Are you a glass-half-empty or half-full kind of person? 

Both types of mindset can impact your physical and mental health. A positive mind is powerful, and with the right attitude, you can achieve a lot in your life. 

Live life from the inside out, not the other way around. That means you can control what happens to you by maintaining the right mind. Of course, it doesn't mean everything will always go how you want it, but you can confront it more easily by being positive.

Now that you know what developing a positive mindset can do, let's look at some daily steps to help you pursue a happy mind.

Step 1: Surround Yourself With Positive People

Being positive or negative is very contagious. 

A positive person can light up a whole room and fill it with energy and good vibes. Surrounding yourself with positive people can improve your self-esteem and increase your chances of reaching your goals.

Being around positivity will lift you and help you see the bright side of...

Summer is here again, and that means it is time for vacation season!

This is such a fun and happy time, but it is also the time where we see a lot of our ladies fall off track with their wellness goals. 

That's why this year we are launching our Happy Body Summer Project to help our ladies continue to not only lose weight, have better energy and become healthier on vacation, but to also enjoy themselves in the process. 

Here are 4 simple ways you can continue with your health habits this summer to lose weight and come back healthier from your vacations.

4 Tips For Staying Healthy on Vacation

1. Walk 20-30 minutes per day.

This sounds simple but increasing your movement can really help to offset the lack of control we have around food on vacation. Try walking instead of taking the car when you are on your trip.

2. Drink 1/2 your body weight in oz of water daily.

Just because you are on vacation doesn't mean that your body doesn't still need proper...

When we are children, we are constantly hearing our parents saying that we're not eating enough, and in some cases, it's that we're eating too much.

What starts to happen is that when you're a child between the age of zero and six or seven, you don't have any perspective. Psychologically, you are not able to put things into question, especially if it comes from an adult that is important in your life.

So, when your parents tell you...

• You aren't eating enough
• Eat for me
• Do it because I spent so much time doing this for you
• Normally you like that, why aren't you eating it?

...then you think you're not a good person for not eating it or for not finishing your plate, or maybe even for not thinking about the little children in Africa that are hungry.

What happens overtime, is that physically you start not trusting your body and your natural sense of satiety, which is extremely important because we all have that naturally within ourselves. We all know when we're full, we all...

This time of year seems to bring a pressure to get your body ready for the summer. We’re all thinking about bathing suits, shorts and t-shirts. Unfortunately, this leads people into following fad elimination diets that restrict eating and are hard to maintain. You might lose the desired amount of weight only to see it creep back up once you’re not following the diet as consistently.

It’s important not to fall into this mindset and only focus on the coming summer months. Remember that health and wellness is for more than just a season, it’s for life. At the Limitless lifestyle academy, we follow 6 lifestyle essentials to help achieve a healthy life.

They include- Lifestyle nutrition, optimized exercise, stress reduction and sleep, learning about your body, mindset and vision and community. We help our clients balance the lifestyle essentials together to allow them to live their best and healthiest life. Learn how you can use our lifestyle essentials to help...

Did you know that sleep plays a huge role in regulating and resetting your hormones daily? 

Many of our ladies at the Limitless Lifestyle Academy come to us with frustrations of hormonal changes during menopause, and many of those frustrations revolve around not being able to sleep or not getting adequate sleep every night.

Hormones are chemical messengers that are responsible for maintaining your bodily functions.  These include and are not limited to hunger, stress, body temperature, muscle repair and cardiovascular function. So it’s safe to say making sure these hormones are working properly is important for our health. During our sleep cycles our bodies take the time to regulate these hormones so that we are reset and ready to go for the next day.

The 5 Main Hormones Regulated During Sleep:

1. Cortisol - Our stress hormone
2. Ghrelin - Hunger Hormone
3. Leptin - Satiety Hormone
4. Human Growth Hormone - Muscle Repair and Build
5. Melatonin - Sleep Hormones
...

Is Guinness Healthy?

Guinness originated in the brewery of Arthur Guinness at St. Jame's Gate, Dublin, Ireland. In 1759, at the age of 34, Arthur Guinness signed a lease for the St. James's Gate Brewery, Dublin. He leased the brewery for 9000 years at an annual rent of £45. Guinness is a type of ale known as stout. Guinness stout is made from water, barley, roast malt extract, hops, and brewer's yeast. A portion of the barley is roasted to give Guinness its dark color and characteristic taste. It is pasteurized and filtered. In addition to delicious flavor and creamy taste, it may also have some health benefits!

It has antioxidants and is anti-inflammatory. Antioxidants found in the Guinness are similar to those found in red wine. The flavonoids in it give it its health benefits. These flavonoids fight free radicals in your body and can reduce your risk for heart disease and some cancers. A 2003 study claimed that a pint of Guinness could cut the risk of blood clots forming...

In our programs, we encourage our clients to add some nutritional supplementation and organic foods to their lives.  Here’s why:

Back in the day when I first opened my exercise studio, I thought that nutritional supplementation was completely unnecessary… a big marketing scheme to make people think that their lives would be so much better by taking all sorts of “vitamins.”

I also thought the same about organic vs non-organic food 

A few years later, when I was researching to expand my program offerings,  I came across articles and studies that suggested the complete opposite of my beliefs about nutritional supplementation and organic food.  So I reached out to some colleagues and did more research on the subject, and basically did a 180.

Now, I understand the importance of both and I include recommendations in all of my programs.  

Well Dorian, what changed your mind, you might be thinking.

Well, there are a...

Dietary fiber is a non-digestible carbohydrate that originates from plant-based foods.

Many carbohydrates are broken down into sugar molecules, while fiber is not. Instead, it passes through the body undigested.

Dietary fiber is essential for homeostasis within the gut.
The predominant health benefits extend to enhanced metabolic welfare, including protection against obesity and related metabolic diseases. 

The Problem

Diets have changed radically over the past few decades, with people consuming more ultra-processed foods void of dietary fiber. This lack of focus on the foods we eat has led to deficiencies in dietary fiber.

Women's recommended daily fiber intake is 25 grams, while men should aim for 38 grams. Still, most Americans consume less than half of those recommended minimum levels, which is comparable worldwide.

Because fiber helps regulate the body's use of sugars, helping keep hunger and blood sugar in check, and helping feed the good bacteria responsible for...

Sometimes it can be overwhelming to know what exercises to do and how often or how long to do them.

We want to help you optimize your workout routine with a quick formula that we use for our Limitless Ladies.

We think of building the perfect exercise routine like baking a cake. If you are missing one component like baking soda or salt, then the whole cake can turn into a hockey puck and you might get frustrated. This is the exact feeling we want to help you avoid when it comes to your exercise routine.

Here are the five ingredients of building the perfect exercise routine. 

The 5 Ingredients (TDIFS) of Exercise

T - Type

Balancing the type of exercises you are doing each week is extremely important. If you are just doing cardio without any resistance training, then you won't be able to build muscle and change your body composition.

Optimized Weekly Exercise: 1-2 Vigorous Cardio Sessions, 1-2 Moderate Cardio Sessions and 1-2 Resistance/Strength Training...