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A little over a week ago I started working out again after a month off, at a slightly less intense pace. It was going great until I had my legs knocked from under me by fatigue. So I haven't worked out since Tuesday, and won't really get a chance to till this Tuesday because we [...]

If you're my friend on Facebook or know me in real life, you know I'm passionate about Breastfeeding. Yeah, I'm a bit of a "lactivist". I'll wear that label proudly. But here, in this post, I want to clear up what that does and doesn't mean to me and what my Breastfeeding experience has been [...]

Let me preface this: I am not writing any of this to brag, nor do I want to communicate that I, my child, or my life is perfect. I hate when people only share the positive stuff online because it tends to subconsciously shame those of us who have negative feelings from time to time. [...]

So after Christmas I finally got my Jillian Michaels BodyMedia FIT armband. Since then I've developed a love/hate relationship with it. Love: all the data feedback and all the things it tracks: calories burned, minutes of exercise, whether that exercise was moderate or vigorous, steps taken, sleep duration, sleep efficiency, and more. Hate: it tracks most of [...]

I started exercising again on Wednesday, (just Zumba and yoga so far) and I'm already pretty much addicted. I'm sure I've said it before, but exercise is a drug for me. I love the high I get from it, and I want more and more of it. I don't mean to a point where I'm [...]

Last Friday I hit my lowest weight since before I got pregnant. (I hit my lowest in 8 years while pregnant.) I was really excited, since I haven't worked out since June and hasn't weighed myself in ages. Then I saw some pictures from when we took Lexi to play in the fountain at a [...]

I got my period today. One week and two days before Lexi's first birthday. Almost 21 months to the day since my last one. I'm having so many emotional reactions. Sadness, because somehow it feels like a mark of the end of Lexi's babyhood, relief and hope because it feels like my body is doing [...]

I need to stop beating myself up mentally. If I miss a workout, or sleep in late, or eat a non-paleo dessert, I am not a failure. Today I intentionally slept in. I have worked out so hard this week (and I'm not done yet!) but my body clock hasn't quite shifted, so I haven't [...]

Yesterday I read an incredible blog post ( http://revolutionfromhome.com/2013/06/why-the-world-needs-to-see-our-stretch-marks-this-summer/)that kinda slapped me in the face about my body image issues. It challenged us as women, and moms in particular not to just accept our bodies (and the changes that come for most of us by having babies) but to love them. To celebrate where we are and what [...]

I was beginning to feel like I was ready to spend my mornings at the gym again, working out at least 2h, and building my life around it like I did sept-dec 2011. After all, that was the happiest and healthiest I'd ever been pre-Lexi, so of course I should be in a hurry to [...]