What Do Your Cravings Mean?

What Do Your Cravings Mean?

Cravings. I get them. You get them. I’m pretty sure the first female humans started walking upright just to get a better vantage point on where exactly one might find some carbs.     I don’t tend to get daytime cravings. For me, daytime is busy, packed with...

Halibut with Cilantro Pesto

  Last week I shared some of my best tips to get children to eat the meat, fish, poultry and vegetables that should make up the majority of their dinner plate. I have never understood why mothers are willing to prepare separate meals for the adults and...

The Power Of Your Inner Child

  I have a confession. Sometimes, when I’m teaching a Belly Bootcamp postnatal class and the babies are sprawled on the floor (or the grass, in the summer), it is the babies – not the mommies – who impress me the most. Don’t get me wrong....

10 Minute Workouts

For the past 4 months I’ve been using the Heart & Stroke Foundation’s Healthy Weight Action Plan to track my current fitness goals, eating habits and behaviours in my quest to blast off these last 5 pregnancy pounds. These “vanity” pounds...

Coping With Sleep Deprivation

  As a parent, 9 times out of 10, the first question you get asked is, “So, how is he/she sleeping” – or something to that sentiment. And often, when you honestly shrug and say you aren’t sleeping well, or admit that your baby is still nursing all night long,...

Playground Workout Challenge

It is HOT in Toronto this week. Actually, I hear that it is pretty hot everywhere this week. I’ve been teaching our outdoor Belly Bootcamp classes and trying to stay as cool as possible, but I am on a weight loss mission and lolling around in front of the air...

Jamie & Jeff’s Birth Plan

“Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans.”  ― Allen Saunders Oh, that first pregnancy. Remember when you had time to actually plan things? Did you make a birth plan? Did you stick with it? Maybe you are pregnant with your first right now...