• Fitness

    My Down”Fall”|W2D2

    Today is the first day of Fall. YES bring on the sweater weather! I feel we got a sneak peak of it this weekend and I couldn’t be more excited. I love fall because I get to wear sweaters, scarfs, boots and onesies!! Let’s not forget its the best cuddle weather! 🙂 One of the downsides of fall and winter is that it makes it so hard to get out of the bed early in the morning to workout. I’m so warm under the covers and the thought of getting out of my warm bed is tough. I’m not starting off on the right foot because I hit snooze for…

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    Week 1 Results|W2D1

    When I woke up this morning I was planning to get on the scale but I wasn’t going to look. But once I got on the scale I decided, why not! Regardless of what the number showed on the scale I was going to finish the 8 week challenge. I knew it would probably be higher then what showed when I lasted weighed. I can tell because my hands seems a little puffy. My weight was 165.8, up 2.3lbs from the morning of day 4 when I last weighed myself. I’m still down 12.9lbs for week one which is crazy! I’m sure a lot of that has to do with…

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    Meal Prep Sunday|W1D7

    I’m going to switch it up going forward. Instead of doing a recap from the day prior I’m going to do a recap at the end of each day. Since I do the recap at night, it just makes it easier for me to recall what I did that same day. So today I’ll do a recap of Saturday and Sunday. Saturday Recap Since we had our cheat meal yesterday we decided to do a long run Saturday. We ran 5 miles and the weather was perfect! It already felt like Fall even at 10AM. We averaged about an 11 minute mile. Over the course of these 8 weeks I…

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    Cheat Day|W1D6

    The day has FINALLY come, CHEAT DAY! We have worked hard over the past few days to eat right and stay on track and now its time to treat ourselves! We originally planned to have our cheat meal on Saturday and go on a day date but we are planning to do a long run on Saturday so we needed the fuel. We recently discovered a delicious Mediterranean restaurant not far from Antavis’ job and it’s our new favorite, yet healthy place to eat. I mean minus the feta fries but everything else seems so fresh and delicious. The place is called Kairos Mediterranean and their falafels are AMAZING!! When…

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    Completed My 400th Peloton Ride|W1D5

    Today was a BIG milestone for me. I completed my 400th Peloton ride. Even though I’ve had the bike since 2016, I started working at Orangetheory in March of 2017. I coached there until February 2019 and during that time I only took a handful of rides. We got the Peloton Tread+ in January 2019 so once I had Luna I was using the tread more than the bike. I haven’t been riding consistently until this year. Needless to say I’m proud of myself for reaching this milestone. Every time I get on the bike though I realize that we need to recalibrate out bike because it’s so hard to…

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    I’m on a Journey|W1D1

    Today is the start of a new week and the start of an 8 week fitness challenge that I am taking part in. A former co-worker shared her fitness results from a challenge she participated in and she was up for the prize money of $10K. Her results were amazing and I went to vote for her and started looking at the other contestants and their results and wanted to know more about the program. I’m a pretty self sufficient person so I like to do research on my own and not pester others. It’s amazing what you can find by doing a Google search or in this case a…

  • Lifestyle

    Me Time

    Me Time…what’s that? As a mom sometimes it’s hard to carve out a little “me time” and if you are able to find time for yourself, their may be some guilt that comes along with that time. Normally when I carve out some time for myself it’s usually me working out. The past two days have been a little different. Yesterday I went to get my hair cut and colored and today I went to get my eyebrows arched. Since Antavis worked sort of a split shift and came home for a few hours right before I was heading to my appointment, I didn’t rush to get back home. So…

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    Blogging As A Career

    So what’s my goal for this blog. To be honest my goal is to make a career out of blogging. I want to be a full-time successful lifestyle and fitness blogger! WOW, that felt good to say. Not only say it but say it “publicly”. I’ve always known that I wanted to be a blogger and I’ve shared it with Antavis and maybe a few friends but I’ve never really gave it a true shot. This is what I’m doing now. Like I mentioned in my first post, this blog will evolve along with me but my goal now is to just keep posting. Whatever’s on my heart, just share…