April 2012

Hey, hey.  The Healthy Tipping Point book drops tomorrow!  And to celebrate, I’ll be running reader/blogger success stories all week long – I don’t know about you, but I love a good success story!  I especially adore stories that prove that healthy looks different on different people and encompasses much more than just diet and [...]

I have the post-weekend blues.  I looked forward to this past weekend for so long; and now, just like that, it’s over!    Side note: A few people asked if BabyHTP was a boy because some of our shower gifts – but we really don’t know the sex and won’t until birth!  Popular vote amongst [...]

Did you read Pat the Bunny when you were a kid? Seriously – most terrifying book ever.  I couldn’t make myself pat the bunny as a kid, and I can’t do it as an adult.  I am not faking that face of fear.  Pure. Fear.    Today was BabyHTP’s shower, and not only were the [...]

Amongst a very busy weekend filled with family and friends… look who I found! Today is my baby shower, and my buddies Kath and Megan drove in from out of town just for the event – so nice of them.  Such gestures mean so much to me!  So it was the least I could do [...]

Whoa, momma.  You know those mornings \when you wake up and discover that everything is sore from your workout?  My mom and auntie arrived yesterday, and after dinner, we went on a long walk – so I ended up doing two workouts yesterday.  Between the swim and the walk, every inch of me is aching.  [...]

This totally made my day.  Key word: “probably.” We’re still on the hunt for a living room rug.  I found one I really liked, but it’s out of our price range…. Figures.   Lunch eats! I scrambled two eggs and mixed in baby spinach and kidney beans.  All wrapped up in corn tortillas. Yum. Plus [...]

What is your max out point with workouts? I don’t mean how fast you can run or how much you can bench press – I mean, at what point do you emotionally max out?  My max out time for a treadmill is 3.0 miles… maybe 4.0.  If I’m running outdoors, I can go forever (well… [...]

My very awesome birthday involved:   Eating a total of three delicious vanilla cupcakes. Tending to a total of five extremely bloody appendages when two Girls on the Run girls collided mid-run and destroyed their respective knees and elbows.  I ended up using the ‘emergency’ maxi pad in the first aid kit because they bled [...]

So – today is my birthday.  I’m 28.  I feel older (note: older, not old) and a little wiser.   This birthday is kind of a weird birthday for me. Something feels different about it… (or maybe birthdays are just not as exciting anymore – damn adulthood).  I actually feel like I should be celebrating my [...]

On the agenda: do the Walk the Dog Workout.  Reality:  Just walked the dog.  Still counts though! As mentioned yesterday, my sciatic nerve (the long nerve that runs from your low back/butt down your leg) is killing me, due mostly to pregnancy weight gain.  Obviously, any sort of compression (standing, walking) makes it worse, so [...]

On maternity photographs   I feel like I’m in the home stretch.  Only 7 weeks to go until my due date… but only 4 weeks until I’m ‘full term.’  Life is going to change, and it’s gonna change SOON!   I officially feel every inch of 8 months pregnant.  I waddle.  I could go to [...]

I forgot to mention my very favorite kind of workout buddy… The four-legged and furry kind! Check out… How to Pick Up Friends at the Gym   I had grand plans to take James on a  long walk this morning – he was definitely my motivation to pull myself out of bed.  But then I [...]

I am so excited because I FINALLY have a swim buddy… DadHTP! I’ve tried for two years to convince a friend to fall in love with swimming, but no dice.  It’s easier to find a running buddy than it is to find a swimming buddy.  But when Dad moved to Charlotte, he promised that he’d [...]