Water, water, water

Are you drinking enough water?? If you watch my stories you know I drink one of these huge yellow cups of water before my coffee or breakfast in the morning and then I have another around lunch. I will have another or if I am working I’ll get a 33 oz water.

I used to never drink water. I would go from coffee to soda to coffee to maybe a water then. 

I was tired ALL THE TIME. I thought it was lack of sleep or some kind of depressive state or doing to too much for to many people. 

Then I started reading about hydration as I was learning to become a healthier version of myself. I learned all that coffee and soda was probably a big part of my problems.

I was dehydrating myself. So I started drinking 8 glasses of water a day and keeping track of my progress in my planner. 

Almost right away I started to feel a difference. As soda and coffee consumption went down my water consumption went up. 

I am drink about 100oz a day and if I get less in I can feel it the next day.

Do you drink enough water?? How much in day??

Do you compare yourself to others?

Well stop!

I know easier said then done.

I know it hard with all the perfectly staged social media posts to think I am the only hot mess express out there.

Guess what your not! I am a proud member of the not mess express club.

I mean how can I not be??? I am a mom of two kids, I am my dads primary caregiver and my husband works fulltime with an on call schedule and overtime. I also work part time outside the home and I am working on growing my health and fitness coaching business. Oh and I am really bad at saying no. So I take on way to many things at once.

I am here to tell you today you may not shine like the sun but tomorrow you can as long as you keep trying!

Some days you will rock at whatever you are trying to achieve(even if it just getting out of bed). Or you can be like me.

The other day I thought I was rocking the mom thing. I had the kids doing workbooks, outside activities, an experiment and a craft. I even had my youngest BBF over for the fun. Then while taking C's friend home I realized the time and had to turn around pick up my son and take both girls with me to T's orthodontist appointment. We arrived I was told we were late and that the appointment was at 2pm not 2:15 like I had wrote down.

So I started out shining like the sun. Then hit a snag and it clouded over for minute. Did I let it stop me? Nope I shook off my feelings being inadequate and moved on with my day. I wasn't going to let that hiccup ruin all the good from the day.


Celebrate those days you shine and celebrate those days you don't because when the sun shines again it will be brighter and sweeter!

Me vs. my fridge

Your probably like why are you taking a picture with your fridge 🤔

It’s not to show off my handle list of kids chores I have going on.

It’s to remind myself that I have to work harder at my relationship with the food inside. 

I need to keep this appliance filled with foods that won’t derail my goals. 

I need to keep it cleaned out so I don’t have to dig for the foods we need to eat.

I have to be better about using leftovers! It will help us have less waste and keep our grocery bills down!

Anyone else have these similar goals?

#healthyeating #fridge #cleaneating #mom #wife #caregiver #sandwichgeneration #savingmoney

Front door refresh

I did a thing!

I have wanted to change the color of front door since forever! I was reluctant because we have the traditional looking white siding, brick and black shutters. I was afraid that maybe a door color wouldn’t work or stick out to much.

But I decided I don’t care. This is our door at our house and we can do what we want!

I had some @mudpaint leftover from another project and grabbed my paint brush and transformed our front door!

I love it!! Next up changing out those brass lights and mailbox to complete the transformation.


#diy #frontdoormakeover #mudpaint #Refresh

My life summed up in one picture

My life summed up in trip to the pharmacy.

I am sandwiched between pull ups(only at night) and adult diapers.

I have been a parent and my dads full time caregiver for 13 years. 

Some days I am like I got this! My kids love their granddad and he loves them.

Other days I am like I am crazy. I am barely holding it together parenting and then slide in xyz adult caregiving  problem to the mix for fun.

I know this is the path I am supposed to be on but some days when you walk out of a pharmacy with pull ups for your child and your dad it hits you that you have a crazy life!

#mom #wife #caregiver #sandwichgeneration #stuckinthemiddle

Ultimate Reset is Complete!

I can not believe these past 3 weeks have flown by!

I also can not believe I completed this program.

I was scared that I was going to start and then give up since it is such a detailed and regimented program. But I found the opposite true. Having it all laid out for me made it totally doable and I also had the support of a group of other coaches and challengers doing this with me at the same time. I needed that support and accountability. It was nice to have people to listen and chat with about what was going on with myself during these past three weeks. My husband and family were also a huge support! I could have done it without them having my back as well!

I was never hungry and the recipes rocked! I am planning on using a lot of the recipes again and share them with my family. I love that this program was so rich in food and not about starving or drinking just shakes. I am a type 2 Diabetic and I need to eat! Through out these three weeks I monitored my blood sugars and they were always in a good range. I also had my blood pressure taken at my monthly doctors appoint for my Diabetes and it was perfect. something that was slowly creeping up even with exercise.

Week one meals.

Through these three weeks I felt great. I had lots of energy and had some self growth. I had some stressful days and I was able to deal with those without turning to food. I by no means was always perfect on the Reset. I had a few things that were not approved but I did not over do it. I did not eat a excess. I tasted and moved on. That is huge for me! Food has always been crutch and now I see food as fuel not something to help cope with the crazy of my life.

So here are the results 11 lbs and 13 inches are gone!

Now to submit my results to Beachbody and see about my free tshirt for completing this program!

Thanks for reading and all the support over the past 3 weeks!!!

Ultimate Reset

So I decided the other day that I will be doing the Beachbody Ultimate Reset in the month of June.

The ultimate Rest is a 21 day reset/detox with lots and lots good food! I feel at this point my body needs this reset.

While I have lost 20 pounds since January I still need to work on my nutrition and I think this will help me lose some of my bad eating habits.

So stay tune for regular updates!