Moment of honesty: I spent my fair share of time during my recent pregnancy googling for photos of other women at various stages in their pregnancy to see how much weight they gained, where they gained it, and how it compared to my journey. So much about pregnancy isn’t really discussed, and I had very…
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Tips for Choosing a Macros Coach – IIFYM Dieting
It’s a new year, which means New Year’s Resolutions, a lot of which are likely to focus on weight loss. I’ve been an advocate of the IIFYM (If It Fits Your Macros, also known as Flexible Dieting or just Macros) lifestyle for three years now. It helped me reach my target weight after years of…
The Scale is a Liar
It’s easy to let weigh-ins control you when you’re cutting tracking macros. While coach says to only check-in once a week, it’s easy to slide on that scale once, twice, or a dozen times a day. Every time the scale fluctuates, you worry. You hop on another scale in the guest bathroom to see if it’s…
It’s a Lifestyle
This journey I’m on – it’s a lifestyle, not a diet. Today I woke up and a number appeared on the scale that I haven’t seen in ten months. In less than a month, I’ll be spending 6 days on the beach. The combination of those two factors ordinarily would terrify me, but if I’ve…
A Second Show
My second competition prep was totally different than my first. This time, I was able to reverse in advance of prep starting and remained relatively lean throughout, only 6 lbs up from stage weight at the peak. My cut lasted 4 weeks instead of the usual 8-12+ and totaled less than 100 calories. Amazing. {If…
Two Month Break
So, it’s been more than two months since I last posted. In that time, I’ve moved across the country, bought a house, and settled back into life in Texas. It’s been a little insane, and blogging was put on the backburner. Still, I’m excited to be back and enjoying all the fabulous restaurants that have…
The Road to my First Competition
This past Saturday I competed in my first bikini fitness competition. When I first started working with Ashley Leahy in late July of last year, competing wasn’t something I thought I would ever be able to do. I joined her team to learn how to see the progress I wanted by learning how to fuel my body correctly….
The Journey
I’ve never been a “big” girl or an unhealthy one (generally). Fortunately, I have never struggled with an eating disorder or had a medical issue that effected my weight. I fluctuated somewhere between 120 and 135 lbs, and that was okay. On every doctor’s scale, I was “normal”. I didn’t binge eat; I didn’t overindulge….