Ya'll...it's been like 6 weeks since I last posted. Woah - sorry to leave ya hangin' like that!
I have a good reason....promise!
The fun new news is that I am training to become an instructor at define !
(image from define body.com)
I am SO pumped about this new journey and opportunity to further my involvement in this great community of fitness and health lovers but also to continue my growth and journey in my own fitness and leadership development. I will be training just to teach their DEFINE: Revolution classes (their super amazing, challenging spin class) for now but I hope to train to teach their other classes in the future too if I get the chance!
I will hopefully be teaching by November or December in the Houston studios so keep your eyes out for me and come take class with me! We will have a blast and you will leave with seriously one of the best spin workouts ever!
(image from define body.com)
To be clear - I am DEFINITELY still keeping my daytime/full time job at Women's Hospital in their NICU. I just can't imagine leaving loving on those sweet littles every day but I am psyched to have this opportunity at define to add to my profession and personal life and development (and not to mention general fitness!). The training for this is really doable but also time consuming so I have been a little less than diligent on attending to this little blog of mine. Sorry!! So there you go - that's the reason for my internet absence but I know you'll understand and forgive me right!?!?
So to add on to all that - I have been emotionally/stress eating like a maniac (read: a megastuff oreo's got nothin' on me!)
Just to be clear on the order of things:
Ummm ya....it was not pretty and my pant's were not exactly appreciative.
So I marched my happy hippo hiney into my dietician's office and we talked about getting back on track but we also talked about me doing a juice cleanse to really get a hard restart. It wasn't her favorite choice but I do better with hard restarts like this so I decided to go with it. I chose to do the 3 day cleanse through DEFINE: foods .
(image from define foods.com)
I have never done a juice cleanse before and it.was.a.challenge. BUT I finished it last night much to everybody's happiness and joy and am back to healthy solid foods today.
I really do feel like doing something like this really helps to give me a hard kick on sugar, caffeine and all my carb intake and helps me reconnect properly with portion control so I am really pleased. The juices actually tasted really good and I wasn't as hungry as I thought I would be so overall a very positive experience (and 3 of them had cucumber in them....my least favorite food/smell/anything of all time and I still made it through!)! Yay!
Now to just lay off the temptation of biscuits and bread man... oh the temptation...
AAANNNDD...To top this all off - IT'S BREAST CANCER AWARENESS MONTH PEOPLE! We are almost a year exactly from my getting my implants in the first time and I certainly am going into this October season much more appreciative and thoughtful having finally finished my reconstruction now. So the whole thing that started this whole thing gets recognized this month- now go out there, wear some pink and love on the people around you (with fakies or no fakies!).
(October 2014)
All that to say - in life, in love, in food - let loose the juice people! You'll only be better for it!
Happy October everyone! Now let's start praying for some cooler weather because I'm ready for my boots and scarves and all things pumpkin!
Have a great day everyone! I'll keep you posted once I officially am finished with define training! Thanks for stopping by!!
