Has this happened to you? You set goals at the New Year and then 4-6-8 weeks later, it’s just a note on a piece of paper in a desk drawer. How do we get those goals to transfer off paper, into action and then stick around for a new outcome? In today’s episode, Mindy […]
Fat Loss Tips | Change Your Values!
Being this far into my lifestyle transition, I’m often asked, “What book can I read? What tips do you have? How do I make life changes?” There is no source for that. It all is inside of YOU! Here is how I sum it up: 75% of what I did and ate in 2009 and […]
I Do NOT Believe in Weight Loss!
Weight loss is not the catalyst, it is a side effect to the compound effect of many layers. One can go to extremes to move the scale down for a time, but unless you learn and change your habits, maintaining the loss is not long term. Most often, one may even gain back more than they […]
5 Ways to Recharge Your Body and Mindset Midday
Hello! Happy October. I really, really love the fall! I call each of my clients once a month and this is the week I do that for October. I had a break between calls today and my body was low energy, so naturally I wanted to refill a coffee and go take a nap. […]
“Mindy Irish Fitness” August 2017 guest feature in the “Lakeside Living” Magazine!
I was invited to be featured in my neighborhood monthly magazine. Here is my feature for the August 2017 edition! Business Beat–Mindy Irish Fitness By Maria Smietana Mindy Irish is an example of someone who was handed the proverbial lemons and turned them into lemonade. A life-long Indy resident, Mindy grew up […]
I Do Not Believe in Weight Loss!
When I coach general fitness and competitor clients, I tell them “I do not have a weight loss program.” I teach lifestyle resets. I get a baseline of one’s current intake and life systems and then we set up a plan and practice it from there. In time, new habits evolve, we establish a […]
Our Top Five Ways to Optimize Sleep!
5. Get daylight into your eyes and ears early in the day and during the day. Stimulating the photo sensors helps to set up our circadian rhythm, the body’s wake-sleep cycles. Indoor life all day is a sensory setback! 4. Minimize bright lights later in the evening. Artificial illumination changes hormonal profile and impacts sleep […]
Tips on Fat Loss
•Tips on Fat Loss• I came out of 2009 obese and in a hypercaloric state. My elevated body-fat levels were from stress, overeating for my body’s needs, lack of sleep, and the low quality of my convenience-foods choices. I’ve come to understand more on the fat loss process after my initial 90-pound loss phase from […]
We Are NOT Created to Always Be in a Caloric Deficit, aka, “On a Diet”!
A note to one of my clients yesterday, and I share because I see this as issue 101 with so many people. We live in a society where old-fitness told us to just keep doing more and eating less. <And now we struggle….for years!> The resolve after reading my tip below: *Get a baseline of […]
Lasting Changes do NOT happen in 12 Weeks!
Are you upset because you didn’t hit your goals in 12 weeks? Well I didn’t either! •2010: I was down from 225 to about 175 here and was to the point where my body wanted to be comfortably. My old lifestyle would have kept producing that result. But I was not ok with staying […]
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