Happy Motivation Monday! Over the weekend, I read a chapter in Debbie Ford's The Best Year of Your Life called "Claiming the Moment." She proposes that it's not enough to simply go through life being happy and enjoying life overall, and encourages readers to choose...
Happy Motivation Monday! A month and a half into the New Year, it's possible that your newfound healthy habits have gotten old or your motivation is lagging just a bit. That's normal - even when we find ourselves very committed to something for a few days, the...
Happy Motivation Monday! You all know that I'm a huge fan of continuous improvement, and that I love learning (read: I'm a nerd). I do my best to learn constantly in many areas of life, from reading books to scouring the internet for the latest studies to simply...
Happy Motivation Monday! If you've been reading for a while, you know that I'm not into fad diets. There's no magic pill, there's (generally) no reason to be really-ridiculously-strict with your diet and drop weight fast (because you're more likely to gain it back or...
Happy Motivation Monday! January is flying by, and most people have either long forgotten their New Year's Resolutions, or are getting frustrated by the fact that they haven't completed their Resolutions yet. A few of my clients yesterday expressed frustration that...
Happy Motivation Monday! If you pick up a so-called health magazine or skim through one of the millions of fad diet books on the market, you might think that they key to health is restricting your diet, or taking out the unhealthy offenders. You know the...
Sometimes we all need reminders for even those things that have become "normal" for us. I do some form of exercise nearly every day (and I love it), but I still need to block it out in my calendar and utilize the reminders to get me to actually do it! It was just...
If you've been reading The Lyons' Share for a while now, you know that I don't believe in crash diets, restricting food when you're truly hungry, or depriving yourself of nutrition. That said, I do believe in giving your body what it needs to feel your best, and...
Happy Motivation Monday! Can you believe it is the last Motivation Monday post of 2014? Once Thursday rolls around, millions of people across the globe will be setting New Year's Resolutions. True, only 8% of people achieve their resolutions by the year's end, but...
Happy Motivation Monday! I'm in Florida with Kevin's family for Christmas, and was *thisclose* to forgetting today's post, but here I am! (And by the way, Happy Birthday to my mother-in-law, Pat!) People have different attitudes towards food and "indulgence" at the...