Here's Exactly How to Get the Most Out of Your Workout

After founding SoulCycle, Ruth Zukerman went on to found Flywheel Sports – a high-energy, competitive indoor cycling studio that’s taking over major cities across the country. As a trainer and fitness student herself (she told us she still loves going to classes to have the student experience!), Ruth knows exactly what it takes to make…

The Scary Truth Behind Your To-Go Oatmeal

Oatmeal typically seems like the healthiest option at a fast-food restaurant, right? Dr. Oz doesn’t agree. Grabbing a to-go bowl of oatmeal at places like McDonald’s or your local coffee shop might be sneaking hidden calories, sugar, and preservatives into your diet that you don’t expect. The Dr. Oz Show specifically cited “cream, stabilizers, [and]…

Counting Macros Can Be Intimidating: Use These Tips to Make it Easy

So you’re done with calorie counting and ready for a more liberating, empowering healthy eating plan. Now what? Maybe you’ve heard of counting macros: the concept of balancing out your intake of macro nutrients – proteins, fats, and carbohydrates – to optimize your diet for either weight loss, muscle gain, metabolism boosting, or weight maintenance.…

No Tricks Here! Treat Yourself to Healthier, Vegan Snickers

If Snickers are your favorite fun-sized Halloween treat, but you could do without the hydrogenated oils and refined sugar, whip up this version that’s made with a handful of ingredients and is vegan, too. Soft, chewy, with the perfect peanut crunch, these really do satisfy. A real Snickers fun-size bar is about 80 calories, and…

Raw Vegan Fudge Brownies

Newsflash: delicious desserts don’t need to be environmentally unfriendly, fatty, sugar laden, and calorie intensive to be delicious. There are decadent alternatives that don’t involve 100 calorie crap packs full of artificial sweeteners and other indecipherable ingredients. I’ve put together an easy, fast, drool worthy, RAW brownie recipe that’s free of dairy, eggs, gluten, and…