The Healthy Life

The truth is, stress isn’t just a necessary evil but rather something that we actually use as a positive stimulus. We go to the gym so we can put our bodies under stress to make them stronger and fitter. We fill our calendars with activities to keep ourselves busy, social, and intellectually challenged. And, if anyone out thinks that having kids will bring peace, calm, and quiet into their lives is either (a) lying, or…

In my nature, I am an all or nothing personality. It’s something I think has served me well in certain areas of my life, but in many ways has hindered me, as well. When I was a competitive athlete, this quality was what kept me disciplined and committed to my training and programming. It had me viciously dialed in to a nutrition and recovery plan. I had a routine that my body, and even my…

Long story short-ish, Wednesday night I started having stomach pains so bad I was in tears from, basically, 6pm until Ben dragged me to the ER against my will around 9pm. Finally around 3am and after urine, CT, and ultrasound testing, they found a functional ovarian cyst that likely ruptured and was about the size of an egg. In all honesty, the pain was like being in active labor. You know, like that pain when…

What’s funny is that despite me having gone to graduate school for a masters in Accounting and Business, I am still one of those people who knows she is getting totally played by retail companies that let you know how much you saved so that you can rationalize making typically irrational purchases. Who am I kidding, though? It’s not even the times like when Nordstrom Rack will tell you you saved something like $855 on…

Look, I am trying. Ok? It’s just that there’s no room on the cool girls bus for me because high waisted leggings just (a) make my torso look the same length as my 4 year old’s, and (b) give me the worst camel toe. And, to confirm for me that I just need to stop trying, Ben has made it loud and clear that I don’t look good in them. He also isn’t a huge…

Maybe the best thing that came from the most recent nutrition challenge I participated in at CFNE was my newfound relationship with alcohol. Now, I am an all or nothing personality. I hear about how dangerous chemicals are in so many of our cleaning products, so I remove every one of them from our home and start experimenting with recipes to make everything from laundry detergent to toothpaste and body wash. I start weighing and…

I may not be on the coaching staff at CFNE right now, but I still can’t get away from the perspective that a coach has when taking a class. As an athlete in a CrossFit class, I notice EVERYTHING: the way a coach moves around the room, how they use their voice and body language, whether they actually make quick corrections while running through warm-ups, if they use people’s specific names when addressing them, the…

I am about as impulsive as they come. Seriously. If I were an eskimo standing in a grocery store line, I’d probably buy a block of ice if it were sitting right there next to the gum and Tic Tacs. Wait, is that the analogy I was thinking of? My brain is so dead I can’t even. You get what I mean. Actually, maybe you don’t. Start over. So, I’m impulsive. When something flashes across…

It was about 45 minutes before Bode’s bus was going to be here for me to pick him up when I had to make a crucial game-time decision: Do I or do I not have enough time to get the grocery shopping done and still make it to the bus stop on time? I went for it, dammit. I just. Went. For. It. I whipped through that grocery store like a rock star…not that rock…

  While we’re on the topic of “things that Heather is bad at but making an effort at improving on”…even though we’re not really “on the topic”…but, in my brain we are…here’s another. I had yet another pseudo-breakdown with Ben the other day over my age-old struggle with getting everything done in a day that I want or need to. The school year is a tough time for me, and most every other parent I…