Diet Smart

*Disclaimer: I am not a Registered Dietician. All of the information presented below is what I have learned as a Kinesiology major and an overall health and nutrition enthusiast. ——————  As some of you may know, I quit eating meat back in December. It all started because I was hungover from celebrating my 22nd birthday, … Continue reading →

A New Way to Work Out

Let’s do a quick recap, shall we? Rewind all the way back to last Thursday… [Photo Credit: Yessenia Carrera**] [Photo Credit: Yessenia Carrera**] Yessenia was gracious enough to agree to take corny/cheesy pictures of Mayra and I. They were graduation-esque pictures and a lot of them were supposed to be of us in our cap … Continue reading →

Running Like a Spring Chicken

It just has not been my time in internet-land for these past 24 hours. Long story short, upon trying to submit my 200-point, 2 hour final online last night, the internet cut out, forcing me to get into an email argument with the professor and having to take it again. Taking it a second time … Continue reading →

FitFluential

“A growing family of fitness fanatics spreading a positive, healthy message year-round. FitFluential is Fitness Found.” I recently became a FitFluential Ambassador– which pretty much only means that I get to use the FitFluential hashtag on Twitter and call myself a FitFluential Ambassador. But, almost as if the universe registered me as FitFluential, these things … Continue reading →

What I’m Loving Lately

I wish I wasn’t so technologically challenged so that I could figure out how to upload the Daily Mile widget to this site… that’ll have to wait for another day because Yessenia has a bunch of finals this week. I have a bunch of finals too, but I’ve lost any and all motivation to continue … Continue reading →

My First Half-Marathon: A Recap & a Journey

Hopefully you can see that! If you click on it, it will enlarge (I hope!) Those are my half-marathon stats. Here’s the breakdown: Mile 1 was pretty much downhill so I was coasting down at about a 9min/mile pace and whizzed by the 2:15 pace girl and decided to slow the eff down. Stephen cruised … Continue reading →

Pictures, Updates, & a Karma Cleanse

Not one, but TWO separate bouquets I got from two different tumblers this past weekend for the second Tumble Show at the Park district. So great! One of the bouquets was from Bella and her family. I love this little girl with my whole heart. She’s been struggling with being adopted and feeling out of … Continue reading →

Let’s Talk About Birth Control

If you don’t like reading about menstrual related business- skip this post 😉  ———– After what seemed like the baby-craze in the blog-world (almost every single blogger that I follow(ed) was having a baby, had a baby, was trying to have a baby, etc) I started to raise my eyebrows about my birth control. A … Continue reading →

Whey-ing My Protein Options (Ha!)

I wrote this post last week and forgot to post it- woops- so here it is: Intuitively, I am doubting my RMR. I don’t know why, but I just feel like something went wrong. I know, SHUT UP ABOUT MY FUCKING RMR ALREADY. But no.
 How am I burning almost double the amount of a … Continue reading →

Tricky, Little Bitch

I’m waiting for my food to digest before I head out to do a speed workout… The past couple of days I have been extremely frustrated with my body and my eating- and then it hit me this morning- I am PMSing. (Sorry, dudes.) For all of you ladies out there- I seriously sometimes forget … Continue reading →