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I am days away from change… | motherhood

February 12, 2011 beauty February 12, 2011

I found this video from a new friend’s blog. I love that our blog world is so connected that we can make friends that we’ve never met in person! It’s the coolest thing!!! This video is awesome! I am in a unique position (and many of you are also pregnant with your first child) of being able to learn from these other smart mothers in this video. They are sharing their lessons and it’s invaluable. It made me teary……hormones? becoming a mother? the song? Who knows! I downloaded the song though. I love it now. How true! My favorites from the video… [I had a hard time narrowing the list down!!!] You are beautiful. It’s ok to be scared. She will have your eyes. [get the ...

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A muscular woman…

February 3, 2011 beauty February 3, 2011

This was inspired by a reader email this week. [You know who you are!] She was asking if she should lift more than a certain amount due to her size and my answer was a resounding…YES YES YES! Start lifting more TODAY! Hurry up! Get to lifting! Get strong! Add muscle! Lose fat! RESHAPE your body! Feel strong! Feel awesome! Be fit! Be tough! Be lean! So, since this has been a tough week and I’m wiped out and still need to bake for the wake/memorial service and clean up, do laundry, etc tonight… I thought I’d leave you with this inspirational pic and quote. I love it. I believe it. I am it! I started lifting after my wedding. I was gaining weight ...

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Why I love…Pregnancy [Part 2]

February 2, 2011 beauty February 2, 2011

My belly profile 2010 to now! Many changes! All fun and all great! I’m enjoying them! I am now struggling more than I did yesterday with my post…after posting it. I got 99% positive responses but one that shook me a bit. I did not mean to hurt anyone. I thought a lot about my post last night. I think you all got my intent, but I also think that I should have said more….like what I’m loving about pregnancy and maybe explained myself more. I feel like yesterday’s post was supposed to be a “coming out” for me to say once that I am struggling mentally some days with not LOVING every aspect of pregnancy and that I hate the question about whether I ...

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I need your help!! | CHANGE at FITori

January 21, 2011 beauty January 21, 2011

Change….get it? And one of my questions is about money. Oh the pun…what fun! I need your help! I have some questions below I need your help with! As you can tell, a few things are different on the blog recently…..[Forgive my ADD in this post...I've added some pics and comments in the middle of my post!!] I added the STORE tab at the top and it’s empty…but not for long! I moved the “subscribe by email” button to the top menu by the RSS subscription to put the two together. I thought it made more sense. I also moved the “search” option to the sidebar at the right. I added a few new headers. I had 3 and I added 2 more so ...

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I hope my daughter… | self esteem

January 8, 2011 beauty January 8, 2011

I hope my daughter [preggo w/ our first due in June/July 2011] is like this one day…. The curly hair. The spunky attitude. Her confidence. The POSITIVE attitude. Wowsa! Love her! Michele @ Healthy Cultivations posted this video! What a great one to post! I had to steal her idea and post it for you all! I think I’ll post my first Project 52 post on Monday? And, I have a great post coming on MONEY and WEIGHT and how they correlate! Also working on some exciting new things for the FITori STORE! Can’t wait to unveil!

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Ramblings of FITori | Friends, feet & iPhone warning!

January 3, 2011 beauty January 3, 2011

What do friends have to do with feet? Well, I had to thank a good friend of mine for loaning me the shoes off her feet over the weekend. We went for mani-pedi’s and I forgot my flips!!! I had to go run errands afterward and she was headed home. She took my disposable flips from the salon and gave me the shoes off her feet! That’s a true friend!!! Well, that was my first pedi since my ankle injury and I thought I’d do a quick update. You can kind of tell that my right ankle is bigger than my left….still! I’m still swollen, a bit. I’m going through painful physical therapy 2-3 times a week. I’m still trying to stretch it out. ...