Now, more than ever is the critical time to focus on your nutrition - to keep your immune system up, to feel good, and to keep you mentally sharp.

I would argue that NOW might be the easiest time to focus on your nutrition - you have complete control over what comes in and out of your house, you aren't on the run as much anymore, and there is more time to cook and meal prep.

And yes... I know it is a stressful time and that can trigger some stress eating but we can get on top of that by ensuring that we put the good in first.

Today, in my quarantine kitchen, I am making chicken burrito bowls. This is one of my favorite recipes - it is always a little different and always delicious.

I am sharing the steps here and you can get the ‘real’ recipe by downloading our most popular slow cooker cookbook.

Hope you love it!

Paige
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Mike and I have been in it 24/7 for the fight of our lives to save our business, serve our community, and protect the jobs of our employees.

What I have learned:
- When it's do or die time... you just do. We had plans to bring our training program online... We thought it would take us 12-18 months - we made it happen in 72 hours.
- You just have to show up. Show up in a dirty house, with screaming kids, jet-lag, and dirty hair. Just show up.
- What is most important in my life: (1) the health, safety, and happiness of my family; (2) serving others through this difficult time.

I am thankful for...
- Our amazing team who have been training their hearts out this week.
- Technology that has allowed us to bring our training experience online.
- Our community - so many people have reached out to offer help, support, and encouragement.
- Mike - you are always the calm in the storm, you bring such great perspective to every challenge, and there is no one I would rather be stuck in a crisis with.
Lots of love for you all! Let me know how you are holding up or if there is anything I can help with! I think I am out of house arrest April 2nd.
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<3 <3 

Paige


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Our business plan covered a lot of things - a global pandemic was not one of them.  In this interview with Cary Weston, we talk about innovation in the midst of a pandemic - how our business is adapting in real-time.

We definitely don't have it all right but we are learning on the fly, making it work, and letting our commitment to helping people guide us through this uncertain time.   

Hope you enjoy the interview.

Lots of love!

Paige & Mike




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​Necessity is the motherhood of innovation.

Mike and I have been working 24/7 to bring our training program to an online experience. My children are ferrel. My house is a disaster. But I am really proud to say that we are now LIVEStreaming our training sessions for our clients.

We were LIVE yesterday in 2 locations and we trained over 85 of our clients via webcam.

I am so proud of our team for delivering excellence today and trusting us to make this happen. I am so proud of our community for embracing this format in this difficult time.

These sessions truly feel like you are right there with the trainer... less the travel time to the gym.

We planned for a lot of things in our business plan - a global pandemic was not one of those things. But I believe that everything happens for a reason. I believe that what doesn’t kill us will make us stronger. And I believe we will all get through this together.

Stay strong friends. Stay healthy. Stay safe.

❤️❤️❤️

Paige & Mike



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Are you a food label reader? 

🍎🍊🍌🥦🍆
 
There is SO MUCH important info on them... but decoding them can be confusing and time-consuming.
 
That’s why we created Cracking the Food Label Code, our latest resource guide! (FREE!)
 
It outlines our fast & easy “10-Second Scan Strategy” that you can use to to make better decisions for you and your family 👫🏼

​💡🥫Cracking the Food Label Code will also show you:
 
→ How to quickly eliminate foods that won’t give you the results you want 👎
→ How to choose foods that will move you closer to your goals! 👏
 
⚡PLUS… you’ll be able to get in & out of the grocery store, fast!
 
Not only that, we break down:
👁️The very first thing to look for on the product label
🥭Which carbs to eat more of
👎Which carbs to eat less of
👉And more!
 
It’s only available for a short time, so get your copy now!  Click here to download.


Hope you love it!

Wilcox Wellness & Fitness



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Pretty sneaky. Check out our new Food Label Guide for some of the most common names that sugar hides under. Not only that, but less-than-healthy fats also masquerade under a variety of names.
 
(Tip: if you see the word “hydrogenated” in the ingredients list, put the food right back on the shelf! This means it contains trans fats. These fats can affect your blood sugar, cholesterol, and increase inflammation, as well as being linked to heart disease.)
 
That’s just one reason we are a firm believers in eating foods that are minimally processed in their most natural state.  
 
This gives you SO much more control over the quality of food you’re eating!

→ (Get your copy of Cracking the Food Label Code here)
 
Fresher, whole foods just TASTE better… and are so much more nutritious. 
 
When you feed your body the fuel it loves, it pays you back with increased energy and by feeling great!
 
Are you thinking about taking the next step in your fitness/wellness, journey? If you are, let’s talk!  >>Click here<< to schedule a call to learn more about our training program.  
 
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Have a great day!

Wilcox Wellness & Fitness



WANT MORE OF THIS? Be sure to connect with us on Social Media. We post daily on both Facebook and Instagram for motivation, inspiration, and helpful tips, tricks, and strategies for healthy living. You can join our private Facebook group to go even deeper with us or book a call to see how you can get started training with us in person. We can't wait to connect with you and support you along your journey with healthy living!

I am so ready to slip into a slower pace of life, spend my days with my kids in nature, and work on building our business poolside.

Costa Rica has been named one of the happiest countries in the world, mostly because its inhabitants don’t stress about things the way most foreigners do. Ticos have a very relaxed, simple way of looking at life. No worries, no fuss, no stress—pura vida, to them, means being thankful for what they have and not dwelling on the negatives.

Want to follow our journey?  Be sure to connect with us on Social Media both on Facebook and Instagram.  We post mostly for motivation, inspiration, and helpful tips, tricks, and strategies for healthy living but we also share a little bit of the behind the scenes of our life.

Hope to see you there!

Lots of love,

Paige & Mike Wilcox 



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In just a few days, my family and I are headed to Costa Rica for an ENTIRE MONTH.  This has been a dream that my husband, Mike and I have been working on for the last 3 years since we got serious about setting a vision for our life and our business.  

We have been asked so many questions about our trip, why we are going, if we are scared of leaving our life and business or a month (spoiler alert: yes - we are scared but we are doing it anyway), who will be in charge while we are gone, and what we are hoping to get out of the trip so I am sharing it all here.  I hope our story will inspire you to make the decision to #goforit even if you are scared in your own life.

For anyone that doesn't know my story - my name is Paige Wilcox and my husband and I are the founders of Wilcox Wellness & Fitness - a private personal training business that we recently franchised.  We have 2 locations - one in Bangor that we have been running for the last almost 8 years and one in Brunswick, Maine that has been in business for about a year.
 
We are franchisors of the Wilcox Wellness & Fitness brand and it is our goal to open up one new Wilcox Wellness & Fitness location in New England for the next 5 years. 

I met Mike 14 years ago on a blind date and married him 5 years later. I definitely married up - Mike is my best friend and partner in all things and I absolutely love spending every minute of every day with him.  Not kidding!  Together, we have two wild and crazy kids - Hazen is 5 and Brooklyn is 2. 

​I am originally from Rangeley, Maine - a super small, beautiful town in the western part of the great state of Maine. I come from a family of small business owners - my parents ran a convenience store when I was growing up and I always knew that I wanted to own and run my own business. Not for the typical reasons of ‘being my own boss’ but more for the lifestyle freedom that you can build when you own a business.

I love travel, I love adventure, I love immersing myself in new cultures.  It has always been my goal to be able to live and work from anywhere in the world.  (Don’t worry - Bangor, Maine will always be my forever home.) I have always made travel a priority in my life and I been lucky enough to do a lot a lot of travel in my lifetime.  I have backpacked through Europe, been in the Amazon jungle, and traveled through India.
 
I love the way travel opens you up to view the world in a different way and provides immense amounts of perspective. For the last 3 years, my husband and I have been working on our #lifegoals and planning a month-long live / work trip to Costa Rica with our 2 young kids - ages 5 & 2. We leave in just a few days - it is terrifying, exciting, and super epic. It’s going to be an amazing adventure!

​This trip will be our second experiment in ‘working from anywhere’ - wish us luck!  We feel very confident in the team, processes, and business that we have built in order to physically leave the building for a month.  Thanks to technology, we will still be very much connected to the business.

It is scary to leave our business for an entire month – and our business is our baby.  And our franchise business is our newborn baby. But - our real babies - Hazen and Brooklyn are only going to be this little for so long.  And I am so excited to have this adventure with them - to connect with them through travel - to see the wonder on their faces - to see monkeys in real life - and to open up their minds to the greatest possibilities.  It is scary - but anything worth wild is scary so do it anyway.  We only get this one life and we get to decide how to live it. 

I feel so lucky.  I absolutely LOVE my work.  A lot of people have asked me why I don’t just want to disconnect and totally be in #vactationmode for the month.  The truth is - I love running the business. I love the team I support. I love the clients we serve. I love brainstorming new ideas.  I love creating things to serve our clients better. To me full on vacation mode isn’t desirable - it would be like saying you can’t watch your favorite TV show, or eat your favorite food, or talk to your best friend or your mom, while you are on vacation because you need to disconnect from that thing.  But the truth is, doing those things would enhance your overall vacation experience.  I hope that makes sense.

I think having the opportunity to get away for a solid chunk of time really gives you the opportunity to look at your life, your family, your business, and your priorities with a new perspective.  I think that when we are at home, working, grocery shopping, meal prepping, shuttling the kids around, and doing all the things we can lose sight of the bigger picture. I strive to live a really intentional life.  I know that life is what you make it and I think that sometimes you need to get out of your daily routine in order to really be able to truly figure out what you want out of life.  Things like... How you want to feel on a daily basis.  The relationships that you want to have with the ones you love the best.  The impact that you want to create in the world.  The thoughts that float through your mind.


​I remember one time I was going through a particularly stressful time with an old job (I was an account manager for a scientific distribution company) Mike and I went on vacation together.  It was just a week - we were in Puerto Rico and I was having a hard time disconnecting from work - or work was having a hard time disconnecting from me back in the days where disconnecting was my goal.  I had to be on a conference call on vacation in Puerto Rico on the way to the boat for our snorkeling adventure. I had a lot on my mind after that call and boarding the boat. I remember then putting my snorkel gear on and putting my head in the water.  There was a whole beautiful world down there that I hadn’t even considered moments prior. It made my problems feel so small in the best way possible. The fish would still be swimming, the seaweed would still be swaying, and the waves would still be rolling regardless of what was going on in my life.  And I feel like that is what travel does for us. It puts our life into perspective.

I am really excited to have the opportunity to step back and really assess where we are and gain a lot of perspective going forward.  I hope that our experience inspires other people to fully go for it in their life and do something that scares them. It may not be travel related but really finding the thing that will set their soul on fire, light them up, and make them excited to jump out of the bed in the morning.  Maybe that means applying for a new job, starting a new business, going back to school, or asking that special someone out on a date. Whatever it is, I say throw caution to the wind, go for it - especially if you are scared. What is the worst that could happen? Malaria for the whole family…. Eek - maybe - hopefully not - don’t think that way, Paige!  

I am confident that our whole trip is not going to be rainbows and butterflies, monkeys and waterfalls.  We have a big travel day with a layover in PANAMA with 2 kids under 6 and 2 adults who don’t like to sit still. Our strategy is to bribe the 5 year old with a various assortment of gum (solid, right?) and pray that he entertains the 2 year old.  [Now accepting responsible parent travel advice - come at me!]

​Outside of the challenge of the travel day, I will have the challenge of figuring out how to balance the family time with working time.  I will still have phone calls to support our franchise business and our team in Bangor and other work to do to keep the momentum of the business humming.  I love my work - my challenge will be dialing that back enough to really let the amazingness of our trip and extra family time sink in.

Last year I was really scared of what it will mean to have my kids 24/7.  I had never had my kids like that 24/7 outside of my maternity leaves. I was really scared that I wouldn’t have what it takes to be the very best version of myself for them every minute of every day.  And then I was really scared that I would spend my time beating myself up on that.
 
What I found with our first trip is that it is so much easier to be with our kids 24/7 and I think the big reason for that was that we know what their day is like from start to finish and can adjust according.  Back home, in the daily grind there are plans and school and activities and we can adjust as quickly.  The Pura Vida life surely is much more simple.

I have less fears about being away this time.  But… my expectations are through the roof.  We have been counting down this trip for the last 97 days.  Literally, every morning for the last 97 days our family has woken up and asked Alexia ‘Alexia, how many days until February 27th?’
 
I have learned the expectations are so important to manage and I am doing my best to remember that we are bringing two different kids this year – they are a year old and our business is in a much different stage. 
 
My hope for this trip is that it brings our family even closer together - that our kids see that you can do anything in life that you decide to do - and that life is meant to be fully enjoyed.  I am so excited to play full out - embrace the adventure and the challenge - and be transformed in the process.  

I hope that we bring home a new perspective from Costa Rica that we can use to serve our clients and our team better.  

I hope that the moment we get home, we start planning our next adventure!  

So tell me - what is your next adventure?  How do you want it to make you feel?  What scares you about it?  I want to hear it!

Much Love,

Paige Wilcox

The foam roller is one of the best recovery tools available these days. Using the foam roller properly will help you improve circulation and range of motion while reducing pain and inflammation.   

Foam rollers are almost magical (like unicorns 🦄) when it comes to their benefits …  and they are super simple to use once you know the basics.
 
Foam rollers can help get out knots in your muscles, improve flexibility, help reduce muscle soreness and pain.  They are like having a massage with a therapist anytime you want.  
 
That’s why we’ve created our brand-new Foam Rolling Guide.

We hope you love it - we are sure you will!

Lots of love,

Wilcox Wellness & Fitness




WANT MORE OF THIS? Be sure to connect with us on Social Media. We post daily on both Facebook and Instagram for motivation, inspiration, and helpful tips, tricks, and strategies for healthy living. You can join our private Facebook group to go even deeper with us or book a call to see how you can get started training with us in person. We can't wait to connect with you and support you along your journey with healthy living!
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