First, thanks for all of the happy birthday wishes. It was a happy weekend. But I have to say 30 isn’t off to the greatest start! I got my first migraine headache on Saturday night and it completely freaked me out. I couldn’t sleep because my head hurt so bad so I got up at [...]
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Crossing It Off The Wish List
June 12, 2013 { 13 comments }When people ask me if I’m into photography I explain to them that it’s not a “passion” exactly but I take pictures every single day. So by default of doing it so much and wanting my photographs to look nice, I have kind of gotten into it. I’m not motivated to go out and take [...]
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Going Through The Motions v. Being Really In It
May 21, 2013 { 13 comments }A few things to share… – My heart breaks for those facing devastation and loss in Oklahoma. Have you seen this touching live interview where a woman is reunited with her dog? – I updated the Workouts + Yoga page. So excited to continue to add to this. Maybe one day I can find a [...]
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The Week In Fitness And Food
May 17, 2013 { 11 comments }Annnddd let’s return to regularly scheduled programming. Well, I don’t know that any posts have been “regular” around here lately but today we’ll get back to food and fitness which I guess is the “heart” of the blog. Although lately I feel it’s kind of been a steady rotation of yoga, what I’m eating, workout, [...]
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Working Out Hard + Eating Good
May 14, 2013 { 14 comments }Oh my…I have a feeling that I’m going to be unbelievably sore tomorrow. On Monday I did this ladder WOD. I went light on my clean and jerks at 55# because I wasn’t feeling super great and was in a space where I couldn’t drop weight but I did kip all of the pullups. It [...]
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Baking Projects + Winning Chicken Dish + Artichokes
April 29, 2013 { 34 comments }It’s going to be a good week. I kicked it off by looonnngggg overdo catching up with some of my dear friends with lengthy phone calls on Sunday night. I have several fun events to attend this week and I’m heading to Chicago on Friday for a girl’s weekend. I’ve also got lots of good [...]
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Video Post: Early AM Workout Nutrition, Packing Gym Bags, CrossFit Recovery and More
April 12, 2013 { 17 comments }Happy Friday! Happy Friday! Wait, let me say it again…happy Friday! Thank you so much for the amazing feedback on yesterday’s post. I’ve said it so many times but I feel so grateful to have this space where we can all share and contribute. Your feedback and openness touches my heart. Seriously. It has been [...]
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Hello Spin Bike + More Meal Ideas
April 3, 2013 { 20 comments }I took a spinning class tonight. This is noteworthy because it’s the first time I’ve been on a spin bike since last July. I have similar feelings about spinning as I do about rowing. I have easy access to spin classes at the gym (we offer them almost daily) as well as the opportunity to [...]
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Weekend In Photos
March 17, 2013 { 26 comments }Why do the weekend pass so quickly? It was a beautiful 75 degrees here in Charlotte on Saturday and Sunday. The kind of weather that makes you smile and take a deep breath when you feel the sun on your face. Here’s my weekend in photos. Friday night furniture building party with chicken parm, roasted [...]
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Resetting the Eats + PB&J Smoothie
March 12, 2013 { 31 comments }http://oascentral.blogher.org/RealMedia/ads/adstream_jx.ads/SocialBoom/OID4380_Cigna_Cigna_SocialBoom_031/@x13 On Sunday I bid farewell to this stuff… Of course I had to go out with a bang. This is a carrot cake whoopie pie with cream cheese filling. My heart skips a beat just looking at it. It tasted better than it even looks. On Monday I said hello to this stuff. Protein, [...]
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(Slow) CrossFit Progress
March 5, 2013 { 12 comments }One of the things I like about CrossFit are how many things there are to work on. Just when you get the hang of something, there are tons of other movements to focus on. It’s also really interesting to see everyone’s unique strengths and weaknesses. I tend to excel at bodyweight and endurance focused workouts [...]
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Brie and Apricot Chicken & Missin’ the Kitchen
February 12, 2013 { 34 comments }I miss cooking so much. I miss sitting down on Sundays, planning out my menu for the week and grocery shopping. I miss actually having someone to cook for. I miss the process of cooking. One of my favorite things in the world to do is settle into the kitchen, turn on music and get to [...]
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I could have blogged about…
November 13, 2012 { 24 comments }I have a million and one topic ideas in my head right now… – Stress and your stomach – How to become a yoga teacher – How to break into group fitness/personal training – WTF is wrong with 2012 and why does everyone seem to be dealing with major shit? – CrossFit Level 1 Trainer [...]
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Butterscotch, Pretzel and Chocolate Chip Cookies
November 2, 2012 { 11 comments }Do you know what’s boring? Salad…salad for lunch… Salad for dinner. I am over salad. I inhaled this chicken dinner last night after teaching BodyPump. If I ate one more bowl of leftover soup or another salad I was going to cry. I blazed into the grocery store at 8 p.m. praying that they still [...]
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Chicken and Bok Choy Stir Fry with Spaghetti Squash
October 25, 2012 { 27 comments }Good evening. I’m apologize for being a bit whiney last night but sometimes a girl just needs to be whiney. I’m sure that most of you can relate. It’s like my favorite Pin of the week… I think I was on my broomstick yesterday and not using my angel wings. ;) So, while I was [...]
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Substitute Teacher
October 24, 2012 { 47 comments }It’s 10 p.m. I just finished dinner and killed a gigantic spider, breaking a glass in the process. I desperately need to shower. I thought my morning client was at 10 and our appointment was actually at 9. I subbed a yoga class tonight and two girls got up and left before class even started. [...]
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Arms And Legs…Falling Off
October 17, 2012 { 25 comments }I have been off the CrossFit wagon for a few weeks now. I’ve kind of been off all exercise-specific wagons given my travel and work schedule. I just fit in whatever, whenever. I have been thrown back into CrossFit given my training weekend and then the convenience of being at the gym and having it [...]
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Cute And Sweet
August 6, 2012 { 28 comments }I hope that your week is off to a great start. In case you don’t follow PBR on Facebook, I must share this photo that I posted this morning. And if you do follow me there, who doesn’t want to see this cuteness again? It makes me happy every time I look at it. (source) [...]
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A Loss Of Enthusiasm
July 27, 2012 { 22 comments }Happy, happy Friday! I hope it’s been a great week. Remember how I was all excited about my kipping pullups yesterday? I felt all on top of the CrossFit world that I’d finally figured them out. Well, my enthusiasm for CrossFit waned a bit after last night’s workout. This WOD killed me for some reason. [...]
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Fueling For Recovery
July 17, 2012 { 25 comments }The simple acts of standing, sitting and walking are quite challenging and rather painful today. I made my way back to CrossFit last night after taking the weekend off and the workout was sneaky hard. 10 – 1 for Time (Decreasing reps for each set, starting with 10 and ending with 1) Barbell Front Squats [...]
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Donuts And Mini Golf
July 9, 2012 { 37 comments }I have settled into a nice vacation routine – and can I comment that I love that I can now call visiting my parents “vacation.” Wake up around 7 and make coffee, edit previous day’s photos for blog, make breakfast, write blog post, workout, beach, lunch, beach, shower and catch up on work emails, dinner, [...]
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Cookies And Babies
June 25, 2012 { 76 comments }Monday has been a much better day. Full of work, yoga privates, babies and cookies. That’s good stuff. I was up early to put together a meal for Caitlin. She just had a baby boy and I offered to bring them dinner. Nothing like sauteing onions and baking cookies at 7 a.m.! Cooking for other [...]
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Saturday Stuff
June 23, 2012 { 11 comments }My Saturday included everything from yoga to cleaning baseboards to pool time with friends. It was pretty nice, especially since I started the day by sleeping until 9 a.m. I actually had to drag myself out of bed and over to the gym of our very first Saturday class at the new location. We had [...]
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Vagabond
June 14, 2012 { 15 comments }I think this photo sums up my week. That would be the passenger seat of my car. Yes, I’m living out of it – vagabond style. Makeup, clothes, camera, various jackets, cell phone chargers…it’s all there. While this week has been stressful and busy, it’s the exciting kind of stressful and busy. Everything has been [...]
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Cake And Veggies
May 15, 2012 { 15 comments }Hey, hey! I hope everyone had a great day. Things are moving full speed ahead over here and every day I get more and more excited about all the amazing things that are happening at Metro. I know I mention this in pretty much every post but I really love my job and I feel [...]
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Shaking
March 6, 2012 { 43 comments }I am happy to be sitting down right now. It’s 8 a.m. and I’ve already done 150 dead lifts and 150 pushups. I was shaking after the workout. Ashley, Shannon and Elizabeth from Lululemon joined me bright and early at Metro to do the CrossFit workout of the day. It was 10 rounds of 15 [...]
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Long Weekend Love
May 29, 2011 { 15 comments }Ahhh…I love Sunday night that feels like Saturday. It’s so nice to know I don’t have to be up at 5 a.m. Monday to teach BodyPump! (And not that I don’t love it, it’s just nice to have a morning off!) We’ve done our best to make this long weekend count since we’re not traveling. [...]
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An Old Dinner Favorite Returns
January 19, 2011 { 15 comments }I am thoroughly entertained right now. I’m watching American Idol for the first time in years and it’s awesome. Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez are complete pushovers (um, and Steven Tyler loves the ladies)! Did anyone else catch the Michael Jackson impersonators attempt at Miley’s “Party in the USA?” Priceless. Moving on. Wow, where do [...]
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Good Food + Good Tunes
September 7, 2010 { 25 comments }Whew, this has been a busy day and I’m gearing up for the rest of the week to be the same way. So much going on – but all good stuff! I subbed a BodyPump class after work and then booked it over to Y2 to squeeze in a quick ashtanga practice. So grateful that [...]
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Blog Drama
June 18, 2010 { 3 comments }Before I launch into eats and workouts I have to let you know about some stuff going on behind the scenes with the blog. I am in the process of moving both of my blogs over to self-hosting and it is the most frustrating thing I have done in a long time! I’m having major [...]