• Revealing an insecurity.

    May 19, 2014 My once-flawless skin is now covered with scars, traces of an acne breakout I’ve undergone for the past two months. In the age of social media, we don’t often share the…

    May 19, 2014
  • Nightline Prime and ‘the body wars’

    April 6, 2014 *** This is an open-letter to Sara. The mother I met in Kansas City, Missouri *** Dear Sara, Thank you for inviting me into your home and allowing me to follow…

    April 6, 2014
  • The No Excuse Mom Movement

    March 29, 2014 I just interviewed with ABC Nightline. They followed me for nearly two days while I prepared a potluck dish for my father’s birthday party, cooked my boy’s breakfast (in my sponge…

    March 30, 2014
  • 25 Things I Don’t Do.

    Often time people want to know what I do. It gets very boring to tell others I workout for an hour five times a week and eat small balanced meals containing complex carbohydrates, lean…

    March 9, 2014
  • Building the American Dream

    February 27, 2014 Patience is a virtue but it isn’t my best virtue. When my husband and I first became pregnant I wanted to purchase a home. After all, creating a residential nest egg…

    February 27, 2014
  • 10 ways to melt the Muffin Top

     I still remember the days when I had a muffin top! I was very self conscious in form fitting dresses and tight tops. My vision was to confidently wear a tank top and jeans…

    February 14, 2014
  • A Rebel or a Revolutionary?

    January 28, 2014 Exactly ten years ago I was featured in Oxygen magazine’s “Future of Fitness” section. I had just won Miss Bikini California and placed top five in two national fitness competitions. At…

    January 29, 2014
  • Becoming a Hero of your Home

    December 31, 2013 I received a painful email tonight from a couple moms featured in my 2014 No Excuse Fit Mom Swimsuit Calendar.  I felt their words as they described hurtful comments people made…

    December 31, 2013
  • 10 words of Advice for New Year’s Resolutions

    Two days left before the New Year. Do I do resolutions? Absolutely! The New Year is a time to reflect on 2013 and DESIRE to do better in 2014. Whatever excuses that prevented you…

    December 30, 2013