Updating: Changing things up!!

So I started this blog about a year ago... I had just started at Integrative Nutrition and I was so excited to fulfill my dream of going to not only Nutrition school but my number one choice school. I was so ready to know everything about food and to be this Professional Health Coach.

Words could never express my gratitude to IIN and all they have taught me! It was truly one of the best experiences of my life!!  They also taught me a valuable lesson of "be yourself" and do what you love.

I love talking to people about Health and Nutrition but to be honest I always kind of felt this heavy weight to never make a mistake and to always be very very professional 100% of the time.... Unfortunately with that attitude it kind of made me fall out of love for it... The intimidation and the I'm not good enough were too tough to handle.

Enough is Enough 

I am going to love this again and the first step is to be me 100% So here I go!
I love to laugh and be really silly especially  with my husband Seth. We are expecting our first and being a mommy and wife is number one priority in my life!

 I love all kinds of music from all eras. I grew up on 70"s rock and old country songs so those are most dear to my heart. I love to meet new people. I love talking to strangers and when you get to know me you'll learn that I am approached very often, it is awesome. I love art and history. My mom is an amazing painter, decorator, and has been making and painting ceramics my whole life I love doing artsy stuff with her. I am very out doorsy, I love to play sports and working out. My favorite exercises are swimming, running, yoga, and kick boxing! I taught yoga and was a personal trainer from 21- to present. I would love to be Turbo Kick, PiYo, and Turbo Hip Hop certified sometime in my life! Now with that you probably think I am stick thin ummm NO! I do not want to be either. I love feeling good and being in shape a number on a scale means nothing to me! The numbers I look at our blood pressure, cholesterol, and how I feel!!!

I fell in love with exercise at a very young age. At three I would be sitting in a little rocking chair doing sit and be fit while my mom folded laundry. As I got older it did get a little harder... I have always been very muscular and it felt like no matter what I did I just kept getting thicker. Nothing worked until I trained for a triathlon. I learned that I have a lot of extra energy and when I burn it through intense cardio it is this amazing endorphin fueled high! I have never been the same since. Also, through that experience I lost 60 lbs in a few months... I never ever thought of wanting to get thin. I was doing it all for that joy it brought me and how amazing I felt. Now if I could help people find that "high" and joy in their own life that would be an amazing life to live!

That is what I want to do, just help people see that being healthy and happy is not a chore, it is not a status, it is a way of life and EVERYONE is different!!

Confessions:

I eat what I want, what sounds good to me! I cook from scratch and I use local range free organic ingredients. There are scientific proof that eating organic and local is very healthy. I do it because I feel better. Often when I eat "cheap" meat or dairy I do not feel well after. I do it to feel good.

I eat bread, cookies, cake whenever I want to! If I want it I make it myself from scratch! I feel if I have gone through all the work I deserve it! Now, I don't eat every cookie in the cookie jar, I always give to a neighbor or freeze my left overs.

I do not drink caffeine. I stopped when I was 19 by choice, I was drinking like 10 diet cokes a day and I knew caffeine was not good for you so I gave it the boot. I was soda free for a few years but now I do have a soda every blue moon. I do not do diet it contains aspartame which is an addicting sugar and you are not to have it when you are pregnant. I kind of think if you are not suppose to have it pregnant probably should not have it even when you are not. I often have soda to help settle my tummy and every blue moon I like it cause it is yummy. I do not drink alcohol Ever so I figure if I want to drink some calories sometimes I am allowed to via soda.

I very rarely eat out. That is usually a date night thing and a vacation thing in our family. We also rarely have fast food. We first established this rule right after we got married to save money then we learned we are pretty good cooks and can make it at home even better!

That is me!!! I am a fun silly girl that loves to laugh and enjoys every moment of life and if I could do anything with my life for others it would be to help them find their joy, happiness, and health in their lives!! 

This is me and my hubby. It takes hours to take family photos cause all we want to do is be silly. We have finally learned those end up being the best pictures! Life is too short to take everything seriously is probably one of our main family mottoes...


Have a Healthy Happy Day!!!
xoxo Jenn W.