July 31, 2014November 5, 2018
Health magazine has a really interesting article this month about sugar cravings. Apparently, when you get the urge to eat something sweet, you should play Tetris. Tetris, for you millennials, is a...
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July 28, 2014
July is almost over. This month I was supposed to be blogging about my first fitness competition; about my cool routine where I danced to the theme song of James Bond...
July 24, 2014
Pop Quiz: Bust out your VCR’s! What was your favorite old school workout video? A) Jane Fonda’s Workout B) Billy Blanks’ Tae Bo C) Buns of Steel D) Other E) What’s...
July 18, 2014
Each competition I take weekly front and back progress pictures and post them the day of the show. Usually I start my pictures 12 weeks prior to the event date,...
July 16, 2014
Murphy’s Law states, “Anything that can go wrong, will go wrong.” You might be tempted to think that this is negative thinking. But secretly I think Murphy was an optimist. ...
July 13, 2014
For the past few months I’ve been diligently working on the flexibility of my limbs; who knew that I’d get an unexpected test of flexibility for my time, finances and...
July 10, 2014November 5, 2018
It’s been a week that I’ve been in New Jersey now. When I flew out here, I had no information to go on beyond that my brother found my mother...
July 9, 2014
Stoners inhaled a sigh of relief yesterday as Washington became the second state in the US to legalize recreational use of marijuana. I never really understood the appeal of pot. It...
July 7, 2014November 5, 2018
If you would like an exercise in frustration, try dealing with the medical world when a loved one is sick. If you are an over-achiever, like my mom clearly is,...
July 5, 2014
Of all the ways I envisioned spending my 4th of July weekend, a hospital in New Jersey was not one of them. My mother and I are very close and...
July 2, 2014
Remember how yesterday I was whining informing you about what a giant time suck training for a fitness competition is turning out to be? Well, in an ironic twist, I...
June 24, 2014
It’s four (4) weeks until the fitness competition and over the weekend I had a mild panic attack when I started watching YouTube videos and realized: (a) my music was...
June 23, 2014November 5, 2018
My husband came home the other night and looked at me kinda strangely. The front room was meticulously clean and I was sitting at the kitchen table eating directly out...
June 21, 2014
Recently it was my daughter’s seventh birthday. I’ve taught her how to read and make her bed and blow bulles in her milk with a straw (I’m still regretting that...
June 11, 2014
A favorite question interviewers ask powerful women (CEO’s, movie stars, etc.) is, “How do you balance work, family and fitness?” The answers vary, but here’s what I think the REAL...
June 4, 2014
The new Victoria’s Secret catalog was in my mailbox. I kept moving from room to room to read it, but my kids kept following me, asking me why there was...
