Kelnar Fit Club

As we moaned & groaned about rolling out of bed... did you remember to give thanks for another day, another chance, another gift? 🌄

There no time like NOW to start a new chapter.

I'm not talking short story big here... I'm talking chapters. 📖

So maybe the chapter you've been stuck on is staring at the workout video next to your TV and the excuses as to why you haven't pushed play. Maybe it's the battle of feeling tired, no energy & fighting your digestive track on a daily basis. Maybe it's giving 110% of your VALUABLE time to everyone EXCEPT yourself & family??

Whatever it is that is keeping you from feeling awesome, healthy, whole, accountable, confident, empowered - Identify it, Be honest with yourself to admit it, close that chapter & turn the page. ✔️

Start anew and embrace the gift of a new day with open arms! I know we can do it - you need to believe that you can do it as well!

Start everyday with a smile. 😁

This paints an ugly picture but a harsh reality! This makes me wanna cry not laugh at what should be absurdity.

My friends, food matters! We have to teach our children healthy habits NOW or they will suffer the consequences of life threatening disease and obesity in their future.

I wish I could say I have never seen a child fighting obesity, but that is heartbreakingly not true. We have to teach our children to make healthy choices. We have to teach them moderation. We have to learn to say no, and be firm in our decisions. We have to teach them to balance wholesome foods with the treats. We have to teach them that the sugar laden foods and drinks do not fuel their bodies, and that they tiny organs are in harm's way from daily sugar overload.

Do my kids drink soda? Yes, but not everyday!! They call it a special drink, because it's not an option to them everyday. Their daily drink is water! Do my kids have Gatorade? Yes, if they have been playing sports and are drenched in sweat. It's not a substitute for soda.

Just like everything in life we have to make a choice to teach our children how to live a balanced, healthy lifestyle. We love our children and it's our job to take care of them from the inside out!

And you know what else? It starts with you. Lead by example! Those tiny eyes and ears see all and hear all. More than anything they wanna be like you. Make sure what they see and hear gives them the spring board to a healthy future!

Let's share a little love!

Give it to God, and Go to Sleep!

"Courage is not the absence of fear. Courage is acting in the face of fear. It's being afraid of something and doing it anyway." -Go for No, by Richard Fenton & Andrea Waltz ...

I love this. I think this quote speaks volumes about what is holding so many of us back (ME included) from reaching for our goals. We are afraid. It's okay to not succeed at first, it's okay to fall flat on our faces, but we gotta keep getting up & trying. That is what will set us apart. We do it anyway. Let us Go & Be courageous!

💫 Have you ever thought about the fact that impossibility exists only because we believe it does?????

** Sure there are limitations on some things, but ...sometimes we think of things as impossible only because we’re underestimating ourselves. **

⏩ I'm Guilty, Guilty, Guilty of losing sight of the fact that I can do more than I think I can. I struggle with self doubt, with fear of failure, with not believing in myself as others do.⏪

I literally dig up the seeds of faith I have been planting with my own self doubt. Doubt that I am leading & fighting to better not only my life, but those who have continue to reach out to me.

💡Fascinating how the mind works isn't it? I'm not following my own advice some days.... 😕

?? Why can I not see the leader that others do? I can't answer that question... but I'm a continual work in progress to grow in confidence and spread my wings.

Why Wednesday...

For so long I let fear paralyze me from stepping out of my comfort zone. I let myself be put in a box to feel like I didn't have options.

These 3 beautiful smiles are the reason why I am stepping out. I no longer believe the choice isn't mine to make. I will teach my children to choose happiness, to choose joy and to step outside the box held by fear.

My daughter chose me as someone who inspires her ... Well let me say she inspires me everyday to live fully, to share, to give, to plant seeds of hope and to choose confidence!

Why Wednesday: I'd like to share with you a post from one of my on-line challengers. We have a private group where we share success, share struggles, cheer each other on, motivate, partner up, and together grow into a strong accountable, and confident family. 🔑💫🙌

⬇This is WHY it's so important to lead by example! Our future are watching, and learning. 👫

Thank you Tracy Foulds for allowing me to share!

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She was about to get dressed for ballet rehearsals and decided she needed to workout first "so she could have energy for it". 😜 So she got this all set up. I guess it's her motivation to see her outfit. But before I hit play for her, she decided she needed an afternoon snack first.

What can we learn from this?

1. Working out gives you energy.

2. Use visual motivation, whatever that may be, to help push you during the workout.

3. Gotta fuel your body for your workout (maybe not with an ice cream cone though).

Couldn't pass up this opportunity to share.

Are you listening? 🙉

Actively? 👂

Sometimes the softest spoken words are the ones we need to hear the most. ✨

But will you hear them if your heart & mind are not open? 🚫

Will you miss an opportunity because you weren't open to hearing the message being shared? 🍃

I encourage you to open your heart, open your mind and listen for the opportunity to build yourself from the inside, out. 💙💆

Your circle of influence can help you grow, or it can close you off. 💫

Which will you choose? 🔐 You hold the key. Can you hear me?

I often hear that choosing to eat healthier is boring & too complicated. I beg to differ!

Do you look for opportunity? 💁

Do you believe it will find you? 👉

Do you open your heart and mind to the fact that you just might be surrounded by the very support you need, if you only look? 👀

The seed was planted for me to grow into the person I've fought to become the day I reached for the hand extended. ✋

It seems so cliche, but holding on to a hand that provides me with:
⏩support
⏩motivation
⏩accountability
⏩the opportunity to become a part of family that is focused on self help, creating a healthy lifestyle, and creating real solutions to work through real life obstacles
..Has helped me grow stronger, more confident, and truly has given me the courage to put myself out there publicly to serve and share hope. 👊😎

🌟So when I tell you that I am willing to hold your hand, it's not a marketing ploy, it's about me paying it forward.🌟 It's because I believe in building a tribe that provides a foundation to grow.

✨Each day I think.... If I can change just one life, then my fear of being so publicly open, is worth it. ✨

Alone we are strong, together we are Stronger! 💝

My family & I will be at the softball fields minimally from 7am to 9pm tomorrow. (And mid afternoon we've got to make a soccer game)

That's a long day, so food prep is important to me.

Fresh fruits, cheese, salami, home made sausage, hummus, crackers, Doritos requested by my hubby, nuts and protein balls are all ready to load and be out the door by 6am.

I prep because I care. I prep because athletes need food that fuels them. I prep because it's our lifestyle.

Now. Will the concession stand get some of our monies, you bet. It's a ball field. But everything in moderation is a okay with me.

Tip for Tuesday: don't judge a book by it's cover.

It seems society is so quick to judge based on what they see at first glance. 👀

People come in all different shapes & sizes. Everyone's journey is not the same nor does it look the same person to person. 👵👷💁👳 Everyone has a story.

Leading a healthy lifestyle isn't a one size fits all jump suit. 😘

Our bodies takes on many different shapes as we journey through our life. 🚶

But no matter the shape of our body, our character is what people should remember. 💜

Our virtues, our values, our actions. 🌟

So put your best self forward. Show the world you are more than what meets the eye. 💫

Leave an impression on their hearts that will last forever. 💞

Be the change.

Life is good. 💟

How would our attitude change of we embraced each day with the same excitement that we did when we were 2 years old? 👦👧

What if we focused on the simple joys around us? 🌎

What if we sought a tight hug, a smile and words of love? 😘😀

What if we faced each day with the same fierce determination we had as children to overcome and never give up? 💯

What if we graced the world around us with a smile, laughter, unbiased happiness and appreciation? 🌞

How could your mindset change? 💡

Thankfulness. Pause a moment & think about what you are thankful for? 🙏

Share a picture or just comment below! ⏬ We can share some love today...

I would like to say I wake up every morning & immediately give thanks for the blessings in my life, but I fail at giving thanks to God on a daily basis. It's a habit I can work on & so can you.

We can find those moments to think about what we are grateful for:

🔼while we shower in the morning
🔽while we eat breakfast
🔼while we commute
🔽while we tie our shoes
🔼while we kiss our loved ones goodbye for the day. 💭📝🚗

Having a thankful heart is a strong virtue to practice.

Good morning!!! It's Tasty Thursday my friends and I'm sharing with you one of my favorite & extremely simple, yet full of flavor recipes!!! I served with steamed cauliflower & a side salad.

Enjoy! Come back & share your review because I know you'll want to make this for dinner tonight.

🔷 (Side note, when we buy chicken breast in bulk & freeze, we cut them into thinner pieces, season them with onion, garlic & a little chili powder, pink salt & pepper so that when defrosted, they are already seasoned ... This is why there are no spices listed in my recipe. You season to your taste)

***ATTENTION LADIES !!!***
I’m looking for 5 women who want to commit to being courageously confident!!
Do you want to feel confident and comfortable in our own skin?
I’m looking for women who are serious about making a life-style change in their nutrition and fitness. That are ready to put themselves first to better their family’s lives. This group is centered to Moms to women who need a solution at home and need the guidance and support.

I shared this on my personal page this morning - but feel the message is so powerful that I'm sharing with everyone! :)

WHY Wednesday...I'd like you to read a testimonial one of the strong women in my 5 day clean eating support group shared yesterday.
"Why....because I didn't like myself at 250..outside or inside...because I was lost inside this person who was called 'Sue', but didn't act like her! No smiles, little laughter & no sparkle in her eye...got all that back plus more when I changed my lifestyle & added in exercise. Also I wanted my kids to see that keeping yourself healthy is important..exercise in good not bad & it is ok to eat stuff that is healthy instead of food smothered in gravy. That is my WHY & I have been living my new lifestyle for 19 months & loving it..loving life!!!"
WHY? A profound question. I asked my clean eating support group participants to share their why. The reason driving them to make changes in their lives. Do you know your WHY? What is the central force driving you to work harder, to grow into yourself, to make choices that aren't always easy, to stay committed, to LOVE yourself? It's a question worth thinking about.

Each & Every day!! Some days the struggle is all too real, others we are right on point & no circumstance will stand in our way!! The goal is to have more days where we allow nothing to stand in our way, with the honest realization that sometimes the struggle will win, and that’s okay. Repeat after me, "I Can Do This!" Then turn the I cans into I WILL!

Just a friendly reminder... Speak kindly to yourself. Self Love is a wonderful gift.

February is the Month Of Love. Love Your Self & Love Your Health. I'm running a Free Clean Eating Support Group beginning Monday, February 1st through February 5th. Comment below, "I Love Me" to join, or send me a message. Practicing self love is a gift to you, from you, every day!

This picture speaks for itself. The "just one coke a day" adds up to a WHOLE lot of sugar by weeks end. Now you can give or take a little depending on the choice of drink, but if seeing is believing, then please take a good look at how much sugar is consumed by the 'one a day habit'. Maybe you are thinking, "well I drink diet soda so I don't have to worry about this"... Turn around your can, read the ingredients, then do a little research on just what they do to sweeten your drink... It all comes down to choices, knowing what we are eating & drinking, looking for an alternative, or digging deep to break a habit that is a slippery slope into disease. Are you surprised by this picture? If 100% elimination is unthinkable, can you set a goal to eliminate the daily habit and choose 2 days a week? I occasionally drink a fountain soda, have 7up with bourbon, and my kids ask for that " special drink " on the weekends to which we typically say yes ... But I talk to them about sugar and certainly work towards helping them build healthy habits; so they won't one day struggle to break the unhealthy ones. Occasional, moderation, informed, choices ...

Goals, Dreams, Imagination, Hope, Faith, Determination, Believe, Hardwork, Perseverance... they all go hand in hand!!

Life is busy, life is chaotic, life is messy, life is painful, life is joyful, life is a blessing.... It's easy to get caught up in the "I can't" or "that could never happen for me" mind set. It's natural to fear the unknown, to fear rejection to fear failure. But WHAT IF you stood up to your own fear? What if you did it anyway? What if you decided that rejection or possible failure didn't matter? What if you decided that not trying is worse than your fear? What if you reached out & asked someone to be your accountability partner? What if you keep getting up no matter how many times you are knocked down? What if your dreams come true??? WHAT IF..........

Lunch time... Kale, Brussels sprout & spinach salad, with homemade pork/deer sausage and a sprinkle of feta cheese. Easy, clean, fuel.

There are a million reasons to just idle through life because it's comfortable. But I have TWO remarkable reasons that make me want to see what's outside of the white lines.... Two remarkable reasons to work harder, to love more, to serve, to lead. I want to give them a foundation to stand on that is based on integrity, truth, hard work, love, faith and support. I want to set the example that we are worth investing time & energy on ourselves because we only get one body, one life. Our behaviors define us. Will it be easy, no. Will we struggle, yes. Will we fall flat on our face, yes. We will inspire others along the way, yes. Will we be judged by others who don't share our values, yes. Does it matter, no. Are we worth it, absolutely yes. We plant seeds with every action we take. I want to grow a garden that looks up to the sun and embraces each new day as an adventure... but my actions, my words, my choices feed that garden. Making choices that do not support the garden I want to grow leaves room for weeds of doubt, crevices of darkness, dry seeds desperate to reach for the sun. WHY do I set goals, why am I committed to being healthier today than I was yesterday, why do I share every single day in the hopes of inspiring or motivating just one of you, why do I work for a company that is committed to helping people make lifestyle changes ... Because I am raising 2 impressionable beings that will one day be adults. Our children are the future. You better believe I want them looking up at the sun. And the seeds I plant now, are waiting to sprout and grow and reach their full potential.

Hey friends.... Who missed my daily shenanigans? ;) I'm not gone, just posting on my personal page (feel free to follow me there for more consistent daily posts).

So 2016. What do you think about that? A brand new year. A blank book where YOU get to write your story. Expect more, dream more, do more, be more ... But don't discount who and what you are already. Be grateful for your story and journey.

As we look ahead to writing our books this year, I'd like to ask that you focus more on REALsolutions and not just Resolutions. Yearly goals can be intimidating. So set daily goals that are achievable. Those daily goals will be REALsolutions that grow into habits, that grow consistency, that grow accountability, that grow your confidence your story, and your hope. Cheers my friends.

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