Healthy and Inspired Living
Jessy obtained her Masters and Bachelors of Science in Human and Sports Nutrition. She is a private health and wellness coach, weight loss consultant and a certified personal trainer. She prides herself on being a role model for young women by leading empowerment seminars where she helps to educate, connect and empower women to be beautiful, extraordinary, strong and tenacious. A positive frame of mind has always been her motto and motivation towards leading a healthy and active lifestyle. Jessy was born and raised in Beirut Lebanon but currently resides in Illinois, USA.
Summer is here which means sun dresses, skirts, shorts, and bathing suits. No longer do you have the winter months as an excuse to pack on a few pounds, hide behind long pants and bulky sweaters, slack on your workouts, and hibernate. The time for hibernating is over and the time for flaunting a healthy, [...]
Let’s face it, we don’t always have time for 30-45 minutes of cardio, or do we? Any cardio workout is better than no cardio but how do you fit it in on a busy schedule? As we’ve said countless times before, you need to eat fewer calories than you burn over a period of time [...]
Your entire body changes when you’re pregnant. But one thing that doesn’t have to change is your commitment to staying fit. Exercise is great for expectant mothers who are having low-risk pregnancies. Exercising can improve your energy level, elevate your mood, boost your self-esteem and create a higher sense of well-being for an easier pregnancy [...]
Weight Watchers and other calorie-counting mavens will tell you that a “calorie is a calorie” and you need to reduce your total caloric intake below what you burn each day in order to lose weight. Within this general guideline, you’ll often hear the mantra “all foods fit,” which tells us that we should follow the [...]
We all have been told that we must stretch-stretch-stretch before and after every workout. Yet many of us have no idea what stretching does for us, and don’t bother to do it. Worse still, we rush through a quick stretching routine that is not only ineffective but sets us up for potential injuries. Proper stretching [...]
For some people, exercise routines focus on weight loss or building muscle. For others, their mission is to increase strength, improve balance, stamina and flexibility. If the latter is your goal in the gym, then working your body ‘core’ is where you should spend your time. We rely on our bodies for everything: when we [...]
Many people mistakenly believe the best way to lose weight through exercise is to train at a very slow pace for a long time. This notion came from Scandinavian studies conducted in the 1960s that showed that the body used more fat when exercising very slowly than when training more intensely. Some people interpreted these [...]
You can lose weight by eating healthy and watching your portion and calories but you can lose more weight faster and get fit by adding exercise to the picture. Let’s be realistic, exercising can be hard, it’s a matter of time or lack thereof. Between work, kids, making dinner and going to bed, when are [...]
You have seen athletes training for marathons, triathlons to the guy that has a garage full of every piece of fitness equipment ever sold on TV wearing heart rate monitors at one point or another. But what exactly is their purpose? How is it going to give me the body I want? Should you include [...]
The 2011 Chicago Marathon along with the New York City race marked the start of the marathon season with more than 80,000 runners between the two races attempting to complete the 26.2-mile or 42.195 kilometers marathon distance, according to Huffington Post. Whether you are a walker or a runner, if you are interested in participating [...]
