Health & Beauty
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Health is Hard
Well, friends. Time to get real about this fitness journey I’ve been on for the last few weeks! As I mentioned in a previous blog, I am currently doing a fitness challenge where my goal is to get healthier (lose weight – lose inches – gain muscle – gain confidence, etc). The challenge came with a custom meal and workout plan, which is pretty cool. The meal plan is macro based (short for macronutrient), so basically I get a certain percentage of calories from carbs, fat, and protein each day. The workout plan is one body part per day (4 days a week) and then one day of full body,…
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On Fitness and Fatness
One of the first things I promised myself when I decided to start this blog is that I wouldn’t spend an inordinate amount of time talking about weight and weight loss. And I am still committed to that. But being authentic and honest here means being open about something that has been a relatively large part of my life…fitness and fatness. For as long as I can remember, I was chubby. As I got older, sometimes it verged on smaller, more “curvy” than chubby, and other times it just verged on “fat”. I’ve been up, I’ve been down, and I’ve been everywhere in between. I was on Jenny Craig…