Pink: Try [Music That Moves Me]

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This is my favorite workout song at the moment. I know it’s not about exercising, but Pink is totally speaking to me! These days, I’m really trying to push myself when I workout. Think quality over quantity. But I hate it. With a passion. Especially push-ups. And running. It hurts. I tell myself – “just [...]

100 Days of Weight Loss – Day 5

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Today was a good day. I ate well, exercised for an hour – really pushing myself – and just felt really great all day. We went out to the Olive Garden for dinner and I ordered a chicken caesar salad with no croutons and the dressing on the side. It’s a pretty sad looking salad, [...]

100 Days of Weight Loss – Day 4

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School was delayed by a couple of hours due to yesterday’s snow, so my day started later than I would have liked, but it was a good day nonetheless. Most people have an all-or-nothing approach to dieting, which – at least for me – always leads to failure since there’s no way you can be [...]

100 Days of Weight Loss – Day 3

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Being committed means doing it anyway, even if I don’t want to. And today I didn’t want to do much of anything. It snowed and rained the entire day so we didn’t even leave the house. The girls were home from school, so that was a big distraction from my usual routine of exercising in [...]

100 Days of Weight Loss – Day 1

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It’s 11:30pm on a Monday night, and I can’t sleep. I’m in bed pondering where I’ll be 100 days from now… 100 days from today I’ll likely be packing for a big trip to Mexico. One of my dearest cousins is getting married! 100 days from today, I’ll be celebrating the last week of school [...]

National Learn to Swim Day

Maya, my 7-year-old, just started swimming lessons last weekend. Her first session went even better than I expected. The progress she made in that short 45-minute class was impressive! She went from holding her nose at the beginning of the lesson, to blowing bubbles for a while, and then keeping her head under water for [...]

Staying fit at the office

A guest post by Jonathan Reggolb Now that it’s bathing suit season, moms across the country are slimming down, playing outside with their kids and hitting the pool. But what about all those dads – and working moms – who are stuck in offices all day? Are there things they can do to avoid that [...]

Can You Get Fit after Pregnancy?

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This is a guest blog from one of my Team 4all teammates, Erin of www.themombuzz.com. Erin buzzes parenting tips and product trends, along with blogging about her own fitness goals. There once were two different women and their views on a “mom body”. Woman #1: The first is actually an acquaintance of my husband. She [...]

Weigh-in Wednesday: Week 2

I’ve been working hard all week, hence my light posting. I’m exercising everyday, but not over doing it. I’ve been guilty of doing that in the past, and then quitting because I feel sore, exhausted, burned out. I’m sure some of you can relate. The humidity has really been kicking my butt this week! For [...]

Weigh-in Wednesday: Week 1

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I was supposed to post this yesterday, but subconsciously forgot to hit ‘publish’ so here it is… the first of many. Don’t get me wrong. I weigh myself every week. But I’ve always kept that big number a secret. I don’t even think my mom knows how much I weigh, much less my husband. What’s [...]

The latest from 4all by JoFit

My ever-expanding 4all wardrobe. Love it. I’ve had this particular outfit in my possession for over a month, but am barely getting around to writing about it. Honestly, I’ve been putting it off because I didn’t like how I looked in the photos. I know that’s a shallow reason, but it’s true! If only I [...]

31 in 31

I turn 31 in 31 days. [Okay, now it's 17 days, but when I wrote this, early on the morning of May 2nd, it was 31. I start writing things on my iPad and sometimes they take a while to move on to the blog. Or they never do. The date of my actual birthday [...]