This Has Nothing To Do With Weight Loss – Trust the Uncertainty

As I went out on my interval run/walk this morning, hastily preparing for a 5K run I have in only 24 days, my mind was rambling with thoughts and feelings. With only four minutes left on my stopwatch, I could feel my chest getting tight and my breath become shallow – these are all sensations […]

The Summer of Giving Up

I had to. A while back, I reached out to an old weight loss warrior friend with whom I hadn’t talked to in over two years. We exchanged “whatcha doin’s” and life went back to cat videos and dead lifts (me and him respectively). It was an Instagram post that he wrote a while back […]

Fat Chicks Deserve This Too

I have started six blog posts in the last eight weeks. The titles range from “Fear is the Biggest Boner Killer” to “Gonna Get Good”. The sentiments of these posts have included the spectrum of emotions and feelings from defeat to hope. I have listened to podcasts, watched numerous Ted Talks, sprinkled my evenings alone […]

Being Fat is Not Fun – A response to I’mperfect Life’s My Weight (and size) Matters

I have been blessed with meeting some pretty amazing people over the course of the last five years. Some have come and gone, some remain at the sidelines and others have been woven into the tapestry of my life in a way that may not need daily interaction, but they feel like home and can […]

Sometimes knowing what we don’t want is enough

In the summer of 2013, I was given an opportunity. Much like many once in a lifetime moments, it can be very easy to get carried away with the excitement of the possibilities ahead. I would like to say, in this particular moment, I let my instinct and intuition lead me. I asked for some […]

G – Go to it

“Go to it… Ask not what the world needs, ask what makes you come alive and go to it, because the worlds needs more people who have come alive.” Yesterday was the final installment of Amy’s 7 Notes on Life, but my day was full of back to back family commitments (all amazing), and by […]

Figure it out as you go…

Figure it out as you go… For those of you who know me, I can honestly say, in retrospect, I was pretty uptight when I was in the corporate rat race. I would stress, plan, stress some more, over plan, worry, get stuck on the many, many endless details of whatever it was that was […]

Beckon the Lovely

As I continue my 7-part series on Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s 7 Notes on Life, I don’t think number 2 could have come at a better day or time. Please see post on why/how I am exploring her Notes via yesterday’s post HERE. BECKON THE LOVELY “I tend to believe whatever you decide to look for […]

Always Trust the Magic

I had the fortunate opportunity to have an impromptu dinner at a good friend’s house tonight. Her thoughts as to why I wanted to come by were way off base – my reasoning was simple – to see her and catch up. Birthdays, vacations and work shit had all taken place in the short span […]

And I will try to fix you

I really don’t care if you hate Coldplay – I could listen to these lyrics on repeat, all day long, for several days or weeks on end, and then start again. My 2017 of Solitude has been pretty amazing so far. I have moved into my own place, starting a full time job that […]