Learn many easy ways to exercise at home to stay active and fit! When you're a new mom, your kid(s) consume your life. But at some point, you have to regain a little bit of yourself back. For me, that came when my youngest of three was 7 months old. I hit a tipping point where I knew I needed to regain control of my health, and I made a resolution to lose 50 lbs. It wasn't easy, especially when one or more kids was sick and I couldn't make it to the gym to complete my workouts, sometimes for days on end (because we all know once one kid gets it, you're looking at several sicknesses all in Keep Reading
Sample Weekly Grocery Store List – Healthy Food Ideas for a Family While the Mom Loses Weight
Gather some healthy food ideas for your family! Over the past 10 months of overhauling my family’s diet, I’ve come up with a fairly standard weekly healthy grocery shopping list that I use to keep our fridge and pantry stocked with healthy staples. I have to keep us stocked up with great food options for two reasons. 1) I want us to eat better. This is a real lifestyle change for me and for them. 2) If we run out of food options, then we tend to go out to eat, which spells disaster for my weight loss efforts! Dieting and losing weight while simultaneously taking care of a family is Keep Reading
Weekly Workout Calendar for Losing Weight FAST! (not for the faint of heart)
As I'm nearing 50 lbs lost to date, more and more people have been inquiring about my workout routines and meal plan, so first I'd like to share my current workout calendar. It's the plan that's helped me lose the past 10 lbs. Working Out and Dieting vs. Just Dieting As I mentioned in my previous post about Losing 40 Lbs, I spend a good bit of time each weekend planning out the next week's workouts. Weight Watchers is the overall method I use to control my eating (I'll get more into the specifics of what I actually eat on a daily basis in another post), but exercise is the way that I get Keep Reading
Big Announcement: I Lost 40 lbs!!!
Interested in losing baby weight? As a mom of three, I have been working hard to shed those post-pregnancy pounds so I can get back in shape! Losing Baby Weight You see, for 5 months now, I've been going headstrong in a weight loss challenge. It's a challenge I told myself I'd do after we were done having kids. While I was in the midst of having kids, I didn't really keep up with my fitness because I knew my body would be wrecked each time I got pregnant. I kept telling myself, "I'll get in shape once we're done having kids." Well after having baby #3 in 2012, I came to a Keep Reading
