This past week was a crazy ride of emotions. My first week back at work brought tears from my kids every day as I dropped them off at day care (and yes…tears from mama as I drove away knowing they were crying and trying to follow me back to the car). Then there was the… Continue Reading
Category Archives: support
How to Exercise when your Family isn’t on Board
I don’t go into specifics much on this blog but I’ve eluded, in the past, about the fact that I’m somewhat of a lone gunman when it comes to fitness. My parents aren’t really interested, my brother and his wife are supportive, encouraging but busy running their own household to really want to do anything… Continue Reading
Why Arrogance and Fitness don’t build Community
Back in my not-so-fit days (which are unfortunately still recent enough to be in my short term memory stores), I had a few “fit friends”. They ran, played sports, stayed more or less active. I remember asking one of them at one point if they would consider letting me run with them and teach me… Continue Reading
Conquering Fear
I recently had a health scare when I discovered a lump in my breast and had to go in for testing. It was the longest and hardest 2 weeks of my relatively short life. This is an experience I don’t wish on anyone. The thought of being separated from my little boy, too sick to… Continue Reading
P is for Pay it Forward
Welcome back to my breakdown of my Healthy Living Alphabet When I started making those life changes that took me from my couch to the gym, from the snack aisle to the produce aisle, I had absolutely no clue where to start. I knew I needed a change, I knew I wanted the change but… Continue Reading
Flexing your Mental Muscles
I love to encourage strength training and I always include mental strength training to be an essential part of that. Here’s why: I think as women, we are especially prone to self-depricate, self-loathe and talk ourselves down. We are taught at a very early age that thin is healthy, deprivation is power and starvation is… Continue Reading
Motivation Monday-Adjustments
How has everyone’s week gone? My week has been full of adjustments. Adjusting to getting up at 5:30 in the morning. Adjusting to wearing something other than sweats or pj’s all day long. Adjusting to being away from Fit Boy during the day. Adjusting to working again. Adjusting to working out at the work gym… Continue Reading
F is for Find…support
Welcome back to my breakdown of my Healthy Living Alphabet! If you’re just tuning in, be sure to check out my posts on Attitude,Believing, Commitment, Envy and Educating yourself. Have you ever tried to move a couch on your own? What about a piano? Or had to make a really hard, potentially life altering decision? Probably not.… Continue Reading
Why Not?
Has someone ever suggested something to you that you thought was so absurd that they barely finish the proposition before you’re saying “I can NOT do that, not in a million years”…end of story. Maybe it was when they held up a pair of skinny jeans, or asked if you’d like to run a 5k… Continue Reading
I can…I will…I am
It’s that moment you’ve been dreading all week. You’ve stripped down to skin and smile, and you’re standing by the dreaded scale, praying for a loss to show up. You’re thinking of that cookie, that glass of wine, and that ice cream that snuck into your mouth before you could protest. You step on the… Continue Reading