August 4, 2016
Everywhere you look there are signs for back to school sales, bringing a collective sigh to children and a sense of shock to parents that summer is indeed coming to...
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July 31, 2016July 31, 2016
Sixty-eight per cent of the electorate thinks American is on the wrong track, and almost the same percentage of Americans are overweight. To me, Trump is like a fad diet. ...
July 23, 2016
Sometimes people ask me how I made it through my first bodybuilding show, considering I was middle aged, overweight and had never done anything remotely similar in the past. My...
July 18, 2016
If you really want to test the bounds of your marriage, do a reality TV show. As incredible an experience as American Grit was for me personally, my husband saw...
July 11, 2016November 5, 2018
When You’re on a Diet and Your Family Isn’t Ah, family; the ties that bond and gag. This topic could be an entire book in and of itself. When I...
July 6, 2016July 6, 2016
Writing my memoir, “She’s Losing It!” and doing military training exercises on the John Cena reality TV show American Grit may seem like different experiences, but they had a lot in common. In...
June 28, 2016November 5, 2018
4 Tips to Stop Caving to Cravings There was a study done a few years ago at Connecticut College that was very interesting. Rats were divided into two different groups. The first...
June 22, 2016
My bedroom closet is filled with boxes from my mother’s house. She died a year ago. My garage has a stack of relics from my husband’s uncle. He’s been gone...
June 21, 2016June 21, 2016
American Grit has been over for a few weeks now and I’m back to my hum-drum #momlife of folding laundry and paying bills. That’s far too boring for me so...
June 17, 2016
I’M SO BORED!!!!! “This mean plan is boring. I’m tired of eating chicken (or fish, or steak) and vegetables,” said EVERYONE who ever transitioned from the Standard American Diet (SAD) to...
June 16, 2016
As a personal trainer (and as an individual who lost 1/3 of my own body weight) excuses are something I’m quite familiar with. While it would be easy for me...
June 14, 2016November 5, 2018
Are you tired of getting derailed from your fitness journey? Yesterday I blogged about Excuses We Use To Eat Crap. Each day I will be blogging about some strategies to...
June 13, 2016November 5, 2018
Excuses We Use to Justify Eating Crap We Know We Shouldn’t Eat Picture this: You’re kicking butt and taking names at the gym. Someone offers you birthday cake, you say...
June 9, 2016
A Tale of Two Women Whether you are a Democrat or not, yesterday marked an historical moment for the United States: for the first time in 240 years, a woman...
June 7, 2016
In the past 18 months I’ve done 7 bodybuilding competitions, buried my mother, ran a Spartan Sprint, did a Level 1 pole competition and filmed a reality TV show. In...
June 6, 2016November 5, 2018
One of the hashtags I’ve been using since American Grit is #BikiniMom. I’ve done a lot of “bikini” posts due to competition season, so I figured it’s about time to...