Mom Works It Out by Angela Gillis

Angela September 28, 2016

WIAW: A typical day of eating

Want to know what I eat in a day? Today is your lucky day because I’m going to share. I should have shared this a while ago because a TON of people would e-mail me asking to me to make videos about what I eat in a day. I will tell you my eating habits haven’t changed much since I’ve been preggers or been on my weight loss journey. This is pretty straight on as before. I may just eat a little bit more on some days than others, AND I might want to eat some pizza little more often.…

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Angela September 22, 2016

The case of: Peanut butter and jelly oatmeal

I may not have talked about it a lot lately, but I still love oatmeal. There was a mild obsession with it a while back that has become a full-blown obsession now. I ate oatmeal every day until I got preggers and then for some reason it has to leave my life. I’m happy to report it’s back in my life…a lot quicker than eggs. I’ve been an oatmeal snob. I can’t eat other people’s oatmeal unless I have the same ingredients as my special concoction, but this morning I tried something new. Introducing for the first time: peanut butter and…

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Angela September 20, 2016

Pregnancy and the fitness instructor

I wanted to write this post last Thursday but I couldn’t bring myself to do it. I stopped teaching my cycle class last week. I’ve heard the stories of people teaching until their 8th month or teaching right up until the end. I made a promise to myself that I wouldn’t stay in that long. The truth: I could have kept teaching my cycle class, but I chose to leave for one reason. Yes everyone knows that I’m pregnant and is very understanding about it all. As time progressed, I knew I couldn’t keep up the way I once did.…

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Angela September 14, 2016

Air fryer has changed my world

When I got pregnant my number one craving has been chicken. I want chicken strips and mashed potatoes (well potatoes of any kind) all the time but those little strips can pack a lot of calories. And having french fries on the regular isn’t that healthy either. I’m really trying to stay away from that stuff. Then I got to thinking about an air fryer. I watched the infomercials many times and I was intrigued but it wasn’t enough to make me want to get one. After all, do they really work? Does it really require no oil or little…

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Angela September 12, 2016

The struggle is real but…

The struggle is real to workout, eat right and just stay focused. But there are other things in life that we all struggle with that sometimes makes things seems harder than usual, right? I’m here to tell you to not let the struggle take over you. The struggle is real but you can get through it. Sometimes we see struggle as a sign of weakness in ourselves, but we must realize that struggle is a natural part of life. Without the struggle, we wouldn’t appreciate the joys of accomplishments. Without the struggle, we definitely wouldn’t look back at the road…

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Angela August 31, 2016

Tips for training for your first marathon

I’m currently on running reserve but I still think about running almost every day. I have a lot of friends running marathons for the first time this fall and it got me thinking about my first marathon…and then the official first marathon. I wanted to share some marathon training tips for your first marathon. Realize that training for a marathon is time-consuming. It’s not just something you can blow off and it takes some serious commitment and there is a sacrifice of time. If you don’t start off knowing this, you’re going to be in for a rude awakening. The…

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Angela August 29, 2016

Nothing is impossible

It’s been said that Willie and I accomplished the impossible by losing so much weight and working hard to keep it off. I never saw it was something as impossible. I never saw it as something that we couldn’t accomplish in time. I never saw it as something that we couldn’t achieve. Nothing is impossible. Some things may take extra steps for achievement or may take longer than we may like, but you will still get there. Think of it as a ladder, you start at the bottom and work your way to the top one step at a time.…

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Angela August 20, 2016

So we’re having a…

Blogging has taken a back seat in my life because I just haven’t been feeling well. My planning day for the blog was spent resting. It just hasn’t been a 100% week for me. I hope y’all can understand. Baby is fine and growing well. I know everyone wants to know the baby’s gender: it’s a girl! There were some problems with the rafflecopter so I’m going to have to pick a winner the old fashioned way. I’m feeling a lot better today so hopefully this trend will continue. I’ve still been doing my workouts but a person can only…

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Angela August 16, 2016

Should you tell people you’re on a …

Let’s talk about weight loss again for a minute. I’ve been contemplating the subject of telling people you’re on a weight loss journey when you’re starting and it’s really opened my mind. Of course, Willie and I did tell our friends and family we were embarking on the weight loss journey. We’ve been discussing this a lot lately and we wouldn’t have told people we wanted to lose weight. We should have just done it. Willie and I aren’t attention seeking people so we felt like it put a little bit more focus on us. That is a one of…

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Angela August 12, 2016

Guess the gender, win a HEADSWEATS trucker

I thought it was time to have a little fun on the blog. If you missed the memo, I’m pregnant. We will find out the gender of the baby on Monday evening, so I thought it would be cool to play a little guessing game. To win a lovely Headsweats trucker hat, you have to correctly guess the gender of the baby and then your name will be put in the drawing to win the hat. The contest will end Wednesday, August 17 at 12:01 am. These hats are my favorite so I thought I would share with you. Meanwhile,…

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Angela August 11, 2016

Recipe Roundup: My need for chicken has reached …

Hello all! I hope you know what I’ve been doing: working out, working and watching the Olympics. There is no surprise there. I thought today I would do a recipe round of chicken recipes because my need for chicken has gone to all new levels. It’s the one thing I haven’t steered far from during my pregnancy so I do spend a lot of time looking up delicious recipes to try at home. At our home, there tends to be an leaning towards an asian profile in our foods. This would be something we would eat on the regular. Korean…

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