The Lyons’ Share Blog
How to Stay Healthy While Traveling
With the world slowly opening back up, and Memorial Day (and summer!) coming up soon, more and more of my clients are traveling. As someone who traveled frequently before, taking my first plane ride in 15 months this past weekend (for my niece’s high school...
14 Things Your Health Coach Wants You to Know (Lessons learned from over 8,000 hours of 1-to-1 coaching!)
Over the past 7 years of business at The Lyons’ Share Wellness, I’ve completed over 8,000 hours of 1-to-1 coaching. 8,000 hours of sitting face to face with a person sharing their struggles and insecurities and goals and aspirations – that’s a lot! While every...
Is Fat Bad? (Benefits of Healthy Fat & How Much You Should Eat Daily!)
Do you remember when the “low-fat” and “fat-free” craze rocked the nutrition world? The 1990s and 2000s were peppered with low-fat products, encouraging us to eat as much as we wanted because they were fat-free (implying that, of course, fat that you eat makes you...
Which Non-Dairy Milk is Best?
Do you remember 10 years ago, how coffee shops had only half & half or fat-free milk? How oat milk ice cream and plant-based cheese and soy milk and almond yogurt and cashew cream cheese hardly even existed? I do, and while I roll my eyes at many trends, I’m so...
How Much Protein Do You Need? (and the benefits of protein!)
Of the three macronutrients (protein, fat, and carbohydrates), protein is the least likely to get vilified by popular diet culture. We’ve certainly done low-fat (hello, Snackwells of the 90s and increased obesity and rates of chronic disease!), and we go in and out...
How to Speed Up Muscle Recovery (and what is muscle recovery, anyway?)
When most of us think of how to get more results from our workouts, we think of pushing harder, lifting heavier, going further. And there is a time and place for all that, if you’re looking to increase performance. But the “less sexy,” just as important component of...
Is Wheat Flour Healthy? (6 reasons to avoid wheat flour)
Here’s the scene: I’m celebrating a client’s great week, which I always do at the start of the session. There is always something to celebrate, and I like to keep the focus on the positive! Once I finish celebrating, I say, “I noticed you had a sandwich on Tuesday. ...
What is Bloating (and how to fix it!)
Every single day, I have a client telling me they’re feeling bloated or have struggled with bloating for years. And more often than not, they say it in passing, as if it’s an unavoidable fact that we just have to live with and can’t do anything about. That’s not...
How to Keep Your Blood Sugar Stable (What I Learned from Wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor)
In December 2020, a friend reached out to me wanting to make a connection with a co-founder of a new health startup, Levels Health, which provides continuous glucose monitors, along with an app that facilitates insights and learning, direct to consumers. It was great...
What the Government Gets Wrong About Nutrition (and a review of the 2020-2025 Dietary Guidelines of America)
The US government spends a lot of money on nutrition. Between the FDA (Food & Drug Administration), the USDA (United States Department of Agriculture), and the HHS (US Department of Health & Human Services), it seems we have an abundance of governmental...
Hi! I'm Megan Lyons,
the voice behind The Lyons’ Share. I love all things health, wellness, and fitness-related, and I hope to share some of my passion with you. Thanks for stopping by!