Start your day with a glass of warm water—on an empty stomach; it aids your body in releasing toxins.
—Teresa Long, Ayurvedic nutritionist at the Chopra Center

As a mom, a motivational speaker, and the founder and owner of Inside & O.U.T Fitness, I understand firsthand the challenges of balancing healthy habits with the demands of a busy life, and the struggle to find the time and motivation to get and stay in shape.

"You can rest when you're dead." This is a saying that really resonates with our modern culture, where we are pressured to work hard and then play hard. There is no way around it: If you don't rest regularly, you'll be dead a lot sooner.

As a busy mom, you are probably a Master Multitasker. While this skill helps you get the job (or jobs) done, it also leads to mindless eating. Think about it…

It should come as no surprise that people who laugh a lot tend to not only have more fun, but they tend to live longer and healthier lives. Unfortunately, while children laugh upwards of 300 times a day, most adults laugh less than 20 times--and that's when we're feeling "normal" and not sad or angry.

If you are taking the time to fill your tank up with gas, don’t just stand there watching the numbers change on the gas pump. Take this opportunity and “TASKERSISE."

If you think not adding sugar to your tea, coffee, or cereal is the only step you need to take to eliminate it from your diet, think again. Food manufacturers are adding it for you, and unless you know all the names it goes by, you could be consuming larger quantities than you ever suspected.

This is the year you will claim or reclaim your good health! If you have a little feeling of dread in the back of your mind because this same scenario happens every year, have no fear.  Big changes are often daunting and hard to fold into your everyday life; they are simply not sustainable. Try a new healthy habit a week.

Hybrid Mom and Missy Chase Lapine (you might know her better as "The Sneaky Chef") chatted back and forth about kid-fitness strategies. A mother herself, Lapine knows the struggles of pursuing a career while trying to be the best mother she can be.

Let’s be honest – who doesn’t want to have nice glutes? A little “lift” here or there is always nice. Here is a great (and easy) lower body workout that works those glutes as well as your thighs, hamstrings and core.