Calling all vegan or vegan curious! If you are vegan, I’d love to hear from you. Tell me why a plant based diet works for you. If you are vegan curious, or over 50 like me, I think you’ll be interested in my vegan experiment. Before I share what I’m up to nutritionally I’ll give [...]
Body-Mind-Spirit Approach
September 12, 2012 By Leave a Comment
Do you ever have trouble summoning up the energy for your workouts? While I initially and instinctively only looked at how I was fueling my body to change my energy levels, years of running, and hours upon hours on the road, gave me a more complete perspective on energy and working to shift things within [...]
Fueling Life’s Grand Adventures
July 17, 2012 By 6 Comments
Every once in awhile, you need to do something that makes you feel fully alive. Every Memorial Day weekend, I take an annual trek in a mountainous area east of Seattle. Near as we have been able to guess, this trek is 14.5-16 miles long, depending on how lost we get. At higher altitudes, the [...]
Why Detox?
October 5, 2011 By 5 Comments
Detoxes are incredibly popular – especially in the fall and spring. Equinox time, as our seasonal transitions, are an excellent time to detoxify the body. There is a natural shift in energy during these times – we all sense it! Fall comes and we begin to conserve our energy a bit, focus on the tasks [...]
Emotional Eating
September 9, 2011 By 6 Comments
Food is a huge part of our society and for good reason — it is the life force that keeps us going on day after day. Because of this, it has become the center of focus of so many aspects of our lives. We have three meals a day, plus snacks. Celebrations, get-togethers, even business [...]
Back-to-Basics Nutrition Plan
February 7, 2011 By 30 Comments
by Melissa Bowman Li, Featured Athlete | As a busy mom of 3 boys, a tri-athlete and a business owner of a demanding nutrition and strength training company, PhysioLife Studios, one of the questions my clients always ask me is, “How do you do it all? How do you have time to eat a balanced, clean diet and stay at a healthy weight with all that goes on in your life?” What I tell them is…
Ask Aimee: Holistic Nutrition
September 25, 2010 By
by Aimee Gallo, Featured Athlete | I ardently believe that an emotionally and nutritionally delicious life is the best platform in which to express ourselves, be it in our sport, our art, or our relationships. So, I’m offering a special opportunity for Athleta readers to ask questions about their own path to optimal vibrancy through nutrition and self-care…
Sports Nutrition on the Road
September 13, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Caught in an unfamiliar city for a race and trying to fuel healthfully? Follow featured athlete Aimee Gallo on a grocery store video tour in a small natural foods market in Eugene, Oregon…
Taking an Honest Look
September 9, 2010 By 7 Comments
by Mary DeLaney, Featured Athlete | Sometimes we just have to take two steps back and take a good, honest look at ourselves, whether it is an inner investigation or a good look in the mirror. So, yes, I am an Athleta athlete. I consider it an honor to be able to communicate with the Athleta community…
Dina’s Food Journal: Allergy Elimination Diet
June 18, 2010 By 16 Comments
by Dina Mishev, Featured Athlete | The last time I came to you I was eating cookie dough. Quite a bit of it. With chocolate chips and peanut butter M&Ms in it. What am I eating this time around? Brown rice. With a few pieces of mango, ¼ cup of blueberries, and ¼ of an apple. I know. Crazy, crazy stuff…
