by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
Motherhood is changing, but it can still sometimes feel like we have to keep up with antiquated expectations for women’s bodies and life choices. Blargh. At BB, we’re proud to create community that celebrates every kind of pregnancy, birth, and postpartum experience....
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
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....
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | POSTPARTUM EXERCISE
Can we detangle things? No, not this. I mean this whole fitness thing. Because I think we tend to make exercise and fitness this big, mysterious thing that no one can really quite figure out. Like the Bermuda Triangle, only it’s a black hole of...
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
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,...
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
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...
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | Uncategorized
“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...
by Dara & Laura Trainers | Nov 15, 2022 | POSTPARTUM EXERCISE, PRENATAL EXERCISE
OK that’s a big promise! But the way we feel is greatly affected by the way we execute our daily repetitive tasks like stair climbing — also picking up things around the house, carrying our little ones, sitting at our desks, sitting in our cars, sleeping, basically...