The proud leader of the #bgg2wlarmy, Erika Nicole Kendall writes food and fitness, body image and beauty, and more here at #bgg2wl. After losing over 150lbs, Kendall became a personal trainer certified in fitness nutrition, women’s fitness, and weight loss by the National Academy of Sports Medicine. She is also certified in sports nutrition by Precision Nutrition. She now lives in New York with her husband and children, and is working on her 6th and 7th certifications because she likes having alphabet soup at the end of her name.
Today in New York City, a policy that requires certain kinds of restaurants to list salt warnings on their menus takes effect. Here’s what happened, why it’s important, and why ‘food police’ is an absurd phrase.
Q: Is everyone this hungry going through weight loss?
Q: I keep hearing differing thoughts on how much weights I should do, whether I should consume back the calories I burned when working out! Help!
Your waist trainer causes UTIs, incontinence, temporary heart failure, indigestion, high blood pressure, nerve damage, and more. Read how inside.
A thorough discussion about processed meats, and the World Health Organization’s study that determined both them and beef to be cancer-causing substances.
Q: Here’s a quick question: how do you train when you have the flu? Do you? How do you drag your feet back to the gym when you’re still tired?
Q: No matter what I try the scale does not budge. The only result I get is that my milk production plummets until I resume my “normal” eating routine. Help!
Is it really possible that using a credit card can make you fat?
Q: I’m desperate to get this weight off! Help!
Heart failure affects one in 40 Americans – are you one of them? Learn about the condition, how to spot it, and how to live healthily with it!
What you need to know about dietary fiber, and five great ways to get it in your diet today.
When I wrote “they don’t want a partner who complains about how much time they spend at the gym,” people asked me…is it wrong to not want to date someone who is overweight?
Corning Gorilla Wear 4 helps to improve protection of your phone from the perils of exercise.
Dr. Mark Hyman shares that he thinks sugar is a ‘recreational drug’ in a video, and I share my thoughts on his comments.
My wrap-up of how I #surviveon35, and tips on how you can, too!
Q: I wonder, if you can’t out-train a bad diet, can you out train a sedentary lifestyle?
The claim: Carbonated drinks leach calcium from bones, causing lowered bone density; contributing to higher acidity in the body and tooth decay. The truth?
Why, on Earth, would you stock up if you have no idea how to cook it? Let’s fix that.
A quick review of the Zing Anything Citrus Zinger Juicer.
One man tells his story of how his mother uncovered the truth about his HIV positive diagnosis.