Yoga Cheesy, Kitchen Mess & Success

I have a tendency to start posts, get distracted, busy with work, etc, etc, not finish it, then time passes and it no longer applies. Case in point, the original title of this post was “Long Weekend.” Long weekends are amazing. I realize I’m pointing out the obvious, but it just deserves to be said. Mine was lovely and completely relaxing. I started to do a little prep for moving, but other than that just...

Why Hello Gym! & Healthy Peanut Chocolate Sna...

Pheww, it was a busy week, and now I’ve gone to the completely opposite direction.. being completely lazy! I mentioned on my Facebook page the other day, but I was just a complete failure at balancing work and workouts this week. My intentions were so good! Last weekend I planned out all my yoga classes & workouts and scheduled them into my calendar. Monday started great (see below) but then it was downhill from...

When You Least Expect

Nope your eyes aren’t deceiving you, I’m actually posting 2 days in a row! Hope you’re having a great weekend. Mine has been super chill, including a little spa action yesterday courtesy of the sweet folks at Travaasa Austin, a little yoga and a lot of cooking and watching LA Ink. haha.. it’s just too darn hot to entertain myself outside! One of the many things I love about Yoga is that you always...

Reminders and Recipe

Hi all! How are you? So this is what happens when we screw up our planet enough. Recording breaking heat in Austin this summer (high of 110 today.. wtf.. I thought I left AZ-like heat!), earthquakes on the east coast followed immediately by a hurricane? bleh.. uncool. My thoughts are with everyone out East! Another crappy thing, on a far far far far (keep going) level, was this blog getting attacked last week! If you happen...

Twenty Six

Hi all! So tomorrow’s my  birthday. I love birthdays, not just mine (though, lets all admit that August 15th is a pretty awesome day ), but everyone’s! We’ve always been pretty big on celebrations in my family. I have such wonderful memories from these events growing up; surrounded by family and friends for New Years, Easter, 4th of July, Birthday, Thanksgiving, St. Patrick’s Day, May Day.. you name...

Paleo Attempt & Cooking Successes

I think I’ve written a couple versions of my promised follow-up ‘Paleo’ post. First I wrote a post while reading Robb Wolf’s Paleo Solution. It was a mix of agreeing and ‘holy egotistic author’! Then I started a post about how I was going with the ‘well don’t knock it till you try it approach’ and incorporate some of the Paleo principles into my diet. Three weeks later you...

Flirting With CrossFit

I have a new fitness crush. I don’t want to jump ahead and make any drastic declarations, never want to say ‘love’ too soon.. but it could be serious. New Crush Well aside from the blog title giving it away, if you follow me on Facebook or Twitter, you know my latest Fitness adventure is CrossFit! I’ve been meaning to try it for a while, but with my varying levels of “being in shape” over...

The ‘Why’

I am asked "why?" a lot. Why did you want to do a Fitness competition? Why do you do so much yoga? Why do you eat that way? Why do you get up so early to workout? Why don't you have a piece of pizza? Well the answer is crazy simple.. because it's fun and it makes me feel good!