Welcome to Healthy Life Lessons and thanks for visiting!
I created this blog to chronicle the many struggles of parenting young children and keeping sane and healthy.
I am not a doctor or dietician, but I am passionate about sharing my knowledge of health and fitness that I have acquired through my more than 20 years as a fitness instructor and personal trainer.
The information I provide is evidence based. I use my past training and experience as a researcher to interpret all the conflicting information about health, nutrition and weight-loss and give you the straight goods.
I love working out every day and one of my greatest creative outlets and pleasures is cooking and baking healthy food for myself and my family.
I have a BA and MA in sociology, as well as a PhD in Exercise Sciences from the University of Toronto. I also have a Masters in Counselling Psychology and a special certificate in infertility counselling.
I currently work as a psychotherapist, with a focus on infertility and pregnancy loss counselling. I also help people with anxiety, depression, weight-loss, low self-esteem and relationship issues. For more about my practice, please visit my professional site at www.ericaberman.ca . I am passionate about my work and feel blessed to have a career that I love.
I live in Toronto with my husband, Adam, and our two young daughters, and in case you care, here are some things you may not know about me:
- I am a morning person and I am asleep most nights by 10pm.
- I love getting up at 5am to workout. I am currently into strength training and MMA fitness DVDs.
- I eat oatmeal for breakfast every day and never get sick of it.
- Beans, oatmeal, greens, and apples are among my favorite foods. I am not vegan or vegetarian, but try to eat a mostly plant-based diet.
- The only thing I do not eat ever (or almost ever) is refined flour and sugar and fast food...and rarely do I eat red meat.
- I do eat A LOT. When people see tiny me eating I always get teased. I've just always had a big appetite.
- I hate flying.
- I hate hot weather. Hate it. For me anything above 20 Celsius (68F) is too hot!
- I love autumn and everything that goes with it.
- I have crazy, vivid dreams every night and I usually remember them.
- I am really funny. At least I think so. Adam tells me I am the ONLY one who thinks so.
- My guilty pleasures are beer and HGTV shows.
- My greatest talent is making an exceptionally realistic pig 'oink' sound. So far, it hasn't gotten me far in life.
- I have no real photography skills so you won't find pretty pictures here.
Hi. Pleased to meet you. Many things in common between us, which is what made me type these lines to greet you. Check my work out!
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