Hey guys! How’ve you been? Did you have a Happy Valentine’s Day? I got to spend mine with my 3 beautiful little ladies – we went for a nice dinner and at home I treated them to pedicures. I soaked their feet, trimmed their toenails and painted their cute little toesies 
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Happy Valentine’s Day my Mamavation Sista’s!! This is my Mamavation Monday post for February 13, 2012. How have you all been? Sorry about not posting last week, I was busy decontaminating my house from the nasty viral infection that attacked my family (I think it was either norovirus or rotavirus). Whatever it was, …
For the past month my brain has been consumed by a HUGE project that I’ve been working on, in addition to designing and maintaining the new site Fitness Collaborative (which I’m sure you’ve heard me mention a few times ). I’m one of those people who needs to be constantly thinking about a challenge -…
Unfortunately yesterday I had excuses. Yes – after all of my talk about how I’m going to do the 30 Day Shred, I dropped the bomb and didn’t do the video. Thankfully my shredding buddies did – I’m so proud of them! Aren’t they awesome?! But me – ahhhhh!!!! I didn’t workout! I could tell…
Lately I’ve seen a lot of things in the media about size and health. First there was a pictorial in PLUS Model Magazine that stated that models bigger than a size 6 are now considered in the industry to be plus-sized, and that the average runway model has a BMI equivalent to those with anorexia:…
Hey guys! This is my Mamavation Monday post for January 30, 2012. Tonight is the #mamavation Bootcamp Campaign 11 Launch Twitter party, and yours truly is honoured to be a panelist! I love these twitter parties for the opportunity to discuss all things health and fitness with you, so please join me (@fitcheerldr) tonight at…
Rise and grind my friends! It’s MONDAY, and y’all know what that means…. It’s time for yet another instalment of Motivation Monday where I share with ya my thought/motto/mantra for the week, a summary of last week’s training accomplishments and my goals for this week. Last week I really buckled down with my training for…
It is often said that it takes 30 days to form a pattern and 90 days to form a habit, but as Jim Ryun says, “Motivation is what gets you started. Habit is what keeps you going.”
So how do you get motivated to do things like run and keep to a training schedule?
This past fall, my hubby’s favourite uncle suffered a heart attack. He’s fine now, but he’s had to make A LOT of lifestyle changes, and has missed quite a bit of time from work, and from his family. When we got together with his wife at Christmas, the family had a big discussion about nutrition…