Fixing the Engine

I remember seeing a hateful comment from someone back in 2014 that went something like this:  Swim Bike Mom has this fast bike, but she’s so fat it’s not like it’s going to translate to any speed. Yeah, okay. So that one stung. But then I remember thinking:  Well, you’re a jackass, speed is still speed […]

The Best is in FRONT of Us

Maybe your past has kicked your ass. Maybe life feels like it has taken you for a ride, then let you out of the car and run over you several times. Maybe today feels so hard, so confusing that you have no idea which way is UP. Maybe you have no earthly idea what or […]

A Fat Heart

This week has felt like one giant lesson in focusing on what I can control–and letting the rest go. [And coming from a control freak, this is a really hard thing to do.] I have spent the last twenty-seven years more or less on some sort of a diet. And like someone who escapes a […]

Use YOUR Yardstick

Progress is a funny thing. Progress is also difficult thing to define. (Yes, really). If you are training for triathlons as a wife and mom of three kids, and spending time away from your kids, is that really progress? What if you are working on your marriage so damn hard that you never hit your […]

How to Get Back on the Wagon

Here’s a simple way to get “back on the wagon,” after a month (or a lifetime) of eating “bad food” and drinking “bad things.” Just don’t get on a wagon in the first place. (I’ll explain.) THERE IS NO WAGON.   I hear, every so often, someone chime in and say: I have fallen off the wagon, and […]

Teetotaler

And it’s here. Today marks one year without a drink, and I celebrated with my “teetotaler” tattoo. On this day last year, when I decided to quit, I had not crashed at rock bottom. But… I HAD crashed into the bottom so many times, my life was like a trampoline—up up up, boom? ! Up […]

Look Beyond

This morning I ran a half marathon in the Cayman Islands (I know, poor me!). And that report and full amazing trip details to come. But I am writing this post about something else. And not something Cayman Islands-centric, either, although the events of the morning happened to happen on Cayman. This particular something hurts […]

Why “Moderation” is a Poo Emoji

This morning on the trainer, I was listening to Rich Roll’s episode with Andrew Taylor…and this Andrew guy is interesting because he’s known as the “Potato Man.” Basically, Taylor was 300 pounds and decided that he’d had enough… So he committed to eating NOTHING BUT POTATOES for a year. “Okay, so that’s a little weird.” […]

“Not Giving a Sh*t is a Way to Have a Terrible Life…”

“It does not take any courage to say, ‘Nothing is going to work.’ What you are really saying is, ‘I am afraid to try. Because what if I try and I fail.’ The hipster approach is to say, ‘I don’t give a sh*t.’ But not giving a sh*t is a way to have a terrible […]