Are you a good gift giver? Do people think of you as someone who always manages to find the perfect gift?
Follow these simple tips to find the perfect gifts this holiday season or any time of the year.
Read MoreSo… are you getting in the holiday mood yet? Joyful? Cheerful? Merry? Stressed?
Yeah, stressed. The holidays can be amazing, but they can also become a very stressful time of year.
To help you out this holiday season, here are five ways to avoid stress and overwhelm this holiday season.
Read MoreThe Holiday Season is here, whether you are ready for it or not. You’ve worked hard all year to accomplish your health and wellness goals, so don’t let the next two months derail you from your progress.
To help keep you going, I’ve collected 11 articles to motivate and inspire you over the holiday season.
Read MoreRemember how I started talking about Cinco de Mayo over a month ago? Guess what… it’s here!!!
If you’ve been with me for any length of time you’ve probably figured out that I love food. I love ethnic food of all sorts, but there is a soft spot in my heart for Mexican, Tex-Mex, and Americanized Mexican food. Maybe it’s because it’s super delicious and has the opportunity to be spicy (which I love), or maybe because it’s super easy to make.
Probably both.
However, with Cinco de Mayo coming up this weekend, I wanted to keep it short and sweet this Thursday with a wrap up of some of my favorite tasty yet easy to make Fiesta-ish foods!
Read MoreNext Tuesday is Fat Tuesday. Some people call it Mardi Gras or Shrove Tuesday. Any of them work, take your pick.
But really, Fat Tuesday?
Have you ever wondered why it was called Fat Tuesday? I’ll be honest, for the longest time I thought it was because that’s when the church did the Pancake breakfast fundraiser and we ate all the pancakes and bacon. Funny thing is, I was partially right.
Side note: all you people who took French in High School but never clued the rest of us in, thanks for nothing. The translation gras mardi from French to English is… yup, you guessed it. Tuesday Fat. Tuesday Fat. Fat Tuesday. (Face palm)
Read MoreSpiked cocoas, coffees, and holiday cocktails.
When it comes to cocktails, the Holidays are bursting with drinks that seem synonymous with the season. (Wassail, spiked eggnog, or champagne anyone?) However, anymore it seems that if you put the word cranberry, peppermint or some kind of holiday-ish word such a mistletoe or Santa (Santa Clausmopolitan… really?) in front of the name, it immediately classifies as a holiday beverage… and I’m not even going to touch that.
Now don’t worry, I’m not about to tell you that as a person living a healthy lifestyle over the holidays you have to forgo your favorite drinks. What I DO want to go over is the cocktails and beverages that you are actually likely to encounter throughout the season, or may even be embedded in some of your holiday traditions.
Read MoreTrue or False? Non-alcoholic Holiday beverages are healthier than alcoholic holiday beverages.
Trick question (sorry!). The answer is, it depends. What’s beverages are we talking about, and what’s your personal measurement of “healthy?”
During the holidays it’s easy to convince ourselves that non-alcoholic beverages are better for us because, well, they don’t have alcohol. While that may be true, the hard fact is that even without the added impact of alcohol, some of the most popular holiday drinks are just as calorie-dense and laden with undesirable substances as your favorite cocktail.
Read MoreExperienced traveler. Your GO-TO place for motivation, accountability, balanced life tips, and, well... the FRICKin Good Life with Erin Frick: Fit Life Coach; recovering perfectionist, people pleaser and clearance rack shopper.
Last month, I made a life changing decision.
I bought a second laundry basket.
“Really Erin? Life changing?”
Yes.
“Tell me more…”
Does the idea of “starting over” make you want to quit before you even begin? I get it. I’ve been there. I am there.
I’ve definitely had my shares of physical (and fitness) ups and downs. In fact, for the first almost 30 years of my life I was on a health roller-coaster. I would make progress over and over again only to backslide every time, often to a worse situation than I was in before I “started” (again).
My Mom is obsessed with ALDI.
My sister’s finance is obsessed with ALDI.
I have clients that are obsessed with ALDI.
In fact… a LOT of people are obsessed with ALDI. I find that the middle ground is murky when it comes to ALDI. People either love it, or they (think) think they hate it.
So what do I buy at ALDI? Let’s get into it…
Hangry toddlers are the worst.
Okay, so are hangry husbands… and sisters, and… well, I’m sure teens and tweens aren’t much better. But as of this point in my life, most of my day to day experience is dealing with the toddler and husband situation.
Which is why it’s not just nice but critical to have quick, easy, healthy, filling, and satisfying meals and snacks on hand. And these banana almond butter muffins deliver in all of those areas.
Halloween candy. Ugh.
Truth is, I don’t even like it. Maybe it’s because I have re-trained my taste buds to enjoy better quality food or maybe it’s because I know what’s in the candy and how it impacts my body (headaches & breakouts anyone?).
But there it sat, staring at me.
I knew it wasn't worth it. Sure, I love peanut butter and chocolate together. So Reese’s are a temptation. But truth is, the dark chocolate peanut butter cups from Trader Joe’s and Justin‘s peanut butter cups are better than Reese’s.
I said what I said.