I told you a few months ago that my husband and I are infertile. You can see that post & video here. Recently, my friends at Fit Bottomed Mamas asked me to write an article on my personal journey with infertility for National Infertility Awareness Week. You can read about our journey here. While many people shy away from sharing their stories of infertility (understandably so) it is really important to me to share our story as much as my husband and I feel comfortable doing so at this point. Infertility impacts so many families, yet it remains a pretty hush-hush topic among folks. I want to take the mask off infertility. In part, it helps me feel better about our situation. But more importantly, just like you and your partner, we are a couple who wants a baby – we am normal. There is no shame in admitting that it can’t happen naturally for us. I think if more families shared their stories, fewer couple would suffer privately during the intense and overwhelming moments that infertility presents you with.
I have to thank my husband who has bravely let me share parts of our journey. It’s not easy for a man to talk about trips to the fertility clinic. He has been a total rock star as I’ve blabbed all over the internet about this. I can’t say how much it means to me that he is open to sharing our journey with other families. I can be a bit of a loud mouth and he has handled it all like a champ. Thanks for being amazing Vinnie D!
Here are a few stories from our fertility journey.
This is the workout I did on Saturday. Most Saturdays I workout at home and, if the weather is decent, I love to be in my backyard. This Saturday I was in luck. No rain! So here’s what I hammered out in 15 minutes.
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Many of you have been asking what I’m doing for my prenatal workouts. Honestly, I’m doing pretty much the same thing I did before pregnancy. I did go through a phase in my first tri where I backed off on my jumping and high impact exercises. I didn’t want the baby to fall out. I know that’s not rational, but it’s where my head was….. Now I’m back to burpees, box jumps and jump squats – and lovin’ ’em! And so far, I’m not peeing my pants. So far . . . Read more »
We all have heroes, right? Maybe some one you’ve looked up to your entire life, someone who has taught you invaluable personal or professional lessons, someone who has always been 100% true to themselves and everyone else. Maybe it’s your friend, maybe it’s your boss, maybe it’s your mom.
One of my heroes is another trainer, named Alwyn Cosgrove. He is just an awesome all around guy. He is from Scotland, but lives in California. When you hear his accent, you wish you just go sit in a bar and have a beer with him. I could listen to him talk for hours. He and his wife, Rachel (also super awesome) run one of the Top 10 Most Successful gyms, in the country, Results Fitness. It’s not successful because it’s big or beautiful. It is actually not huge and fairly sparsely equipped. It is one of the most successful gyms in the country because Alywn, Rachel and their trainers deliver services in a way that gets their clients incredible results. They work mostly with women between the ages of 40-65. Their client’s transformation stories are incredible.
I think what I look up to most in Alwyn is his attitude. He is successful in everything he does because of his attitude. In fact, to hear his life story, it is easy to see that without his attitude he would not be here. I mean that literally, he would not be alive. Alwyn has survived Read more »
I got so much feedback from folks about my last post where I talked about reducing grains (even though my haters think this is impossible and ridiculous.) What you told me is that for those of you who have taken strides to reduce and/or eliminate grains, you have lost weight, lost inches off your belly (many grains cause bloat!) and you feel awesome. Additionally, many of you mentioned that this has been a fast & easy way to Read more »
It’s true. Some people don’t like me and that’s ok. It has taken me many, many years to be ok with that. I’m a born people pleaser. But the more I put myself out there, especially online, the more I realize I can’t please everyone. And trying would kill me. Most of the people who don’t like me have never met me. Most of them think I preach a crazy strict workout/diet regimen that’s not reasonable for the average woman. Most of them think I live for burpees and kale. Most of them think I’m obsessed and “disordered” in my relationship with food and exercise.
They are wrong.
But that’s ok.
Here’s the truth Read more »
