Hey guys! Quick weekend check in cause it’s been a crazy one here. Spin yesterday was great. I have no idea where I landed on steps because I had a busy work morning then spent the afternoon running last min Mother’s Day errands and trying to get my house ready for people to come over. I have Wesley alone this weekend since Glenn works. This morning we are going to the zoo in Philly with my sister and stopping at my gram’s on the ride home — so o believe I’ll hopefully hit my steps or at least get a solid number for my rest day. I’ll try and check in tomorrow, but same deal - I’m single momming and this is tough. 🤭 Just wanted to show signs of life and celebrate 3 weeks down of my challenge and 3 to go. My abs are starting to show a TINY bit more this morning!!

Not sure if this goes here or in the mind and body. Guess it could work for either. With this month being mental health awareness month, I finally sat down this weekend, signed up for therapy and found a therapist. My first meeting with her is next week. Im nervous but I know this is something that will be good for me and good for my family in the long term.

Life happened and things kind of went a little off the rails this weekend. Food was good. I drank a little more this week, and due to circumstances out of my control yesterday I didn’t get my steps in. But that’s the beauty in 75 soft. Progress over perfection. Drank the most water yet so far! My back, hips, ankles are angry so it’s time to hit the chiropractor and add some stretching so hopefully I can get back to running before it gets too hot! And I had two days without soda! Wasn’t planned just happened!

No food scale or measurements. No skipping the foods I wanted! (And not eating mindlessly either). No apologies or excuses. Here’s how ⬇️ Before I went, I already knew the menu (our hosts are amazing) so I could actually PLAN 🙌🏼🙌🏼 - this doesn’t always happen so I am going to admit I had an upper hand and got extremely lucky here. Because of that, I knew: I wanted a brownie ✔️ I wasn’t drinking (I just don’t on Sundays) ✔️ I’d build the rest of my plate around protein + volume ✔️ So I kept it simple: • Protein first (about a palm + a half) • Loaded up on veggies + pico • Small scoop of guac (thumb-sized) to use for dip and a little extra flavour on my taco• Skipped extras that would just put me over calories (like the cheese, creamy dips, chips and crackers and trying every single dessert) • Made the brownie I actually wanted part of the PLAN and truly enjoyed it! >> No need to bring my own food, no going in with an “all or nothing mindset”, and not a shred of guilt! This is how good it can feel making choices “on purpose” instead of just in the moment — and I want to make something else very clear, if you’re not trying to lose weight, then you can absolutely just go enjoy a party and track NOTHING! I usually do when I’m not in a fat loss phase and it’s so freeing and makes my lifestyle truly sustainable! The moment you start to feel stressed out by your food, is the moment your journey becomes unhealthy. It doesn’t matter how “clean” the food on your plate is. 💣 You can have the best of both worlds when you are intentional. Realizing this and living it out today makes me *SO* happy — not just for me, but for all of my future clients who have been struggling to find this kind of balance. You don’t need perfection to achieve your goals, even losing weight. You simply need a plan you’re excited to follow. If you had this kind of strategy going into your next event… how different would it feel?

Week 2 - I missed my 10k steps on Thursday but I hit 12k yesterday so I feel good about trying my hardest with what I had. Today I’m around 5200 at 1pm so I still have work to do and am going to do my best! I did a 20 min walk on my pad downstairs and I don’t want to have to do one later so my goal is to walk as much as I can at my friends’ kids bday party soon! Also planning to do my best with food options there and having dinner at home. Only one alcoholic bev today. The rest mocktails!