I’m sharing my favorite tips to manage stress and improve your health. Anyone can implement these stress-reduction strategies into their busy schedule. I was provided clothing by prAna for this post in exchange for my honest review. All opinions are my own. I love creating recipes, lifting ALL the weights, writing about food, working…
The Key To Achieving New Year’s Health Goals
We all have these grand aspirations when it comes to New Year’s goals. They may go something like this: “I’m going to lose 20 lbs!” “I’m going to add 20 lbs to my back squat PR!” “I’m going to put on 10 lbs of muscle!” “I’m going to hit the gym 5 days a week!”…
What You May Be Missing In Your Weight Loss Strategy
Did you know that you should be eating bugs?! No, I’m not talking about the creepy crawly kind, but rather the tiny microorganisms that feed the beneficial bacteria in our gut. I’m going to explain why consuming more prebiotics and probiotics (aka “good gut bugs”) could be what’s missing in your weight loss strategy and…
The Rocky Road To Recovery
The road to recovery starts with the first step. What a difference a week makes. I’m officially on the road to recovery. It will be one week tomorrow since I had the bilateral mastectomy surgery to remove my breast cancer. Until recently, I was too loopy on Percocet and muscle relaxers to type up an…
The Last Day
Today is the last day in the body that I’m familiar with, tomorrow begins my new normal. I would be lying if I said that I’m not afraid. I’m most nervous about how I’m going to feel when I wake up from surgery. I’m already prepared for the level of discomfort that I’ve been forewarned…
Climbing The Mountain
I got the results back from my MRI and the good news is, the cancer did not appear to be in my lymph nodes. Hallelujah!!! Now, the only way to know this for sure is when my oncologist gets the pathology report back from my mastectomy. He’s going to take a couple of sentinel nodes…
