Let’s get one thing out of the way right now. 10 days without coffee is pure hell. Pure. Hell. So is 10 days without carbs, sugar, alcohol and dairy. But I did it, and I lived to tell about it. So why put yourself through that kind of torture, you might be asking? Because as 2015 wound down and 2016 …
Lessons from a marathon
Today thousands of runners took to the streets of New York City to run the greatest marathon of them all–The New York City Marathon. I was honored to run it in 2011 for Team Healthier Generation, through the Clinton Foundation, to raise funds to end child obesity in America and to check “completing a marathon” off my personal bucket list. As I reminisced …
Fitness: There’s More to it Than Skinny Jeans and Six-Pack Abs.
So my last post on New Year’s Day was all about being real about the rough year I’d had in 2014 and how I was determined to find my voice again in 2015. It also came with the promise to blog more often. And six months later this is only my second post of the year. So much for more …
Finding My Voice Again in 2015
I’m a professional communicator–it’s what I went to college for and it’s how I’ve put food on the table for the past 20 years. I’ve ghost-written a published book, wrote speeches and press releases for state senators, had articles I’ve penned published in newspapers across Oklahoma and I’ve written blogs in the past where I’ve opened up about weight loss, …