Dealing With Pressure As I'm typing this, it's Monday morning. I woke up this morning when my alarm went off at 4:50, I got up, made my bed and put on my workout clothes. Then I took off my workout clothes, put back on my pajamas and went back to bed for another 2 hours. sleep In the blogging/fitness world, we often pride ourselves on our early morning wake up calls, our miles logged and... (1 views)
To Share or Not To Share Hey everyone! First of all - THANK YOU for all of your amazing comments from yesterday! I don't think I'll be able to get through all of them and respond but I read each one and some of you were so supportive and shared how you could relate, which I really appreciated. Yesterday's post also got me thinking about how much I share, and where the line should be drawn on what... (1 views)
WIAW-Italian Chicken Sausage Soup Halfway through the week, woooohooo! And guess what?! I leave for CHARLESTON tomorrow!!! So excited to head back to SC, have a great time running the Palmetto 200, and hopefully get a couple hours of sleep..? collegeofcharleston Anyhoo, for this week's WIAW I have another new recipe for you! IF you're new to What I Ate Wednesday, head on over to Peas and Crayons to see... (1 views)
BBC Week 3 & OOTD Hey everyone! I hope you're all having a great weekend, I certainly am! Trying to get some work done though to prepare for finals, only two weeks of class left. Seriously, where did the last three years go?? Anyway, it's Sunday so it's time to re-cap last week's workouts and see my plan for this upcoming week. This week was the beginning of phase 2 in Tina's Boot Camp... (1 views)
Weekend Rambles Soooo we're all ready for a fresh new week, yes? I certainly am, that's for sure. Although I had a pretty long and emotionally taxing week (for many reasons, some of which you all experienced as well!) I ended up having a great weekend! My Friday was actually more like a school day, since I was up at 5:15am, off to the gym, had volunteer training at a legal aid clinic and... (1 views)
Intuitive Eating Challenge Review As most of you know, on April 1st I started Jamie's Intuitive Eating Challenge. I explained my dieting/eating history and why I wanted to join the challenge. After spending years stuck in various degrees of a restriction/bingeing cycle, I forgot what it was like to just eat without thinking; to eat when I'm hungry, stop when I'm full, and not have so many rules ... (1 views)
WIAW-Lately Well hello there! If you missed it, be sure to check out my final review of Jamie's IE Challenge, as well as my guest post on A Dash of Meg! So this week for WIAW, instead of showing you a full day of food I'm going to show you a lot of the meals that I've been eating recently. If you're new to What I Ate Wednesday, please be sure to head over to Peas and Crayons to see... (1 views)
Thursday Thoughts Gooooood morning everyone! I hope you're all having a great week! I can't believe how quickly things are moving for me, after today I only have 1 week of classes left! That's 3 weeks to graduation (and 3 weeks to the beginning of Bar exam prep ). Hopefully it will be August 1st before I know it! Aaaanyway, now that my time tangent is over, how about we get on to this... (1 views)
Weekly Workouts & Baking! Hello! I hope you're all having a great weekend! I've got quite an eventful one over here, after Trivia Night with some friends at my school (SO MUCH FUN), we celebrated Lindsay's birthday as well this weekend and now I've got a 5K race out in the suburbs this morning! First let's take a look at last week: Sunday - REST Monday - Workout A + Cardio intervals Tuesday -... (1 views)
The Race That's Good For Life 5K Recap Hey everyone, I hope you all had a great weekend! I had a pretty awesome weekend, lots of time with my friends, including a fun 5K! There may have also been some nut butter making thrown in there somewhere too On Sunday morning, Lindsay, Kelsey and I headed out to Oak Park to run the Race That's Good For Life 5K! The race is put on by the Oak Park Runners Club, which... (1 views)
You Do You. As I mentioned in my review of the Intuitive Eating Challenge last week, I'd yet to have my final phone call with Jamie. As I picked up the phone, I was prepared to talk about the rough week I'd had, eating-wise, how I'd let stress and emotions get to me and just been a mess all around. When we started talking, however, food was not mentioned once, intuitive eating was not... (1 views)
Thursday Thoughts Hey everyone! I hope you're all having a good week! Mine is good but busy, lots of classes, work to be done and appointments. I have to be honest, I'm getting nervous about finals starting next week! I think I'm mostly nervous about my motivation to study very much Number one goal: PASS. Ah stressing me out, okay, let's move on to Thursday Thoughts so I can stop thinking... (1 views)
May Goals So I'm a couple days behind on this one, but you all can forgive me, right? Since it's the beginning of a new month it's time to take a look at how I did on my goals for last month and then make some new ones for May! Warning: May goals aren't too thrilling I've got a crazy busy month coming up so I'm trying to keep it simple! Here's a recap of my goals from April: 1.... (1 views)
Weekly Workouts-BBC Week 5 Hey everyone, Happy Monday! I hope you all had a good weekend! I spent a lot of time studying over the weekend, but I also had my first kickball game which was a great way to take a break for a few hours, meet some new people and have fun! And then back to studying haha. At least I've done this so many times that I don't stress myself out too much about it at this point!... (1 views)
WIAW-Lately! Since I'm apparently now awful at taking pictures of everything I eat throughout the day I managed to get a few and then everything goes downhill. So here's another WIAW lately post! I'm also super proud I got a little food prep in this weekend! I chopped up veggies for snacks, got a bunch of salad ingredients from the bulk bins, made brown rice and quinoa, made my own... (1 views)
Thursday Thoughts My brain right now: alskdfjpas8yg98w3rtqwkjfnash;odivaos[hwo3hrkwjdfnas;odvi0wehownfas;divh08y0yas d s[89[83 woiedf 082y3[08ry[23. You're welcome. 1. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. Why did I take so many classes with finals my last semester of law school? I have friends with NO finals and I have four and paper. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. ... (1 views)
Nic Cage Goes to Trivia Night Sooo it's finals right now and I have very little to actually share with you beyond studying and my brain isn't really functioning in a normal matter. That being said, I thought I'd provide you with a funny post today. A couple weeks ago I helped organize a trivia night at my school for an organization I belong to and I asked some of my friends to come and support me.... (1 views)
Weekly Workouts- BBC Week 6 Hey everyone! I hope you all had a great weekend and a good mother's day! I've been doing a little studying, a little relaxing and just trying not to get too overwhelmed! I've taken 3 finals so far and I have one 24-hour take home this week and a paper to write and then I'm DONE! AHHHHHHH. I can't handle it. Alright, let's get on to my weekly workout round up, shall we? ... (1 views)
KLUTCH Club Box Review I mentioned this a while back, but I was contacted by KLUTCHclub to become and affiliate and review one of their boxes. I'd head a lot of things about them so I wanted to give it a try! So what is KLUTCHClub? KLUTCHclub is a health and wellness subscription box company where each month they send their members a box full of supplements, nutritional bars, healthy snacks,... (1 views)
WIAW-Crazy Busy Day Hey everyone! I hope you're all having a good week! Today at 4pm I pick up my take-home exam and I have 24 hours to complete it, so by 4pm tomorrow I am DONE with law school! YAY! Haha just have to survive the next day and a half and hopefully pass all my classes fingers crossed! Today's WIAW post comes from Monday, a day where I had a chiropractor appointment and then I... (1 views)
Thursday Thoughts HEY! Popping in real quick before I head to Starbucks to work on this final! 1. I forgot to post this picture back when I took it in March, but I figure it's just as amusing now. This was on the news when I was in Kansas City. Not just on the news, but this was labeled BREAKING NEWS in Kansas City. Good job, KC, good job. (1 views)
Happy Birthday to My BFF My best friend in the whole world (sorry to whoever is insulted by this) is turning TWO years old today! She was once this tiny and cute: And now she's all (well, sorta) grown up! And for her birthday (yes, I realize I've written a whole post about a dog's birthday) I am going to say all the things I love about Molly. Yesterday I took her to the park and we ran... (1 views)
Rent the Runway Review As you all know, last weekend I headed home to Kansas City for my cousin's wedding. Many of you commented on my dress, and today I'm going to tell you all about my experience getting that dress from Rent the Runway! Disclaimer: I was not contacted by Rent the Runway nor compensated for this review - I just wanted to try it out and did this entirely on my own. So what is... (1 views)
FitBit One Review I was provided with a FitBit One by Verizon Wireless to borrow and review, product was returned. As always, all opinions are entirely my own. I'm sure you've all heard of many different activity trackers out there, anywhere from Garmins, heart-rate monitors, and those that you wear all day, like FitBit and Body Media Armbands. Well, I was given the opportunity to use a... (1 views)
ABCs Ashley tagged me an ABC survey on Monday, so I thought I'd join in and fill it out! I always love getting to know a little bit more about other bloggers, so I hope you enjoy! A. Attached or Single? Really? First question? Single. B. Best Friend? That's hard with friends from different parts of my life, so I'll start with my friend, Maddie. We've known each other since... (1 views)
Fake it till you make it This weekend I had a conversation with someone about confidence; specifically, confidence at work. However, I think it could be applied to all areas of our lives. We were talking about my job search and I told him I felt like I was unqualified for most of the jobs that I was applying for. I told him I'd always felt like one day the veil would be pulled back and people... (1 views)