You probably don’t know that I was raised Catholic. In fact, my mom was a nun for 17 years before getting married and having kids. I went to Catholic schools my entire life, including college. I tried my best to remember everything I needed to get an A on every religion test and then I tried my best to forget it. Not to sound irreverent, but religion was horribly boring to me. To this day, I don’t practice my Catholicism – no longer because it bores me, I just haven’t found a place for organized religion in my heart.
As a result of 16 years of Catholic education I have this haunting and sometimes crushing confliction: Catholic guilt. I feel guilty about everything. I worry about hurting people’s feelings, making people feel bad, not validating them enough, saying no to the wrong things (invitations to events), saying yes to the wrong things (chocolate cake). I feel bad if I get mad at someone. I feel bad if I Read more »
Most of you know by now I’m all about the truth – telling you what really works. And much of what really works when it comes to long term sustainable weight loss is NOT what mass media is telling you. It’s frustrating and overwhelming to get so many mixed messages, I know. I wish it wasn’t that way. There is so much great science out there to support the TRUTH, yet the media is full of half truths and complete deception when it comes to your health and how you can change it. Even the government promotes dietary habits that do NOT help you with weight loss (ie: the food pyramid/My Plate.)
As always, I want you to have the best tools, so I’m going to tell you the Top 3 POLITICALLY INCORRECT ways you can lose weight and keep it off. This will be controversial. And I know you may not like it. But I’m telling you Read more »
Over weekend the hubs and I went out for dim sum. It has become a pregnancy favorites. I’m not sure how that happened. I think it’s my constant burning desire for salt. The best part of the meal was the fortune that came in my cookie at the end:
This made me so happy, because I do really Read more »
Let me tell you about the time I skipped class. Yes, the one time in my long career of nerdhood. I was a senior in high school. Senior year was my defiant year. Defiant in the sense that I skipped class once. Oh and I drank twice that year – both times after being given permission and alcohol by friends’ parents. So, ummmm, not so defiant compared to your average 18 year old.
The day I skipped class I wrote my own note saying I had to leave school early to go to the dentist. Then I signed my mother’s name. I’m sure I practiced her signature a million times. Just in case the school secretary were to check it against the official “Parent Signature Record Book” (I was certain such a thing existed.) I nervously walked into the office to turn in my note and was a bit shocked Read more »
Being THE BEST means something different to everyone. My best is different than your best. My best changes from day to day. Yours probably does too. For example, this week I’ve been sleeping horribly. As a result, my workouts have not been Full of Awesome. But my nutrition is way better than last week when I was traveling. Here’s my best for yesterday: Read more »
