Two Meatballs: One happy Mama!!!

May 12, 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

Hello!!! This is the first year I truly felt part of the Mother’s Day club. When London was younger we were still getting use to the parent lifestyle. And I sure as hell didn’t feel worthy to celebrate any motherly success…..I had just started!!!! But London, like all the other kids made the handprint card at school. I get chocked up anytime she makes things with her hands and feet prints.

We started Mother’s Day with my family. We all got together for brunch at my moms house. London is everyone’s little entertainer. She makes us all dance around with her to……….wait for it…………frozen……shocker!!! Yes, still!! And I’ll love it forever, if she does! My husband got me a new phone!!!! Thank god. Between all the stuff we do on our phone, and trying to manage a blog, it was definetly starting to show its age!

I have no pics from brunch with my sweet mommy, I didn’t know it at the time but my phone had already been donezo, and new one was ready to go!! Have I mentioned how much I love my mom!! She is my hero!!!! One might say……….the wind beneath my wings!! Love her. And my hubby for my shiny new phone.

Brandon, London and I spent the whole day together shopping. It was so fun!!!! We are getting new floors put in this week so I got a little house decor happy!!!! Just want to freshen things up a little!

This unoriginal gray. It is such a calming color though!!!!

We also did a little home and garden project.

Im hoping these fresh herbs in my house will constantly motivate me to cook healthy, and flavorful meals!!!

Brandon made this moss thing. I really like it!

And london wanted anything pink! Done

It was was a great day! Love you guys! So our house is a disaster right now! There is flooring packages everywhere!!!!

They em will be installed on Wednesday. So basically I have to clean up and consolidate as much stuff as I can before they get there, so they are just moving furniture. So today is the hottest, muggiest day of the year so far, and my sister and I are cleaning my place like crazy people! I know we are burning some calories, we were dripping in sweat!! #doestheACwork?

so we took a break from the cleaning and she helped me stage a few things in my house

At the end of the day I was starving!!! Which is a scary place to be when you are trying to lose weight. So I decided to use my new herbs, and kept it really simple. Steak and a tomato salad. Soo good. Tomato salad is my favorite thing in the summer.

Feeling like a cave woman!!!!

Great weekend!! Ready to start this busy work week and cram everything in!!!! Love my family more then they will ever know!!!

Two Meatballs: Rascal Phats!!!!

May 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 Leave a comment

ok so Sara and I went to go see our good buddy Sandra!!!! Couldn’t be happier to be in a a workout routine together again! Everything is more fun together. When we got to the gym, we saw on a board there seem to be some friendly competition going on. There were about 20 teams, with team names. rascal Phats was one of them and it has just stuck with me. We’ll first things first , warm up on some treadmills.

Then we did a pretty long set of shoulds, triceps and biceps

More running!!

And an uphill walk

At this point I think Sara and I are able to gage what this workout is going to be like in the first 15mins. We were already soooooo sweaty. Amazing and gross feeling all at the same time.

Kettle bell swings

And let the cuircut begin

We felt so tired at the end……..butt soooo good and sweaty!!!! At the end we don’t talk much, just kind of stare at each other while our heart rates go down. We drink some water and as always get a final pic together

Great week!! Have a happy Mother’s Day xoxo

Two Meatballs: Post Dramatic Stress!!!

May 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,acceptance, be honest, because your worth it, burden, Chase turns 5, color bootcamp, conrtol, coping, family first, hi kelly, high energy, just believe, just breath, kindness, manic, no more resenting, overwhelmed, panic, perception is reality, sorry jenny, speak up, stress, the conversation is the relationship, you are not an islandtwomeatballsgetfit View all 4 comments

What a weekend/beginning of the week! (*Disclaimer, this is a long post but I promise it isn’t all just a picture dump…shit goes down a couple of paragraphs down. #spoileralert)

My head is spinning and my bed is calling me like a siren. But all for good reason! Saturday morning I got up early to celebrate this little cutie turning 5! Isn’t he the sweetest!

One sour, one sweet! We went to Chuck E Cheese and had the living funnest/semi active time!

Chasey Poo’s sweet friends showed up to celebrate…what is cuter than 5 year olds!?

They won a millionty tickets and got little prizes!

Presents time!

Then a super healthy Beard family lunch at B.Good #newleaf

When Wyatt turned 6, I started a hotel birthday sleepover tradition. This year Chase was finally ready to join the fun, sooooo on to the main event! This is the text I got from Mom the day before!

Chase is the sweetest little nugget! We pulled up to the Renaissance in North Hills and checked in. He was so excited about the room!

We did everything you’re not supposed to! We played ball in the house, spoiled our dinner with candy and soda, jumped on the bed, did messy experiments and climbed in the shower!

We even explore North Hills in our pjs and ate room service in bed!

Chase!!!! Happy birthday my little puppy. Mo loves you oh so much. the next morning I woke up at 5 and started packing up. My early riser slept in and I had to wake him up at 630 to drop him off at home. As I walked out he told his mom, It was the best day. Still crying! Then it was off to my house to get ready for the weigh in shoot! Jenny picked me up at 8!

We rode to Cara Dempsey’s house and walked in to such a thoughtful scene!

We spent the next hour and a half trying to look pretty and skinnier than we feel!

These are my favorite pics! We even got a little exercise in!

Then it was off to a LBP sponsored brunch that we won at work with our Samuel Cole fammy!

Jenny and I split the Andouille Sausage meal and the Shrimp and Grits!

While Dempsey edited our photos! She did such an amazing job! Thank you Cara!!!! Xoxo

Love you guys so much! #worklife #gratefuleveryday

Then Jenny and I left to go write the post. The photos ended up taking 4.5 hours to upload!!!! UGH!!!! I had not planned this into my over scheduled Sunday! They finally uploaded and at 730 the post was finished! #shew! Then I went into work to get my end of month numbers ready and finish my portion of reported numbers for the salon meeting. I left there around 930 and finished some chores and passed out early. 6am came and I got up and got ready for my favorite class of the year! Color Bootcamp. This class has evolved so much over the years and i think this year Carolyn and I totally nailed the format and content and our support educators Jenny, Alley and Natalie all nailed their hands on parts!!! We went hard all day with Consultations, Formulations and Foiling day 1. The day came to an end at 6!

It’s so fun to really drive home the concept that the conversation is the relationship…that the consultation is the conversation and that the consultation is everything. Color can be so simple if you know how to communicate! Ok, so I left work, grabbed a salad, got home and checked on the blog to see if any last minute changes needed to happen before our 8pm posting. You guys…at 651 pm I found out that my computer ate the blog. Like all that was left was the title, a few sentences and 6 pictures….out of like 120! It took me 15 minutes of obsessively refreshing my computer to accept the sad fact that it was indeed gone. I tried to stay calm bc freaking out does nothing. I started frantically rewriting it….trying to remember all my comedic gems and hilarious hashtags…sweating balls. I couldn’t get in touch with Jenny, so I stalked Brandon and begged someone to call me. Jenny called, I explained the situation and she rewrote her part. time check 740! I couldn’t seem to get myself unwound…I was jacked with adrenaline #jackbauerstyle All of the sudden it was 8, time to post, promote, tell Roseanne and Susan Sarandon how we were doing (they did not care this month haha) and finally it felt over. But this unfortunate mishap led me to lots of realizations. I am not good at asking for help. I feel like I should be able to do it all myself. I make decisions without consulting others. I am particular and like things my way. I can be intimidating. I get overburdened bc I keep a very full plate and inevitably something goes off plan and then I get extremely overwhelmed and lose my ability to prioritize and I start cutting out important things. I feel guilty and selfish taking time away from my commitments to take care of myself. The gym and grocery store and the cleanliness of my house are the first casualties. I become exhausted, I gain weight, I start to not feel so great about myself, I become anxious and my keyed up energy affects everyone around me. I become so desperate to mark something…ANYTHING off my list that I start distractedly doing things that are not up to snuff. I become resentful. Zebra cakes and negativity seem like they are going comfort me. I never sleep…I become manic. Really really manic. I came home from posting the weigh in blog and immediately I burst in to tears. I needed a release. Anyone who is reading this who can’t really relate would think, that seems like kind of an extreme reaction to botched technology and a lost post. But, it’s not about the fucking post. It’s that I haven’t learned yet that the conversation is the relationship. Its funny how the class you are teaching is the class that you need the most. Oh fate! I don’t have to be an island. That those around me would gladly help me as I gladly help them. That I deserve to be a priority in my own life. That I need to ask for what I need and if I don’t, then I can’t resent anyone but myself. So, the next morning came early and another day of bootcamp was on the horizon. Jenny and I had a great talk. I was finally honest and asked for help and told her that I don’t love doing the weigh in posts alone. Everything that we do it more fun together. I also learned that I am very controlling sometimes and the impression that I have been giving is that I like it a certain way and that it is my way of the highway. I love knowing that because this is OUR blog and I don’t want to let my controlling ways and personal aesthetic to overrule our ability to collaborate and the SHARED vision that we had when we started two meatballs. It is so important to me that this is a joint venture that is FUN with my very best friend. Ohhhhhh, the conversation is the relationship. I love opening up and seeing someone else’s perspective, bc perception is reality. Despite the overwhelming schedule this was such a fantastic weekend/monday/tuesday and a lot of that had to do with the large amount of time that Jenny and I got to spend together. We’ve been disconnected lately. I mean look how fun day 2 of bootcamp was!

When I look back, I realize that I have to speak up more (who would have thought?!) and not keep piling on. I also need to be more upfront and honest when I need help. And lastly I need to always take care of myself first before I try and help the world, otherwise I’m no good. Thank you to everyone who puts up with my mania. I really am trying everyday to learn lessons and evolve into a better person who doesn’t poison the well with my chaotic energy. And to everyone reading, you are worth making yourself a priority. You don’t have to do anything alone. You also don’t have to be a martyr. Lessons learned…now time to implement them. Love you all. Now it’s time to sleeeeeeeeeep and take a deep breath as I’ve been holding it the entire time I was writing this and reliving the past few days. In through the nose out through the mouth. I have so many things to be grateful for and most of them involve the people who I’m blessed enough to have in my life. Burden officially lifted.

Two Meatballs: big meaty balls!!!

May 6, 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 One comment

Weigh in is done!!!!!!! I think we are both feeling like our selves again. And as always thank you thank you thank you for all of your support. This blog keeps us on our toes. When we may want to give Up on ourselves, it never feels like you do! There are people in our lives who truly want to see us be success with our goals. I think sometimes it really blows our minds. It comes in sweet supportive words and honest….blunt phrases as well. Our co workers are fantastic. They are judgment free and full of great ideas all the time. Even the ones I never thought would be reading the blog….are!! Amazing.

When I look at this before and after, I really see the personal growth and change. This is Jenny by the way!! Haha I was terrified the day we posted our first weigh in. I had very stric rules, that the chalk board would cover my body at all times. And to think this last time we were playing in Dempsey ‘s yard in plain view of her neighbors…..that is incredible! I have to say…..my biggest fear in doing this is London seeing this one day and just being horrified and ashamed of me putting myself out there for pretty much everyone to see. But this has all made me a bolder woman, mom, wife, hairstylist, daughter and friend. The truth is everything. #theconversationistherelaonship

we haven’t always been modest. This is last month and this month.

I would have never done this!!!

it feels great to have some balls! The weigh In Is so powerful for me because getting naked has not always been my power place. Unlike Sara! She is the most comfortable. And just like the numbers don’t lie, the body dosent either…..people know!!!! And you have to be ok with that. And I leave feeling more powerful and confident. And something about being honest just makes you feel gooood.

So how do I keep this meatball rolling, just a day after weigh in?!?! Take London on a three mile walk for some fro yo!!!

have a senseable meal…..whole foods has these ready to go meals. This is so good for my crazy mom life. Pork, collards, Mac and cheese, and a huge salad…..something for everyone in my house. It was delicious and a perfect meal..I had some pork and a salad. Thanks whole foods, you keep me happy!!

I’m busy….and that’s great. It just has to work for me. And surrendering a couple of home cooked meals for simplicity and well being will work for me. My brain was fried from work. Hair color boot Camp again!!! A total success, but holy guacamole….I’m tired! And it is hard when you come from amazing women who cooked every single day. Those are hard shoes to fill. But I don’t have to fill them. I have to make sure I have a happy healthy house. Things are great right now. I have full control over my journey!!! Love you guys and thanks again for stopping by for our weigh in!!! It is already May 5th!!!!! It’s happening!! Healthy days ahead!! Bye bye!!

Two Meatballs: Welcome to Our Lady Garden!!! (Aka the 14th weigh in!)

May 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,clean slate, fresh start, hi kelly, less talk more action, new beginnings, tough times, weight gaintwomeatballsgetfit View all 7 comments

Knock Knock…Whose there?! We’re fat again!!!! But today is a new day! Let’s start off right with some meditation

And a healthy snack of fruit and spa water!

It’s such a pretty spring day!

Lets take this fresh start outside!

#derbystyle

Oh Gnome You Didn’t!

Hats and tops off! How about some coffee to start the day off right?

Now let’s rack up those activity points!

#coachellastyle We’ll scoot across this fairy bridge!

Get a little cheeky!

Always remember to stop and smell the roses!

Become one with nature! #hugthattreegirl

Remember how good it feels to do this together!

And burn some calories while we have so much!

An acrobatic walk #cardiofordays

A quick game of hide and seek before we reveal it all!

No more hiding…how did we do!?

In the spirit of new beginnings, we are literally wiping the slate clean. We are moving forward with our highest weight from this year. Our weight gains have been a little debilitating and this is a great mental boost to help us reengage, stop beating ourselves up and start moving forward! Sara, you’re up kitten!

I literally feel like weight has been lifted. The pressure of losing 90 pounds and gaining 30 in a year was so daunting. I really needed this fresh start and to keep my numbers small. I literally just need to lose the next pound, to make the right decision when I’m eating, to go to the gym! I have done some serious soul searching this month but what I neglected to do was enter my kitchen to cook or step foot in my gym more than four times! I am lacking action in a serious way. I am sick of talking and diving deep. I know what I need to do. I need to employ my own personal mantra of DO IT to my own life and weight loss journey. I have unfortunately romanticized the past…I keep asking myself why was it so easy to lose weight before?! Why am I struggling so hard now. The truth is that it was never easy. What was different before was that I was engaged and chock full of action. So today I recommit, I stop talking and I start sweating. I am no longer comfortable not living up to my word and I don’t like seeing my body change in the wrong direction. So here is to the first pound lost on Season 2 Episode 1 of this journey. This is not glamorous and it’s fucking hard. So thank you for being right here with us every step of the way. Xoxo, A girl who found her integrity again. Love you Jenny.

Jenny, you’re up bunny!

I love staying positive with this whole weightloss thing………I think I forgot how fucking hard this is!!!!! And how it will forever be an on going balance game. But I am grateful to be present in my life and aware of all the support in my life. I am just going to do things my way…..not the way it works for someone else, but what really works for me. Simple good food. Roasting and grillng everything!! I have done so well……I can do it again, not to mention having a new starting point feels less overwhelming and has me excited to pick up again and not think about what I have already lost and obsesse about what I will loss. Thank you Sara for being in this with me! Love you. And thank you Dempsey for the amazing pics love u!!!

We couldn’t do this without each other! #snugglebuddies

Or without you!

We love you guys so much!

And thank you Cara Dempsey for these beautiful pictures!

Final thoughts…this is a journey that we will be on for the rest of our lives, but it feels good to celebrate how far we’ve come! Hats off to that!

Until next time…

And as always…the outtakes! #imsopale #thatsalotofboob #thispostgotdeletedat651tonightandihadtostartover #fuckyoutechnology #whydowelooksomuchbettteraskids #coachellastyle #fairyland #eveykidsdream #moresuburbannudity #thanksdempsey #isthatpoisonivy #ineedtogetonthattireswing #alwaysdeadonforafullbodyshot #mossybutts #itlookslikeweareshittinginthewoods #notcute #youlooklikeacreep #itsintentional

Two Meatballs: Hold on to your butts!!!!!

May 1, 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 Leave a comment

We really needed this workout today!!!! Sara and I are desperately looking for food, workouts, even shame to keeps us on track. So on our drive to meet with Sandra we talked about her and I spending some more time together, getting back to basics and cooking! Our dream, more time together! Why aren’t we neighbors yet?!? Being prepared and organized is what we believe is missing from our lives these days. #stopbeinglazy

Anyway our workout with Sandra was really different today then anything we had done in the past. Love that about Sandra…..still so dedicated to these two balls!!! 🙂 haha

warm up on the treads as usual!!

I saw saw thes things and had to try them out! #hungarianarmsareback

Then then we did a shit ton of rowing today.

These balls were rough, all this stuff just worked our butts!!!

More balls

Working the core!

Ohhhh here comes the happiest shame!! #moneyshot

What a pain in the butt, literally, my butt Huuuuurts! We were there for an hour, I promise, even though this looked like a little workout. I just woke up and my body is in pain today….kinda love that!!! #switchitup

Love you guys!! We aren’t going to stop!!!!!(yelling). Ahhhhh see you guys at weigh in!!!

Two Meatballs: The Living Best Excuse!

April 30, 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,be grateful, excuses excuses, full plate club, get over yourself, hi kelly, overwhelmedtwomeatballsgetfit View all 4 comments

You guys know how I love a full plate (this means two things lately wink face #nofatno) and lately my plate has been very full…and will continue to be until the middle of next month…..and then if we are being really honest with ourselves…FOREVER. I have found myself lately saying things like; I’ve just got to get through this week…as long as I make it to Tuesday night…ugh when is this month over!? And you know what!?

I don’t like it. I don’t like wishing time away and I am turning a new leaf today. I no longer wish to wish my time away. Kait, one of my co-managers at the salon #heymary #tripodofmanagment

and I were talking about this very subject today and it has really stayed with me. How does one cope!? Being overwhelmed is not a good place for me and I heavily influence that feeling with my choice of words and the spin that I have put on it. It is hard to appreciate the daily joys if I am allowing myself to wallow in my self appointed busy-dom. I mean…everyone is busy. Not to mention, I am a happy and joyful person who loves to have fun, my goal is not to be a martyr people. Soooooo, whats a gal to do!? Normally, this would be the perfect excuse to really eat my feelings…to give myself an excuse to be too busy to cook, too busy to exercise, ultimately too busy to take care of myself or make myself and my health a priority. But that is not going to send me back down the scale is it?! I was 277 when I woke up this morning. I am officially closer to 300 than I am to 250 and this just cannot be. I cannot cope with my stress by eating and letting myself and all my hard work fall apart. The perfect excuse is really just a lie I tell myself to justify what I want and completely ignore what I need. #youjustlyintoyourselfdummy So here is what I am going to do.

I am going to acknowledge being overwhelmed. I don’t have to like feeling that way but I don’t have to ignore it. Sometimes just saying it out loud and then letting it go feels amazing.

I am going to focus on the most pressing matter and then move on to the next thing when task one is complete.

I am going to ask for help when I need it. I am not an island. #hikrisitna #jkloveyoucuzzy

I am going to remember that no one knows what my plan is. If things don’t go as planned, no one knows if I don’t tell them, move on. #byefelicia

I am going to make the best decisions I can when it comes to food. I am strong enough to not give in to myself bc I didn’t plan well while in a constant state of busy. #getoveryourself

I am going to remember that I LOVE being busy…I thrive with a full plate.

I am going to remember that I asked for all of this responsibility…nay, begged for it. So I am going to be grateful that I get to live the life that I asked for and that I have earned.

I love my life, I love what I do, I love my family and the people I am blessed to be around each day

and I don’t want to miss a single second of the joy that surrounds me bc I got the life I asked for. Man, that felt like a mic drop moment for myself. Who complains about living their dream?! Not me anymore. I am grateful and I never want to forget that. So, now what do I do about my weight!? Joelle #soulmate once again swooped in and saved my life with this new catch phrase…you know I love a tag line…You just have to get to 276. You just have to get that needle to move 1 pound. That is all you need to worry about. I have been so obsessed with 25 pounds but it’s more than I can bite off. #punintended I always want the end game and today I just need to think about making the best possible decisions that I can and move that needle (in my case digital number from my scale) down by 1. That is not overwhelming!!!! That feels so doable. Bc at this point I have done more than enough talking…it is action time. More plans to get right again…be active always. I helped move around some furniture in my sisters house on Monday night…I’ve been running up the stairs at work…I park further away everywhere I go….I started going to the gym again! Tonight I stopped by my parents house to see that completed project; they had it painted #gorg

And my mom and I went on a date to B.Good and I ate so healthy and loved it. #loveyoumomanddad At work my most pressing matter is Color Boot Camp which is a two day seminar that Carolyn and I birthed and teach and it all goes down Monday!

We have decided to give our baby a facelift and restructure our class so that it constantly stays relevant and easy to understand. I love this class, I love seeing the lightbulbs go off, I love perfecting our genius, I love the labor of love this has become and how much time I get to spend with Carolyn fine tuning it, I love watching Alley, Jenny and Natalie teach and our students soak it all up! You can’t get too overwhelmed when there is this much perspective huh!? I have time blocked out to finish up the last portion of the power point tomorrow. The mannequins are ordered. The invites have gone out. Check! This weekend is Chase’s 5th birthday!!! We are going to Chuck.E.Cheese it up with all his sweet little buddies! Then, it is Chase’s first year of my very favorite tradition…the hotel birthday sleepover with Aunt Mo! North Hills get ready! Look at this angel!

He is so excited and so am I!!! The next morning Jenny and I have our weigh in shoot (it will post Monday night at 8!) at Dempseys house. I don’t know how I’m going to get ready but it will be fine, then we have a work brunch at Humble Pie. Then I will need to edit, upload and write the weigh in blog. Monday brings the end of my fiscal month at work and I should probably go in Sunday night to do all of my paperwork and get my numbers in to Laura for the salon meeting since Monday from 8-6 I will in color boot camp! Then Monday night I’ll post the weigh in and promote it (obsess over the views). Then Tuesday 8-6 will be round two of CBC. All of these things are so exciting. I am not going to get lost down the rabbit hole and bullshit of being busy. I’m not going to miss a minute of all these fun things. I will remember to have fun and shake off that pesky overwhelmed feeling bc it’s not doing a damn thing for me. Alright you guys. Thanks again for being here for us. We need you now more than ever. Xoxoxoxoxoxxo! Time to get busy 😉

Two Meatballs My Kinda, Sorta life!

April 29, 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

helllloooo You guys know my amazing friend Sara right?!? You know when you are with your best friends and you get in super deep conversations……that happens a lot with us. Not only is Sara a great friend of mine, she is also my mentor at work. So needless to say, we talk a lot!! And I love it. We are always digging deeper and deeper to reach our personal and professional goals. There are no filters and no judgement. I came to an amazing conclusion . I am living a kinda sorta life!!!! I’m kinda sorta committed to everything. And it is not really working out that well, because I find I am committed to nothing!!! Funny thing, I feel best about myself when I give anything 110% effort. Why am I afraid to commit to my own health? Or my super fun, limitless career? I desperately want a promotion…….and guess what, I know exactly what I need to do to get it. Why am I standing in my own way of success? I can eat a perfect paleo lifestyle all day long and then kinda throw the whole day away with a sweet treat at the end of my day!!!!! It is so frustrating!!!! When I am engaged, I am limitless, but as soon as I find another “priority” I lose focus of my goals. I’m committed to being a wife and mom. My goal is to make sure I empower myself to live a full life, full of commitment. I deserve it. I don”t wanna keep saying, I’m kinda sorta paleo, im kinda sorta going to put away the laundry, I’m kinda sorta working towards a promotion. Sooooo I know Claire underwood from house of cards is a total bitch at times, but she dosent kinda sorta anything! She makes things happen, and I’m obsessed with her!! And her entire image in general!

So this is what I’m working on. Always being stronger and more committed to personal growth and my own success. # momguiltisreal #robinwrightobsessed

anyway…….I comimitted to take London to meet Anna and Elsa from frozen this weekend. Check……did it and it was adorable!!!

Cooked up up a healthy meal for the fam…….check

Paleo sweet treat!!!! Check cocunut crack bars!

1 cup of shredded coconut

2 tbs coconut oil

1/4 cup agave

1/2 tsp salt

1/2 cup coconut cream

and a handful of chocolate chips

refrigerate for a couple of hours

Me time…..check! Working out always keeps me on track. And shopping, even if I don’t buy, it is just great alone time, and kinda creative thinking to me.

Thanks for for letting me vent!!!! Xoxo

Two Meatballs: Do What You Sayyyyyyyyy

April 28, 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,dates with my meatball, eating healthy, Family, google it up dad, hi kelly, hi mom, supplements for days, swinging hard, Torrid, whole foodstwomeatballsgetfit View all 5 comments

I feel so much better now that I’ve told on myself. The truth really does set you free am I right ladies!? After realizing that no matter how much I wanted nuggets, fries, ranch and diet dr pepper and Zebra Cakes and zero exercising to be my gateway drug to weight loss success, it was just was never going to be the case. #dammit

And realizing that this was indeed never going to be easy and that that was ok, I decided that it was time to put my money where my hungry for sweets mouth was. I woke up Friday morning pumped! I went to Whole Foods and got my reset breakfast of wakey wakey, eggs and bakey and a cherry chia seed Kambucha for my little Tina (for all you new readers, Tina is my vagina). Yuuuuuummmmmm. I’m not sure there is a more satisfying breakfast in this world. Something in my brain kept saying call your mom, so I did and ended up taking my breakfast to her house. You guys…I love my mom. I mean look at her…don’t you just love her!? Anna Beard is the living cutest!

We chatted it up about all the ideas she has for her house as I scarfed down my healthy breakfast. Then we decided we needed to go to Target asap. There are so many fun decorating ideas in Target…it makes me want everything!!! And then we were off to Printers Alley for ideas for curtains for her craft room. #whendoesthefunend!? #neverwithyourmombestie

Then we picked Chase up from school!

He said, “I saw you and said yessssssss a thousand times!” #swoon #bestillmyheart #triplets

And we took a look at his art show!

What preschoolers get to do a Jackson Pollack like painting…my childhood and current adult fantasy!

Then went to lunch (a healthy salad fro me thank you very much) and played at North Hills and then I took a page from Jenny’s book …lets play hard #activity points at All Children’s Park.

Chase loves the park. Wyatt always wanted to go to movies but Chase wants to play…and more specifically…SWING.

Look how happy!

He kept saying higher and squealing…ugh I love him! I did a squat with every push…hello upper and lower body; it’s Sara, it’s been awhile! #whatisthisSWEAT!? Then he wanted to go on the tire swing! He had several demands…go fast, go high, go in circles and spin, be kind of scary but make me laugh and use both hands. Yes sir! And here we go…

What a work out!!! I got him going good and fast and then I stepped in too close and got slammed in the chest! I’m always trying to sensor myself around the kids so I yelled….Ahhhhhh!!!! A ninny masher. Well this totally unhinged him and every time he came around I yelled it again…a real Ninny Masher…not my precious ninnies!? Oh this kid was dying and yelling I’m going to pee! Then I got hit in the lady, (my downstairs neighbor Tina) and started yelling….right in the nuggets…you hit me square in the front yard. This went on for at least 30 minutes and we were both dying…and getting a little burnt. #irish So we finally stopped the tire swing…ouch! And he hopped down and instantly ate sand. That kid went down and was just a giggling. Time to regain your equilibrium and for Mo to stop sweating!

He loves him some Nana…and who wouldn’t!? Then we picked up Wyatt and played ball on the porch at Nana and Paw Paws house. We literally spent the entire day together and had thaaaaa best time. The next morning I met my parents at the gym for the first time in a longggg time. It felt great!

Jenny and I both go to the Fitness Connection at Celebration at Six Forks and they are running a great special…$10 down and $10 a month! Call this guy and come work out with us!!!

Then we parted ways. But then my mom called and asked me on a coffee date!!!!

I got the Flat White on a suggestion from my client…I added cinnamon and loved it! We had so much fun talking about our home makeover dreams.

Next we stopped by Whole Foods and I picked up some supplements thanks to some tips from one of my longest time clients, Carol. She left me a womens essential oil supplement as my tip and I was instantly hooked! It tastes like a grasshopper!

She said I need a multivitamin and my probiotic had run out!

Sooooo excited about all my new stuff! I also picked up some vitamin d, oil of oregano bc everyone is talking about it and turmeric oil…its a great anti-inflammatory that I can add to my new juices I’ve been making. I also picked up some grain free maple bacon granola and greek yogurt for quick and easy breakfasts!

I’m trying to arm and surround myself with healthy things to stay focused and motivated. And I just love spending time with my mom. I spent the rest of the day making egg salad and roasting veggies.

Then Jenny came over and we had a fun date! We had some Haute Cash to spend at Torrid and we had a blast doing it! Shout out to my friend Christie who we ran into while shopping! Love you!

We love the don’ts jut as much as the do’s! So much fun! And we even got a shout out pic on torrid’s Facebook page!

Then we went out to dinner and I just love this girl! We never stop laughing and that is my dream. Then Sunday morning was here before you knew it and it was time for cousin Kristina’s baby to turn 1! I love a kids birthday party…the fun, the family, the presents, the cake face smashing! Kristina married into the Weeks family and they are a joy. Three boys with three kids a piece…i thought our family was big! It has been so long that we all feel like family which I love…so great to see everyone and celebrate! Seeing all these cousins playing together reminded me of our childhood!

And then came the epic first birthday cake!!! My favorite part!

Somebody look at this baby! Trace is the sweetest!!!! And Harper, the love of my life and a kid right after my own heart did the obligatory face smashing!!! My dream!

I managed to avoid the cake but I did eat a rice krispy treat! What a weekend!!! Glad to be active and eating healthy again!!!

two Meatballs: Raising the BARRE!!!

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unfortantley, we did not meet with the amazing Sandra this week. So I decided to do something new. Everyone has been talking about purre bare. It sounded like somthing I would not be into. It is a ballerinas guide to health and fitness. have you guys met me??? I am the stalkiest little dancer you will ever meet. What the hell……. let’s give it a go. So at 4:15 I met up with cara at the pure Barr studio.

When u get in the first thing you need for this class is a pair of the official pure Barr nonslip socks. Done. Check. Cara set me up with all the things I would need for class

I was was not sure what to expect with this class. At times I can be really cocky and thought I could do this….no problem. Well this was different then anything I had ever done. This is more about smaller movements and Having a lot of body control.

My my body was really hurting today. This kicked my ass. It was really hard work to get trough this. But now I feel great and more committed,

. Cara was great to go with. She already had a great understanding of the class and the flow, so it made it easy just to watch her!!! But I would love to do this again!!

And i I got to finally meet my co workers 5 day old fainting goat!! Penelope!! So cute!!

Have agreat weekend!! Xoxo

Two Meatballs Get Fit

We had so much fun getting fat together. Now we're going to have even more fun getting fit!