by Lani Muelrath | Nov 15, 2012 | All Posts, Holidays, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
November advances. And so can your health and fitness – or not, depending on how you navigate the minefields of the holidays! No worries, here to help. As someone who for years successfully plowed through bowls of Christmas cookie dough and carried an extra 50...
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 29, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Stuck? There’s a new book on the shelves, Coach Yourself Thin, by Hottinger and Scholtz. I haven’t read it. But one of my professional health and fitness journals has highlighted some content of this book that I’d like to share with you. Maybe it...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 4, 2012 | Move Your Body, Weight Loss
Which do you think is better for your health goals: Shorter exercise sessions rmore often or fewer, longer workouts? If you are moving ahead with your health and weight loss plan, you know that physical activity plays a huge, health-protective role in the big...
by Lani Muelrath | Mar 11, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Move Your Body
We should arrive in this world with a note tacked on our cute little human hiney: Warning: Too much sitting may be hazardous to your health Except it’s more than ‘may be hazardous’. There’s a mountain of evidence that it definitely...
by Lani Muelrath | Mar 5, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Has this ever happened to you? You get all ramped up to get started on your health and weight loss plan. You’ve got your whole-foods, low-fat plant-based diet plan organized and ready. You’ve stocked your kitchen and in your enthusiasm and resolve, even...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 26, 2012 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Daily – no, several times a day actually – I receive email questions about how to get started on eating for plant-based health and fitness. People see the changes that I have gone through and note my unbridled enthusiasm for a whole-foods, low fat,...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 15, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Excerpted and adapted from Fit Quickies; 5 Minute Targeted Body Shaping Workouts, by Lani Muelrath, Penguin/Alpha, 2013. What? The Plant-Based Fitness Expert Advisor for the McDougall Health and Medical Center Discussion Boards is putting the words...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 12, 2012 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Is Pinterest a prescription for melting stress and boosting willpower? OK so uber-stressed on projects and decided to relax with a little Pinterest. Now ready to go again! Who’d a thunk it. That was moi on facebook yesterday. And to think I just heard of...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 1, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
ThIs is part 4 in the Willpower Workout Series. If you missed it, you can catch up here: Part 1: Scone: 1, willpower: zip. Is there a way to give your willpower a workout? Part 2: 2 proven ways to give your willpower a workout Part 3: 5 minute willpower workout...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 29, 2012 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Scone: 1. Willpower: Zip. Has this ever happened to you? For stress-scenario purposes, I’m talking air travel and all the accompanying stress it can bring into play. But really, any situation where the stress has been compounded will do. I’ve...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 5, 2012 | Weight Loss
Victoria asks a great question today on facebook and I thought I’d share my reply to her here as well. Hi Lani, Could you please comment on the recent NYT article in Tara Parker Pope’s column, “The Fat Trap”? Thanks!! ~ Victoria S. Certainly...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 21, 2011 | All Posts, Holidays, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Solid, simple tactics with real food and movement of your body – and your mind – to put you in the health & weight winner’s circle come January. Just joining us? To catch up with the holiday food & fitness survival guide: Part 1: “Be choosy” Part 2: “How...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 12, 2011 | All Posts, Holidays, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Solid, simple tactics with real food and movement of your body – and your mind – to put you in the health & weight winner’s circle come January. Part 5 of 10: “How to Handle Food Pushers” Food pushers. You know what I mean. You go to a party, you go to an...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 5, 2011 | All Posts, Holidays, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Solid, simple tactics with real food and simple movement of your body – and your mind – to put you in the health & weight winner’s circle come January. Part 1 of 10. ~~~~~~~~~ I don’t know where you stand in the competition, but I used to be the queen of the...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 21, 2011 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
When I asked Natala if she would be a guest on my TeleClass series, she was emphatic about playing up the health changes from her diet and mentioning the weight loss only anecdotally. Now, for most of us, weight loss – especially with such impressive numbers...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 19, 2011
Vegan Mainstream has added a new expert to the team! Plant-strong fitness expert Lani Muelrath specializes in helping people who struggle with their weight and energy transform their bodies, without hunger or exercising like a maniac. She is a woman of many hats,...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 17, 2011
Check out Lani’s interview with Engine 2 Diet! We are excited to introduce you to Lani Muelrath, plant-strong fitness expert! Lani is the creator of The Body Transformation Formula and Fit Quickies™ 5 Minute Workouts. She has a Master’s Degree in Physical...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 2, 2011 | Weight Loss
Just between us, when I noted that, like clockwork, I dropped 2 lbs. in the last 2 weeks by doing exactly what I teach, I knew I had to share it with you. This has come on the heels of a 2 lb gain I experienced last month. You see, even my weight pops up a couple of...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 9, 2011 | All Posts, All Setup, Move Your Body
This question from Susan posed such a juicy opportunity to help you step up the results from your body shaping workouts that it’s worth a laser focus. Often we are looking for something else: A new way to workout, or the workout magic – that we don’t...
by Lani Muelrath | May 24, 2011 | Plant-Based Nutrition
This just in from Karen, who has graciously agreed to let me publish her message to me along with my reply. I always admire women who just put it out there and this shot you straight to the top of my most admired list, Karen! [fancy_box] Sweet! You’re back....
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 13, 2011 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
[dropcap2]I[/dropcap2]never owned a Barbie doll. Not that I didn’t dearly desire one. My parents, wanting to give me what I so deeply craved yet being budget minded, got me the less-pricey, generic-variety “Barbie”. Her name was “Mitzi”....
by Lani Muelrath | Mar 3, 2011 | Weight Loss
This was shocking to me – we’re only one week into Body Transformation Booty Camp, after all – but I am delighted! And I’m sore (a “good” sore) in places that I have been really working hard – and it really feels great. I love the Fit...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 11, 2011
Body Transformation Booty Camp with Lani Muelrath, M.A. For optimum weight loss and body shaping If you want to shape muscle, you will need to exercise and overload the muscle to make more of it. However, if you want the muscle to show, you need to lose body fat, and...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 31, 2011
My Body Transformation Secrets Call January 31 Transcript and Notes F.R.E.E. Training Call: “My Body Transformation Secrets: How You Can Easily, Consistently And Confidently Live Your Body Ideal, Create A Simple Workout Schedule and Food Plan, So You Never Have...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 2, 2011 | All Posts, Move Your Body
Blog BUZZ on Fit Quickies™ Targeted Body Shapers! Lise @ 2:50 pm Yay, new Fit Quickies! I love, love #1 but also #4. I’m developing a relationship with Topless Muffins, too. I can see and feel a difference at my waist. Are the new ones going to be up in a few...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 16, 2010 | Weight Loss
Do you want the bad news or the good news first? The bad news is that we do have genetic tendencies for weight gain. Some women gain weight more easily than others. But I didn’t have to tell you that. It’s in your genes, right? You just got the dreaded...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 4, 2010 | Plant-Based Nutrition
In my fitness coaching programs, sooner or later the conversation always gets around to breakfast. What is it, when is it, how important is it? As a matter of fact, because of the value of breakfast, aka a ‘gusto brekkie’, I always either structure it...
by Lani Muelrath | Nov 2, 2010 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Some of my best material bubbles up into frame while bobbing in relaxed suspension above the reef. This morning’s dive was no exception. One after another, parallels between making it unscathed through holiday fitness challenges and safe diving zinged clearly...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 29, 2010 | Uncategorized
Is it possible we should be taking fewer supplements, rather than looking for the new “perfect” one? I know, “don’t take your vitamins” sounds like sacrilege, doesn’t it?! Popping our daily vitamins is right up there with cherry...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 3, 2010 | Weight Loss
Lani, I’m not really surprised but have to say that your organization and thoughtfulness with McBooty Camp are unparalled. Everything is so organized! I feel fabulous! I was just thrilled this morning when looking in the mirror. Even with a far from...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 22, 2010
Boot Camp Mind: Top 10 Motivational Tools for Health, Weight Loss, & Fitness Success Habits, temptation & stress may be hijacking your self-control. But I believe in challenging the status quo and thinking differently. With Boot Camp Mind™, I’ve taken my Top...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 17, 2010 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
I can count the diet books I’d recommend on one hand. Or less. But there’s a new diet book out that has elbowed its way to the top 5. Rip Esselstyn’s Engine 2 Diet. The Engine 2 story Yes, Engine, as in fire engine. Rip Esselstyn is a fireman in...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 8, 2009 | All Posts, Weight Loss
Can the indiscriminate eater make peace with the disciplined dieter within? (YES. But first…) Let’s face it. There are two distinct voices within for anyone who has ever had a weight problem. How about we meet these two, face to face (and fork). For one,...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 28, 2009 | All Posts, Move Your Body
Not to rain on anyone’s muscle parade, but this myth has been perpetuated one too many times. This is the problem with the proliferation of fitness information on the web. Something is said somewhere – no matter how substantiated or not – and then...
by Lani Muelrath | May 20, 2009 | All Posts, Weight Loss
The educated guess was right. Without having gotten my hands on the book to read cover-to-cover, it’s pretty clear that the elements of the new release The End of Overeating, as presented via the title and cover clearly depict just what this book is all about. A...
by Lani Muelrath | May 15, 2009
“Out Of Pain And Into Control Of My Health. Lani has led me to a place where my fitness level is optimal.” ~ Laura Huerta, CA “I Recently Wore An Evening Dress That I Had Not Worn In 18 Years!!” ~ Diana Israel, Danville, CA “Regained My Health and Well...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 3, 2009 | All Posts
A flood of blog comments, emails, and other responses have been flowing in with regards to the blog posts Mini Meals And Metabolism: Fact Or Fitness Myth? and 6 Reasons Mini Meals Might Work For you. The responses have been as varied and rich as the women...
