Hope Harrell: Personal Trainer + Nutrition Coach

Do you ever have times in your day or week where you can tell that your body is begging you for something refreshing? This smoothie is the PERFECT way to satisfy that craving. For me, after I do yoga, I always want a smoothie…especially after a hot yoga class. A cooling, refreshing, nutrient dense smoothie…

Do you ever find yourself neglecting to do really simple tasks like putting away your coffee cup in the morning, loading the dishwasher so that you can wake up to a clean kitchen, making your bed in the morning, or filling your water bottle up? It is really easy for us to come up with…

The best, easiest, coziest, most delicious weeknight or entertaining meal ever. This chicken is my all time favorite meal for the fall and winter. It is only 5 ingredients and is done in one cast iron skillet. From the first time it gets cold in Texas until the last (so usually only November-February ish), I…

I don’t do resolutions. As a coach, I know this is shocking, but let me tell you why. Resolutions imply that we need to “resolve” or change something about ourselves. It makes it sound like we aren’t good enough, like we need to alter large parts of ourselves that weren’t enough in the previous year.…

How to Build Smoothies That Actually Fill You Up! When I was working my 8-5, smoothies were the best way that I could stay consistent on getting all my fruits and veggies in. I used to not be hungry first thing in the morning, and sometimes I still am not. Smoothies were easy for me…

Another word that has been absolutely destroyed by diet culture: carbs. Do you eat them? Do you not eat them? Do they make you fat? Are they bad? Should we cut them out or eat more of them? So many questions surround this word that the actual definition and function of a carb has been…

Counting calories has long been a trend of the diet industry, and there is some relevance to it. A calorie is a unit that we use to measure energy in the body. So when you see the label on a food product, it is actually showing you the amount of energy that is in the…

When we look at the different diet trends, we can see that they all restrict something. Keto: restrict carbs Paleo: restrict anything that does not come directly from the earth Carnivore: restrict fruits and vegetables Vegan: restricts all animal products These different diets might have a time and a place for some people, but in…

Protein. This buzzword is all over the health and nutrition industry. Everyone, everywhere says to eat more protein: put protein in your smoothies, be sure you get protein at every meal, snack on protein… the list goes on. In this article, I will be discussing the what protein is, the importance of it, and how…

Quick. Easy. Tastes like fall. Warms your soul. Fuels you for your day. There isn’t much more that I can ask for in a perfect breakfast recipe. Pumpkin is a trendy food for fall. It is quintessential to the season. Pumpkin is seasonal, and fall is this fruit’s time to shine! Eating seasonally has so…