1. 3 Easy and Healthy Breakfast Ideas

    As you have probably heard by now, breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Eating breakfast jumpstarts your metabolism in the morning, gives you the energy you need to get moving, and ensures that you eat less throughout the day. There are tons of options available when it comes to breakfast; however, with busy schedules and different plates to juggle, many people either end up getting st…Read More

  2. Foods To Fuel Your Workout

    If your body was a car, food would be the gasoline you use to keep it going. If you want to be productive and get somewhere, you need a full tank of gas. However, not all foods are created equal. There are some pre-workout snacks that will help you build muscle, shed fat, and increase your endurance. Before you come in to your favorite fitness center, Spunk Fitness, here are some foods that will g…Read More

  3. The Pros and Cons of Nutritional Supplements

    Millions of people take nutritional supplements every day, but do they really stand up to the hype? It is true that there are some nutritional supplements that are recommended by doctors. For example, pregnant women are advised to take folic acid at the beginning of their pregnancies to help facilitate fetal development. Additionally, women who are pregnant or breastfeeding, as well as people who …Read More

  4. Simple Healthy Eating Habits To Adopt

    As a health club, we often see that at the start of the year, it’s common for people to want to become healthier, but they fail as they lose steam. This is largely because people have unrealistic expectations about what they can fit into their lives. Instead of making a lofty goal, like losing 20 pounds in a month, it is better to implement small, healthy habits into our daily lives. Eat mindful…Read More

  5. Lowering Your Cholesterol Through Diet

    In a culture full of drive thrus and junk food commercials, high cholesterol is a concern for many Americans. Cholesterol is a necessary substance for your body; it helps make hormones, bile acids, vitamin D, and other substances. However, too much cholesterol can build up in your arteries, causing plaque, which hardens your arteries and increases your risk of heart attack and stroke.   If yo…Read More

  6. Popular Food Plans: The Dukan Diet

    The holidays are upon us and the New Year is right around the corner.  This means that millions of people are going to start a diet.  Over the next few weeks I’ll discuss various eating plans so you can help sort through the confusion and choose one that is best for you and your fitness goals. The Dukan Diet — yet another low-carb, high-protein diet allegedly used by Duchess Kate Middleton a…Read More

  7. Popular Eating Plans: 21 Day Fix

    The holidays are upon us and the New Year is right around the corner.  This means that millions of people are going to start a diet.  Over the next few weeks I’ll discuss various eating plans so you can help sort through the confusion and choose one that is best for you and your fitness goals. Beachbody is well-known as the creator of legendary P90X, but one of their more recent programs inclu…Read More

  8. Popular Eating Plans: Paleo

    The holidays are upon us and the New Year is right around the corner.  This means that millions of people are going to start a diet.  Over the next few weeks I’ll discuss various eating plans so you can help sort through the confusion and choose one that is best for you and your fitness goals. One of the biggest diet crazes in recent years is going Paleolithic (often shortened to Paleo). Altho…Read More

  9. Popular Eating Plans: Mediterranean Diet

    The holidays are upon us and the New Year is right around the corner.  This means that millions of people are going to start a diet.  Over the next few weeks I’ll discuss various eating plans so you can help sort through the confusion and choose one that is best for you and your fitness goals. Although it’s certainly not a fad, the Mediterranean diet has become increasingly popular in the la…Read More

  10. Understanding Satiety

    If you can’t follow through with permanent, positive changes to your eating habits, you won’t see the results you’re looking for, no matter how hard you work out at the fitness center. The reason so many ‘starvation’ diets fail is that they neglect one of the most powerful diet ‘weapons’ of all (and no, it’s not a new weight-loss drug or herbal supplement). It’s called satiety. S…Read More