Category: Fitness
5 Easy Yoga Poses for Moms
Editor’s Note: Moms have a pretty sound reputation for being last on their own list. But, what if you could take 10 or 15 minutes out of your day, even when the kids are around, to do a little something for your own zen. Danielle Mika Nagel is the studio director for the world’s first [...]
Thinking Fitness? Personal Tips to Keep On Track
Editor’s Note: Good morning. I am not exactly on the fitness train this year. I keep thinking it’s a good idea. But, getting motivated and, mostly, finding the time in already jam-packed days have set my vision of fit me back a bit. Thankfully, there are inspiring women such as Kaylee Norton out there. Kaylee [...]
The Back to School Mom's Shape Up
Let’s admit it. School is as much for the parents as it is for the kids. We love our children. But, sending them on their merry way to run around with their friends, learn a thing or two, is a bit of a sanity saver. Much like our partners, their comes a point in life [...]
How To Love Your Post-Baby Body
Some days I look around and see nothing but women who didn’t seem to gain a pound while they were pregnant. As soon as they gave birth the baby weight seemed to just vanish. Me, not so much. Three pregnancies later my body is so very different than when I started. I’ve become incredibly self-conscious [...]
Esther Kane – Take a Mental Health Break with Yoga
In this article, I wanted to share with you one of my greatest passions and recommendations for all of my clients to help them de-stress, find balance, and get in shape- yoga. I have been practicing this ancient form of fitness, meditation, and relaxation for over half my life already. I was introduced to Kundalini [...]
A Balanced Approach To Healthy Weight Loss
Editor’s Note: Happy Friday. Esther Kane is on site sharing her personal experience with healthy weight loss. Truly inspiring. Here she is: Normally, I try to avoid talking about weight loss. Being an eating disorders therapist, it can be a touchy subject indeed. But lately, I’ve come to realize that there is, what I believe [...]
Enjoy Home Cooked Meals, Don't Fret About Calories
Editor’s Note: Happy Friday! Esther Kane is here with ten great tips for healthy, happy eating and entertaining. Here she is: I recently had the pleasure of visiting my grandmother Ruth in London, England, which I am lucky enough to do once a year. Although it’s quite the schlep to get there and the jet-lag [...]
The Fit Family – Building In A Routine for All of Us
I have to admit that working out these days is like pulling teeth – for a couple of reasons. Still trying to figure it all out, it looks like I have a combination of adrenal fatigue and thyroid issues wreaking havoc on both my energy and my stamina. I’ve given up on the regular doctors and [...]
Fit Family – A Forced Reset of Family Priorities
I never find it a good thing when you head to the doctor, get some blood work done, and they call you for a follow up that starts with “Come on in today.” That’s what happened to me in mid-December. I knew I wasn’t feeling good. I thought it was general malaise, some un-checked emotional [...]
The Fit Family – Creaky Bones & The Death of Procrastination
Editor’s Note: Happy Monday. If you missed our early post, check out our review of Roylco’s fossil rubbing plates HERE. Meanwhile, we are slugging through finding our workout groove: Oh how uninspiring we find ourselves these days. Ken and I both agree that we have mental blocks when it comes to long term fitness. But, [...]
The Fit Family – The Flu, Frustration & Funk
Editor’s Note: This is the second installment in The Fit Family – the OBE year-long adventure from flab to fit. Robin and Ken are here today in diary style talking a bit about how the process is taking shape. They need a boost. You may want to send some love their way today. It’s ugly [...]
The Fit Family – Week 1, The Harsh Reality
Editor’s Note: During the week here at OBE, you’ll now be getting a morning AND an afternoon post with some fun new features and timely coverage of community events in which Our Big Earth is involved. Our morning post today was a product review on gorgeous wooden Waldorf rainbow stackers. Check out the review HERE. [...]
Mindful Eating Roadblocks (Part 3)
Editor’s Note: The lovely and knowledgeable Esther Kane is with us today sharing tips from her latest book on practicing Mindful Eating. This is the third part of her Mindful Eating Roadblocks series. You can find the first two parts here – Part One & Part Two. Here’s Esther: For this article, I will share with [...]
Motivating the Motivationally Challenged
Editor’s Note: This morning we have Marcie Dumais coming clean about exercise and sharing ten tips on getting motivated. Check them out: September will always be a start-up month for me. I’m not sure if it is because of the twenty-one years of being a student, or the fact that I am a teacher and I come [...]
Esther Kane – Mindful Eating Roadblocks (Part 2)
Editor’s Note: Speaking of mindful eating, get yourselves on over to the Today Party from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. today at Karen McKinnon’s studio, 4th Street and Cliffe Avenue (enter in the parking lot behind Brambles). There will be cupcakes to decorate and take to someone special, not to mention a few to nosh [...]
Moms in Need Seek Affordable Fitness Trainer
As parents, we will do almost anything to ensure that our children are healthy and well cared for. We do whatever it takes to get them to eat their veggies, give them creative/ play time, and make sure they get adequate sleep and exercise each day. Our priority is to give them the best possible [...]
Love The Skin You're In – Say No to Dieting
Editor’s Note: Local clinical counselor Esther Kane joins us today for the first of many a guest column about self-esteem and healthy body image for women and girls. I have most definitely struggled with my weight and a pretty warped out body image since I was a young girl going through a terribly awkward chunky [...]
Spring Training for the Family
We are hitting the beach and the trails while the sunshine lasts today. So, local fitness guru Sharon de Goede is here to chat about getting outside and getting moving with the family now that Spring has sprung! Here she is: Give yourself a shake! The ole body is STILL there, still working for you, [...]
The 8-Step Plan to Make Family Fitness Stick
Editor’s Note: I feel moderately guilty posting this today. We’ve done plenty of hiking, beach-walking and generally outdoors loving the last week. But, you can bet that has also included plenty of sleeping in, snacking and lounging around blissfully in need of doing absolutely nothing. But, upon return, I will be hitting the pool hard, [...]
