I could have named this post a number of things including... How to Eat {Mostly} Healthy When Your Hunger is Through the Roof from Nursing Eat Your Meals with One Hand Staying Healthy When Sleep Deprived Keeping Your Family Healthy When … [Read more...]
Words Do Hurt You
I've been reading a lot about self-compassion lately. I think most of us would agree that we can all be nicer...to others, and to ourselves! I recently shared some of my own body-image issues that I experienced during the first trimester of … [Read more...]
4 Ideas to Stay Active in Winter
Before I announced that I am pregnant with my second child, I wrote a post about beating the winter training blahs. As a reminder, my tips to beat the winter training blahs were: Embrace each day. Be thankful every single day. Find the … [Read more...]
Second Trimester Questions and It’s A…
Okay, I've been holding out on you. :-) We had our ultrasound and found out that Connor will be a big brother to a baby BOY!! He keeps asking when "our baby" is coming and I think it's so stinkin' cute. Other second trimester … [Read more...]
Snow Day Reading
It's been a crazy few weeks and with this snow, looks like this week is bound to be quite interesting too. I'll be back next week with a new post and some pregnancy updates, but for now I figured I'd recap a few things that have been going on over … [Read more...]
Exercise Should Enhance Your Life
This seems simple, but unfortunately that's not always the case. Exercise should enhance your life, not control your life. There's a growing (awesome) trend in the fitness industry: finding balance when it comes to exercise and nutrition. Both … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Pie Overnight Oats
I am obsessed with overnight oats. Truthfully, I'm one of those people who likes to eat the same things over and over until I get sick of them. Then a few months or years later I'll remember how good something was and the process starts all over … [Read more...]
Just Be You
Let's start with a few things {I believe to be true} about happy, self-confident people. They are usually genuine and real. They tell it like it is. They are confident in why they do what they do. They own their choices. They admit when they … [Read more...]
You Are Not Selfish
I talk about excuses all the time here. You’ve heard them (and probably even used most of them at one time or another). I’m talking about things like I’m too busy, I work too much, I have kids, I’m too tired, I hate running, I hate the gym, I … [Read more...]
Two Things Tuesday – Womens Fitness Summit
If you follow me on Instagram or we’re friends on Facebook, you probably know that I was traveling this weekend. I went to Kansas City, Missouri for the first ever Women’s Fitness Summit and let’s just say, it was AWESOME. Not only was it … [Read more...]