At David’s Way to Health and Fitness we educate people that permanent weight-loss requires incorporating new daily habits in order to succeed. Yes, successful weight-loss and weight-management require a new lifestyle that replaces the lifestyle you are currently living if you are struggling with your weight. Habits are actions and activities that we do…
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Skin Care During Weight Loss
Losing weight when our body fat is too high is one of the best things that we can do for ourselves. Never let the naysayers and the people who are trying to keep you down convince you that it will make you “look old”. I wish I had a dollar for every time that…
Metabolic Syndrome, The Hard Truth
As the years of our lives pass, it gets easier and easier to become a little over-weight, obese, or even morbidly obese. It may seem that just a few short years ago you were the high school star athlete or cheer leader. You were in top physical condition and a fine specimen to look at….
Understanding Hydration
Spring has now arrived and many of us physical fitness buffs will be taking our activities outside where we can enjoy nature as we go at our favorite outside recreational activities. Some will go for walks, while a good many of us will go at our activity vigorously enough to raise a sweat along with…
Are We There Yet? Keep Going!
Every time that adults begin a weight management program, the first question in our minds and quite often out of our mouths, is “How long will it take?”. I was naive enough to ask David this question when I first began strength training. Not wanting to discourage me, he didn’t give me a direct…
Sexy, Strong Legs!
Strong Legs are Sexy Legs! Strong legs are much more than beautiful. They are vital to protect heart health. We spend countless hours working on them. Most people don’t realize that the calf muscles are a pumping station designed to be a second heart. The Heart Needs Help Our heart is an amazing organ that…
Color My World With Sound
If you are one of our regular readers, you likely already know I love to get out in the great outdoors and hike. Hiking is great exercise that is as wonderful for improving our mental outlook as it is for conditioning our bodies. Today, I hiked a trail that I hit pretty often on…
Healthy Weigh In Habits
Brenda Sue and I have addressed a recurring issue with several of our online clients that I am not sure will ever be resolved. The issue is one of daily weight checking. If there is something that will quickly derail one who is on a weight loss journey, it is erratic weighing once or even…
Be The Best You Can Be
This article is dedicated to my life long friend and mentor Ronnie Gray Cash. My brother from another mother. Years ago I had the good fortune of having an older mentor who took me under his wing and taught me some valuable lessons about life. Despite being functionally illiterate, Ronny was an extraordinary craftsman and…
10 Tips to Avoid Self Sabotage
Don’t Lose Ground! Many times we work so hard to improve our lives only to undo all of our work with habits that seem harmless. Small tweaks in our routine can make all of the difference! 1-Boost your self esteem with activity, with your doctor’s permission of course. Exercise is one of the very…