My weeks start off so busy and then kind of taper off. I like it that way. It’s nice to be really productive at the beginning of the week and reduce the intensity as it goes on. Mondays and Tuesdays are usually my very busiest days of the week (remember my “Day in the Life” [...]
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Busy Week Eats and Lollihop Winner
December 2, 2011 { 3 comments }In case you haven’t noticed, this week has been a little crazy and I have been focused on things other than the blog. Apologies. Even when I’m busy and stressed, I try my best to get good meals in. It can be a challenge because sometimes I lose my appetite when I’m stressed and the last [...]
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Tuesday and T-Day Prep
November 22, 2011 { 17 comments }Hello, hello! I hope that you guys are enjoying the short holiday week and getting geared up for Thanksgiving. I’ve been in full-force planning mode and have all my recipes planned. I’m contributing roasted root vegetables, brussels sprouts gratin, chocolate pecan pie and sweet potato cheesecake with marshmallow topping to the feast. Cannot wait to [...]
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Cookies for Yogis
November 17, 2011 { 11 comments }I cannot even begin to thank you enough for all of your kind comments on my Ashtanga 101 + Backbend Video post. I want to reply to all of them and answer your questions but I’m having problems with the comment replies and threading ever since I switched to the new design. Promise that I [...]
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A Photo Shoot And A Fiesta
November 11, 2011 { 16 comments }Happy Friday and happy Veteran’s Day! I missed updating yesterday because my afternoon/evening was slammed with fun activities. I collapsed into bed without even turning my computer on when I finally made it home around 11 p.m. I met Brandon for a lunch date at Owen’s Bagel & Deli. It is one of our favorite [...]
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(De)Clutter
November 7, 2011 { 24 comments }I am the first to admit that a big fault of mine is allowing myself to get all wrapped up in the day-to-day while pushing less interesting tasks to the side. I am terrible about staying on top of things that just don’t interest me. I will put them off and procrastinate like a champion. [...]
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Farewell October
October 31, 2011 { 9 comments }I cannot believe it is the last day of October. The holidays are right around the corner and 2011 will be over before we know it. This has been a big year for me. I completed yoga teacher training, received my personal trainer certification and made a huge career change. It’s all sitting a little [...]
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A 10 Year Vision
October 9, 2011 { 12 comments }My weekend ended on an inspirational note…with a Lululemon community goal sharing meeting. For newer readers, I am an ambassador for the Charlotte store. Tonight we had a gathering of Lululemon employees, ambassadors and community fitness pros to discuss our personal goals as well as our collective community goals. Lululemon has a huge goal setting [...]
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Easy Pantry Dinner
October 4, 2011 { 14 comments }Tuesdays are my long teaching days. My day started in the dark Uptown at 6 a.m. for a yoga private… …and ended Uptown in the dark at 7 p.m. after teaching BodyPump. In between I taught three yoga classes. I did have a couple breaks throughout the day to get some things done and most [...]
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Lights, Camera, Action…Nerves!
September 29, 2011 { 22 comments }Tonight I participated in my first panel discussion. Last week I received an email inviting me to be a part of a panel hosted by A Healthier Charlotte to discuss childhood and adult obesity. I had some major butterflies going into the discussion. My fellow panelists were two physicians and the founder of Girls on [...]
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About That Downtime…
September 27, 2011 { 12 comments }I take back everything I said about having too much downtime this week. Today was busy, busy but I loved every minute of it! I taught four classes (three yoga and one BodyPump) and also shadowed a few personal trainers. It was really fun to hang out with different trainers and see each person’s training [...]
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A Little Off
September 13, 2011 { 13 comments }Today was all off. It started out with me stumbling out of bed in a half-asleep stupor at 5 a.m. and slamming my toe into a door. Which resulted in a split toenail that left me walking around all day with a half the nail polished chipped off and a throbbing big toe. And then [...]
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Build Your Own
August 31, 2011 { 17 comments }I was so excited to receive so much positive feedback on my Stress Less post. Unfortunately, I know that stress is something that most of us can relate to so I think it’s important to focus on dealing with it in healthy ways. So no photos from my day yesterday because I was on a [...]
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Weekend Love
August 27, 2011 { 26 comments }WEEKEND! :D Mine has been fabulous so far – pedicure, dinner with friends, over two glorious hours of hot yoga and getting my life organized. Last night we met our friends Lelia and Matt for dinner at Sir Edmond Halley’s. Sir Ed’s is a and old Charlotte establishment that is tucked away behind a shopping [...]
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Saturday and Panthers Pre-Season
August 14, 2011 { 18 comments }I love Sunday evenings. I don’t spend them dreading Monday and all the things that the week has to hold but instead enjoy the opportunity to relax and decompress a bit from the weekend. But enough about Sunday – since I’m running a day behind, I owe you the Saturday recap. I taught the complimentary [...]
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Worn Down Wednesday
August 10, 2011 { 20 comments }It’s been a long day and I’m happy to finally have some down time. I just finished dinner…which I ate after 9 p.m. for the third night in a row. We eat pretty late in general but these super late dinners are not sitting well in my stomach when I get in bed and then [...]
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The Time I Tortured My Husband with Yoga
August 7, 2011 { 12 comments }We had a great Saturday but it was so busy that I never got a chance to sit down and blog about it. When we finally arrived home at 11:30 last night, I pretty much collapsed into bed and fell asleep immediately. I practiced and taught yoga at Y2 on Saturday morning. I had an [...]
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Hot Sunday
July 24, 2011 { 24 comments }A quick update on part two of my weekend (part one here) before I crash…I have a goal to be in bed by 9:30 tonight! I “slept in” until 7:30 this morning, which these days sadly is sleeping in. I had an English muffin with peanut butter, honey and banana with black coffee while I [...]
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Restorative
July 19, 2011 { 20 comments }The past few weeks have been a little off with regards to my workouts due to my hamstring injury. Rather than continuing to push through increasingly worsening pain, I’ve backed off of it to allow for recovery and healing. I haven’t run in 17 days (who’s counting?) and I’ve scaled back my yoga practice. Absent [...]
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Melon Head
July 3, 2011 { 7 comments }I took yesterday off of blogging since we were busy visiting with family and then traveling and as a result I feel behind. Lots to catch you up on! First of all, I hope everyone is having a fun July 4th weekend! We’ve enjoyed being able to spend part of the weekend with family and [...]
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Super Fit Saturday
June 26, 2011 { 16 comments }I’m settling down from the craziness of the weekend at 10 p.m. on Sunday night to finally tell you about it! We’re going to have to do this in two parts because it would probably be the longest post ever if I tried to cover it all in one. Saturday was a special event that [...]
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A Birthday Boy
June 21, 2011 { 22 comments }Guess who has a birthday on Wednesday!? Wish my sweet husband a happy birthday! He’s 29…just one more year until the big 3-0! I like to tease him about it. And just for fun, check out my happy birthday post for him last year. It’s a good one! :P Side note, I love that I [...]
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Go For It
June 14, 2011 { 25 comments }I am so happy to hear that you guys found the strength training post useful. I am also excited that you still want videos – I am all about form so I can’t wait to get some made so I can coach you through the exercises. One of my biggest goals for Peanut Butter Runner [...]
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A Surprise Visit
June 9, 2011 { 32 comments }Hello from Georgia! Surprise! I decided Wednesday afternoon that I was going to come visit my grandmother for a few days. I packed the car up at lunch today and hit the road after work. Unfortunately, the weather did not cooperate with my travel plans and I battled quite a few severe thunderstorms (hail, cloud [...]
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Three Happy Things
May 24, 2011 { 19 comments }I missed y’all last night but Monday was a little rough. It started at 3:45 a.m. with a wake up call from Sullie. She wasn’t feeling well and kept pacing and staring at me while I was trying to sleep. Poor thing. I was up with her until I had to teach BodyPump at 6 [...]
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Away We Go
May 13, 2011 { 11 comments }It’s midnight and I have to be up at 5 a.m. to head to the airport. :shock: I couldn’t leave without saying goodbye! A few updates… There will still be daily updates on PBR while I’m gone. I have four guest posters and a couple scheduled from me. I have put a LOT of hours [...]
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Salad and Pancakes? Works for me!
May 2, 2011 { 19 comments }In general, I would say that I’m a pretty normal eater. I’m not big on weird combinations and I’m not very picky. But there are days when a little randomness makes its way into my meals. Take Sunday, for example. It started with a plain bowl of oatmeal. For most people this is not weird [...]
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Teamwork
April 19, 2011 { 29 comments }It is a beautiful night in Charlotte. We ate dinner outside and now I’m set up with my computer blogging with a glass of wine, candles and music. So nice! Similar to this set up but no fire tonight! We really enjoy time on our patio. :) I started today with ashtanga. Ever since I [...]
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Rocking College Style
April 15, 2011 { 7 comments }Happy Friday! I loved the comments on the beauty post…I’m happy to know that I’m not the only waxing fanatic. I also got quite a few comments about you guys having to color for gray hair. I responded to those comments saying that I definitely have my fair share. I’ve had them since I was [...]
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Super Noodle Night
April 5, 2011 { 18 comments }Thank you, thank you for the comments and Tweets congratulating me on the new yoga teaching gig. I am extremely excited and looking forward to teaching my first class at Y2 tomorrow. My name is on the schedule…it’s really happening! I started my day at Y2 today for an ashtanga practice. One of the things [...]
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I actually sat through a movie!
March 30, 2011 { 21 comments }Good morning! It is cold and pouring down rain again here in Charlotte but I’m determined not to let the weather get me down today! This has to be the last push of cold weather…April is just around the corner. I didn’t get my post up last night because Brandon picked up Love and Other [...]
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Five Miler and a Peanut Butter Debate
March 23, 2011 { 55 comments }Good news on the running front! I ran FIVE miles today! I’m sure most of you are thinking “big deal” but it was my first five miler in over a month! Don’t get me wrong, I have loved focusing on yoga the past few months but I am so ready to get back on the [...]
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Homemade Awake Tea Latte & Baking Night
March 16, 2011 { 13 comments }And I’m back! I wish I could say that my night off of blogging was super relaxing but it was actually jam-packed with subbing a BodyPump class, grocery shopping, cooking and cleaning. We didn’t sit down to eat dinner until 9:30! The good news is that Wednesday is “no AM workout day” so I did [...]
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Yoga and Pizza – My Favorite Things!
March 13, 2011 { 18 comments }I’m emerging after a long (but completely awesome) weekend of teacher training. Saturday was a crazy busy day so I took a break from blogging and taking pictures. I started training at 7:30 a.m. and we went through to 5:30 p.m. When I got home from training we had to head straight to an engagement [...]
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Vacation Needed
February 23, 2011 { 43 comments }Not that I don’t love my blog but I love this even more. :D You didn’t hear from me last night because we were busy researching vacations. Brandon and I haven’t been on vacation in two years and it is time. We are both in desperate need of the kind of quality time together and [...]
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BodyPump: What It Is and Why I Love It
January 4, 2011 { 32 comments }I covered a BodyPump class tonight for a fellow instructor who has the plague that’s going around. I was prepared for a full class and was so excited to arrive to find the gym already filling up. We ended up with around 45 participants tonight. I was surprised to see a LOT of familiar faces. [...]
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Birthdays and Bluegrass
November 14, 2010 { 11 comments }I am sorry that things have been quiet around here the past couple of days but I worked late on Friday night and yesterday was jam-packed – not a second to sit down with the computer! We’ll just skip over Friday because other than working 11 hours, there’s not much to report. I had to [...]
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Practice Makes Better
November 9, 2010 { 5 comments }I’ve said this before but I really prefer to practice yoga in the mornings. Most Tuesdays, I practice ashtanga before work. I opted to forgo today’s practice in favor of sleep since I am still trying to get over this cold. As I went through my day I realized that I was feeling exponentially better [...]
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Tackling 20!
October 3, 2010 { 14 comments }*Become a fan of Peanut Butter Runner on Facebook! I just set up a fan page and would love to connect with all of my readers on Facebook! I RAN 20 MILES TODAY!!! I was planning on 18 but was feeling really strong at mile 14 and decided to go for 20. I called Brandon [...]
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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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Good Eats and Kombucha Returns
September 1, 2010 { 7 comments }I really have not felt inspired to document all of my food over the last week or so. I’ve been enjoying the flexibility of sharing with you what’s on my mind – like long runs, abs and beach trips. Besides, I think it’s more interesting that way. Do you really care what I eat for [...]
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Another Ridiculously Long Post with Lots of Food
July 26, 2010 { 3 comments }Part two of my ridiculously long weekend overview post. Need to catch up? Part one is here. Read at your own risk – it’s a long one! After Saturday night’s food-fest at The Palm I had to regroup and get ready to do it all over again for Sunday brunch. We had a family birthday [...]
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Three Square Meals
July 21, 2010 { 5 comments }I am a three square meals a day kind of girl. I wasn’t always like this and I won’t even share with you some of the things I considered to be breakfast and lunch in my younger days! ;) I am also a very scheduled eater. I don’t like to eat breakfast too late for [...]
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Birthday Recap and Giveaway Winner
June 17, 2010 { 3 comments }My birthday was pretty low-key but I felt very loved! Between my friends, family, Facebook, Twitter and the blog I think I got a “happy birthday” every 5 minutes. Nice! There was a common theme to my day yesterday – carbs. At first I felt guilty but then I decided it was my birthday and [...]
