I had an a-ha moment yesterday. Let me back up a little bit first. I have been all over the place with my weight pretty much my whole life. As a high schooler, I never thought I was thin enough. In college I was on the swim team and I swam — a lot — […]
Self Care
What I Did For Exercise This Week And How I Motivate Myself
If I had to pick one form of exercise to do for the rest of my life, it would be running. I really enjoy running. I do other forms of exercise — I lift fairly consistently, I use the elliptical, I like spin classes and I still swim sporadically. But I love running the most, […]
What I Want This Christmas
I’ve been running a 5-Day Challenge Group since Monday called the Maintain Through The Holidays 5-Day Challenge. The goal of the challenge is to get women thinking about how they overwhelm themselves from Thanksgiving to Christmas and what they need to change in order to 1) take the stress and overwhelm out of the holidays, […]
Taking Ownership Of The Holidays
Halloween is over and we are officially at the beginning of the holiday season. Well, in my mind we are. I kind of look at it like this photo a friend shared on his Facebook timeline: As soon as Halloween is over, I go into Christmas mode. Well, I guess that’s not totally true. I […]
A Really Nice Saturday
After a bunch of gross, rainy days, the weather in CT today was beautiful. It was 34° (F) when I woke up. Perfect running weather. I went for a (not fast) run. I love going for a run first thing on the weekends because the roads are so quiet. Then we headed to Wickam Park […]
The Maintain Through The Holidays Challenge
You know what totally sucks? Really looking forward to the holidays for the whole month of November and then waking up on January 1st realizing that your family had a great Thanksgiving and Christmas season but you didn’t really get to enjoy any of it. You know what sucks even more? All that stuff I […]