This Month's Reading: Foodist

So, I know I am a bit late to the game in reading Foodist. But, this month has been a bit busy. And is two weeks really soo bad? Anyway, as tardy as I may be, I am still super excited to be reading Darya Pino Rose's first book, Foodist. ​Darya has a Ph.D in neuroscience and uses it to come to some pretty incredible conclusions about food. Darya had plans of going into medical research in hopes of finding cures for neurological diseases. What she found was that food had more effects on health than medicine.

Darya now runs SummerTomato.com along with writing other published works and publicly speaking about food and health. ​This book is something I have been super excited about reading and cannot wait to see what is beyond the cover. Foodist ​focuses on staying healthy and loosing weight without dieting. Let's see what tid-bits of genius we can learn from this one!

Great Health and Fitness Tools

Everyone needs a resource or two when it comes to health and fitness. Whether it is an app, a great book, or some super cute running shoes; tools are important for the health and fitness trade. Here are a few great ways to learn about how to stay fit through books, the internet, or YouTube. ​

​Blogilates

I must admit, for a while I was not doing Pilates at all, but, Cassey Ho over at Blogilates has changed that. Her workouts are incredible and she is super sweet to boot! These workouts are usually 15 to 20 minutes, but focus on certain body areas and become very effective. The best part is how quick that time flies. Cassey is great at keeping your mind off what your are doing. She always has popular songs playing in the background and manages to keep everything light... Even when the workout, really, is not.

I would totally recommend her Victoria's Secret Series for some great workouts for arms, the bum, tummy, and legs. The arm workout is intense!

Foodist by Darya Pino

I loove Darya Pino's website, summertomato.com. ​It is filled with some great food knowledge from a PhD who enjoys eating healthy, well rounded meals. Darya and I both believe that healthy should taste great. Darya is able to use her neuroscience background to give some interesting and amazingly informative takes on food. 

I am soo excited for her first book to be released May 7th. ​Foodist: Loosing Real Food and Real Science to Loose Weight Without Dieting has been years in the making and looks to be just as good as her site!

Yoga Journal

Yoga Journal is ​a great webs resource for all things yoga. One of my favorite parts of this site is in the Poses section. Yoga Journal has every yoga pose cataloged for quick pose instruction, health info, benefits, and similar poses. This is fantastic if you are wanting to build a sequence relating to a certain body part, or need a bit more information on how something is done.  One of my favorite uses for this is building sequences. Every pose has a list of other poses that should come before or after, making sequence building super easy and the yoga flow super efficient. ​

If you are not so into building your own sequences, do not fret. Yoga Journal has incredible instructors and yoga videos. My favorite YJ flow has always been the Twist and Detox, but this one is pretty high up there as well. Check out the Video section of their site for video sequences that are separated depending on experience level. ​