While driving the other day my husband, David, started talking about a recent Ricki Lake show about the imperfect side of motherhood. Some mothers talked about feeling the pressure to be the quintessential PTA mom, losing your personal identity and being stressed about the responsibilities. He was inspired to write a blog about, “A Husband’s Advice on the Top 10 things that stress their wives out!” Being a blogger and a mom myself – I personally didn’t want to publish…
The origins of a Cover Model
February 26, 2013February 25, 2013 For the past ten years I’ve been writing “Cover of a Magazine” as one of my top three goals.When I was nearly 150lbs I knew it was far-fetched. When I was pregnant three times in a row, I knew it was impossible. Yet, whenever I had time to sit in silence and write out my goals, I always longed to be on the cover of a magazine. To me, getting a cover was an accomplishment. After all,…
How to Start a Mom-me Fitness Group
February 25, 2013When I was pregnant with my first son, I saw a First 5 Sacramento flyer at our local mall. The flyer encouraged groups targeting children 0-5, to apply for small grants up to $5k. The First 5 Commission receives funds in accordance to Prop 10, which mandated a .50 tax on tobacco products to be used to fund early childhood development programs. Since I was a writer and was already familiar with grant writing via my nonprofit, I decided to…
Mommy Fitness: Sick! Sick! Sick!!!
February 21, 2013At church on Sunday I started feeling warm. My body felt achy and my head felt heavy. We had a full day planned with business shopping and preparing the care home for furniture arriving on Monday morning. I’m usually a sport when it comes to ‘getting things done’ – regardless of how I’m physically feeling, but I needed to lie down and place blankets over my shivery, achy body. My body temperature was 101.5. Leaving church. Last moment looking cute…
10 HighSchool Fitness Tips.
February 14, 2013I was 17 years old in this picture. If you are in high school these are my Top Ten Tips on how YOU can become a fit mother one day. These are tried-and-true things I did when I was a teenager. It prepared my body for motherhood and it will prepare yours also. I didn’t buy school lunch. Bring your own bag. Most of the foods in my cafeteria were pizza, fries, deli sandwiches, fried chicken sandwiches and baked pretzels…
Following my Passion.
February 13, 2013February 12, 2013 I started my fitness career as a part-time personal trainer in college. After college I became a membership sales counselor then a fitness manager and a group exercise director. After working for a high-end, independently owned fitness club, at 23, I decided I wanted to work for an international company (utilizing my degree from UC Davis) and get hired personally by the CEO, because my relationship with the owner was important to me. At that period in…
Fitness Role Model: Lori Ann Hare
February 5, 2013Have you never met someone, but feel like you’ve known him/her your entire life? That’s how I feel about Lori Hare. Some of you know her as the admin of the “2013 No Excuse Mom Challenge”. She is inspiring, motivating and challenging. In January 2006, she emailed me about a question regarding strength training. A book she read advised hour-glass-shaped people to not weight train because of their genetics. I wrote her back (as I usually do eventually) and told…
The Ethics of Elderly Care
February 5, 2013February 4, 2013 I never thought I would be in the elderly care business. Growing up my father worked for the San Francisco Police Dept and my mother was a state worker. While we had a fair upbringing, my ambitious mother always yearned for more. I watched her entrepreneurial efforts working as a consultant for various multi-level marketing business’ but it wasn’t until she finally pursued her goal of opening her own business when our family began to flourish. I…
Mommy Fitness Blog: My Daily Schedule
February 2, 2013I have a back injury. It’s a re-occurring injury on the left side of my lower back. I think I pulled it while carrying the baby in his carrier one day. After all, I’m often distracted and moving my body in awkward positions doing different things like trying to hold two children’s hands while crossing the street with a heavy baby carrier in tow. For the past couple weeks I’ve been walking around the house with a heating pad strapped to…
Clean Eating: Cauliflower Pizza
January 30, 2013I’ve been wanting to try Cauliflower crusted pizza for a while. The first time I attempted it I used my Vitamix to make “cauliflower rice” but ended up making it into mush and created cauliflower mashed potatoes that evening instead. I was determined to make this work, so a few days a later I took a cheese grater and grated the cauliflower (making 2 cups worth of cauliflower rice…which means I doubled this recipe below) so I had enough to…