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Top Ten Things the Media Gets WRONG about Women

10. You’ve been stranded on an island for months, why is your hair perfect? On television shows like Lost, which is about people stranded on a mysterious island, the flawless Evangeline Lilly remains the object of affection for the fellow male survivors. While the show does a great job of making sure her shirt has [...]

Get Smart about Eating Disorders

Everyone knows someone who has an eating disorder. You have probably heard of: Anorexia - eating very little to maintain a weight less than 85% of what is considered a healthy BMI, and being terrified of weight gain Bulimia - binging, or eating a lot in one sitting, to later purge, or burn off via [...]

Hi. My name is Kate and I’m a Foodaholic.

Ok, I’m not really addicted to food- wait… yes, yes I am.  I love food.  Way more than the average person (I know for a fact!).  I wish I didn’t love food so much, but I do, so I have to deal with it. During the holidays I kind of lost sight of my goals [...]

“So..um…I ate this cookie…$%#@!”

Have you ever had one of those days… when you were stressing, running all over the place, “multitasking”… and you just grabbed & ate everything in sight?  OF COURSE you have!  Because you are human!  It’s called life!  I used to have those days all of the time.  But now that I have established a [...]

FITspiration… Take 2

"no matter how slow you go, you are still lapping everybody on the couch." Last week I shared with you some of my personal forms of fitspiration (I hope you were fitspired!)... & now here are some more! My Friendspiration My friends, hands down, have been the most encouraging & fitspirational people in my life.   [...]

FITspiration

“I may not be there yet, but I’m closer than I was yesterday.”  … just one of the many “fitspirational” quotes that keeps me going every day.  If you know me, you know that I love to post motivational and inspirational quotes on Instragram & Facebook on a daily basis.  Doing little things like this [...]

Here’s Kate! ~ Our Fitness Lifestyle Motivator!

Hey girls looking to Get Smart! My name is Kate Elman and I have joined the Get Smart team to help inspire and encourage young women to live a healthier lifestyle!  I have to admit, I’ve joined the team for a bit of a selfish reason as well… to keep myself on track and motivated [...]