A Mom’s Guide to Fitness She’s Losing it Blog

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Today, I’m 48 years old. This is the 10th anniversary of starting my blog and doing my first bodybuilding competition. Time flies! Every year for my birthday I do something...

22 Little Changes in 2022

Are you one of those people who writes out New Year resolutions? I remember sitting with my mom at the kitchen table, watching her smoke a cigarette and write three...

Quick Home Workout

One of the biggest challenges people face is finding time to fit fitness into their schedule.  This is a quick 20 minute home workout that works your whole body and...

5 Tips to Get Back on Track

Have you ever kept a garden? I always loved the idea of one. I pictured the beautiful vegetables, fruits and flowers blooming. The reality is not nearly as fun. For...

12 Weeks Until Competition

Hello! Normally when I am training for a competition I post my progress pictures, but not this time. Because this time it’s not a bodybuilding competition – it’s the World...

She’s Losing It – The Bikini Diet

According to a recent study noted in the New York Times, people gained an average of two pounds per month during quarantine. That’s about 28 pounds!  (I know I gained...

Getting Back To Fitness

It’s been a year since quarantine began and I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to get back to a fitness routine!  Here’s what I’m going to do: Pick...

Changing Perspective in Frozen Texas

The heat had already been off intermittently for 48 hours. We were huddled, the four of us, in the upstairs loft because it was the warmest place in the house....

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Today I’m 47. Every year for my birthday I do something to scare myself. It’s like having a bucket list, only instead of doing 100 things at once and dropping...

A Year Off Bodybuilding

Hi Everyone! So, about this global pandemic, I’ve taken the year to isolate from the planet.  And I do mean isolate.  I haven’t been to a big box gym since...

Saying Goodbye

I was seven years old and celebrating my First Communion, a big deal if you’re an Irish Catholic girl.  You get to wear a beautiful white dress and a veil...

Slacker

Dear Quarantine Diary, The lockdown is semi-officially over in Texas.  Restaurants and retail stores can open again at 25% capacity (50% capacity if you’re located in an area with fewer...

The Covid-19 Pound Weight Gain

My friends and I have been texting each other and have noted several things: Working from home and homeschooling is a bad combination The “Tiger King” seems like a micro-version...

Fear and Grief … At A Distance

It was in early February when my father-in-law became obsessed with the coronavirus.  He lives in California and is fond of conspiracy theories and had been telling anyone who would...

I Homeschooled for 3 Years. Here’s What I Learned

COVID-19 has changed our daily routine for the foreseeable future.  Many schools across the nation have been shut for weeks and there are rumblings of some states, including Texas where...