Do you find yourself continuously losing and regaining the same 10-15 pounds? If so, this post is for you. I have never been what society would call “thin.” I was born with a booty and curves and I too have lost and gained 10-15 pounds multiple times throughout my life. Weight is something I have struggled with for as long as I can remember and on some occasions it seemed as though I could just look at food and put on 5 pounds. My head spins every damn time I experience weight fluctuations. I go down a rabbit hole trying to …

The skin is the largest organ of the body. Everything we put on our skin is absorbed directly into our blood stream. We can’t control the chemicals and toxins we are exposed to from the environment but we certainly CAN control what we put on our bodies, in our bodies and what we choose to surround ourselves with in our homes. On average, woman use 12 products with more than 168 chemicals in them every morning. These chemicals are hormone disruptors, that is they have the ability to throw our hormones out of balance triggering a multitude of side effects, …

Real talk. I know being gluten free is trendy and annoying. It almost always makes me the center of attention at family events or when out with new friends. I get millions of questions and feel as if I am on trial for choosing to not eat gluten. I could argue all the reasons for going gluten free for days but for today I will stick to hormones. HOW DOES GLUTEN EFFECT HORMONES? Gluten fuels inflammation and in turn makes hormone imbalances worse. Gluten inflames and damages the small intestine, in particular the villi on the surface of the small …

Working from home. Something people don’t talk too much about. Usually you tell someone you work from home and you get the “must be nice.” Guys, I really dislike Must Be Nicers, like as if they are being held captive and can’t do something they want to do. Anyways. What is often not discussed is the challenges, the isolation and struggle to set boundaries while working from home. I have been working from home for 2.5 years now and I am so so grateful! I literally have a moment of gratitude daily for the flexibility and ability to work from anywhere. I wouldn’t …

Well, this is certainly not a blog post I ever thought I’d be writing. Yes folks, I got the Shingles! (queue that lame Shingles TV commercial), at this very moment I have a nice scabbed over, itchy rash starting at my belly button and going all the way up the left side of my torso. Pretty, huh? Good thing it’s February and I won’t be exposing my stomach any time soon because this is quite attractive. Exactly two weeks ago, Sunday, I decided to take a trip to emergency care after a rash developed on my torso on Friday morning. …

You know that feeling. That heavy, uncomfortable feeling right around your waist. You have to unbutton your pants, wear a loose shirt or throw on sweatpants just to feel some sort of relief. You look in the mirror and you appear to be 6 months pregnant without the baby… Sure we have all dealt with bloating from time to time – some of us even daily. And to most of us it has become such a regular occurrence we deem it as normal. I am here to tell you, BLOATING IS NOT NORMAL. Of course sometimes we can over-do it and …

For as long as I can remember I have been so intensely attached, devoted, madly in love with THE GYM. Since college, high school even,  I was always told that I needed to go to the gym at least 5 days a week in order to maintain a desirable weight.  Being a rule follower my whole life I really believed this so much that I have missed maybe a handful of weeks where I didn’t go to the gym since college. That would be 10 years my friends. 10 YEARS OF GOING TO THE GYM AT LEAST 5 DAYS A WEEK. …

We have all done it. We have plans to go out to dinner with family and friends so we go to the gym the morning before in preparation for the excess calories Or the day after a night of indulging and drinking we wake up and make sure we get to the gym to burn off all the “bad” food we ate Diet culture makes us believe enjoying a night out with friends makes us a bad person, holidays make us fat, we should feel guilty and we need to punish ourselves by exercising away all the calories and restricting our …

I had never really been into drinking or going out, not even in college; I was always that girl that ditched parties or stayed in to go to bed by 9pm. I guess you could say I began my “party” stage a little late in the game. I moved to Denver, Colorado a few months after graduating college in 2008, and I felt like the whole world was at my fingertips. So began the weekends of drinking until 2am, devouring pizza, and passing out, just to wake up and do it all over again the next night. With this newfound lifestyle, …