If you are working for that summer body or simply just trying to get back into a healthy lifestyle, you learn that results don’t come quick or easy. It’s frustrating and you basically just want to scream and plop down onto the couch with a pint of Ben & Jerry’s. Am I right? Yes, I’m righ…

I get hungry at work. A lot. And when it happens, the outcome is never good. 

Sometimes the most challenging part of a work day can simply be the challenge of staying focused. Whether it's those ugly Monday mornings, the sleepy hour after your lunch break or the long monotonous, afternoon meetings, lacking concentration makes any day harder than it should be. 

Holiday travel is nearing for many of us, which means packing, checking the weather and communicating with all 26 of your relatives (including your spouse's' crazy cousin) about what to bring for Thanksgiving Dinner. With that in mind, it's only natural that eating right is the last thing on…

We’ve all had those weekends — the ones overflowing with laughter, smiles, drinking and eating — where you're completely exhausted by Monday. (For example, Halloween this weekend.) 

Where do you find relaxation? 

It’s Thursday and your alarm is blaring extra loud this morning. You look at the time and it reads 6 a.m.; it’s too early. After several moments of an internal debate, you force yourself to crawl out of bed and throw on a sweatshirt and stumble to the kitchen in search of the rejuvenating sm…

I like sweets and I like to bake. I love chocolate, cupcakes, cookies, you name it - I will bake it, then eat it. However, I also like to eat healthy and stay fit. And I am figuring out that those cookies I ate the other night don’t come off as easily as they once did in the past.

Many hikers have heard it before … the eerie sound of a distant rattle. Your heart starts to beat rapidly, your eyes shift back and forth in their sockets, searching for the camouflaged beast in the dry, sandpaper bushes. 

It’s hot. You feel sweaty, sticky and irritable. And you just can’t get away from it.

“I’m going to start eating healthy!” is a sentence I say more than I should. Sure, it is easy to say… But much harder to do.

I started this piece in June and it was set to publish for July 2. But Mother Nature had other plans and the Sleepy Hollow Fire hit Wenatchee hard instead.

Cathy Covey, my mother and owner of The Inner Circle Gym, knows what it’s like to work for a living. If it isn’t working behind her computer to ensure the growth of her business, it is working out on a gym floor with her clients, showing them a variety of movements for a full-body, intense workout.