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Trying to get rid of your love handles but don't want to spend HOURS at the gym? Check out this collection of the best at-home muffin top exercises and learn how to get rid of love handles FAST. Perfect for beginners, these workouts require no equipment and make one of many great 30 day challenges you can take to transform your body from obese to svelte. Make sure to take before and after pictures to track your results!

No more muffin top: 10 at home workouts to get rid of love handles!

If jumping jacks and lunges make you pee your pants, these tips are for you! Whether you suffer from light bladder control as a result of childbirth, age, or both, we've got 5 great tips for a pee-free workout so you can exercise with confidence. Weight loss shouldn't be embarrassing, so let's start the conversation, seize our Poise moments, and stop letting leaks interrupt our lives!

Light Bladder Leakage: 5 Tips for a Pee-Free Workout

Looking for a way to build core body strength and posture while also reducing your stress levels, but can't seem to find the time? No problem! This collection of 10 free at-home yoga workouts for busy moms is just what you need!

10 free at-home yoga workouts for busy moms

If you're trying to get back in shape, but don't have the time or money to invest in a gym membership, this collection of 15 Jillian Michaels at home workouts are just what you need to lose weight. And guess what? You can watch them all FOR FREE right here!

15 Jillian Michaels workout videos you don’t have to pay for

If you’re looking for the perfect arm workouts for women to help you burn fat either at home or at the gym, you’ve come to the right place. We’ve rounded up the best arm workouts for beginners with weights to help you tone your flabby arms so you can look good in a tank top – just like a Victoria Secret model. Whether you like to workout with a resistance band, with dumbbells, or a kettlebell, these workouts will challenge your muscles for tight and toned triceps and biceps!

The Top 10 Arm Workouts for Beginners

If you’re looking for the best ab workout for women you can do either at home or at the gym, you’ve come to the right place. They say abs are made in the kitchen, and while that’s true, there is no magical 'AB DIET' that will give you six pack abs overnight. But if you eat healthy, wholesome foods and incorporate these ab workouts into your routine, you can kiss your muffin top goodbye and welcome a sexy flat belly. Your lower abs may scream in protest, but no pain, no gain, right?!

10 Secrets to Sexy Abs: Get the Body You Want!

Want to lose weight fast but don't have a ton of time to spend at the gym? We've got you covered! This collection of 20 minute workouts has everything you need - HIIT, cardio, strength training with weights for sexy arms and abs, etc. - for a full body workout you can enjoy at home. These videos are perfect for beginners but will also provide a bit of inspiration for more well-seasoned gym-goers who need a way to workout while on the go!

The best 20 minute workouts to help you lose weight fast

There was a time in my life when having a flat stomach was as easy as breathing, but pregnancy and childbirth changes your body, and my abs just aren't as flat as they once were. Thankfully, this collection of at-home workouts has taught me how to lose belly fat fast. Who knew getting six pack abs could be so easy?!

10 at-home workouts to teach you how to lose belly fat fast

Workout clothes from big brand stores like Lulu Lemon and NIKE can get seriously pricey, but there are heaps of other retail stores that offer active wear that's comfortable, made with gym-friendly fabrics, and designs you’ll love to wear. From yoga pants and printed leggings, to strappy tanks and go-dry performance tees, we're sharing 7 inexpensive fitness brands and over 20 affordable pieces you can mix and match for killer workout outfits!

Affordable Workout Clothes: Where to Shop and What to Buy

While running to lose weight can produce fabulous results in the short-term, most of us eventually hit a weight loss plateau with our running efforts, and some of us end up gaining weight the more we pound the treadmill. The good news is that, with a few small tweaks, you can setup a running for weight loss plan that will help you lose weight and get back into shape without ditching your beloved runners high!

Running For Weight Loss: 7 Tips That Work!

Trying to lose weight? Want a toned body? Looking for ways to combine strength training with cardio? Need more at-home workouts to keep yourself motivated? Then this collection of at home kettlebell workouts is for you! Working out with kettlebells allows you to exercise multiple muscle groups at the same time, and the act of swinging kettlebells burns a ton of calories, which makes it one of the most effective full-body conditioning workouts I've ever experienced. I'm serious!

10 kettlebell workouts for a leaner body

Looking for the best workout songs that are upbeat enough for running, cardio, and other fast, HIIT-inspired workouts? We've got you covered. Check out this awesome list of our top 70 workout songs - it's the ultimate gym playlist for 2016!

The Ultimate Gym Playlist: 70 Workout Songs to Make You Workout Harder!

Whether you're trying to shed your winter weight gain, strengthen and tone your body for an upcoming event, (high school reunion??!), or just want to up your game so you look and feel your best, this collection of exercises to lose weight FAST will teach you how to increase your heart rate, sculpt your muscles, and rev your metabolism for maximum results!

5 Exercises to Lose Weight Fast!

One of the many benefits of yoga is that it allows you to improve your flexibility, which helps with pain, stiffness, and stability, and while many people think you have to be flexible to practice yoga, it's actually the opposite: the more your practice, the more flexible you will become. Add these yoga stretches for flexibility into your daily/bi-daily routine and remember: having a strong and fit body is one thing, but have a flexible body is key to maintaining it.

5 Yoga Poses for Flexibility

If you're trying to lose weight and want to know how to burn calories FAST, spin classes are a great place to start. Spin workouts push you to your max without making you feel too fatigued, they tone your legs like nobody's business, and a 45-minute class can burn up to 600! Check out all of the health benefits of indoor cycling and sign up for your first spinning class today!

How to Burn Calories Fast (and other reasons to start spinning)

Sick of spending hours on the treadmill/elliptical/stairmaster without seeing results? Then it's time to take your cardio up a notch with one of these HIIT workouts for women for a full body, fat buring workout! You can do these at home or at the gym, and you're free to try them with weights if you can handle the burn. Be prepared to sweat, see results, and get the abs of your dreams!

10 at-home fat-burning HIIT workouts for beginners

If you're in the midst of making your resolutions to eat less and workout more next year to aid in your weight loss goals, and need tips to get yourself in and out of the gym in under an hour while still looking (and smelling) fabulous, these lunchtime workout tips are for you!

Bring the Stink: 5 Lunchtime Workout Tips

There are plenty of benefits that come with working out on your lunch hour - stress reduction, improved problem solving skills, and a boost in motivation and creativity - so if you're struggling to find the time to make your weight loss goals a reality, try these 4 workouts for a lunchtime lift!

4 Workouts to Do on Your Lunch Break

Trying to find the time to squeeze in some exercise after having a baby isn't easy, but thanks to this collection of postnatal workouts to teach you how to lose the baby weight, it's not impossible. You can do these at home workouts from the comfort of your living room while your little one is napping or spending time with grandma, and for those days when your bundle of joy won't allow you 5 minutes to yourself, there are some exercises you can do WITH him!

10 postnatal workouts to help you lose the baby weight

There are loads of ways to improve your workouts so you reap the maximum benefits while you exercise. And the best part? You don’t have to spend long hours at the gym! These tips will teach you how to maximize your workouts by providing ideas on what to eat before a workout and how you can incorporate MORE into your gym time. Good luck!

7 Tips to Teach You How to Maximize Your Workouts

Barre exercises include postures from ballet, yoga, and pilates, and while the moves are slight, the benefits and results (lean, toned muscles) can be pretty impressive. Perfect for beginners, these at home barre workout videos and routines require very little equipment (a chair or table top will do). Make sure to take before and after pictures and measurements to track your progress!

10 at-home barre workouts that burn fat

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‘STOP TRYING TO CALM THE STORM. CALM YOURSELF, T ‘STOP TRYING TO CALM THE STORM. CALM YOURSELF, THE STORM WILL PASS.’ —Unknown . My daughter went back to school virtually today, and while the Type A in me is excited we’re back in some kind of routine, I had forgotten just how chaotic and impractical distance learning is. A province-wide internet outage took down her teacher within 2 hours, shattering any hopes I had of grabbing a little time to myself to get caught up on all of the work stuff I’ve been putting off for the last 3 weeks. I’ve dried tears, prepared snacks, provided new Zoom logins, helped with grade 4 math, and I even made paper plates out of construction paper for a last minute craft. . Wash, rinse, repeat. . All is good in our world again, and soon we’ll dive back into those math problems and whatever else is on tap for homework before I retreat to my office to print off tomorrow’s agenda and worksheets. We’ll all play Roblox before dinner to help us unwind after a crazy day, and I’ll stay up later than I want to tonight trying to get caught up because I know tomorrow will bring more unforeseen challenges, and I hate starting my day feeling behind schedule. . Parenting in a pandemic is extra messy, and if this sh*t storm has taught me anything, it’s that we need to give ourselves a hell of a lot of grace right now. There will be days where we’re super productive and get through everything on our never-ending ‘to do’ lists, but there will be many more days where we feel like we’ve accomplished absolute nothing. . It’s on these difficult days that we need to remind ourselves that our most important job right now is making sure our kids are healthy and happy, and that they feel safe and loved. When they look back on this time, they won’t remember if the house was clean and the laundry was folded, how often we ordered takeout, or if we gained weight. All they will remember is how we showed up for them - even on the days we were struggling to show up for ourselves. . If the return to reality has you feeling overwhelmed today, stop trying to calm the storm. Take a deep breath, get present in this moment, remind yourself what’s important, and focus on that instead. . We’ve got this. 💙
BACK TO REALITY… . Are you ready to get back at BACK TO REALITY… . Are you ready to get back at it? . While we’ve certainly been busy organizing, packing, and getting our new home ready and didn’t really relax as much as we’d hoped to over the holidays, I’ve enjoyed operating at a slower pace the last couple of weeks. We’ve stayed up late, slept in a little bit each morning, had too much to eat and drink, and enjoyed a break from routines and schedules. . Toronto is currently under lockdown, so my daughter is going back to school virtually tomorrow while my husband and I continue to work from home. It’s not ideal, but we’ll make it work and I’m excited to get back into a routine. The time away from my computer helped me reset and recharge, and I feel like I’m starting 2021 with more realistic expectations of myself. And that feels good. . 2020 was definitely not my favorite year, but when I look back at the last 12 months, a lot of really great things came from it. It gave me more time with my husband and daughter and brought us much closer than our busy, pre-2020 lives would’ve ever allowed. It helped me reconnect with friends I had lost contact with due to the craziness that is being a working mom. And it helped me form amazing new friendships that I will cherish forever. . I know 2021 is likely going to be just as challenging - if not more so - as 2020 was, but for the first time since becoming a mom, I finally feel like I have a tribe of people around me. I feel less lonely than I’ve ever felt in my life, which is hilarious since we have been holed up in our house for ~10 months, but it feels pretty amazing. . I’m not sure where I was going with this post, but suffice it to say I’m ready to caffeine and conquer! ☕️
‘ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LIFE. KNOW THAT ‘ACCEPT RESPONSIBILITY FOR YOUR LIFE. KNOW THAT IT IS YOU WHO WILL GET YOU WHERE YOU WANT TO GO, NO ONE ELSE.’ —Les Brown . I think we can all agree that 2020 was the absolute shits, and I know we’re all looking forward to a chance to start fresh in hopes that the universe will be a little kinder to us in 2021. . Of course, our lives aren’t going to magically go back to the way they were at 12:01 am. It’s not easy to be positive right now, but instead of getting stuck in the suck, remember that the only thing you have control over is your attitude. You can continue to feel sorry for yourself and mourn all the ways your life has changed, or you can straighten your crown and focus on all of the good things happening in your life. . If you dig deep enough, you’ll see that there is so much to be grateful right now. . And if you can’t think of anything that you feel proud of or that brings you joy, then it’s up to you to create it. Accept responsibility for your life. Stop making excuses and be the change you want to see. . Instead of thinking of 2021 as another year of lockdowns and restrictions while we wait for vaccinations to take place and herd immunity to take hold, look at it as an open book. . 12 new chapters. 365 new chances. 🥂
‘BE PRESENT WHERE YOUR FEET ARE.’ —Unknown . ‘BE PRESENT WHERE YOUR FEET ARE.’ —Unknown . What do you do when you have downtime? . I haven’t had time off since last Christmas. We hit the ground running in January as we were planning a 2-week family vacay in March and wanted to do ALL THE THINGS beforehand so we could unplug and enjoy the trip. Our vacation obviously got cancelled, and we’ve been on autopilot ever since. I feel like the pandemic has either made people really busy, or extremely bored. There’s no in-between! . My team and I have been busy working ahead over the past couple of months as I really wanted to unplug and unwind for a few weeks over the holidays and now that the craziness of Christmas is over, I don’t know what to do with myself! . I’m caught up on This Is Us, we finally watched The Undoing, I’m almost done Open Book, I’ve done a lot of drawing on my iPad, I’ve had a lot of wine, I’ve eaten a ton of chocolate, we’ve played games, I’ve done my nails…and I’m bored, lol. But unless I find something else to do, I have to face packing up this house (we’re moving, ya’ll!) and I can’t face that just yet. . 👇🏻how do you unwind?
‘WHAT IS CHRISTMAS? IT IS TENDERNESS FOR THE PAS ‘WHAT IS CHRISTMAS? IT IS TENDERNESS FOR THE PAST, COURAGE FOR THE PRESENT, HOPE FOR THE FUTURE.’ —Agnes M. Pahro . The holidays are going to be extra hard for many this year. Whether you’re living under a lockdown with travel restrictions, voluntarily cancelling plans to keep yourself and the ones you loved safe, or dealing with heart-breaking loss, please know that you are not alone. . While we are all navigating the same storm right now, remember that we’re not all in the same boat. If you are lucky enough to be surrounded by excitement and chaos, enjoy the insanity of it all. Embrace the mess and be grateful for all your blessings, and don’t forget to check in with those who are less fortunate than you are. . And if there’s an empty chair at your table due to distance, sickness, or loss, remember that it’s okay to not be okay right now. The holidays can be hard at the best of times, and this year is unlike any we’ve ever experienced. Feel the feels, reach out to others, and be kind to yourself. . Merry Christmas my beautiful friends! 🥂
‘WORRYING IS LIKE PRAYING FOR THE OUTCOME YOU DO ‘WORRYING IS LIKE PRAYING FOR THE OUTCOME YOU DON’T WANT.’ —Denis Morton . This is your Monday morning reminder that no amount of anxiety can change the future, and no amount of regret can change the past. Worrying about something you have no control over does nothing but interfere with your ability to be fully present in this moment. So, inhale the good shit, exhale the bullshit (also a Denis Morton quote), and have faith in your ability to handle whatever life throws at you. ☺️
Is this thing on? . It’s been a MINUTE since I p Is this thing on? . It’s been a MINUTE since I posted here, and I’m not even sure I’m the same person anymore, lol, so I figured I’d re-introduce myself. . My name is Gwen and I’m the founder and managing editor of Meraki Lane - a website dedicated to sharing all of the latest tips and trends to help you be the best version of yourself in the least amount of time. . I’m 43, married to the man of my dreams, and the proud mama of a feisty 9-year-old who has an infectious personality and love for life. I grew up in Singapore, live in Toronto, and have an unhealthy obsession for clothes, shoes, peanut butter, makeup, and my Peloton bike. . I’m also anxious AF. I’ve struggled with high functioning anxiety since I was 9, but you probably wouldn’t even know if you met in IRL. I grew up at a time when mental health challenges were something to be deeply ashamed of and it took a global pandemic for me to finally realize that it’s okay not to be okay. . I’ve been thinking a lot about this little account of mine and how I want it to evolve. I’m never going to be a beauty influencer, I suck at taking photos of my food, and no one on the internet wants to see videos of me working out. While I love seeing other people do these things, they fall way outside of my skill set and comfort zone. . What I can offer is a candid look at my life with anxiety - the things that help me cope, the quotes that make me think, the mantras that keep me grounded, the products I love, and the memes that make me laugh and remind me not to take life too seriously. . My experience with anxiety probably won’t look like yours, but even though I may not be able to relate to your struggles, my hope is that I make you feel a little less alone. 💙
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