hayley • Mar 07, 2013 09:32 am
Lifestyle Smutty Fitness: Is my friend bulimic? Hi Hayley, I don't know if you are the one to ask but here goes. I have this friend who is really self conscious about her weight. She is a bit bigger but not unhealthy in the least. What she has started is that whenever she feels guilty By Hayley • Mar 01, 2013 09:40 am
