Lifestyle
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How to Practice Body Love If You Don’t Buy into Body Positivity
When I was in high school, my family and I road-tripped to the Mall of America in Minneapolis. My dad, mom, brother and I all split up to do our respective shopping. I was wandering between shops when I found my mom walking out of a store in tears. Worried, I asked her what happened.…
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Yoga for Everybody: Making the Practice More Accessible with Jessamyn
Yoga can already feel intimidating enough—learning the names of poses, bending your body in new and creative ways, understanding how to use your breath… For most people, these are all brand-new frontiers. But there’s another aspect of yoga that can feel the most intimidating: not seeing people like yourself on the yoga mat. To make yoga…
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Know Your Macros: Nutrient Breakdowns for Different Health Goals
We’re sure you’ve come across at least one yo-yo diet that severely cuts down—or eliminates—an entire food group. A great example? The keto diet, which cuts our carbohydrate macros. While these diets may deliver short-term results, they’re typically incredibly difficult and dangerous to stick to for a long period. Usually, extreme diets lead to a…
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Overcome PCOS Symptoms: Workout Routine for Your Hormones
Ugh, the struggle for the girlies with PCOS (aka Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) is real. A hormonal disorder that affects women of reproductive age, it’s fairly common but has no cure, making it difficult to manage. PCOS symptoms manifest differently in everyone but can include an irregular menstrual cycle, unexpected weight gain, unwanted hair growth, and…
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Perimenopause, Menopause, and Working Out: What’s the Deal?
There comes a time in every woman’s life when the body seems to rewrite its own rules. Hot flashes randomly turn up the heat, nights are spent tossing and turning, and clothes don’t seem to fit how they used to. Welcome to perimenopause and menopause transition—a journey that often feels like navigating unchartered territory with…
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The Expert Approved Wedding Workout Plan: What to Do—and Ditch
In this article: Hear expert obé fitness trainer and bride-to-be Kat B.’s top tips for forming a wedding workout plan to make you feel your best for the big day (without the toxic diet culture). Looking for a wedding workout plan now? Try obé’s Wedding Program. As a little girl, I always dreamed about my wedding.…
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Exercising Your Emotional Health: An Expert Guide to Self-Compassion and More
We all know that catering to our emotional health is important, but are we actually practicing what we preach? Women face so many stressors in daily life—juggling our careers, families, and caregiving responsibilities—that caring for our mental health often falls to the bottom of our priority list. The consequence? Chronic stress and feelings of inadequacy…
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Fertility, Menopause, and More—Women’s Health with Michelle Kennedy
When it comes to motherhood, we all know it takes a village. But honestly, as women, we could all use a village to navigate life’s transitions—from menstruation and fertility to menopause and every other aspect of women’s health. Surrounding yourself with a supportive community that educates, empowers, and uplifts you is key to feeling your…
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Navigating Motherhood, Career, and Wellness with Katie Durko Karvinen
Nothing inspires us more than seeing women who balance it all. Motherhood, careers, hobbies passions, relationships and friendships, caregiving, self-care—the list goes on. Women do so much, but we can’t do it all alone. Sharing our wisdom and secrets to success is a key to empowering and nurturing each other. Recently, we’ve been (majorly) crushing…
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Intimidated by Meal Prepping? 4 Expert Tips to Make It Easy
If you’re new to meal prepping, the idea of planning your weekly meals ahead of time can be overwhelming… to say the least. You might keep up with the latest “meal prep hacks” on social media but still have no idea where to begin. But meal prepping doesn’t have to be complicated. It should actually…
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What’s the Best Exercise for Hormones? You May Be Surprised
Ugh, hormones. When they’re balanced and doing their thing, our bodies and minds are in flow. But throw in just a little disturbance—like some good old stress or the luteal phase of your menstrual cycle—and suddenly, everything’s bananas. When you’re feeling moody or insecure from an acne flair-up, working out may be the last thing…
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How to Get Better Sleep—the Definitive Guide for Women
Fact: sleep dictates our holistic wellness. Like a puzzle piece, it fits with nutrition and exercise to create a full picture of our overall health. A vital instrument of restoration and repair, it enhances cognitive function, supports emotional well-being, regulates hormones, supports immune function, and helps maximize workout benefits. And a little secret? Learning how…
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Expert Chat: Why Every Woman Deserves to Have a Sex Drive
Ever noticed how working out can be something of an… aphrodisiac? One minute you barely have the will to put on your workout leggings, and 30 minutes later you’re empowered and ready to feel a little sexy. It’s not just your imagination—exercise can be a potent sex drive enhancer and a great trick for getting…
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Women’s Spotlight: Intimate Wellness with Lauren of Queen V
At obé, we love celebrating women (and all the amazing things their bodies and minds can do) every day of the year! As part of our Women’s History Month series, we wanted to give an extra spotlight to a few standout ladies who are shifting narratives around women’s health. To kick it off, we tapped…
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Why Extreme Weight Loss Diets Never (Ever) Work
Today, we’re diving into a topic that’s near and dear to my heart: why extreme weight loss diets just don’t cut it. We’ve all been there, right? Seduced by the promise of quick fixes and overnight transformations. Maybe you were feeling determined to shed a few extra pounds and finally achieve your dream physique. But…
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5 Crazy Facts You Didn’t Know About Women’s Fitness History
Head to any group fitness class (extra points if it’s Pilates), unroll your mat in any Yoga studio, go for a walk in any park, and one thing is certain: you’re going to see women. And lots of them. For many of them, working out is an essential pillar of self-care. And if not, it’s…
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How to Use Nutrition to Change Your Body Composition
While consistently hitting the gym and crushing your workouts is definitely brag-worthy, it’s hard to see results without taking a closer look at what’s on your plate. Nutrition isn’t just about counting calories or following the latest fad diet to get the results you want. It’s about nourishing and fueling your body with the right…
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5 Science-Backed Reasons You Shouldn’t Cut Out Carbs
As a child of the ‘90s, I was growing up when the Atkins Diet became massively popular. This low-carb, high-calorie diet promoted the idea that “carbs make you fat” and that you should definitely, absolutely cut out carbs for weight loss. As a result of growing up in a society that demonized carbohydrates, I’ve fallen…
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The Best Diet? The One You Don’t Do!
Ah yes, New Year’s Resolutions—we know them well. That special time to think up lofty ideals of how to change our lives for the better. While I’m not against New Year’s Resolutions, I’m certainly against the often unrealistic expectations many people set for themselves on January 1st (and beyond). The one that sneaks into most…
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The 101 on Weight-Loss Medication, According to an Endocrinologist
Newsflash: the GLP-1 weight loss medication train isn’t going anywhere. A hot topic of conversation amongst everyone in the health and wellness space, it remains both coveted and a little taboo, sought after but hard to access, impressive but not fully understood. In the past year, it has continued to pop up on our social…
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