The Get Lively® with Jan podcast

As promised, here is part two of my thoughts and reflections after watching the Netflix docuseries: Live to 100: Lessons from the Blue Zones. In last week’s show, I talked…

I watched a docuseries called: Live to 100: Secrets of the Blue Zones, on Netflix. I first learned about the “blue zones” about a decade ago while studying at the…

I aired an episode on “Cheat Days” earlier this summer, and this topic is back by popular demand today! If you haven’t listened to that episode, you can head back…

This topic has come up several times recently, so I thought I’d chime in on something here that may be a bit controversial… CHEAT DAYS Personally, I am NOT a…

This is always a fun show to share… every few years we need to do some MYTHBUSTERS! And since there are LOTS of new people getting lively these days: training…

Oh friends, if we could only break this pattern of thinking… If we could only stop looking at food as “good” or “bad” and as exercise as a way to…

As I continue to ease back into my “normal life” and recover from surgery, I’ve been having many thoughts and experiences that are helping me to better understand me. This…

As someone who promotes eating well and exercising for a living, people tend to think it all comes super easy for me… But I, just like many other people, struggle…

Somebody once said to me: how you live is how you eat. That really stuck with me. If you think about it, if you are whipping through your days with…

A few weeks ago, I wrote about people asking me if I eat certain foods.   I talked about how it usually gets posed as a question in which they imply…

You all know how much I love sharing stuff that I’ve read.  Well this week is one of those weeks. I’ve actually mentioned the book “The Gut Makeover” previously, as…

There are a few questions that I get asked a lot. And here’s one of them: Jan, do you eat whatever you want? People ask me that ALL the time. …