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Jan 8 2018

Finding Second Gear

by Marilyn McKenna

Current life status: rehabbing from total knee replacement surgery. Current state of mind: trying to figure out how this will impact my life, my work, my workouts, my body, and my motivation in the future. Current goal: seize this challenge as an opportunity to find a more balanced way of living. The knee that’s been […]

Filed Under: Close to Home, Fitness Tagged With: Balance, Binge Eating, Bodybuilding, Running

Feb 2 2016

The 2 ways exercise makes weight loss not just possible, but permanent (and it’s not what you think!)

by Marilyn McKenna

    We’re all obsessed with the number of calories we burn during our workouts. Every cardio machine at the gym has a calorie counter on it (never mind that they’re wildly inaccurate). All the popular weight loss apps have an exercise component that will “credit” your workout and magically award you more calories to […]

Filed Under: Fitness, Weight Loss Tagged With: Bodybuilding, Calorie Burn, Cardio, Competitive Bodybuilding, Emotional Eating, Heart Rate Monitor, Nutrition for Athletes, Running, Yoga

Jan 23 2016

Get your foot in the door, figure out the rest later

by Marilyn McKenna

There’s a theory among leadership guru types that if you wear the cloak of success (empowered body language, confidence, a can-do, optimistic mindset) you can sort of “fake it till you make it.” I’ll confess, I never really put much stock in this concept until recently. In the last two months I have taken on […]

Filed Under: Newsletters Tagged With: Bodybuilding, Fake It Till You Make It, Fat Girl Walking, Feed Your Nature, KOMO TV, Naked Broad View, Newsletter

Dec 17 2015

Podcast: Inside women’s competitive bodybuilding with guest, Trina Sooy

by Marilyn McKenna

Confession: I have a lifelong fascination with competitive bodybuilding. The pictures I’ve seen of men and women up on stage, their physiques honed and chiseled to anatomical perfection, seemed like an alien species to me.“Who looks like that? And how in the world do they achieve it?” I wondered. And I’ll admit, I had a […]

Filed Under: Podcasts Tagged With: Bodybuilding, Bodybuilding Diet, Competitive Bodybuilding, Podcast, Women's Competitive Bodybuilding

Dec 10 2015

I’ve done a 180 on “cheat meals” and here’s why

by Marilyn McKenna

Up until very recently (like literally two weeks ago) I would’ve told you that cheat meals were a bad idea. In fact, I did tell you that cheat meals were a bad idea. In a blog in April of 2013, I wrote: … cheat meals become unnecessary because we construct a diet around rules that […]

Filed Under: Weight Loss Tagged With: Bodybuilding, Bodybuilding Diet, Cheat Meal, Cheat Meals, Meal Plan, Two Tables, Weight Loss

Nov 7 2015

Big girl, skinny (obsessed) world

by Marilyn McKenna

I may not technically still be a “big girl,” but frankly I’m pretty muscular so I’m definitely on the bigger side of average. In our skinny-obsessed world, bigger isn’t necessarily considered better, even when bigger suits our body-type. I’ve been thinking a lot about what it means to be a “big girl” lately. In this […]

Filed Under: Newsletters, Weight Loss Tagged With: Big Girl, Body Positive, Bodybuilding, Comfort Zone, Newsletter, Osteoarthritis, Running, Skinny Obsessed

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