Body after Baby: Changing the Ideals.

I can’t tell you the countless hours I spent worrying about being thin growing up. I remember my first brush with the “must be thin” bug. I was sitting on a bus with my legs thrown over the edge of the seat and my calves were pressed against the side. A boy, one who I [...]

Entering the world of Crossfit.

I’ve always disdained “trendy” work outs and diets. I found them incredibly hard to stick with and actually get results. Jillian Michaels? Kiss my ass. Insanity or P90X? Effective, but monotonous and nothing I enjoyed. Couch25K? Fine. And you can definitely run a 5K when it’s over, but then you’re only other option is just [...]

Soft Strength.

We have all grown up in a world where softness is symbiotic with weakness. Our society sees soft people as meak, vulnerable, lazy even. We grew up with grandmothers who lived on coffee and cigarettes well into their eighties in order to keep their wedding day size. We have tried all the diets; grapefruit, juice [...]

Body after Baby: An Update

I realize that I kinda left you hanging with the work out goals. I didn’t stop writing about it because I stopped working towards getting back to myself. I have still been at the gym four or five times a week, every week, with the exception of flu week. I got back into action Wednesday [...]

Body after Baby: Workin’ on my fitness.

I realized something a few weeks ago;   I am tired of starting a work out program and diet and quitting. If I’d kept it up since I first started (like, right after Arlo’s birth), I’d probably be feeling quite a bit different about myself by now. Instead, I start, get bored, quit. Have a [...]

Three Day Military Diet=Hell

First of all, hiiiiii! Sorry it’s been a week (wow, I can’t believe it’s been a whole week). Arlo came down with a fever last Sunday and bounced around from acting to sick to acting awesome for a couple days before he came down with a full-on virus. I took him to the doctor when [...]

Weaning: The End of an Era

I’m done. Fully, 100% done pumping forevah (for now)! The idea of breastfeeding for another year makes me cringe and may be one of the biggest reasons I am definitely with Taylor in putting off on having a third baby for at least another year or so. I haven’t had my body to myself since [...]

Body after Baby: Week Four, Getting “Classy”-fied.

I graduated from college over four years ago. In those four years, I have yet to crack a book of any substance. Unless you consider chick lit like Shades of Grey and Bright Lights, Big Ass as books that open your mind (which, you shouldn’t), then I have read nothing but junk. And I have [...]

Body after Baby: Week Three, Pushing Yourself

One thing I’ve learned since having the babies is that sometimes? Your work out has to be whatever is available. We were crazy busy Thursday through Saturday which meant that I didn’t get a chance to go to the gym. Three days off is the most time I’ve taken without doing something in about three [...]

Body after Baby, Week Two: Finding Compromise

Before I got pregnant with Sullivan, I was a gym rat. I was at the gym at least an hour and a half a day. If I didn’t make it to the gym, I went on a long run outside with our dog, Jones. I’d occasionally take a Friday or Saturday off, especially if Taylor [...]

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