Book Nook: Your Fittest Future Self - Making Choices Today for a Happier, Healthier You

Adopting a healthier lifestyle often feels overwhelming and draining — like a chore. The trick to sustaining a lifestyle change long term is reframing the creation of your health mixes. I had a chance to review Your Fittest Future Self: Making Choices Today for a Happier, Healthier, Fitter Future You by author and fitness expert Kathleen Trotter. In the book she encourages readers to think of creating mixes like going on an adventure or figuring out a puzzle rather than as something overwhelming, exhausting, or  obligatory. 

Instead of focus on failures in the past, use what didn't work as something to keep out of your mix. For example, if you hate running as a workout, find something else instead. If you hate a particular healthy eating strategy, choose one that works for you - for example, instead of counting calories, try focusing on getting lots of the right foods instead.

Learn from your past experiences so you can create, now, a mix that suits you, leading to that fitter self.


Kathleen Trotter is a fitness expert, media personality, personal trainer, writer, life coach, certified Pilates and ELDOA instructor, and overall health enthusiast. Her passion is motivating others to “find their fit” and works with clients ranging from endurance athletes to individuals living with Parkinson’s disease and osteoporosis. She also writes for the Globe and Mail and Huffington Post, blogs for Flaman Fitness, and makes regular TV appearances. Kathleen holds an M.Sc. from the University of Toronto and a nutrition diploma from the Canadian School of Natural Nutrition. She lives in Toronto where she owns a personal training studio. Find out more about Kathleen atwww.KathleenTrotter.com.
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