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Two Meatballs: Third ball ‘s a charm!!!!!

August 5, 2015health, fitness, beauty, motivation, plus size, make up, hair, hairstylist, oribe, bumble and bumble, MAC Cosmetics, comedy, Paleo, besties, best friends, meatballs, exercise, life change, lifestyles,twomeatballsgetfit View all 2 comments

Hey guys. It’s Jenny. This two week break, has felt so long!! But it really gave me time to reflect on my life, and live in the moment a little bit more. When I’m writing the blog regularly, I’m constantly thinking about what I am going to write about. I started to really struggle to find healthy things to write about. But since I was able to step back, i can see more clearly now. My life has changeddramatically !!!!! I am more impressed with my husbands transformation!!!

He may have started this lifestyle change with me in mind, but now I am really glad he is doing this for himself. Those days of mindless soda drinking have come to a screeching halt!!! His only grocery demand is bottled water. He watched every documentary about health, and found his own passion for his health. He started having a new dialoge with London about healthy living. I couldn’t be more proud of Brandon . And he is still losing! I’m so grateful, to have him in my life. I couldn’t do this without his love and support. No more late night sweet treat runs!!!!

Not to mention, the amazing, and probably best haircut of his life (wink wink 🙂 ) has really had an effect on his overall quality of life!!! Haha, right????

anyway enough about me!!!!! I’m so glad we are in this together.

So now it’s time for dinner!!! Paleo chicken cutlets please!! Always an Italian girl!! And they tasted just like my moms!!!!!

Dipped my my chicken in egg wash, then in….

almond meal

Salt

garlic powder

parsley

and cooked them up in olive oil!!! With a salad on the side. So goooood. And the. We finished with a watermelon eating contest!!! This little nugget kicked my butt!

We love to eat together!! And eating is great when it feels this good. Nothing makes me happier the when my honey and my baby are all eating so well, happy mama!!! i have never been this engaged in my own health. I have thought about my personal health every single day for the last year and a half. That’s a first for me. I didn’t realize the level of denial I was living in before. I’m so grateful to take on the challenge. Today was a good day! Today was full of peace. One day at a time. Love you guys!! So excited to be posting again!!!!! See ya!!

Two Meatballs: Let It Gooooo, Let it Go!

August 4, 2015health, fitness, beauty, motivation, plus size, make up, hair, hairstylist, oribe, bumble and bumble, MAC Cosmetics, comedy, Paleo, besties, best friends, meatballs, exercise, life change, lifestyles,acceptance, big changes, cloud nine, Feeling good, motivated, no more scales, pumped, the journeytwomeatballsgetfit View all 4 comments

We’re back you guys and it feels so good!

Thank you for indulging us and letting us enjoy a decadent two week mental and spiritual vacation from writing. We were both feeling very stuck and crushed by pressure and lacking ANYTHING new or exciting to talk about. But over the past two weeks we both really reinvested into ourselves and came out the other side feeling recharged, refreshed, refocused, reconnected, positive and powerful. We got back to our breakfast meetings!

So now what? We can’t go back, because we want to move forward. Tonight Jenny came over and we discussed where we want the blog to go and what we want in life. First we meditated together using my new favorite app Headspace and it really helped set the tone and help us be mindful and present. Then we snuggled and chatted it up about what we’ve learned individually over the past couple of weeks.

Here are Jenny’s revelations:

Jenny said she has turned a corner and is feeling a more positive connection with food, she doesn’t have the sugar dingers going off (no obsessive cupcake tormentors), everything doesn’t have to live so tightly in a box, I have the freedom to make the choices I want to make in peace, I want to feel good in my clothes, in my body, in my spirit, I don’t want to be number obsessed, calorie obsessed or even self obsessed as I can easily live in my own mind. I don’t want to go over and over all the decisions I’ve made and critique them over and over. At the end of the day I just want to be happy and I’m happiest when I’m just living in the moment; making the best decisions for my family but most importantly the best decisions for myself. I am so grateful for all the support I have in my life. I have the best family in the world. I have all the knowledge to make positive decisions. #happygirlsaretheprettiest

Here are my revelations (this is Sara haha)

I want more balance. I want to feel more connected in my own life. I want to stop replacing one bad decision for another. I want to feel my feelings not just think my thoughts, and to stop operating outside of my own body. Obsession is really big for me as well. The scale has been haunting me and the unnecessary pressure that I put on myself is actually making me move further away from health. I want to be less obsessed with the end result and more in-tuned with what is happening today. I Want to put healthy food into my body and healthy thoughts into my mind. I want to be less militant and more accepting of myself and others. Everyday I want to remember how grateful I am and how happy I am. I am so thankful for everything. I want to keep exploring and trying new things and meeting new people and taking care of myself. I am so grateful I get to do this with my best friend.

We are so glad to be here on every level. This is such a part of our lives now that it keeps us focused. These last couple of days we really started reconnecting bc we knew it was time. It just feels good. We think about it every single day. We both missed writing and wondered what it would be like to write again. We both wondered what it would be like to be moving forward again. We both find ourselves getting pumped up by reading old posts and reminiscing over old photos. We look forward to loving our pictures again. And motivating ourselves. I think it’s all boiling down to progress not perfection. Lets really take the pressure off, put the scale up for awhile and let our clothes do the talking. Before this journey we both would have quit when it got this hard. After all, we are learning this is so much deeper than losing weight. But we are so committed to this life that it feels impossible to quit. This is our life and we are very grateful. Nobody said it would be easy. We’ve never been in anything this long before and we both still want ti this bad, the ups , the downs, we still feel so present in this journey to conquer this road block in our life. That in and of itself feels like a huge success. You guys, we are still here and ready to rumble despite or in spite of our weight gains and health hurdles. Jenny said the goal is not 135, the goal is now to find peace with the decisions that you are making and I couldn’t agree more. Health is our goal. Happiness is our goal. Feeling good in our own skin is our goal. Inspiring ourselves and others is our goal. Kicking ass and taking names is our goal. Really getting to know ourselves is our goal. Living life limitlessly is our goal. Being active is our goal. Putting healthy things into our body is our goal.

We’ve done things we could have never imagined. We became Fleet Feet personalities, we bared our souls to strangers, we had nothing and we shared everything, we got naked and put our actual weights out into the world, we have continued to work out no matter what, our meatball nation feels like they really know us even if we haven’t met, we have been so honest about everything, we did group fitness which seemed so scary before, we juiced we gave up pasta and bread and sweets, we found out so much about the deeper underlying issues, we watch documentaries on the toxic chemicals in food, I got sober, we’re not running or hiding from our own life. We put such limits on ourselves, we were so controlling and missing out on so much. We have really accepted ourselves and the challenge. We are strong, we are unashamed and we are changed people. We both had anxiety about any social situations (for Jenny it was her body and for me it was anything new; would I fit into the booth!?). Now we are so much more comfortable and free in public. We now have a different dialogues in our minds or with our families. London asks how different foods are going to affect her. Jenny and Brandon are in a better place. I feel like I am such a more empathetic person and so willing and wanting to experience all that life has to offer.

So in closing, we have changed. Thank you for growing, moving and changing with us. We have learned that our boundaries need to be flexible and changing. We want to get better everyday. We love you so much and we can’t wait to keep exploring this! Cheers to the future!

Two Meatballs: Explore the Future!

July 16, 2015health, fitness, beauty, motivation, plus size, make up, hair, hairstylist, oribe, bumble and bumble, MAC Cosmetics, comedy, Paleo, besties, best friends, meatballs, exercise, life change, lifestyles,#hikelly, exploring exercises, hiatus, less goal oriented, life wife, mental vacay, ready for change, soul searching, weight losstwomeatballsgetfit View all 9 comments

Hi everyone!

The universe is telling us that change is on the horizon and we are going to go with it!!! It’s time.

We got very hooked on a one track path to healthy and now we need to explore our options. We are both feeling a little defeated, uninspired and overwhelmed!

We are going to take the next two weeks for Sara’s lungs to keep healing, for us find new exciting ways to stay active, find more ways to connect to each other and ourselves and really just looking for the inspiration and drive we need to push us forward. We are saying goodbye to the “back on track” mentality because we don’t want to go backwards we want to move forward and words are powerful. We are bored with ourselves

so we know you must be bored with us!!! Yeah right, we’re adorable!

We also want to be less goal obsessed and enjoy the process and take some of the pressure off. This is the rest of our lives afterall!

Which brings us to our next topic…the weigh ins! We love these, especially when things are going well. But, it takes about week out of the month to plan, execute, shoot, shop, edit, upload and write the posts! That really makes us feel like we only have 3 weeks to show progress and as you know lately there hasn’t been any…so sad!

So we are going to start quarterly weigh ins!!! We feel really excited to actually see and feeeel some progress and feel less pressure and find the fun again!

Our next weigh in will be November 1st and we are pumped to explore all the world has to offer and get to know ourselves and what we want a little better. So thank you for everything and we can’t wait to tell you all we’ve discovered on August 4th. Enjoy your summer and we will see you on Instagram!

Miss you already!

These Meatballs are feeling powerful and inspired! It feels so nice to feel reconnected and on the same page. Love wins.

Two Meatballs: i love to hate you!!!

July 15, 2015health, fitness, beauty, motivation, plus size, make up, hair, hairstylist, oribe, bumble and bumble, MAC Cosmetics, comedy, Paleo, besties, best friends, meatballs, exercise, life change, lifestyles,twomeatballsgetfit View all 3 comments

hey, it’s jenny. dont you have that one person in your life that gets to see your pissed off side the most? For me……this “safe person” as I like to call it, is My husband Brandon. I can sometimes be most quiet around him. I can come home from work and start unwinding immediately, so much so that I forget that a simple hug when I get home, makes all the difference in the world. Physical touch is not my love language . And human interaction can sometimes be the last thing I wAnt after a long exhausting day. What I m not saying to him is ………work was frustrating, I still see the garbage sitting out, my weight loss sucks, I need to work out, we need to save money, our future is weighing on my mind, London is sick and up all night, I have a hair splinter in my foot, I should shave my legs tonight, you hang out with your friends a lot, and what the fuck is that smell?!?!?!

So yeah, my body language sucks. and guess what….he is not dumb….he knows!!!!!!!

I can can get a little to comfortable in this state. It is hard then to get out of the weird funk!!! I don’t hate Brandon, I love him, but some how becomes my target of frustration.

This is just the beginning of poor communication. So on top of this. Brandon and I are usually pretty good at letting the other have down time on their own. My time has always been spent either at the gym, or an easy going girls night in! Where we literal sit n the couch, laugh our asses off or get into the greatest conversations of all time.

I have been pretty good at giving Brandon the same respect and time. But for some reason lately when I have been at home this is the image I imagine when Brandon is out with the guys.

and sometimes wake up to this

I have not reason to be mad. Everything is fine. Why do I have so much resentment???? And not value is down time? Is it because Brandon is doing exactly what he wants On his own time? While my time is spent sometimes just checking things off a list. Well all of these feelings came to a boiling point as we were sitting on the couch in my pissed off state of mind.

As soon as the communication Was in full swing, I began to remember Brandon is on my team!! He reminded me I need to do things that make me happy. When he asked me what made me happy, the first thing I said was, my health!! Funny thing, that makes Brandon happy too! It is easy to forget you do have things incommon. In my dream world Brandon and I would spend our time working out together!!

It would be so fun. But it just doesn’t work for our schedules. We both thought this would be a great way to reconnect. Well if we can’t work out together, I want to invest more in my health. So Brandon encouraged me to check out this place called, orange theory. It looks like something I would really like.

This looks like the kind of workout, that would get me excited again! I’m so over going to the gym and doing the same old shit. And I am kind of ready to invest more in my health, these days.

Soo I would I love to make orange theory happen.

Why do I always forget to talk about everything?? As soon as we put our guns down, we are actually really great at communicating. Ahhhhhhh…. Hopefully we can arrive at this peaceful and harmonies place faster in the future. So as far as Brandon and I, we decided to start a book club. And I get to pick the first book!! We are both “unique” readers, so two chapters a week right now, is the expectation. We both like reading, but our distractions make us forget that. So soon our evenings may look, a little more like this.

These talks are so important. I instantly felt refreshed and at peace. I love knowing why I married this guy. My cheerleader in life! The next morning, Brandon even checked in with me, to know if there was anything else I had thought of to do in my spare time to make happy. Support is everything!! And so is communication.. I hate when we get so far away from it!!!! Well my big take away is…do you!!!! It is not being selfish. It’s staying healthy. Love u B!! Brandon thanks for letting me air out our dirty laundry on here!!!

Two Meatballs: G is for Grateful

July 14, 2015health, fitness, beauty, motivation, plus size, make up, hair, hairstylist, oribe, bumble and bumble, MAC Cosmetics, comedy, Paleo, besties, best friends, meatballs, exercise, life change, lifestyles,30th birthday, accepting limitaions, calm, family bbq's, finding you inner peace, healing, hi kelly, i love you all, it takes the time it takes to get over pneumonia, kristina turns 35, meditaion, outdoor parties, peace, tears of joy, thank yous, therapytwomeatballsgetfit View all 6 comments

Dear Meatball readers, friends, family, coworkers, clients, Fleet Feet Employees, friends we haven’t met yet, strangers:

Thank you from the bottom of my heart. Thursdays post about addiction was scary to publish. But you made me feel accepted, loved, warm and not alone. I actually feel like a huge weight has been lifted and I feel lighter than I have in a very long time. And you guys, have you tried therapy!?! It’s the most amazing thing. And look how cute this place is!

This is how excited I was to go!

I learned so much about myself and how important it is for my physical and mental health to find calm and to be present. She helped me see that my health issues (the pneumonia and these sad little lungs) are something I have to take seriously and I have to accept the limitations or I will be doomed to repeat them! I have an appointment with a pulmonary specialist at the end of the month which feels productive and powerful! I just couldn’t feel more positive and hopeful about this journey. So what better than to get together with my family which is my absolute favorite to celebrate my cousin Kristina’s birthday! She is the living best and the youngest looking 35 year old I’ve ever seen!

Look at these cute invitations that my mom made! We had the party at her house! And as always she decorated everything so adorably!

We had a cookout and everyone brought a dish!

I made fruit kabobs!

Chase and I played some serious Bolleyball as he called it! Everyone was having fun running around and playing outside!

Until it was so hot you had to find refuge inside! #simpsonsclue

My mom had a great idea to have all the families take a pic in a picture frame…look how cute!

Sooooo fun and what great pictures! Then it was time for the main event! Cake and presents and singing and all the good stuff!!!! Time to gather everyone on the porch!

Time to celebrate the wonderful human that is Kristina!

And of course the most amazing dessert that my mom made!

What a day!!! Kristina, you are such a wonderful person. You are so shiny and bright and happy and fun and funny and your laugh makes me so happy! You look so fantastic! You make 35 and motherhood look so amazing. You deserve to be celebrated all the time. I love you and I hope your birthday was as amazing as you have always been. Xoxo forever. I think Kelly put it best…sisters by choice!

After the night wound down and everyone left, the boys started begging me for a sleepover and Chase of all people instigated it which LITERALLY never happens, but we had been super best buddies alllllll day! We ok’ed it with Kelly and had such a fun night!

Fake bargaining!

Genuine excitement!!! I love my family so much! What a wonderful weekend with so many people I love! Love you all and thank you again!

Two Meatballs: My Name is Sara and I’m an Addict.

July 9, 2015health, fitness, beauty, motivation, plus size, make up, hair, hairstylist, oribe, bumble and bumble, MAC Cosmetics, comedy, Paleo, besties, best friends, meatballs, exercise, life change, lifestyles,addiction, coping mechanisms, i need help, positive, thought i could do it alone, wrongtwomeatballsgetfit View all 23 comments

I’ve discussed my partying nature before, but just recently the word addict has really sunk in with me. I always felt like a binge drinker. I have always led an excessive lifestyle. I have overindulged most of my life with food, drinking, drugs, smoking, shopping …to name a few. So when I made the decision to quit drinking and smoking last February, I found it shockingly easy. So easy in fact that it was always difficult for me to label myself an alcoholic. That is because, I am an addict. Jenny likes to call me an Enthusiast! #sosweetlovethepositivity And when you’re an addict, you just replace one vice for another. So, I replaced drinking and smoking at the time with blogging, paleo and workouts with Sandra. I had something else to throw all of my ambition towards, and thank goodness something positive this time. But what I didn’t learn from quitting drinking on my own was any coping mechanisms. While things were going great, my new addictions were really feeling great. I was looking at a new, sober and healthier version of me in the mirror and I had found an online voice and support system for getting healthy. I even had a platform to advocate for self love and body acceptance. I was literally on top of the world and experiencing a whole new type of high. Then my boyfriend dumped me, I got pneumonia and my Grandma Apple, the love of my life unexpectedly passed away within a few months of one another. Throughout this time of sobriety I have had to really feel lots of feelings without any means to suppress them. But this was a shit storm of the worst sadness and pain and depression and loss. I never knew that I was a comfort eater, but eating became my new drug. It became my happiness and my only means for survival. I was medicating with all that I had left…terrible processed shitty food. I was literally filling a void with food. Before I would have filled that void with alcohol and taken a much needed vacay from my own mind and crushing sadness. But that was no longer an option. And eating certainly wasn’t quieting the voices in my head or soothing the overwhelming feelings that would wash over me daily. It honestly just occurred to me last week that I was even an addict. I have come down with pneumonia for the second time this year and I knew I had to face facts that I couldn’t cope how I did last time or I would gain another 40 pounds. Being this sick again is depressing. I was talking to one of my old clients Kayce Payne and it all kind of came out and she said, well the one benefit of receiving help while recovering from addiction is that you learn coping mechanisms! I think I’ve had such an epic backslide with my progress because I haven’t really dealt with all of my issues. I really thought that i had processed everything so healthily and publicly and it had been so cathartic to start this new life, but I am not equipped for disaster….which ironically all started with a disaster. We survived a tornado in ’88 which ripped apart our home and town and my sense of security, at the age of 6 (more on that in a later post) which caused mad anxiety and fear, I needed comfort fast. I started overeating around this age. Eating was comforting but I needed something to quiet the fear. I had my first drink when I was 10. My first cigarette when I was 11. My first joint when I was 13. I became obsessed with sleeping aids (tylenol pm, nyquil, etc) around 15 or 16. By the end of high school I was dabbling in prescription and illegal drugs and drinking very heavily. College just fueled my junkie nature. Luckily I had enough sense to avoid heroine and meth or I’d likely be dead. I quickly dropped out bc I knew nothing good was going happen at college. Over the next decade I partied as hard as anyone could handle. However, the drugs became a thing of the past and drinking became my precious. I’m not sure why I thought I would’t need any help disengaging in a life I had always known, but I went at it alone and I am now understanding the consequences. My current addiction is medicating with food…and Pure Barre. So one good, one bad. I need to seek out help to help me understand balance. I don’t want to OD on Pure Barre, I want to love it forever. I also want to make the mental connection that that Zebra Cake is not going to make me feel any better…its going to make me feel infinitely worse. I also find that I can’t handle negativity as well as I used to. Before talking shit was just talking shit, then you got wasted and remembered nothing the next day. I know lots of people who can spout it out and move right along, unaffected. Now, it really weighs on me so heavily. Part of that is because I have actually changed so much. Because of my job and being a mentor and a coach, I need to see the best in people and it is literally my job to build people up and not tear them apart. But also, negativity and shit talking feeds a very dark side of me. #scorpio Negativity begets negativity and it casts dark clouds over my personal horizon which I much prefer to be sunny. It stays with me and it tinges my view of the world. I want for people to feel so good when they leave me, not depleted and worthless. So, I am asking for your help. 1. if you have a psychiatrist/psychologist/life coach/counselor /guru that you are in love with, please pass along their info to me!!! sbiddy5@hotmail.com 2. How do you positively cope with tough times, you can also email this or just comment at the end of the blog! 3. How do you get into medication, yoga, all that kind of stuff!? I want a more connected life. 4. If you are a person in my life, even if we have been shit talking commiserators in the past, please relieve me of this duty! I can’t handle it and I’m not always strong enough to walk away from it on my own #addict and I really want to make a change. If you need help or advice, I’m still your girl! I really feel like I am understanding myself and the world and my place inside of the world so much better. I really want to thank you guys for always being so supportive. I really hope that this is the turning point for me to find my way back to the path that I have chosen: a healthier life. I’m not sure if I realized how much deeper this would get than food and exercise! I love you all so so so much. Also, I’ve really been enjoying working out with so many friends, clients and family members! Please let me know if you want to do something active together!!!! Xoxo I can’t have another post with no pics, so here are some things that have been inspiring me lately or at least making me laugh!

Two Meatballs: 4 day va-cay 4 the 4th!!

July 8, 2015health, fitness, beauty, motivation, plus size, make up, hair, hairstylist, oribe, bumble and bumble, MAC Cosmetics, comedy, Paleo, besties, best friends, meatballs, exercise, life change, lifestyles,twomeatballsgetfit View all 2 comments

I love 4 day weekends!!!!! Amazing!!!!!!!!!

So much much time to spend with my family.. Which is much needed. I sometime suffer from the full time working mommy blues. My mommy guilt can be strooooong! It sucks, and I am beginning to learn guilt is the most useless emotion ever. Right Sara?!?!? So I want to make sure I spend as much quality time with my people as possible during my 4 days off. Sooooo day number one……day trip to Wilmington!!!!!

i love taking London to the beach. This is her happy place for sure!!! She is constantly keeping busy, and completely fearless.

Of course she wanted to be Ariel !!!!! Who dosent??? Am I right ladies? We had the best time. Hopefully we will be going back soon.

On the 4th of July brandon, London and I headed downtown. Ohhhh and surprise surprise ….London spotted face painting immediately!!

Omg. Something new!! She usually picks a cat…a pink cat. A butterfly!! Great

This kid love rides. She saw this thing and was determined to go on it with brandon!!

This was kind of a big kid ride! And she loved it. So funny. I was waiting on the side waiting to see her just lose it. Nope. She had her arms in the air, talking it up with daddy.

Later that evening we got got some fro yo!! I had the smallest bowl of plain strawberry! That felt like success.

The next day, we were at the pool all day. I was beginnjng to look extra crispy, and extra blonde. So then I started dreaming of darker days!!!

One day! Not today. i will not be easily persuaded by her youth and beauty!!! Haha. Yes I will!!! You know what gets me focused ??? Working out!!!

So I am hitting the gym during my little break. I always feel great after the gym, guilt free!! Any time I have free time and I don’t go to the gym I feel a little disappointed. I hate that! Soo I went, and felt fucking strong!!! And I came home and snuggled with my chicken nugget!!

Happy 4th of July!!! The struggle is real. One day at a time! Healthy life! Happy girls are the prettiest!!!

Two Meatballs: Nanners Gets Hitched!!!

July 7, 2015health, fitness, beauty, motivation, plus size, make up, hair, hairstylist, oribe, bumble and bumble, MAC Cosmetics, comedy, Paleo, besties, best friends, meatballs, exercise, life change, lifestyles,Fools Rush In, hi kelly, Jibri Online, Meredith Chapel, Second Empire, Uber, uh oh paleo, versona, weddingstwomeatballsgetfit View all 4 comments

What a week this has been! Love won!!!

We had our 16th weigh in,

I had a fabulous vacation with my family

and I had the living best date night at Anna and Adam’s wedding with my meatball, my bestie and her family and so many old friends! Also, we took our first Uber to the wedding!

We got ready at my house and my dream came true…we were inadvertently twins!

Then we arrived at the Meredith Chapel and immediately ran into The Tedrows!

Jeanne and Katie were searching for a bathroom and lets be honest, I can always pee! Look who we ran into…the groom! Hey Adam!

He knew Jenny from the blog and I think she was relieved to not feel like a total stranger at an intimate wedding! Then we had a photo op and quick alterations clinic on Katies dress!

On the way back in we saw Sunny Jim and Farmer Joe and our super best buddies for the night, Anne and Bobby! Time to cozy up in the pews #p-ews

This last picture is Bobby’s signature move! The oh, I’m sorry, were you trying to take a picture!?

It was 1000 degrees in the Meredith Chapel! I was stuck to the pew and it made a hilarious ripping noise as I stood up trying to snag this pic of Anna Martin #imablogger

Fail!!! Which is such a shame bc she looked incredible! Then it was everyones favorite time..dah da da dah! Look at sweet Anna with good ol Steve!

This was such a beautiful, short and sweet wedding! They were both smiling the whole time. I loved every second!

Jenny and I talk about wedding turrets (is that spelled right!?) Whenever it is quiet and serious, I get the giggles! And I want to weeeeeeeehw! And whoop it up during the kiss! I’m always a fan of a slow clap! So fun!!! As soon as they were announced man and wife, we all met in the hall! AS Jenny and I waited to sign the guest book, I locked eyes with Adams mom Linda! I don’t think we had ever actually met over their 11 year courtship, but it was like we had always been friends! Linda said she was a meatball fan which only fueled our friendship! Love you Linda!!!! It was so great meeting you! Xoxo. Back to the action…look at this epic group pic!

Since we Ubered it to the wedding, we asked Anne and Bobby if we could bum a ride to the reception! And they obliged! These are two of the funniest people I have ever met!!! We cracked up the whole way to Second Empire, which Bobby was convinced was an epic Chinese restaurant! Hahahahaha. We had an impromptu parking lot photo shoot! I mean somebody look at us!

We were ushered downstairs to a cocktail hour…I chugged water like nobodies business!

#dammitbobby

Then the happy newlyweds came in!

Then Jenny and I couldn’t pass up this staircase!

We ran into Anna’s mom, Paula in the bathroom. What a joy this woman is!!! Everyone should know Paula. Finally it was time to find our table…table 4! This room was gorgeous and the flowers were to die for!

I got to sit in between my besties and with all of our buddies!

Then the speeches started! Anna’s dad, Adam’s dad, Anna Martin and Anna Martin’s dad all made hilarious and touching speeches!

Dinner was amazing…a delish salad, steak with collards, asparagus, and mashed potatoes and the wedding cake was red velvet!

Before you knew it, the night was over!

Anna!!! What a gorgeous bride and an amazing night! Thank you and Adam and y’alls family and friends for such an amazing time and thank you for letting us be a part of your big day and fun reunion…who knew we knew all the same people haha xoxo!

Katie! I love you and can’t wait to see you again!

Lets always be best friends!

And Jenny, thanks for being such a fun date #wooooLibras and sleepover buddy!

Love you all, and I love love!!!

Two Meatballs: Beach, Please!

July 2, 2015health, fitness, beauty, motivation, plus size, make up, hair, hairstylist, oribe, bumble and bumble, MAC Cosmetics, comedy, Paleo, besties, best friends, meatballs, exercise, life change, lifestyles,beach, beach please, don't be a beach, move beach get out the way, shark down for what, what a beachtwomeatballsgetfit View all 4 comments

It’s that time of year again! The annual Beard week at the beach!!!! I look forward to this week so much every single year. I love the beach and love the uninterrupted family time…I mean a whole week with my nephie nuggets!? #heaven Before we left, I made it to Pure Barre a few more times and saw so many friends!!!! #meetmeatthebarre #newdatehotspot I love exercise dates!

Soon fun! Then, we drove down to the coast on Fathers Day and as I waited in line for the key to our getaway, I found this!

v76 by Vaughn, our mens grooming line at Samuel Cole Salon and part of the Luxury Brand Partners family, reposted my ode to my dad! I could have DIED right then and there. And honestly, look at that picture. I clearly adore my dad and always have. We are so alike and so different. We get along so well and so easily. We fight when we need to and then its over and we are stronger for it. He has taught me so much and it’s so nice that our relationship has evolved into an amazing friendship! JB, you are the ultimate. I am so thankful to have you in my life and so lucky to call you my dad. Who gets to be this lucky?! Love you. #clankclankclank #mygymbuddy #wheresthecheese?! #imtheleastveinpersoniknow #maintainyourlane #sufffffahhhhh #youryoungyoullgetoverit #idontorderdessert #beardsforlife #peytonsplace

Once I recomposed myself, we got our key and arrived at Summer Winds! This time we rented a place we had never been before…and it WAS GORGEOUS! Everyone threw on a bathing suit and headed down to the pool!

At first I thought this pic looked like I was birthing Wyatt, but now I like to think he is launching me in the air ala synchronized swimming style!

Then we went down to the beach to poke around…you know, look for sharks! Even though we brought down so much food to be healthy, it was already 6 and no one wanted to fire up the grill! So we went to El Zarape and enjoyed a lovely little mexican meal together!

Followed by some Life!

We all crashed pretty early that night and Wyatt slept in my bed! WE woke up early the next morning and me, dad and Wyatt went to the gym after a light warm up in the room with Chase!

So cute! Wyatt was a beast in the gym and we all got a hell of a workout and finished off with a haul up 4 flights of stairs…64 stairs to be exact! Shew! Then we had healthy smoothies and promised that today would be better than the mexi fest last night!

Then more games with Nanny!

And we were off to the beach!

My fair skin can only take so much sun, so Chase, my lovely little snuggle bug and I had a snuggle fest/Sponge Bob marathon/spy session/shoot em up target practice in my room!

Then we were responsible and made a yummy and healthy dinner!

We had spicy grilled chicken, jalapeño sausage, cumin corn, roasted sweet potato chips with guacamole and veggie kabobs! Yummmmmmm!!!! Then it was off to bed! We woke up the next morning so sore and in absolutely no mood for a work out…we then made an every other day pact!

This was a lazy snuggle morning, Kelly made breakfast everyday! Thank you Kelly! #icookwhenIwanttocook

Then lunch was left overs…so yum!

We pooled it up…chicken fight style!

and then made a yummy Zoodle and meatball dinner with spicy aspargus!

Then Wyatt and I drew it up…Simpson’s style!

This kid is so talented! He asked me if he could edit some photos on my phone and created this!

He blurred the background and changed the lighting!

Smart and creative and oh so sweet! And then we all yucked it up with America’s Funniest Home Videos. Knee slapping it up!

Then we got up the next day, worked out and had a healthy breakfast!

Then, I just felt bad so I laid down to take a nap…I ended up sleeping for 5 hours! Little did I know I was working on raging sinus infection and bronchitis! When I woke up it was 3 and the house was empty, I threw on a suit and met the gang down at the pool.

Wyatt gave me a piggy back ride and then we had a handstand contest!

And then we did our favorite…try to catch us mid air jumping in the pool! Thanks for your patience mom!

A few family pics!

Chase had the dirtiest feet known to man so he and mommy got showered and pretty together!

Dinner was crock pot bbq and slaw!

The next day was the hottest, most humid day of life, so we went putt putting! Ugh, holy first circle of hell folks! And it was packed like a mother!

There were lots of hole in ones, met downs, swamp assyness and duck hunts!

This is how over it everyone was at the 15th hole!

Then it was over and we saw this hilarious van!

The boys wanted to water bumper car it up and I’ve never been more jealous…I wanted to hurl myself into this 3 foot pool!

Then we went to lunch at the Crab Shack, for the second day in a row and also for the second day in a row, I made yummy bad decisions!

Don’t even ask me what is going on with my hair bc I don’t know! So much fun! Then Chase was unintentionally transformed into Cornholio from Beavis and Butthead! #tpformybunghole

Then there was much much needed lounging!

We had leftovers for dinner and then a BLIZZARD, also for the second night in a row! So good and totes worth it! All of the sudden it was my very last day! Ugh! We had a leisurely morning. Then hung out at the pool, playing board surfing, safari ride, shark, hey mister, matchey matchey and the ABC game #marshmellowchips We had a late lunch of hamburgers, chicken legs, spinach salad and zucchini and onions! Everyone made lunch while I packed up! Thanks guys!!! I had to skidadle early bc Anna Broome was getting hitched! It was hard to sat goodbye but I was excited to go to the wedding of the century!

To my family…oh how I love thee. Sleepovers and snuggles wit the kids, laughter and inside jokes with the adults, as much pool time as one can handle, watching Hope Floats #birdie, working out, being healthy, being bad, but mostly being together! Cant wait to do it again! More on Anna’s wedding tomorrow!!!! Glad to be back in a routine!

Two Meatballs: Baby, You’re a Fireworkkkk! (aka The 16th Weigh In)

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Greetings from my amazing client, Jen Wickline’s backyard! You may remember her place from the inception of the Meatballs…her and her husband Ryan’s epic Halloween bash is the Two Meatballs cover photo!

It’s almost the 4th of July, time to celebrate America and our 16th weigh in!

Flags up, denim on! Overall, we had a great time! (Did you see what I did there?!)

A little R+R by the pool!

Look at this view!

A little swan foolery (did you see what I did there?!)

Some vitamin C with our snuggles!

Time for bathing suits!

Sarongs off!

Let’s ride that swan into this beautiful pool…what could go wrong?!

Meatballs overbird! (You had to see that one!)

Ok, enough swan play (somebunny stop me!)!!! Jenny, you’re up bunny!

Hellloooo!! Im holding strong at 174! Thats ok…..I worked out a lot this month! Working hard again feels good!!! I felt so much more confident going into this weigh in this month then i did last month. I had a lot of events this month too!! San Diego, my sisters bday, and brothers bday! I am always reminded at the end of the month that my lifestyle has changed so much. And i have more control then i have ever had. But also, tomorrow is a new beginning and i look forward to being better. Cant wait for july!! Best month ever!!! I have to say my husband has been fabulous and incredible supportive. He has actually kept my really motivated this month to be better!! Love you babe. Love you Sara for always being there!!! Love my family and life!!!! Thank you guys for being my therapy. this is the best release! love you!

Sara, you’re up Kitten!

I feel great! I have learned so much about myself, patience and trying new things this month! I’m obsessed with Pure Barre. I am so excited to see Sandra this week. I was overall having a fantastic month. Having my quarterly period, going on vacation and going to a lavish wedding the night before weigh in derailed my numbers, but I’ve honestly never felt better. I weigh exactly what I did for the June weigh in last year, but my scale, body, mind and life are finally moving in the right direction and thank goodness for that. I find myself in a more peaceful, positive and accepting place in my life and it just feels so fucking good. On to August and the rest of this fabulous life. I will never stop being eternally grateful for my family, friends and the meatball nation. Xoxo to y’all! Enjoy the summer.

What a fun day!

We love you guys so much! We couldn’t do it without you!

Or each other!!!

And thank you Tiffanie for another beautiful shoot and sacrificed Sunday! We love you! Also, thank you so much Jen!!! Your house is a lovely as you are. Thank you for providing such a gorgeous backdrop! Xoxo

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