Speak Up: What Changes Have You Noticed?


Updated 03/13/08 11:47 AM · Posted by FitSugar · 49 comments

Speak Up: What Changes Have You Noticed?

When I first started exercising I initially noticed all the extra energy I had throughout the day. As a few weeks went by, I had gained a new confidence that I never felt. After a few months went by, I noticed muscles and tightness in my body. I also have not gotten sick as often — knock on wood. My point is that it's amazing what a little exercise can enable us all to feel, so I am curious Read more

5 Things: Easy Changes For Your Health


Updated 01/20/08 1:18 AM · Posted by FitSugar · 6 comments

5 Things: Easy Changes For Your Health

It is 2008! And time to make some changes for your health. Well, it is always time to make positive changes, but we just seem to love the fresh start of the New Year. WebMD has five simple suggestions on how to improve your health, here are the highlights: Wear a Pedometer: For a low price, $15 to $30, you can measure how active you are daily. Striving to reach a goal, such as 10,000 steps at Read more

Shawn Johnson Talks Weight Loss and Learning to Love Her Body


Updated 05/25/12 4:48 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Shawn Johnson Quotes About Weight Loss and Body Confidence

We are pumped to share one of our fave stories from espnW here on FitSugar! By Shawn Johnson Shawn Johnson is blogging for espnW throughout her training for the Olympics in London this summer. Follow hers other Olympic hopefuls' journeys on espnW.com. Four years ago, I was standing on an Olympic podium, wearing a gold medal, and still thinking to myself how I could have been better. It had Read more

Fit Tip: Keep It Up Long After Summer Ends


Updated 05/23/12 1:00 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

Why You Should Stick to Your Summer Diet and Exercise

Last-minute Summer shape-up plans may help you shed pounds and tone fast, but they do involve a lot of hard work and dedication as you race against the warm-weather countdown. So as you ramp up your healthy routine in time to don that bikini, make an even better resolution: stick to your new healthy resolutions, even after the Summer season fades. Whether you're detoxing with a debloating meal Read more

How Not to Destroy Your Marriage


Updated 05/18/12 12:53 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

How Not to Destroy Your Marriage

We're happy to present this story from one of our favorite sites, The Good Men Project. Today, Mark Tyrrell offers eight relationship tools to make your marriage work. "All marriages are happy. It's the living together afterward that causes all the trouble." — Raymond Hull So how do you make your marriage work? Or do you just blindly hope it'll take care of itself? Think of a hot, successful Read more

The Downsides to Meeting Your Goal Weight


Updated 05/17/12 4:35 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

What to Appreciate When Losing Weight

We are pumped to share one of our fave stories from Shape here on FitSugar. When I started losing weight, I often looked at women who were thinner than I was and thought, "Wow, her life must be so easy." I knew that once I got to my goal weight, I'd feel awesome, and healthy living would be just as easy for me as it was for all the "I can eat whatever I want and not gain weight" women around Read more

Healthy Dose Link Time: Load Up on Omega-3s With This Easy Salmon Recipe


Updated 05/15/12 11:17 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Balsamic-Glazed Salmon Recipe

Your easy weeknight dinner: balsamic-glazed salmon — Eating Bird Food A protein bar battle royale: Nature Valley vs. Clif Mojo — Fit Bottomed Girls Time to celebrate —a cookie you can have for breakfast! — The Fitnessista 7 reasons to start every day with hot water and lemon — Mind Body Green Learn how experts cope with the big and little stresses of life — Daily Spark The healthy Read more

Healthy Dose Link Time: Quick, Good-For-You Meals to Make During the Workweek


Updated 05/14/12 11:15 AM · Posted by · 0 comments

Healthy Dinners to Make During the Week

Healthy weeknight meals that will only take 30 minutes of your time — Self Learn how yoga can help prevent you from committing road rage — Yoga Journal If you only change one thing about your diet, this should be it — Shape Find out what Olympic swimmer Amanda Beard eats before a big swim — Fitness Roberto Martin, the celeb chef who has carnivore clients eating vegan — Blisstree Get Read more

42 Percent of Americans Obese by 2030, 4 Easy Tips to Help You Steer Clear


Updated 05/09/12 12:15 PM · Posted by · 0 comments

42 Percent of American Adults Obese by 2030, Study Says

At the second annual Weight of the Nation conference in Washington, we received word on the state of obesity among American adults. The good news? The growth of obesity of Americans has slowed from the record pace of the last 30 years. The not-so-good news? While 36 percent of today's adult population is obese, that number is expected to rise to a whopping 42 percent by 2030. However, Read more

9 Love Lessons I've Learned In 10 Years Of Marriage


Updated 05/18/12 1:44 PM · Posted by · 1 comment

Marriage Lessons

We're happy to present this excerpt from one of our favorite sites, YourTango. Today, we have tips for a long-lasting, loving relationship. As much as we all want to believe that once we find our true love, we'll live out our lives in blissful happiness, reveling in that loving feeling forever, reality is not quite like that. We tend to think that love is something that happens to us, instead of Read more