Blog – Page 20 – Coach Chrystal's Eat Move Live

Flexible Dieting

As the name suggest, flexible dieting is the concept of a nutrition program that allows for flexibility above all else. Your diet should conform to your life; your life should not have to conform to your diet. This is all-inclusive of flexible daily food choices while at home, and the meals you consume while eating out or during special occasions, having a flexible mindset, and the flexibility in your overall nutrition plan and goals. Committing to a plan that’s flexible as opposed to being rigid means that falling off track from time to time is part of the plan, and as such, there’s no need to punish oneself for it. This then gives the dieters the flexibility to forgive themselves for going off course, or even better, not to feel guilty about it in the first place, which means picking up where they left off comes quickly and easily. Read more “Flexible Dieting” →

Nutrition

Why do we eat (what we eat)?

There are two reasons we eat: homeostatic eating and hedonic eating.

Homeostatic eating a name derived from the word homeostasis (the tendency toward a stable equilibrium maintained by the body’s physiological processes) is eating for the sake of balancing our biological systems. Simply put, it’s eating to get our body the energy it needs.

Body Science

You are Basically a Big Bag of Chemical Molecules

Types of Tissues

It wasn’t until I was well into an anatomy & physiology class in college that I gave any thought to what was actually under my skin. It just wasn’t something I’d just casually think about. And as such, sayings like, “you are what you eat,” though familiar, had no real meaning to me.

The human body is made up of tissues, which are made up of cells, which are made up of molecules formed by organic chemical compounds. What I’m saying is you are basically a big bag of chemical molecules bundled together into cells that create tissues and organs. Read more “You are Basically a Big Bag of Chemical Molecules” →

Fitness

The Squat

Why it’s Functional

The squat is the fundamental movement that allows you to stand up from a seated position. A properly performed squat makes use of just about every muscle in your body, with the main drivers being the gluteal muscles, hip flexors, hamstrings, calves and quads. In addition, it takes most of your major joints through their full ranges of motion. Perfecting, strengthening and maintaining your squat helps ensure that you will be able to pick yourself up off the couch or toilet, even as you grow to be a little old person. Read more “The Squat” →

Chrystal's Journal

The Vision

There’s no place to start like the beginning. So here it is. Increasingly, over the past few months (if not years) I’ve been visualizing, planning, and hoping to build to healthcare center that focuses on more than just the manual therapy services that I have offered out of my clinic Aspect Health. I want to focus on educating people to help themselves because I firmly believe that you can do far better for you, than I or any other practitioner can do to you. Read more “The Vision” →

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