Featured Fitale – Chaunda Walls of Bella Fitness Group

I lost 120 pounds and it took me 18 months. I have been healthy and maintaining my weight loss for 8 years now. I exercised daily with weight resistance training, lots of running and jumping rope. I changed what I ate and how much and how often. I learned everything I could about living a healthy lifestyle and I implemented what I learned to see ...

January Fit Snack Box Unboxing

If you are anything like me then you are stuffed from all of the feasting that happened over Thanksgiving and Christmas.  It's town to settle back down and get our butts back in gear and eating healthy snacks is a great way to get back on track. These snack boxes are nutritious, packed full of healthy snacks and never disappoint.  Check out ...

5 Ways To Achieve Your Fitness Goals

Have you stuck with your New Year’s resolutions or have they drifted off course a bit? If so, there’s no time like the present to recharge those fitness goals. It can be hard to stay motivated if you don’t have a goal in mind (especially during the cold winter months). Keep yourself on track by writing down something you want to ...

January Snack Sack Box Unboxing

  Disclaimer: I was sent a complimentary Snack Sack Box to share an honest review. As always, all opinions, thoughts, suggestions, and recommendations are my very own. In other words, I'm going to keep it real regardless.  :-)  This post contains affiliate links. Hey Fitness Family!  You guessed it, I unboxed the January Snack ...

Join Our Fitness Accountability Group

What’s up Femme Fitale Family.  I wanted to share with you that we recognize people sometimes need help with accountability to stay on track with their fitness goals and that is why I created a FREE private online fitness group on Facebook where we can share information, share victories, challenges and support each other.  The group has grown ...

Save Big With SCOTT® at Dollar General

Hey Femme Fitale Family!  You are probably wondering why is this post about Dollar General and SCOTT® Brand.  Well I must say when you have an active lifestyle like my family and me we have a tendency to use a lot of paper towels and toilet paper.  That habit can get pretty expensive but I found a perfect deal and want to share it with you ...

Meal Monday: Vegetable Soup Recipe

Happy Martin Luther King Day!!!!!  It's winter time even though the temperature hasn't dropped like talking about but even so who doesn't love comfort food?  I know I do and this latest vegetable soup recipe is a keeper.  I found it on YouTube by Domestic Geek and made it myself and have been eating on it all week.  I think you will enjoy ...

Set Fitness Goals For Yourself + #ChangeAMeal Smoothie King Challenge

It’s 2016 Femme Fitale Family and time to make this the best year ever with a Smoothie King #ChangeAMeal Challenge.  One excellent way to make that happen is to set goals for yourself that are reasonable and are proven.  Positivity is key so here are some suggestions I have for you (and me truth be told). Create a vision board.  Post ...

5 Natural Ways to Manage Stress

Who here is feeling pressure from stress?  I can attest from my own experience negative stress isn’t fun.  It makes you anxious, emotional, unhealthy and unhappy.  I have been working to reduce and better manage my stress level naturally so let me share some of what I found to be extremely effective. [Tweet "Want a natural way to ...

In The Gym with La’Tai Jenkins, Beachbody Coach

Please introduce yourself to our readers. Hi! My name is La’Tai and first and foremost I am a wife and momma of a 3 and 5 year old. In my spare time I am also a Doctor of Physical Therapy and work for Johns Hopkins Medicine as well as currently working on my Masters of Business and Masters of Healthcare Administration from the University of ...

My Healthy Hair Care Regimen and Products

Hey Femme Fitale Family!!!!  I am posting sort of a non-conventional post today.  I get inquiries every week about my healthy hair care regimen and products so I thought I would share it with you all.  I am a simple woman and I don't have a bunch of time to fuss with elaborate hairstyles so I basically keep it simple. [Tweet "Want to know my ...

Get Rid of Baby Weight Without Going Through A Lot

Are you postpartum?  Learn how to get rid of the baby weight without going through a lot without mommy and me fitness classes. Before pregnancy everything seems pretty much under control, then you get pregnant and there starts your endless fretting. You are excited and tense at the same time because while having your own child is the most ...

3 Tips To Keep Your Fitness Resolution

If you made a fitness resolution this year, here are 3 tips to help you keep them. Guest post by Patricia of Divas In Transition The New Year is an exciting time. It brings the possibility of starting over, new opportunities, new doors etc.  Each year millions of people make resolutions. Losing weight is the top resolution. As the ...

5 Ways People Sabotage Their Own Weight Loss

Here are five ways people sabotage their own weight loss and how to avoid doing it.  You would not believe how well-intentioned people actually sabotage their weight loss. You would also not believe the things people do just to lose weight. Some would even go as far as starve themselves to death! But do you know what’s even more surpri...

Thank You For An Amazing 2015 with the Blog

I want to take this time to thank you for an awesome 2015.  This blog has grown its readership by leaps and bounds and I owe that ALL to all of you.  Many of you are new here and others have been reading this blog for a while and I totally appreciate it. As I look back over 2015 I can tout some pretty neat accomplishments especially with ...

December Snack Sack Box Unboxing

  Disclaimer: I was sent a complimentary Snack Sack Box to write an honest review. As always, all opinions, thoughts, suggestions, and recommendations are my very own. In other words, I'm going to keep it real regardless.  :-)  This post contains affiliate links. Hey Fitness Family!  You guessed it, I unboxed the December Snack ...

December Fit Snack Box Unboxing

If you are anything like me then you are stuffed from all of the feasting that happened over Thanksgiving and Christmas.  It's town to settle back down and get our butts back in gear and eating healthy snacks is a great way to get back on track. These snack boxes are nutritious, packed full of healthy snacks and never disappoint.  Check out ...

How To Lose Weight Eating Carbs

WARNING:  This post is about carbs and is long but that’s because there’s a lot to this and I took the time to do the research and I want to share it with you all since this is one of the biggest topics I have been asked to write about on this blog.  Ready, set GO! I was asked last week by one of the young ladies in my FREE online private ...

The Best Alternatives for Relieving Chronic Back Pain

Chronic pain relief can be one of the most difficult things to deal with in your life and it’s often tempting to reach for the pain relief pills. However, you may be looking to avoid the pills because of the side effects or possibility of addiction. Avoiding pain relief pills isn’t a bad idea, but that doesn’t mean you have to put up ...

Diets To Gain Weight – Protein Cycling

Introduction Following a diet to gain weight and lose fat requires a different approach than the way most people eat. A lot of popular diets are concerned with losing overall body-weight, but many of them result in losing a substantial amount of muscle tissue as well as stored body fat. Even some bodybuilders fall prey to the temptation to ...