The dog is staying.

September 30, 2015.Reading time 10 minutes.

An interesting thing happened when I got pregnant. It wasn’t an avalanche of pregnancy stories from women who had “been there”. It wasn’t the start of the unsolicited advice. Or the judging stares when I wasn’t ballooning up in my weight as people expected. I was being told to be prepared to give away my […]

Changing the view of food. No weight-loss magic here.

August 3, 2015.Reading time 8 minutes.

I’m going to shatter the universe with my opening blog statements today. Hold on to your britches folks, because it’s going to be a big’un. There is no big secret to weight loss. There is no magic pill, powder, plant, food, or hobgoblin. The answer is not sitting in some top secret lab, buried in […]

Like a girl.

July 22, 2015.Reading time 2 minutes.

Each time I think about this campaign, this blog post takes a little bit more shape. You got us marketing gurus. You tricked us all. Hell, even I used the #likeagirl a few times on my social media posts right after the campaign first geared up in Super Bowl commercials. Then I really sat down […]

Being with social media.

June 27, 2015.Reading time 7 minutes.

I’ve always been the nine-to-fiver when it has come to social media. My presence, my voice, would drop off of the face of the earth, so to speak, the moment I walked out of work, and not be seen or heard again, until I walked back in the following day. It was never purposely planned […]

Making peace.

May 8, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

This morning was a blur in my house. I have averaged possibly 4 hours of sleep in the past 72 hours. And not because of baby. I have a fog horn that refuses to see a doctor that shares the bed with me. We got up late to meet a friend for a walk. I […]

This is motherhood.

May 5, 2015.Reading time 3 minutes.

Motherhood has been an easy transition for me. I feel that’s mostly because of how I tend to my crazy dog, Dunkin. And, how I have been with my relationships with friends. The hardest part of motherhood has been… letting things go. For almost twelve weeks now, my household cleaning schedule has been mostly non-existent. […]

#takebackfitspo

March 21, 2015.Reading time 10 minutes.

Life never really goes as expected. Yet, we never fail to hope, and in some way, expect that it will. The entire time I was trying to get pregnant, and even when that miracle finally came, I had expected to gain a crap ton of weight. On both sides of my family, history shows a […]

A Baby Story

February 21, 2015.Reading time 9 minutes.

What a few weeks this month of February has been. It was, to start, just another month, the countdown to baby was on… Then chaos set in. On the 12th, because of baby size and health factors of mine, a c-section was officially decided on. The date was set for the following Tuesday. Just a […]

Living, learning, growing.

February 9, 2015.Reading time 7 minutes.

In life, I have set out to always do my thing. I can’t really say blaze my own path, because, well, let’s face it, there’s always a lot of other people trying to blaze that path or who are already walking it. I have just wanted to stay true to myself. If I don’t like […]

Manic Monday?

February 2, 2015.Reading time 5 minutes.

Apparently, to think that I’d get a little time to myself to just chill out, de-stress and get ready for the arrival of Baby Rebel… was like asking for that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow. Or for Dunkin Donuts to start delivering. At 37-weeks, things are still just as full steam […]