Hustle and Flow

Super easy Paleo dinner last night with yummy leftovers for lunch. Rayce was too full from Pho.

Cut sweet potatoes in small cubes adding halved or quartered cremini mushrooms and season with 1-2 tbs avocado or healthy oil of your choice, season with salt & pepper. Place in 400 degree oven on foil or cookie sheet for at least 20 mins.

Roll Lacinato kale like a cigar and cut into strips - in med size bowl drizzle oil & massage kale til softened adding a chopped cherry tomato, seasoning with Himalayan salt and fresh cracked pepper.

2 half organic chicken breasts seasoned w/ orange chili spice, drizzle 1-2 tbs of avocado or healthy oil of your choice and put in med high pan with oil about 6-7 mins before squash is done, giving a slight sear. When done slice on cutting board into strips.

When sweet potatoes are done add that and mushrooms to bowl of kale and toms adding about 2 tbs cilantro cider vinaigrette with healthy oil. Make from scratch or buy.

Place one chicken breast on half of the kale/squash mixture and drizzle cilantro cider vin over it.

HEALTH BENEFITS:

Kale: Vits A, K, B6, Calcium, Potassium, Cooper, Manganese

Cilantro: Heavy Metal detox

Creminis: Copper, Selenium, Phosphorous

Tomatoes: Lycopene, Vit C, Potassium, Folate, Vit K

Sweet Potatoes: Vit C, B6, Potassium, Magnesium

Kickstart your mornings with lemon water. The benefits are too good not to. 🍋🙌🏻🍋

I’ve learned wayyyyy more from mess ups & my trials and tribulations.

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Joe Rogan - Negative People Are A Cancer Joe Rogan discusses work trying to make end meet.

This has been on my fridge for the better part of 25 years and deeply resonates. I hope anyone reading this takes some or all to heart, or at the very least, springboards a shift in your thinking. ♥️🙌🏻😘🔥

Summer rains, sudden showers, and winter sun remain my favourites.
Because, it’s like life stops a second to say, “Hold on. I can turn around any minute.”

~ Sara Jothi

This is profound and resonates big time. We all practice self care in one form or other and it’s not always in our favor or best interest. Read every sentence. 🙏🏻

“Self-care is often a very unbeautiful thing.

It is making a spreadsheet of your debt and enforcing a morning routine and cooking yourself healthy meals and no longer just running from your problems and calling the distraction a solution.

It is often doing the ugliest thing that you have to do, like sweat through another workout or tell a toxic friend you don’t want to see them anymore or get a second job so you can have a savings account or figure out a way to accept yourself so that you’re not constantly exhausted from trying to be everything, all the time and then needing to take deliberate, mandated breaks from living to do basic things like drop some oil into a bath and read Marie Claire and turn your phone off for the day.

A world in which self-care has to be such a trendy topic is a world that is sick. Self-care should not be something we resort to because we are so absolutely exhausted that we need some reprieve from our own relentless internal pressure.

True self-care is not salt baths and chocolate cake, it is making the choice to build a life you don’t need to regularly escape from.

And that often takes doing the thing you least want to do.

It often means looking your failures and disappointments square in the eye and re-strategizing. It is not satiating your immediate desires. It is letting go. It is choosing new. It is disappointing some people. It is making sacrifices for others. It is living a way that other people won’t, so maybe you can live in a way that other people can’t.

It is letting yourself be normal. Regular. Unexceptional. It is sometimes having a dirty kitchen and deciding your ultimate goal in life isn’t going to be having abs and keeping up with your fake friends. It is deciding how much of your anxiety comes from not actualizing your latent potential, and how much comes from the way you were being trained to think before you even knew what was happening.

If you find yourself having to regularly indulge in consumer self-care, it’s because you are disconnected from actual self-care, which has very little to do with “treating yourself” and a whole lot do with parenting yourself and making choices for your long-term wellness.

It is no longer using your hectic and unreasonable life as justification for self-sabotage in the form of liquor and procrastination. It is learning how to stop trying to “fix yourself” and start trying to take care of yourself… and maybe finding that taking care lovingly attends to a lot of the problems you were trying to fix in the first place.

It means being the hero of your life, not the victim. It means rewiring what you have until your everyday life isn’t something you need therapy to recover from. It is no longer choosing a life that looks good over a life that feels good. It is giving the hell up on some goals so you can care about others. It is being honest even if that means you aren’t universally liked. It is meeting your own needs so you aren’t anxious and dependent on other people.

It is becoming the person you know you want and are meant to be. Someone who knows that salt baths and chocolate cake are ways to enjoy life – not escape from it.”

~ Brianna Wiest

💫Never let anything stop you. Not the rain, another person, nothing. You are your own champion so if you’re not feeling it don’t look to others to make it happen. I’m not saying that others can’t lift and lend a hand but ultimately you have to be your biggest fan.
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Learn to embrace change and adjust your sails accordingly. One of my favorite sayings is change is the only constant in life. Sure it can be hard, challenging, uncomfortable but it’s not supposed to be easy. Nothing worth having EVER comes easy.
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Be authentic and transparent. At the end of the day you have to own who you are when no one is looking. You absolutely cannot wear more than one face unless you’ve got the devil in your back pocket.
💫It’s one thing to lie to another and it’s something else entirely to lie to yourself.
💫We will all struggle at times but it’s about rising out of the struggle and being better.
💫Put your faith in Jesus, commune with nature, give an animal a soft place to land and in turn, you will give YOURSELF a soft place to land.

Oh boy if this isn’t a clear representation of my life right now. 🙄 I’m a firm believer that little happens to us that is totally out of our control. Yes, there are exceptions and this post isn’t meant to demean those events which often bring sadness and despair. What I mean is that in not paying attention, whether we are overwhelmed or grinding and only ‘paying attention’ to the absolute daily things that allow us to function - autopilot - we fail at other important life ‘things’. It’s important to recognize this and acknowledge it. Being hard and shaming ourselves isn’t beneficial; being real, owning it and making changes for the future IS beneficial. Break unhealthy patterns, whatever they may be. When you KNOW better, DO better! Most importantly, don’t forget to implement healthy activities and nutrition to fuel your body, mind & spirit when things get tough. 😘

Making friends everywhere we go. Do something good for yourself today. ❤️

On this day last year. Be an optimist, always. 😊

“I’m like a tree. My leaves might change color, but my roots are the same.”
~ Rose Namajumas
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Seriously just laughed out loud, because...

Don’t cut your bangs. 😂

✨Sorry to my girls who are on very restricted diets for competition prep. 🤷‍♀️

✨To the others...nitrate/nitrite/hormone-free spinach gruyere chicken sausage (one link), 2 organic eggs, 1/2 avocado & a small sweet potato seasoned with black pepper, garlic powder and red pepper flakes. Tiny bit of sour cream (in place of sharp white cheddar - my fave!) & topped with sriracha! You could easily sub a sriracha mixed with plain yogurt or tzatziki sauce if you wanted to be a bit healthier. 💪🏻

✨I primarily eat clean and could likely cut out the small amount of toppings/sauces that I use on occasion but what’s the point of being dedicated to fitness if you can’t indulge once in a while?! I definitely find that the more I eat healthy the less my body craves any of the crap. And I’m acutely aware of what the crap feels like when it goes in very occasionally. After all you are what you eat. 🥗

Don’t be irrelevant in your own life. Let the fear of the unknown challenge and propel you in all areas, on all levels. You will never know what’s waiting for you behind that unopened door unless you knock. 👊🏻💯🙌🏻

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I have to share this shout out from my sister friend and coach. A teammate is struggling with consistency and staying committed. I think we all struggle with this now and again. If it’s a pattern or the rule, as opposed to the exception, dig deep to uncover why you’re not prioritizing your health and wellness. And always surround yourself with people that will help hold you accountable. 😘

💫 Literally woke up off the couch to make this last night with a big pot of red quinoa (more protein), to ensure good decisions and prep for today and tomorrow! 🗓

💫Sautéed chicken breast in organic coconut oil with cracked pepper, pink Himalayan salt, & kickin’ chicken seasoning. Added mushrooms and asparagus to the pan and voila! 🐓 🍄

💫This took 15 mins (for the quinoa to cook) and will make my life so much easier the next couple days. Preparation is the key to implementation and success! 🔑

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💫 “Monday, Monday, so good to me” ~ The Mamas and the Papas
*Side note: the rest of the lyrics are dreadful in regard to Mondays. 😂
💫I took a true rest day yesterday after 13 days of workouts straight - my choice cuz once you start you WANT to keep going - and I can’t tell you how excited I was to push play at 5 am to get this week started. Just knowing we were starting Week 4 was everything! 🙌🏻

"How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”

~ Benjamin Franklin

A great passage from my daily devotional, Jesus Is Calling. Sometimes the hardest thing is giving ‘it’ up and releasing the burden from your heart & mind. If you’re not giving yourself at least 5-10 minutes of personal development and self-care I say start yesterday. 😉🙏🏻❤️🙌🏻😘

*For a kombucha AND ginger lover this recipe is worth sharing. Shared from GT Kombucha.

Health is a relationship between you and your body. Fuel up with these raw & nutritious Gingerade Energy Bites (made with GT’s KOMBUCHA) and feel the probiotic goodness.
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GINGERADE ENERGY BITES
1 Cup Unsalted, Roasted Cashews
½ Cup Shredded Unsweetened Coconut
4 Tbsp. GT’s KOMBUCHA Gingerade
1 Tbsp. Chia Seeds
4 Pitted Dates
2 tsp. Orange Zest
1 tsp. Vanilla Extract
Pinch of Sea Salt
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Directions: Mix GT’s KOMBUCHA Gingerade with all other ingredients in a food processor. Mix well. Spoon out one heaping tablespoon of the mixture and roll into a small ball. Arrange the balls on a baking sheet and place in a refrigerator to chill for about 30 minutes. Snack away!

All of this. Self-love truly is the key and mindset is everything. How bad do you want it?!

This is what 7 am PiYo Sweat 💦🔥looks like. Fueled by Energize with a huge side of MOTIVATION for my goals, coupled with a much appreciated and often times necessary side of ACCOUNTABILITY from the ladies. Thank you beautiful mamas! 💕🙌🏻💕

💫 Today starts another round of personal development because I deserve it, and most importantly, want to reap the MASSIVE benefits of a healthy lifestyle of sound nutrition and challenging myself physically. And who doesn’t have b***y goals?! 🍑

💫I’m kicking off my weekend with a 3-day Refresh and diving into a fun, butt busting workout (Fusion/Piyo) with some amazing ladies on Monday for the next 60 days. SIXTY. DAYS. 1/6th of my year is planned and in motion with loads of dedication to my health and fitness.

💫I could start on Monday but that would mean that I come from a mindset that there’s only ONE day to make a commitment or start something. I’ve never been of that mindset, although I do love me some Mondays.

💫If you’re looking for accountability and support I can lend a helping hand - but I can’t do it for you. If you want to hit my gym with me for FREE as my buddy then come gym it up. If you want the most nutrient dense, superfood meal replacement (or bonus meal) shake then I got you. If you want to do a variety of over 725 workouts in your home on your own time that will absolutely get you in shape (with good nutrition) hit me up. If you’re inspired by watching my journey then, please by all means, be inspired. 💕

You. Deserve. More. ❤️

A girl and her dog.

Yoga....if you haven’t done it then you need to. Day 14 worked out every kink, sore spot...it’s pure magic. Trust me. I know things.

If anyone wonders what procrastination looks like it’s this. Double workouts for skipping my Friday workout PLUS putting in my 3rd day of 12 Days of Fitmas. My intention was to do it as soon as I got home yesterday, but...given the chance my squirrel brain will do a million other things or nothing at all. And while I could have pulled a double tomorrow I decided to knock it out today. And because I always like to leave things on a positive this is also a picture of commitment...to myself! 💪🏻❤️🙌🏻

Living intentionally with health forward goals, putting myself, and you, at the forefront. Because when we pour into ourselves individually, with self-love, we inevitably strengthen the village. Energy is contagious, let’s be infectious with ours and focus on ALL the good stuff. ❤️