Taking a bit of a blog break, see you all online!

As we start going into the holiday season I have started a new tradition this year with my team at Latitude Fitness & hopefully my friends will go for this too! Though I love giving & (especially hehehe) receiving gifts , the stories that are plastered all over the news about the empty food banks is heartbreaking. People who never needed to go to food banks are using them now. So this year I asked

Lately I have been thinking about me. How will I fulfill my dreams & live my life with the purpose I know I am meant to fulfill?My dream is to inspire women around the world to live an empowered life. To love being a woman & to feel like a goddess every day! I know... it's big!!!When I look back at my childhood I remember both happiness & pain.My mother was a stay at home mom with no other interests

Completing my 16 week transformationSo now that I have completed my sixteen week transformation and lost 37 pounds, I can reflect on my journey.I have to say that putting on all that weight when we first opened our fitness centre was something that I struggled with, emotionally more than anything. And now as I coach people through their journeys, I think that one of the most important things I can

Summertime... And we are posed with an age old question here at Latitude."How do I loose those 10, 15, 20 or whatever number of pounds I've been wanting to loose forever?"Weight loss, weight loss, weight loss!!!So the other day, I was thinking about how to help people get the results they want. "How do we help our members succeed!?"We always want to deliver for our clients, to help them achieve what

Be yourself. Pleeeeeeeze!Today, as I think back on MJ's life,I am inspired. This man lived larger than life!Though many people may have judged him & the things he did, he did them!Whether people liked it or not.I have to admit that that is very attractive & uplifting to me.As I look around facebook & twitter & read people's status' & stuff they comment on, I know people want to live great lives!Yet,

What I noticed most on my vacation in Greece was how wonderful everyone was there. Kindness & warmth greeted us around every corner. The family that owned the hotel we stayed at ran a warm & fuzzy business. Just what I love. Service was excellent from the owner to our cleaning woman. It was synergy.Besides having an excellent product, a clean hotel & mouth watering fresh food at their restaurant, authentic

Week 14!Today's blog is dedicated to answering two questions that I am asked daily, on the subject of weight loss.1. Are you on a diet?2a. Do I have to exercise? 2b. Do I have to do "cardio" everyday?So here it is, for anyone who has been wondering how I lost over thirty pounds in 13 weeks. I will start with the second question.No, you don't have to exercise to loose weight, & that is the truth!But

Week 13!So, here it is, Tuesday evening and I just finished teaching Zumba and a Stretch class.I love Tuesday evening's routine!I had a great week following my extreme push last week.I lost 1 pound and have hit the 30 pound mark!!Wooohoooo!!!I feel really proud of my successes. But what continues to clearly be the biggest pleasure on my 16 week transformation are the wonderful people that are on this

WIT!Hi everyone! I missed you guys last week..... So, had I written my blog last week, it would have been filled with disappointment, anger, lack of wisdom, short-sightedness. All in all, not good stuff.If this leads you to assume I did not have great results once stepping on to that scale at 5AM last Tuesday morning, that would be absolutely correct!I had a week where my weight went UP!It was a two