Your Healthy Life Made Easy!™
Are you ready to make this time the very last time you’ll have to work on losing weight?
I’m Melanie Jordan, a Nationally-Board Certified Health and Wellness Coach specializing in weight loss and health transformation. I’m dedicated to helping business professionals like yourself rewrite their personal health stories and change their lives every single day with solid information that can be trusted on weight loss, nutrition, fitness, stress reduction, work-life balance and longevity. Always 100% human produced!
A Healthy Eating Tip Inspired By A Visit To Clearwater Beach
A visit to Clearwater Beach inspires Weight Loss and Health Transformation Coach Melanie to share this healthy eating and mindfulness tip.
Longevity Reflections: A Tale of Two 73-Year-Old Rockers
Longevity reflections—After checking out two back-to-back concerts I couldn’t help but reflect on the difference between the energy and abilities of the two performances both by people of about the same age. One was Rick Springfield.
How to Prioritize Self Care: A Wake Up Call for Busy Business Professionals
How busy professionals can prioritize self care when they are busy taking care of their career and everyone and everything else which negatively impacts their health, stress management and weight loss. This is your wake up call.
How to Eat Healthy While Traveling: 3 Tips for Success!
One of the biggest challenges many of my business professional weight loss coaching clients have, is keeping up healthy eating while traveling now that more of them are venturing back out into the world. When you’re out of your element, and subject to business lunches and dinners, or even when it’s for fun and you’re eating on the go and not on your typical schedule, it’s all too easy to undo all the good work you’ve done working on losing or maintaining your weight.
Living Out Laughter is the Best Medicine for Better Health - Even When It Snows in April
There’s a reason April is also National Humor Month. It just has to be because of crazy Chicago weather where it snows in April! However, this is where living out laughter is the best medicine is key. Now some people might feel a bit down experiencing this kind of improbable weather cycle, and there have certainly been times I’ve been one of them. However, more often than not I choose to be amused and find the humor in Mother Nature messing with my psyche.
Why New Year’s Resolutions Don’t Work Very Often
It's mid-January, do you know where your New Year's Resolutions are?
You got ready for the new year by swearing you were going to lose weight and make it a healthy one, yet just a couple of weeks in if you're reading this, there's a pretty good chance that you've already thrown in the towel. So why is it that New Year's Resolutions generally seem not to work? And, more importantly, what can we do about it?
3 Healthy Habits for the New Year -Resolutions That Are Achievable
If you're thinking of making a last-minute New Year's resolution now that the time is here, don't worry about it because most of them don't work. Instead, this year, why not focus on making just these three simple healthy habits that are achievable the focus of your overall resolve to be healthier in the New Year and see how simple it is to make your healthy life easy in the new year and beyond!
5 Things You Can Do To Become More Resilient: The Authority Magazine Interview with Coach Melanie
I recently had the pleasure of being interviewed in-depth for a series of articles on rising through resilience that has practical tips you can put to use right now to bounce back from whatever life throws your way.
Fitting Walking Into Your Busy Life
One of the most common things people say to me is "I see you walking everywhere." What’s wrong with that? I think nothing of running as many errands as possible on foot around my neighborhood. Here are some ways I make that happen.
A Healthy Thanksgiving - Yes, It's Possible!
Is having a healthy Thanksgiving possible? Sure it is! Here are 4 tips to help you get in on all the celebration without doing your waistline damage, so your Thanksgiving is not only happy but healthy.
Healthy Halloween Treat Tips
Is it possible to have a healthy Halloween when temptation is everywhere? Yes it is! ! Like every other day of the year, it's all about the choices you make.
Weight Loss Coaching Success Story: Becky 52 Pounds Weight Loss
Like many of my clients, Becky came to me as someone with emotional eating challenges who regularly turned to food for comfort made worse by a very sedentary lifestyle, but also with a great mindset “I’m doing it for me and because I want to be healthy for good.”
How Often Should You Weigh Yourself?
How often should you weigh yourself? If I only had a dollar for every time someone asked me this in my Coaching practice! Most people know not to weigh themselves every single day because on any given day your weight can be off by a couple to several pounds in either direction based on the amount and type of food and drink you consumed (or the lack of it), the type and amount of exercise, biological processes and more.
Weight Loss Coaching Success Story: Donna Nosek Healthy Award Winner
I met Donna at the Fitness Fair that the local anti-obesity initiative, Healthy Lombard, that I partnered with, held in our community annually. Back then she was a spectator watching my weight loss coaching client Cindy Musiel take the stage to receive her Health Hero award.
How To Get Motivated To Exercise When You Don't Feel Like Exercising
Even the most dedicated exercisers have them--those days when you just don't feel like exercising. Your "get-up-and-go" simply "got-up-and-went" as they say. Well no worries, it's perfectly normal. But knowing that, how do you get motivated to exercise when you really feel more like lounging on the sofa?