Mom Works It Out by Angela Gillis

Angela August 26, 2018

Marathon Training Week 3: Mollie Tibbetts on my mind

I know you’ve been waiting on pins and needles waiting for my marathon training of week 3, right? The marathon training plan called for four runs this week: 3 miles, 4 miles, 3 miles, and 5 miles. It was kind of a drop back week because I added a mile to my mid-week run. It wasn’t actually meant to be a hard week of marathon training. I don’t know why this week was so hard for me. I struggled to get out of bed. I struggled with every single run this week, but I’m thankful I was able to finish…

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Angela August 20, 2018

I quit the Habenero Hundred 20k

Yesterday I posted about the Habenero Hundred 20k and how I quit the race. Luckily, I was able to jump back in because I learned a lot from this experience. All week, I talked about this race. Excitement was in the air. I shed tears on Monday because when I went to sign up for the race the 20K was sold out and I had to “settle” for the 10k. Ten minutes before the race started, I was able to upgrade my race to the 20K. Ironically, I quit the race at the 10K mark and I just walked away.…

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Angela August 19, 2018

Marathon Training Week 2: A HOT week

Hey all! I hope you’re having a Happy Sunday. I’ve completed my second week of marathon training and I’m here to tell you about it. Now is your chance to read about week one of training. But first, I want to say, I’m not leaving the blog vacant on purpose. I have blog posts on blog posts, I just haven’t finished them. Today, I’m taking the time to work on the blog during nap time to get some of those posts finished. But now, you get to talk about my marathon training. I am pleased to say I had a…

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Angela August 12, 2018

Start of marathon training

You may have missed the news, but I’ve decided to start marathon training. My first marathon post-baby will be Rock n Roll San Antonio. I’ve run this marathon before and it’s not one of the easiest courses, but the time limit, 7 hours, is the thing that is most important to me. My PR on the marathon is 4:49:34 and I know I won’t be hitting that time this time around. I wanted to pick a race that had a “generous” time limit. It’s been a week in my house. I thought I had everything together and was ready to start…

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Angela August 8, 2018

Food Cravings Hurting Your Diet? Sleep Might Be …

Hey all. Yesterday I was so sick and couldn’t make my blog post. Today, I thought I drop a guest blog post on you about sleep and how it affects your diet. I hope you find the information helpful because I sure did. I’ve noticed a pattern in my sleeping and if you follow me on the socials you know my sleep isn’t so great on the weekends. You know why? That’s when I Netflix and chill HARD. This really got me thinking about how sleep and diet are connected. It’s always been one of my biggest weight loss tips:…

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Angela August 3, 2018

About last night’s Made for More movie

Last night I went to see the Rachel Hollis Presents: Made for More movie featuring Rachel Hollis’ two day Rise conference. For my birthday, I bought myself, Girl, Wash Your Face on Audible (and two days later a physical copy of the book). It was the best present I could have gotten myself because it was a life-changing experience. I don’t talk about too many books on my blog unless they’ve really made an impact on me. This is a book that you should read. The book focuses on not letting your past hold you back from your future. Rachel Hollis…

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Angela July 12, 2018

Lazy meal prep is still meal prep

Hello all! It’s been a long week but in the best way possible. I’ve been inspired and motivated to do things. I’m trying to do little changes to help me back in my flow. This week I did do a meal prep but it more of a lazy meal prep. (I’ll be doing some blogging about lazy meal prep very soon.) This week I had enough time to do a little meal prep so I did the things that were easy. I stocked the fridge with the usual fruits: blueberries, strawberries and this week’s new addition, watermelon. It’s been my…

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Angela July 9, 2018

Something is better than nothing

Happy Monday! This morning I had a friendly reminder that something is better than nothing. Obviously, this wasn’t the blog post I had planned for today but this is the message that was meant to be shared today. Last night, I knew I needed to get up this morning to get my workout in. This week is going to be complicated and the only sure thing I know is getting my sweat on in the morning is guaranteed. I don’t want to have the same week as I did last week. It was disjointed and it just felt weird. This…

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Angela July 5, 2018

No meal prep this week

There was basically no meal prep this week. I’ve been trying to get to the blog all week, but it’s always been the last thing. I want to start off this post by thanking everyone for the birthday wishes. Seeing all of those messages made me feel very special. Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Last week I had everything together, this week it’s just been a struggle. It has been an odd week. My birthday was Monday so we went out to eat. Tuesday was just a rush filled day and I got some fish tacos from…

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Angela June 30, 2018

Finished #StreakingwiththeCoolKids

On the first day of June, I set out to run or walk a mile every day for the month with the #StreakingWithTheCoolKids challenge. My motivation to run has been completely gone because I’ve been having some trouble with running since having the baby. I’m slower and it’s frustrating. I guess the only reason it’s so upsetting is that I know what I’m capable of doing. I thought I would come back stronger and faster than I did before, but I was wrong. There’s been some pain with the running too but I’ve seemed to have worked through those issues…

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