by Lani Muelrath | Jan 29, 2018 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Video
A note to readers: the following is a posting I made on facebook a few days ago. It resonated with so many, and generated such intense conversation, that I wanted to bring it into an article here on the blog to share it with you. Included are my opening comments and...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 26, 2017 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Weight Loss
Are you hooked on dieting? Has an obsession with getting thinner hijacked your eating mentality, ruining your innate wisdom about when to eat? If your days are filled with constant reference to and thinking about anything eat-to-lose-weight related, the question may...
by Lani Muelrath | Mar 6, 2017 | All Posts, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
It is with great sadness that I recall a strategy I used on more than one occasion to help ‘inspire’ myself to get some weight off. I would tack a photograph of myself on the fridge at whatever the present ‘undesirable’ weight happened to be....
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 1, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Azumio, an online and mobile service that publishes daily insights into health and fitness, has asked me to be a contributing author to their nutrition column. This is my article published at Azumio this week: Are Beans The Ultimate Skinny Food? Have you ever noticed...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 6, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Journey, Weight Loss
Is Weight Loss Sustainable? People who have known me for some time know that my weight was a longtime struggle for me. As someone genetically predispositioned to easily gain and have trouble losing weight, I have paid my dues with decades of wild weight fluctuations...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 1, 2015 | All Posts, Weight Loss
Peggy called me for help, deeply discouraged because her weight loss efforts had stalled. She felt at a loss as to how to get moving again toward the weight loss she wanted and needed. She was also quite frustrated by the pattern she had developed of overeating in the...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 26, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Journey, Plant-Based Nutrition, Transformations
Naomi’s Plant-Based Transformation Naomi Prioleau is a busy, active reporter with the Marshall New Messenger in Marshall, Texas. She is the first to tell you that as a journalist she is on call all the time. And that her work demands lots of available energy....
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 6, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Journey, Weight Loss
4 Steps to Halt Creeping Weight Gain and Feel Better in Your Clothes Today The Problem Are you finding it harder and harder to control your weight the more years you live? Have you discovered that—despite all your efforts to the contrary—your belt cinches...
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 21, 2015 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Which Plant-Based Food Plan is Right For You? Have you noticed that the more popular whole food plant-based eating becomes, the more it can seem that ‘plant-based diet’ can mean one thing to one person, another thing to someone else? It might...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 4, 2013 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
People look at me today and tell me that they find it hard to believe that I ever had a weight problem. But I did. I’m the one on the left (see above, circa 1998). It doesn’t help that everyone else in the picture is skinny. For decades, over thirty...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 9, 2013 | Transformations, Weight Loss
Janice, then Janice, now Are these the same person? When Janice sent me these pictures to post side-by-side as we reflected on our three month benchmark of working together in the Fast Start Program, these are the first words that came to mind: are these the same...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 20, 2013 | Move Your Body
“Exercise not helpful for weight loss!” – so read the headlines on a recent newsflash that just surfaced in my inbox. As you can imagine, I received a flurry of emails asking me to speak to the article. It took a little bit of sleuthing, but a...
by Lani Muelrath | Mar 3, 2013 | Move Your Body
The first official Fit Quickies: 5 Minute Targeted Body Shaping Workouts book signing was celebrated this week at the esteemed and perfectly charming Lyons Books in Chico, California. I couldn’t have asked for a better start to taking the Fit Quickies message...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 18, 2013 | Weight Loss
Note: Today’s guest author Dustin Rudolph, PharmD., is throwing a Fit Quickies book giveaway contest on the Pursue a Health You Blog. Click on the image below to enter. Weight Loss – The Recipe For Success by Guest Author Dustin Rudolph, PharmD ...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 14, 2013 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Plant-Based Nutrition
There are those of us who sometimes complain when we can’t find the exact blend of brown rice. Or a papaya that is just the right degree of ripe. Guilty – that was me today. We forget – too easily – that there are people with far greater...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 5, 2013 | Transformations, Weight Loss
Karen, 9-22-2012 Karen, 11-5-2012 Karen, 12-31-2012 I want to share Karen’s story with you today because you may be one of those people, like Karen, who had lost hope and was frustrated with her attempts at weight loss, getting fit, and having a body that...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 11, 2012 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Last week while exploring Civil War territory back East, I was struck by how chaotic and seemingly random this big chunk of our history really was. The Battle of Gettysburg was actually a series of skirmishes. Advance, retreat. Win for the North, win for the South....
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 4, 2012 | Weight Loss
This teleclass has already taken place. If you would like a recording of the event, simply fill in the form below and follow through on the confirmation email and the download link will be sent to you at no charge. Join me and my special guest Chef AJ on September 11...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 21, 2012 | All Posts, All Setup, Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Weight Loss
Part 3 in a series. Part 1: Does checking the scale help with weight management? Part 2: Is the bath scale a taboo or a tool? Readers weigh in on weighing in. Part 3: Be present with your poundage: How to weigh mindfully, get out of fear of the scale, and use the...
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 | 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 | Jan 18, 2012 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
To smoothie or not to smoothie? It’s the plant-based fitness expert’s blog. Of course I’m going to tell you to cram as many greens and fruits in as you can, right? Not so fast. With an upsurge in ‘smoothies’ and ‘cleanses’...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 9, 2012 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
Boot Camp Mind is… the voice of focus the voice of compelling commitment the ‘just do it’ you The part of you that is connected with your better judgement, that is inspired to realize your greater potential. You gain your health and get your body back through 3...
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 | 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 8, 2011 | Plant-Based Nutrition
Have you ever been disappointed that you weren’t really hungry for dinner? Then you’d better stay away from lentils, because these little nutrient nuggets are so sustaining that if you have some for lunch, you just might forget to eat your dinner. This may...
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 | Nov 1, 2011 | Transformations, Weight Loss
Wanted to share this with you! Nancy just posted this in the “Locker Room” of Body Transformation Booty Camp this morning. Locker Room is our affectionate name for the online connecting point with forums, instructional guides, workout and dietary plans,...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 28, 2011 | Move Your Body, Plant-Based Nutrition
Has this ever happened to you? You discipline yourself to a calorie-restricted diet to lose a few pounds. You have some success, though after a few weeks you have a weight loss slow down that comes paired with growing, gnawing hunger. You end up craving and caving....
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 8, 2011 | Move Your Body
It’s true – every precious pound of metabolism-boosting muscle on your body translates to more calories “combusted” each and every day. This is putting it quite simply, but the effects are not to be discounted. When it comes to weight control,...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 5, 2011 | All Posts, All Setup, Move Your Body
Is anyone else freaking out a liiitle bit about it being October? This year has really flown by, and now we’re entering (it’s true!) the pre-holiday season. No worries! You still have a full month left to prep for the holidays and knock your 2011...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 29, 2011 | Weight Loss
This just in: Hi Lani! I’ve been using your 15-minute blast strategy every morning and it’s the best exercise program I’ve ever found. It’s BETTER than Tim Ferriss’ strategies in the 4-Hour Body, and much, MUCH easier to implement! ~...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 14, 2011 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Samantha and I were on the phone strategizing her stepped up fitness plan. With some important events on the calendar and long term health goals, Samantha had asked me for coaching on how to tweak her diet, exercise, and mindset practices to meet her goals of weight...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 30, 2011 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Craving carbs? Eat them! OK, have I got your attention? Today on the phone with my client Sandra (not her real name), the subject again reared its ugly (and hungry) head. Fear of carbs. Otherwise known as carbophobia. I bring this up today because Sandra is not...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 17, 2011 | Weight Loss
Between you and me, we don’t really need anyone to tell us if we’re too fat or too thin, right? Yet if we need a kick in the hmmhmm to face the fitness or fat loss music, then some tools of measure can help us do just that. Besides how your clothes are...
by Lani Muelrath | Aug 10, 2011 | All Posts, All Setup, Video, Weight Loss
How do you know how much to eat to stay in your skinny jeans? What would it be like if you could eat to satisfaction every day, at every meal, and not have it shadowed by worrying about your weight? If you have never had a weight problem, then you are probably baffled...
by Lani Muelrath | Apr 6, 2011 | Weight Loss
Julia sent me this letter on the heels of her successful Body Transformation Booty Camp experience. I still get chills each time I read it. When you though you could never lose the weight and then it starts coming off with some changes in diet and workouts, well,...
by Lani Muelrath | Mar 1, 2011 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Sugar. Chocolate. Meat and cheese. We KNOW these edibles can be fattening and loaded with calories. And when some of them are mixed together, they can be deadly to healthy diets. Yet somehow in the face of stress, we are driven – against our better judgement...
by Lani Muelrath | Feb 24, 2011 | Weight Loss
Janice, a long-time member in my FitDream Fusion Inner Circle and on the team in my February Body Transformation Booty Camp, brought this article to my attention and I just had to share it with you. First, you’ve got to know that Janice has created amazing...
by Lani Muelrath | Jan 14, 2011 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition, Weight Loss
Why do most weight loss diets fail? I’m betting you already have an answer right at the tip of your tongue. As a matter of fact, if you happen to have a long and colorful diet history as I do, then I’m certain of it. Let me guess. Your answer to the...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 29, 2010 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation
[fb-like] [divider] [/divider] Plans, projects and inspirations for the new year ahead have already been spiraling through my consciousness for several weeks. You? I’ve decided to crack open my brain and spill some bits and pieces just for you. My...
by Lani Muelrath | Dec 7, 2010 | Plant-Based Nutrition, Video
Are you consumed by carbophobia and afraid that bread is fattening? Do you love sandwiches but feel you have to swear them off so that you can lose weight? Relax! I have for you: 2 examples of excellent quality bread that support your body-shaping goals plus...
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 | Oct 22, 2010 | Mindfulness, Mindset, & Motivation, Transformations, Weight Loss
Can you envision your body ideal? Your deepest dreams and aspirations for success of your health, your fitness…your life? Being able to do so has a powerful impact on your success. More than powerful. Amazingly, it opens up doors to opportunity that we may not...
by Lani Muelrath | Oct 17, 2010 | Transformations, Weight Loss
Clarity, confidence, energy and inch loss – THIS is the stuff of which fitness dreams are made. Hallmarks of living your body ideal. When I asked Jennifer if I could share her letter with you, she quickly yet humbly replied “Yes!” Hi Lani, This...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 24, 2010 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition
Long the victims of intense marketing campaigns by the Four Food Lobbies, we’ve been sold a gallon of milk and a bill of goods by the dairy industry one time to many. Warning! This revealing presentation by Dr. John McDougall, M.D., will tilt the milk cart on...
by Lani Muelrath | Sep 14, 2010 | All Posts, Plant-Based Nutrition
What do you get when you pile a whole tangle of world class nutrition experts, researchers, and physicians on one big platter, like a big heap o’ brown rice? Lively debate (they don’t agree on everything). Spirited discussion (everyone kept their sense of...
by Lani Muelrath | Jul 5, 2010 | Transformations, Weight Loss
The title says it all and Patsy’s letter speaks for itself. Following years of frustration and struggle, Patsy implemented a few simple strategies and now she’s finally dropping weight and inches – and needing less sleep, too, giving her more...
by Lani Muelrath | Jun 16, 2010 | All Posts, Move Your Body, Weight Loss
If you’re like me, the waist is where you can sense pudge first. Maybe it’s because it’s so noticeable in the way our clothes fit, or because we can so easily – quite literally – see excess poundage when it lands in our middle. Most women...
