Motivation
Today I’m sharing the inspirational story of Caitliy Mannherz, who lost close to 145 lbs over the course of four years – and gained herself.
Caitlyn’s story covers her journey from a super busy childhood home, lacking the knowledge necessary for developing healthy habits, hurtful experiences that weakened her self-esteem, lifelong attempts at weight loss, and the inspiration to take charge of her own life, culminating in becoming an inspirational leader for others struggling with their health. I love that Caitlyn’s story focuses on taking a practical, sustainable path toward health, heavily dependant on knowledge and gratitude.
“It’s gratitude that begets fulfillment, not consumption.” – Caitlyn Mannherz
AT the beginning of the article Caitlyn shares four tips for shedding weight:
- Eat close to the ground (real food).
- When you’re eating out, ask your server to help you make your meal healthier.
- GET MOVING!
- Forgive yourself and if you do ‘cheat’ savor every single bite.
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Lifestyle
Aaron and I enjoy our little ‘urban garden’ and I love the way zucchini takes over my currently-in-progress side-yard bed, making it look SO MUCH MORE lush than it really is all summer! I almost stumbled over the biggest zucchini I have ever seen last night as I was walking up to the house so I picked that baby and Aaron grilled it for our supper – but not before I took a photo for posterity.
I may have said in the spring that I completely adore watching plants grow and flowers bud and it’s so fun to (literally) eat the fruits of our labor. I don’t think I’ll ever be happy without a little garden plot. What about you? What plants do you most enjoy tending to?
PS – We don’t actually use ‘Miracle Grow’, our garden is totally organic – another bonus of doing it ourselves!
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Do you have your goals at the forefront of your mind?
Are they written down?
Do you look at them daily?
Do you speak them out loud?
That last one is tricky for me but I wonder if it’s the key. I think that, this week, I will be telling myself what I want to be instead of letting my inner mean girl control the conversation. And I challenge you to do the same.
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Fun, Minute Movement Philosophies
Many of you may have seen an article about fitness trainer/blogger Sophie Kay and her three minute before and after fitness photos. As Ms. Kay says in her blog, ‘don’t trust what you see’!
The actual blog post that contained these shocking photos had several other debunked fitness myths that are right up our alley, one of which I blogged about yesterday.
This lady’s philosophies are on fleek as my kiddos say 🙂
(ok, maybe not)
Fitness should be fun – and REAL – Real Fun?
Don’t let anyone trick you or guilt you.
Just keep doing your best and…
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Fun, Lifestyle, Mental Health
Last week Coach Wright and I took our little family on a road trip, mostly to tour a couple of schools that our oldest is interested in (gasp – I can’t believe he’ll be off to college next fall).
Despite being on a fabulous fitness and nutrition streak prior to our departure, those nine days were a vacation from EVERYTHING. Other than setting up posts to ensure that our followers wouldn’t feel like they were being neglected, we almost completely unplugged and let the vacation vibe take over.
It was wonderful!
But hours in the car, no kitchen, and late nights driving or bingeing on the Food network (my poor cable impaired foodies love those shows) means that our fitness, nutrition, and sleep were horribly neglected. Fortunately campus tours and sightseeing DID allow us to ‘get our steps’ (and then some) several days but at one point Aaron mentioned our bad choices and this is what we came up with.
We rarely take time off to travel and we make mostly good health choices during the course of our regular lives so this one week out of probably 100 (we hardly ever travel) really isn’t going to impact our health all that much.
So we enjoyed ourselves and each other. We completely relaxed and de-stressed.
And it was GREAT.
Lots of fitness programs can leave you feeling like you have to be super-human and perfect in order to be healthy. The reality is that doing your best, most of the time is probably sufficient – maybe not to win a triathlon or to compete in a bodybuilding competition – but it’s certainly enough to help you look and feel good. And that’s all most of us are looking for.
Now I need to make a grocery store run before I resort to a mustard sandwich for dinner tonight!
So, take a break if you need to and then jump back in to
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