Allison.Party_of_Six

Two years ago today, I decided take control of my life and GET HEALTHY!  🍎 Two years ago today, I took the plunge and became a health & fitness coach !!  💪🏻 Now don't get me wrong, 2 years ago today, I KNEW what eating healthy should look like--I had a degree in nutrition. And I KNEW how to workout. I just had NO CLUE how to do it as a busy and overwhelmed new mom of 2!!! I mean I was up all night  with a new baby and barely ever getting to put make up on or dry my hair!! There was NO time for working out!!! Or so I thought.  🙇🏼‍♀️ But--something had to CHANGE! So I bought a health & fitness program. 21 Day Fix to be exact. -30 minutes of daily exercise -Super-simple portion control -Daily Shakeology . And I made it work. It changed my life. AND I became a fitness coach! Man did that up the accountability--something this tired Mommy REALLY needed!  🙋🏼 2 years later, I'm pregnant with baby #3. But this pregnancy is different. I'm still working...

You know those gentle tugs that pull on your heart that are sometimes hard to listen to.  The ones that are almost without a doubt from God that you feel like you should listen to.  Then you fight and fight and fight.  This blog was one of those.  On multiple occasions. A few days ago as I was trying to figure out how to export my first blog I came across the draft to this.  A little voice whispered, maybe you should finish it.  I didn't yet. Today, I was speaking with a friend who had also been through a miscarriage and was now facing these same fears that brought me to my knees in ugly tears so many times during Brayden's pregnancy.  I still almost didn't share it.  Then I realized I needed to. So here's the first original draft, complete with my first original reason for not sharing it on time. I was going to write this post in October 2016.  That was Infant & Pregnancy loss awareness month.  But LIFE just got in the way.  I ...

So I'm just going to be honest.... The last week, I haven't even felt good enough to write my post about my fitness goals for the rest of my first trimester.  Scratch that.  I haven't even felt good enough to THINK about them.  Which stinks, because I'm a FITNESS COACH, and I feel like I'm totally failing at my JOB this week! So, I could sit around and be depressed about that (not gonna lie...I was tempted to do that earlier today), or I could pick myself up, think about what I have done well, and keep working to stay strong and healthy! So, what have I done well? --WATER makes me NAUSEOUS.  So.  Very.  Nauseous.  And that's at best.  BUT...I know I need to be well hydrated, and I DO NOT want to drink sodas and gatorades all day long, so I have done my best to drink as much as possible. And honestly, I've done OK.  Baby and I are fairly-well hydrated and that's what's important. --I've been trying to stay as active as I can handle. ...

Written at 4 weeks & 5 Days Pregnant I've been really struggling with focusing on my fitness now that I'm pregnant. I mean, clearly, these abs are not staying, so why keep working on them?!?  But there's so many good reasons to keep this up!  It's just HARD to wrap my mind around the fact that my stomach is going to get BIGGER and not SMALLER!! The other day someone - who had no clue I was pregnant - suggested that I write out short term fitness goals. So then I found myself thinking, "How does one write out fitness goals for pregnancy?!" I decided to make them very short term...so for now my goals are through week...just four weeks and a day! Goal # 1 Use my 21 Day Fix program daily. 30 minute daily exercises. Try NOT to use the modifiers.  It'll make me stronger later when I HAVE to use them.  Goal # 2 Follow my 21 Day Fix eating plan with NO calorie deficit. I'm pregnant. This is not the time for cutting calories.  Go...

As I sit here reading "The Happiness Project," I am so overwhelmed by just how much I needed this book. Have any of you read this book?! What did you think of it? Posted by Allison Valree Federico on  Tuesday, November 1, 2016 When I sat down to begin reading, I heard the kids playing upstairs...and I was worried about it.... "What is my son getting into now?" (It's always, always always something!) "Are they going to get hurt?" "What if a neighbor stops by and realizes that I'm letting my kids play without helicoptering them? What will she think?" But the truth of the matter is, she is almost 5 and he is 2, and really they can play alone for 10 minutes while I read, and (as long as they don't burn the house down), most messes will be cleanable.... But the point is, I started out with the wrong mindset to begin! Just 5 minutes into my reading, I already see that! My kids are LAUGHING. And having FUN tog...

So, I think it's time to be honest with myself.... For the previous 19 months I was consistently proud of myself for my fitness....I finished each month off in better shape than I was the month before....then October 2016 happened. This month was NUTS! There was something crazy happening just about every day. There were sweets....EVERYWHERE! And don't get me wrong...there is place for MODERATION...but I definitely over did it! I missed so many workouts, and honestly I'm just  not proud of where I am today. So what am I going to do? I could feel guilty about it...but that's just a waste of time, energy, and emotion. Instead, I'm STARTING OVER!! TOMORROW, I kick off my Fall Fitness Virtual Bootcamp! And I'm going to be doing 21 Day Fix and just getting REALLY back to the basics! Balanced Eating Daily 30 minutes wokouts And my daily dose of dense nutrition---SHAKEOLOGY! I may just even throw a daily 10 minutes of ab work into this as well! But, t...