Thank you 2018. What a whirlwind year! Goals achieved, dreams realized, and relationships cultivated; tempered with loss of loved ones, physical health issues, and personal challenges. From the joy of publishing my book and speaking on the famous red dot of TEDx to the tragedy of losing my aunt, this has been a year. What […]
Many people say the same thing when they see my wedding pictures: Wow! He really loves you! Ugh. As you’re looking at photos of my WEDDING I’d like to believe love would be obvious. It seems like they’re really saying: Wow! He even loved you like that! There’s a chapter in my book Food, Sweat, […]
When I offered my new book for pre-sale to the readers of my blog I naively thought I was in the homestretch of the process. I couldn’t have been more wrong. From my own challenges and insecurities of telling such a personal story and wanting to tell it honestly and openly but without compromising the […]
Before I begin, I just want to explain why I havenāt posted so frequently as of late. Iām in the final push for my book Food, Sweat, and Fears and itās taking my free time as well as all of my writing! Writing can be exhausting and add in work, husband, family, karate, POUND training, […]
“What are your favorite foods? “How do you meal prep?” “What about my family?” “Can you have dessert?” “How can you diversify food?” As I make the way for the release of my book Food, Sweat, & Fears I was thinking of the questions I get asked frequently about post Bariatric Surgery. There are a […]
I came across an article on the internet listing 12 things that would surprise Americans about Europe. I was intrigued, of course, by what these things could possibly be. The first few were the standard issue things like how old buildings are and the differences in customer service styles but the #9 thing really threw […]
Everyone experiences anxiety in different ways. I find I often have the hardest time with clothing. If you see me at work just know that I’ve probably changed my clothes no less than 5 times before I left the house. That doesn’t look good. Not feeling that today. My midsection looks crazy in this. No. […]
It was 4:30 in the morning and I was sitting in my car trying to talk myself into what I recklessly signed up for the night before. Did I really register for SpinĀ®? SpinningĀ® is a class that always intrigued me. There are two distinctive schools of thought with SpinningĀ® it’s either emphatically love or […]
I remember reading a BuzzFeed article a young woman wrote about how perceptions of her changed when she lost 100lbs. It was something I could identify with wholeheartedly as a woman of a larger size who then lost weight. The part of the article that really resonated with me was when she referred to her […]