HAPPY MEALS!!!

No not McDonalds... well I guess it COULD be if thats what you chose. When I say HAPPY MEAL though I mean a special meal that holds NO GUILT, it makes you feel happy, knowing you have EARNED it by eating clean and exercising. Many of you are probably on this clean eating life style change (just like me!) and it can be HARD. Sometimes you miss those old junky foods, and that is A-OK! Cheat meal may sound familiar, but that implies doing something bad. You shouldn't feel bad! You should feel HAPPY!

The BIG question here is this, how many are okay per WEEK?

ONE!!! The answer is ONE!!! Not one a day, not all weekend, ONE happy meal/cheat meal per week! 

To keep your clean eating lifestyle on track I want you to PLAN out those HAPPY meals EVERY single week! Even when you feel like you have become a pro with the meal planning, know ahead of time when you are going to have that special meal. What happens if you slip up? Do you get to still have that "planned" happy meal?.. Nope! You sure don't 

You are at Day 17 now and really at your breaking point, breaking bad habits that is. Keep working at it every week and it will come. Do your best to fight the urge to over eat or turn back to a bad diet.

TIP: A lot of the time HUNGER is really caused by THIRST- quench your thirst with something special. For me, my go to is canned naturally flavored sparkling water. There is just something about the bubbles that I love! My favorite is La Croix Peach Flavored.

Clean Eating 101- The Outside Aisles

I've been working REALLY hard on my clean and healthy eating the last couple months. At first I felt like I was eating raw carrots, celery, fruit, and poached/grilled flavorless chicken, fish and turkey.. like every day! I missed my old favorite foods so I started creating NEW versions of the same old favorites.

WELL after lots of practice and pinteresting* I have come up with some great recipes, substitutes, and daily rules to eating clean and staying healthy.

What is CLEAN EATING? Its eliminating bad chemicals that come from packaged/processed foods and getting back to the basics. Creating a nutrient rich, fat burning system right inside your own body!

If you are struggling to figure out GOOD and TASTY healthy/clean eating then join me to learn how 

I will be hosting a Clean Eating Facebook Group with a friend starting Sunday the 13th. The group will last 6 days and cover everything from grocery shopping and meal prepping to eating out. 

Add me on FACEBOOK and request to be added to the group ;) 

There is a reason "WHY" behind everything we do. Today I want to share with you all the reason I became a Beach Body Coach and what drives me to keep doing it.


SO I WANT TO SHARE A LITTLE (BIG!) STORY ABOUT ME:

6 months ago I was newly married and eager to start my family. After working for years and years as a nanny I knew I DID NOT want to have a nanny for my kids. However, I was EAGER to start my family despite having a plan for when babies came. So my Husband and I decided we would just figure it out as it came, we went off birth control in December and tried for a couple months to get pregnant.
Come beginning of March we found out that we were EXPECTING! We were both SOOO excited and could barely keep it to ourselves. Anyways.. fast forward a few weeks- something wasn't right. Something felt off. After a week or so of intense cramping I went to see the Dr and found out that I had a "blighted ovum", which is basically when an egg implants and starts to form but the embryo stops developing very early or not at all. Well, we were super disappointed.

I had a few options for how to move forward- we chose to wait it out and try to let things happen naturally. Well that didn't happen, so we did the next most natural thing and took pills to induce a miscarriage. That didn't work either.. so we tried it AGAIN, and this time it worked TOO WELL.. anyways, over the next few weeks I was in and out of the hospital OVER and OVER, including 2 trips to the emergency room, 2 D&C's, & an overnight stay.

Needless to say, this was SUPER stressful and EXPENSIVE, as I missed two weeks of work for recovery after the OVERLY traumatic miscarriage. In the end, it took me 2 months to fully miscarry and go back to a normal life. During this time I had a lot of time off form work to reflect. I realized that I needed to stick with my original game plan of being more financial stable before having kids, and that I had to come up with a way to be financially stable AND work from home so I could spend my days with my kids and fur babies, and not leave them with a nanny or in daycare.

>>ENTER BEACH BODY<<

I had pondered the idea of coaching a few times and even looked into it a time or two and talked to my coach Kati Heifner about it, but didn't move forward. Then one day I saw this AMAZING opportunity for a 21 day coaching accelerated group from some of the best in the whole company. I JUMPED RIGHT ON IT! I always knew that I LOVED helping people and was interested in health and nutrition. Something just clicked and I knew this was for me! I had seen what my coach could do with the business in 3 short years and I WANTED IT BAD!

So here I am now, 2 months into coaching. My business is growing quickly and I'm eager to pass it on and help others do the same! My goal is to go FT with my coaching and leave my nanny job by May 2015, this WILL HAPPEN!
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This brings me to my WHY! WHY did I decide to coach and make this change in my life? Because I want to be healthy and fit for my family, I want to be financially stable, I want to work a job that I LOVE and provide for my family. Most of all, I want to work from home where I can raise my kids at the same time.

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I'm sharing the story with you all because I want to inspire people to go after their dreams and turn them into reality. I also want to encourage others who have gone through this same thing to PICK THEMSELVES UP and keep going! Find the positives in your experience and let them lift you up higher!