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What’s best for your body?

January 29, 2011 inspiration January 29, 2011

This quote speaks to me this weekend as I try to do more than I should around the house. I have to stop and remember I can’t do everything I want to do [preggo body is not the same as pre-preggo body] and lift like I could a few months ago. I have to work hard to LISTEN to my body. I don’t have to listen to others who say not to lift more than a 5 lb weight during pregnancy. That may be best for THEM but for ME I just need to throttle back from what I used to lift. I have to remember that when somethings starts to ache, I need to listen. photo source: Muscle & Fitness hers | April/May 2009 ...

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Dream it. Begin it.

January 23, 2011 inspiration January 23, 2011

I have a ton of ads and things that I’ve saved and scanned that I need to post here for inspiration and motivation for myself and to share with you all. I think the weekends would be a good time for this so I’ll probably start adding this kind of thing on the weekends! photo source This image applies to me right now as I am working on “beginning” my business and taking a plunge into following my dream of helping others. It’s scary. It’s exciting. It feel vulnerable. What dream have you “begun” and how did it go? What dream are you thinking of beginning? What are you waiting for?

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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! ……….