It’s exciting for us at Mountain Trek to be able to set up our hiking weight loss program at the oldest fitness and health spa in North America, Rancho La Puerta. It’s the best of both worlds. For many of our guests who make decisions day in and day out, it’s a welcome break to drop […]
You may consider yourself to be in better than average shape (after all you are a Mountain Trek Veteran). Now at home as part of your integration plan you’ve been hiking 3 times a week in close by local parks. Some friends come into town for the holidays and you decide to go biking. No […]
SOME exercisers are tortoises. They prefer to take their sweet time, leisurely pedaling or ambling along on a treadmill. Others are hares, impatiently racing through kilometers at high intensity. Each approach offers similar health benefits: lower risk of heart and stroke disease, protection against Type 2 diabetes, and weight loss. New findings suggest that for […]
Sodas (pop) and artificial sweeteners (Aspartame and Splenda, or Sucralose) Whoa, did I, as a registered Dietitian just write that? The position statement of both the Dietitians of Canada and of the American Dietetic Association is that Aspartame and Splenda are safe, acceptable sweeteners useful for weight loss. But when we graph the pop/soda consumption […]
Emotional Eating is a common stress release, or reward choice, for most of us. Using food as a way to work through our feelings, we lower the intensity, or even numb uncomfortable emotions by chewing, grazing, searching, tasting, craving, overeating or even binging. Unfortunately, eating can lead to guilt or shame when we do it […]
With all the fanfare of recent days with the Queen of England’s visit to Canada, I watched with interest as she greeted the Canada Day crowds with her Queen’s wave; elbow, elbow, wrist, wrist….which made me giggle as “the wave” here at Mountain Trek in beautiful British Columbia has quite the different movement! One of […]
At the top of mountain peaks, near fast-flowing rivers, in a spectacular forest setting, or simply sitting near a lake listening to the birds sing to the light. These are a few things of my favorite ways of increasing my vitality as a guide at Mountain Trek. I can appreciate that our guests come for […]
Diary of a Weight-Loss Boot Camp Writer Margaret Pierpont of Spa Magazine visits Mountain Trek, where she loses weight, gains determination, and finds her edge. Read the full article…
We saw an article on Yahoo! news describing a study in the journal of the American College of Sports Medicine. Whilst the catchy headline told me to skip breakfast, the research data did nothing to persuade me to give up breakfast before exercising. The study looked at only 7 healthy and fit youths, with only […]
