Category: Motivation - Page 3

Your scale is an asshole

Newsflash; you are living with an asshole. He might be found in your bathroom or perhaps he is hiding, sneaking around in a closet collecting dust and waiting for you to stumble upon him again. He doesnt even bother to get to know you and what kind of person you are. He doesnt notice the awesome things you do every day. The one thing he presumes to know about you…

Clean Eating; A Family Affair

My husband is not Captain Healthy. He always jokes with me when I get sick that it must be all that exercise! Look at me! I dont exercise and Im as healthy as a horse! He doesnt consider a salad a meal and while he eats everything I cook there is a running list of things Im never allowed to make again due to (in his opinion) their abundance of…

Scary new things

Ive always said I dont like being comfortable. The thought process being that it is usually upon getting outside of ones comfort zone that you are able to grow. But the truth is; doing new stuff can be pretty terrifying. I dont like to be the new guy. Its hard to put yourself out there in a way you havent before because you could fall flat on your face. Being…

I am really excited to announce that Fit Mama has partnered with two local businesses to offer my clients awesome incentives for meeting their goals! What goals you ask? Whatever goals you feel good about. It can be reaching a long-term goal, or hell, reading this website to keep you on track. Its that simple. I just wanted to team up with like-minded businesses (pro-woman, pro-wellness) to help you stay…

confessions of a former fatty

Disclaimer: The following contains a series of admissions that would probably have been extremely embarrassing to me at any other time in my life. However I now find myself at this refreshing stage where I feel compelled to be completely honest about who I am, have been and want to be. I wish I could say with 100% conviction that I dont care what anyone thinks of me, but I…

don’t cheat yourself

Cheat days are a common part of most diet plans. You eat a particular way until the weekend, or just Saturday afternoon and you then eat whatever you have been missing. I have a couple of problems with this. 1) For me, when I tried cheat days, I would think all week about what I wanted on this day and go crazy. The whole idea of changing your lifestyle is…

Quick tip. I think its really important to have accurate before info. Lots of people dont take their measurements or weight when they start a weight loss program due to not wanting to face the numbers. So screw the numbers. They mess with my head too. I just use a ribbon instead of a tape measure. Mark your neck, bust, waist, hips, thigh and arm measurements on it, and keep…

But I don’t wanna…

Let me be clear in saying I have been fat my entire life. I have occasionallylost weight only gain it again.My peak athletic performances until recently were pretty embarrassing. The highlights include making a lay up in a jr high basketball game only to realize during my personal celebratory gestures that I made it on the wrong teams basket. Yeah, I was THAT girl. So when I started exercisingthis time…