Hi friends! Hope that you all had a fabulous weekend. It has been quite a whirlwind for me the last bunch of days attending the IDEA World Fitness Convention, which included 12,000 people from over 60 countries! Within IDEA World was Blogfest, a 2-day event specifically for healthy living bloggers. It was hosted by Fit Approach, a company that I'm at ambassador for, along with a lot of great people. Let me tell you, I'm just about to burst from experiencing so much awesomeness at my first ever blogging conference! Let's dive right into the highlights for me of day 1 of the conference... The first morning started bright and early with a yoga session led by San Francisco yoga instructor Stephanie Ring. It was a nice way to begin the conference by stretching and sweating! A shot of the ... [Read More]
Archives for August 2014
Tricks for Sneaking in Exercise While Hosting Guests
Hi friends! Tomorrow I'm heading up to Anaheim for IDEA World and Blogfest! I was getting psyched seeing so many people posting on social media about their travels to the conference today. Anaheim is just a hop, skip, and a jump away from my house, so I'll be heading up there tomorrow evening. Conference recaps to come on the blog, but in the meantime, you can check me out on Twitter and Instagram to see what I'm up to at IDEA World! :-) Speaking of travel, today's topic is about when people travel to visit you. Living 2,500 miles away from my family, my hubby's family, and a lot of my friends, I'm happy to have house guests come visit and spend time with me... and since I live in beautiful California and they love me, they like to visit! When people stay with me, obviously my ... [Read More]
Cleansing, Foodie Loves Fitness Style: The Part Time Juice Cleanse
The idea of doing a cleanse to flush toxins and give my body a bit of a rest has always been interesting to me. But the idea of only juicing is not my idea of a fun time. Every time I've tried to do nothing but juice, I find myself hangry with little self-control by late afternoon - not to mention the fact that after several green juices, I'm practically repulsed at the thought of drinking another one. Let's face it, I'm a foodie and I love to eat! So instead, I've tried different kinds of cleanses - ones that involve chewing - like the Vegetarian Times 7-ingredient cleanse (posts on that here and here). I took a cue from that cleanse to come up with my own version of a cleanse last week! Because I'm active and like to work out, I like to feed my muscles. One thing that bugs me about ... [Read More]
An Afternoon of Holistic Health Treatments: Real Results or Placebo Effects?
Hello, hello! I awoke on my birthday yesterday to a bouquet of bright flowers sitting in my kitchen. I always can appreciate some pretty flowers! I started my morning off with a relaxing yoga session.... ...and followed it up with a delicious birthday breakfast: chocolate chip banana pancakes drizzled with cashew butter. Cashew butter is my current favorite nut butter! Birthdays always make me appreciate just how many people care about me. All day long I received calls, texts, cards, and gifts from the people I love. I'm definitely a lucky woman! I got not one but TWO Edible Arrangement deliveries - one from my parents, and one from my friend Danielle. I suppose that they really know that the way to my heart is through chocolate and fruit! My hubby gave me a bunch of music books ... [Read More]
My First Yoga Sculpt Experience
Hi friends! A couple of weeks ago I talked about heated workouts, and I shared with you all that I'm not the biggest fan of them due to me being a baby about super warm rooms. Well, after publishing that post, I wound up using the last of my 5-class pass at that gym to try out one more heated workout: yoga sculpt! (source) I really only wound up doing the class because I really wanted to try yoga sculpt, and the gym only offers the class in heated rooms... so I found myself back in a sauna-like room working out once more! I discovered 2 things from taking the class: 1.) Yoga sculpt is fabulous, and 2.) I don't mind heated rooms if they're under a certain temperature. The instructor had the room at 85 degrees with 65 percent humidity, and I actually didn't feel like I was going ... [Read More]
My Bio Individuality: Why I Eat the Way I Do
Since I began school at the Institute for Integrative Nutrition, I've thought a lot about bio individuality -- the idea that no one diet is ideal for everyone. I just wrote an article for Girls Gone Sporty that talks more about it - check it out here! - and realized that although it's pretty evident that I'm a vegetarian by reading my blog, I've never really discussed why I eat the way that I do. This is a post I've hesitated to write, but today I'm talking about it! Ever since I can remember, I've loved animals and felt compassion for them. When I see bacon festivals publicizing their events with pictures of cute, happy looking pigs, I cringe. Pigs are intelligent animals, smarter than dogs research has shown, yet we keep dogs as pets and kill pigs so that we can top everything from ... [Read More]