Spring arrived, the sun reappeared, and Costco started carrying mangoes again! We love mangoes. Not the big orange/green types most often pictured as mangoes, but the small golden yellow ones called “Honey Mangoes”. Those are our favorites. We buy a huge box of them at Costco every week when they’re in season and have no problem ingesting all six …
Being that today is the day after St. Patrick’s Day, we decided to celebrate this “Day of Green” by focusing on one of our favorite green foods: Matcha Tea. But why matcha tea, you ask? Perhaps you don’t even know what matcha tea is! Well, in this article, we’re going to focus on the benefits of matcha tea, how …
Hello, guys! As you well know, Valentine’s Day is right around the corner. Whether you are planning on celebrating Valentine’s Day with somebody else that you love, or building your own self-love (blog post about that coming up soon!), we wanted to share this crepes recipe with you so you could celebrate in style. Since Valentine’s Day is the Day …
Ok, I have a confession to make. After Simeon and I came home from Belarus last October (which you read about here or watch our travel VLOG), I became obsessed with borscht. I want to learn how to make it myself, so after doing a bit of research, I figured out it’s actually really easy to make! In fact, I …
If you’re reading this article about how to read nutrition labels, you’ve probably been following my series on dieting for dancers. You started out with 8 basic rules. You figured out your body type. In fact, you even learned how to calculate your calories and macronutrients. Wait, what? You don’t know your body type or your daily caloric intake? No …
Earlier this summer, I laid out for you a list of “rules” you should follow if you want to get yourself into tip-top dancing shape. For some of you that might mean losing weight; for others that might mean gaining weight. And for others still, you might be searching for a way to maintain the gorgeous body you’ve already …
In my introduction to Dieting 101, I outlined the three parts to your basic education for dieting rules. If you are committed to developing your dancers body, you must start with understanding your body type. Every individual is different, and there is no point in comparing yourself to someone who does not share a similar body type and, therefore, …
In my post 8 Basic Rules of Dancers Diets, I gave you all a basic framework of rules to follow in order to help make your diets more effective. These rules are not just for dancers, by the way. In the next series of posts, I’m going to go in depth for each of these rules. I want to provide …
People ask me all the time how I keep my body in tip-top shape. This can be especially hard with all of our traveling! I want to help dancers and others, just like you, to develop some sound principles when it comes to diet and exercise. In this blog post series, we are going to explore some of the …