Why ‘Cheat Meals’ Won’t Work For You
Karen Aroney Karen Aroney

Why ‘Cheat Meals’ Won’t Work For You

Stop having the ‘Cheat Meal’.

In the context of a high performer, high achiever, and busy professional, having a cheat meal is not going to work to your benefit.

Read why and what to do instead in this new article.

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How I structure a Meal Plan as a Busy Professional
Karen Aroney Karen Aroney

How I structure a Meal Plan as a Busy Professional

How I structure a Meal Plan as a Busy Professional

There’s a difference between meal planning and meal prepping.

You don’t need to have batch-cooked all of your weekly meals to have a great meal plan that works for you. Just like most good plans, a meal plan helps you stay on track, stay focused, know the direction you are heading with your nutrition, and allows you to pivot if/where things are not working to get you results.

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What busy professionals worry about and what to do about it.
Karen Aroney Karen Aroney

What busy professionals worry about and what to do about it.

Working with busy professionals, the one issue we encounter often, is ‘worry’. Worry means the state of being anxious and troubled over actual or potential problems.

Why this is an area of concern for busy professionals is that they regularly ‘worry’ about a variety of nutrition-related concerns and often find themselves caught feeling defeated, helpless, hopeless, overwhelmed, and physically stressed. These feelings can very easily impact many other areas of your life, particularly career and family life.

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Setting Training Goals. How. When. Why.
Karen Aroney Karen Aroney

Setting Training Goals. How. When. Why.

Why are you training?

The one key factor in training is your WHY. What’s the point? What are your training goals? What outcome do you want to see from training? What do you want to achieve?

And, how does your nutrition meet your training goals so that you are actually performing optimally?

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Shift from Sabotage to Success – How to make Nutrition work for You
Karen Aroney Karen Aroney

Shift from Sabotage to Success – How to make Nutrition work for You

The one thing that I say to both myself and people – wherever you are, you need to make the situation work for you. And this is key when it comes to nutrition. Most of us assume we ‘must’ or ‘should’ follow a specific diet, routine, regiment or eating plan because that is what we have seen or been told is the right way. But if it doesn’t work for your lifestyle, it’ll never be the right way and you won’t make it successful.

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3 Steps To Meal Planning Success
Karen Aroney Karen Aroney

3 Steps To Meal Planning Success

Here’s a scenario I want you to think about: You spend the working week eating ‘clean’ and training hard. Perhaps you even get a good 5 x HIIT sessions in this week. But here comes the weekend… 😬

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