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...
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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...
June 5, 2016
“I’ve been following you all week on Facebook, seeing pics about NYC and bikini interviews while I eat ice cream, and I still haven’t seen your bikini! You showed a split second...
June 1, 2016
Recently, a lot of women have been asking me questions about my weight loss journey, so I thought I’d post some before, during and after pictures for you. Let’s start...
May 25, 2016
Remember how I told you that I was going to be on Great Day Houston to talk about American Grit and my book, “She’s Losing It!” about how I lost 50...
May 24, 2016
If you can find the answer to this one question, then you will have the key to unlock your own weight loss transformation and keep the pounds off forever: WHY...
