The update on life blog

I must apologize for my absence from the blog.  My life has gotten really crazy.  The responsible blogger thing would have been to stock pile post and have something already in the queue.  I like to blog organically and where as some posts are planned, I do most of my posts based on what I feel like is itching to be talked about that day.  Therefore, I haven’t been around.  Here is an explanation in this video:

My mom had knee replacement surgery so any extra time I’ve had has been spent taking care of business.  The days have been long and stressful and honestly, I’ve just been stretched really thin.  I’ve been trying to keep things moving smoothly.

Just finished teaching my class and now I'm stretching. It's an important part of working out. Do you always stretch? #fitfam #fitfluential #sweatpink #holidaysweat #ffcheckin #webeatfat #weightloss #weightlossjourney #fitness

I’ve also kind of been battling some “injury.”  I don’t know what’s going on but it’s a foot/ankle issue that has kept me from running the way I want to run.  I struggled last week at the Turkey Trot to finish a 10K and I’ve been taking it really easy since then and now I’m just resting and stretching. Do you get in the right amount of stretching after your workouts? I may or may not have been slacking on this.

My foot is a little sore and my shin hurts when I #run. I'm pretty sure this problem is connected. Haven't been able to run full pace since Tulsa. Thinking it was the hills (cause I'm not use to that) or that bad trip I had walking back to the car after t

I’ve been icing like no one’s business.  Normally I wouldn’t care but this weekend is Rock n Roll San Antonio and I really want to be able to run it.  Tomorrow I will make the appropriate decision on whether to marathon or not but today I’m still hopeful.

So what’s the deal with this vlogmas thing?  I am making a video everyday until Christmas.  Some of the videos will be silly and some of the videos will be useful content to you and the blog.  The main goal is to get me creating and thinking everyday.  I’m really trying to push myself to the next level and really build something special for all of you guys.

As for the blog, I’m still here and I’m still blogging.  Things will settle back to a normal routine very soon.  It’s just when life gives me some curve balls there is a period of adjustment.  It takes me a minute to be able to adapt to the new normal but I’m getting there.  I promise.

Have you done your Christmas shopping yet?

My weight loss story: the reasons for losing 200 …

My weight loss story: the reasons for losing 200 pounds

Hello all!  We got in late last night and I’m still not the same.  I’ll be working on my recaps for the Kansas City Marathon and Rock n Roll St. Louis for later this week. Right now I want to talk about losing weight.  I don’t know if I was ever really open and honest about my weight loss and what things were like beforehand.  So I made a video at the beginning of the month that I would like to share with you about my weight loss journey. I talk about dealing with my emotions, binge eating and my…

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Five Things: Success, support, compromise and love

Five Things: Success, support, compromise and love

It’s late but I do have to apologize for not being very present on the blog lately.  Things got busy and this not boing my full time job this is something that kind of gets pushed to the back. Today I’m talking about just some general things about improving relationships, achieving your goals and things like that.  Things got a little serious the other day for some reason but I wanted to share some of those things with you guys. Here is my list of my five things to keep in mind as we go through life: 1. Organization is…

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Five Things Friday: 5?s – Life After Weight Loss

Five Things Friday: 5?s – Life After Weight Loss

Happy Friday everyone! It’s raining here. It’s got me in some type of mood, but life must go on. I am here this week with part II of the video from last week. FYI: This will be the last 5?s about weight loss for a while, probably like 2 months. I just wanted to round up the most frequently asked questions in a video for people to watch. I have a few other weight loss related videos that will hit the queue eventually but this will be the last of these kind for a while. I think you should ask…

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Five Things Friday: 5Qs about weight loss

Five Things Friday: 5Qs about weight loss

Hello all! Happy Friday! Sorry about not having a blog up yesterday, I thought I scheduled a post but I guess I was wrong. That means I’m absent minded and it just left you absent. Have no fear, Angie is here with a new post for Friday. I enjoy doing the Five Things Friday thing but I thought I would change it up with a video this week. I am answering five questions about weight loss. The topic will change from week to week but if you have a question about anything, please feel free to ask me. It will…

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WIAW: Look inside our fridge & eating animal protein …

WIAW: Look inside our fridge & eating animal protein again

It’s another Wednesday which means it’s time for WIAW (What I Ate Wednesday). I’m trying to do different things with food post so this week I’m taking you inside of our fridge. This way I can show you what we’re eating. Take a look at the video: Willie and I have switched off our vegetarian diet for one very good reason. We were coming up protein deficient because it became harder and harder for us to find the foods we needed in our city. The egg shortage has become a big issue and there was never any tofu at the…

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WIAW: This week’s eats and the leftover

WIAW: This week’s eats and the leftover

Hello all.  This week I’m linking up with Peas and Crayongs for WIAW to share what we are eating this week. This week it was all about the leftovers.  I hate wasting food.  The prices at the grocery store seems to be rising so wasting the moolah on food just makes me upset.  Luckily, we had plenty of stuff leftover from last week that I was able to make new this week.  In my opinion, I think it turned out better this week. There is video: Here is a closer look at what we prepped this week: Breakfast is always the same…

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Video this week: drink more water, get motivated …

Video this week: drink more water, get motivated and a road trip

Happy Thursday everyone!  I didn’t do any meal prep this week because it was all up to Willie so I don’t have a food video for you this week.  I’ve been working really hard on these videos and it’s a learning process.  It’s something I feel is adding more to the blog. Here are the videos this week: Drink more water…and add some flava! Keep your fitness appointment because it’s just as important as anything else in your life. Watch and get motivated! And my weekend road trip to Mississippi/Alabama by myself. Boo! Have you tried a water enhancer? Did…

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Keep your fitness appointment

Keep your fitness appointment

Happy Monday!  I hope everyone had a great weekend.  I went to visit my best friends to celebrate a very special birthday.  I hadn’t seen them in forever so it was so great.  Sadly, I didn’t get many pictures but I got a few. The key to life is to surround yourself with good people.  I think I’m winning in this department, finally. I did video…but it’s not ready yet.  The weekend video will be up on Wednesday.  Today’s video is about motivation and keeping your fitness appointments. This morning Willie and I went to the gym.  I did a…

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Five things Friday: videos and running shoes

Five things Friday: videos and running shoes

Happy Friday!  It’s time for this week’s edition of five things Friday, but first I want to catch you up on some things, like my refrigerator. It’s always so promising at the beginning of the week.  We can’t find places to put stuff.  It’s always so full and inviting but organized at the same time. But come Friday morning, it starts to look a little sad.  I opened up the fridge this morning and thought it looked very empty.  At least there’s some oats in there for tomorrow morning.  The good news is, the fridge will be full again come…

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Video: Grocery haul and a lazy meal prep

Video: Grocery haul and a lazy meal prep

Happy Thursday!  I assured you more video was coming and here it is.  Today I’m presenting you with this weeks grocery haul and a seriously LAZY meal prep. Warning this really isn’t how we do it every week but we returned from out of town a little later than planned and this is what you got! And it’s kind of sad that even with a list, we didn’t purchase everything we need. A more complete meal prep session will be coming at you next week but for now, enjoy the video. Just for the recap of what we are eating…

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