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Own It. Forgive Yourself. | Wearing a bikini in front of other moms….

June 21, 2012 FITbaby June 21, 2012

I had some deep thinking occur the other night at 2am. I was thinking about the swim class I’ve signed up FITbaby and it was time for the first class. My former self [pre-FITbaby] would have obsessed over wearing a bathing suit in front of my friends…obsessed! I would have thought about it day and night for weeks or months. I would have thought about eating no carbs or less carbs or working out more. I would have thought about making sure my tummy was flat, etc. Back to the deep thinking….I was wondering… “what has changed?” Why don’t I care anymore? What’s the difference? I discovered…a few things about myself that I thought might help others….. Own It. & Forgive Yourself. Making Fitness a ...

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decisions, decisions | deal or let it go….

February 20, 2011 health February 20, 2011

I pulled this ad from a magazine. I believe in this quote…. sound mind. sound body. I am struggling with something today….I need your advice. It’s with my mind and whether or not to give my energy to this….. I have the best friends and readers and need my smart, wise and balanced friends to weigh in on what you think I should do. I just found out that a competitor, fitness profession copied my post on cooking spray, word for word, copied and pasted as her own blog entry!!! She used her own pic, also stolen off the internet with no source, but she stole my work!!! I AM PISSED!!! What is the right thing to do? Do I email her and tell her I ...

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one step at a time | baby steps toward healthy living

November 17, 2010 get lean November 17, 2010

Sweet Caroline [styleberryPHOTO] I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, BUT I needed a great pic for it. I had this vision of my favorite baby ever taking her first steps so I had to wait for that to happen. NOW, I can do this post! Thank you to the wonderful, guest photographer on my blog today….styleberryBLOG. I thought of this post when we were at a huge Galleria shopping and we went to a Teavana tea store. They sell healthy, but loose tea, not in tea bags. While at the store, I made this realization. I love tea. Love. It. So, I thought this store was for me when I saw it. Nope, it’s not. I’m not there yet. I’m not ...

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oh how things change | what’s your ideal body type?

October 26, 2010 eating disorders October 26, 2010

Wow, have I changed. Isn’t it amazing to look back sometimes and see how far you’ve come and how much better you are today than you used to be? I look back over my life and remember all of the years wasted wishing I looked a different way. I obsessed over looking like someone else and most of those years I was trying to look unhealthy!!! I used to want to look like Kate Moss. Skinny. No muscle. Frail. Soft. High cheekbones. Flat belly. Skinny thighs. Now, I look at that photo like I would look at a photo of someone unhealthy in the opposite direction. I don’t want anything to do with that body type. I don’t want to be weak, frail and skinny. I ...

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too fat for 15 | family support

October 5, 2010 inspiration October 5, 2010

The Style Network has a great reality show on a weight loss boarding school in NC. The other day, they showed the summer for these kids. The kids left the boardings school after losing hundreds of pounds to head home for the summer. They all failed in different ways and it was ALL because of their family support systems! This show and many other weight loss shows are GREAT for me to watch because it’s a way for me to see inside the homes and lives of Americans and get a better idea of what’s going on. I am so engrossed in my nutrition research that I often forget that some of the things that I know as obvious is completely foreign to the regular ...

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love your tree. love your tree. | we are all beautiful.

September 30, 2010 beauty September 30, 2010

Please give me 1 minute and 22 seconds of your time and I promise you will… smile feel better about yourself laugh at yourself for being so silly to ever hate your body for a second!!! ………. I think the video says it all. I mean really, what is “beauty”? Aren’t we all beautiful? Isn’t individuality more beautiful than all looking the same type of beautiful? If you like this you REALLY need to check out the documentary America the Beautiful. It’s available for instant streaming on Neflix. Check it out! ……….