The Diamond Behind The Chocolate
I'm always all of the following:
-Shoe Humanitarian
-Wine lover
-Storm chaser
-Chocolate addict
-Sweat obsessed
-Daydreaming of traveling to Sicily
-Mathematically challenged.I'm sometimes:
-Rude
-Irate
-Insensitive
-The main character in a chick lit novel (usually a bad thing)
-In a love affair with leafy greens, HIIT workouts, and VH1.I'm never:
-A sports girl.
-A soapbox preacher.
-Old man winter's friend.
-Interested in driving (limo, please?)-
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#MotivationalMondays- I Want You, I Need You, Oh Pavement, Oh Pavement
I’ll be the first to tell you during a power failure in an office environment, that I am dreading taking the emergency exit…which requires the tiniest effort of walking down the stairs. I’d rather be airlifted by helicopter with Justin … Continue reading
Posted in Motivational Mondays
Tagged 2013, abs challenge, boyfriend, cardio, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, exhaustion, fitfluential, Fitness, hotel, january, retail, running, tabata, time, tired, whole foods, work
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#MotivationalMonday- I Am A Buche De Noel But Bandz A Make Me Dance
If you aren’t familiar with first part of this ridiculous title, it’s a pastry. This decadent 3-part cake is a hot holiday item and is available in chocolate or vanilla. How do I know this? Orientation this past weekend at … Continue reading
Posted in Motivational Mondays
Tagged baking, bands a make her dance, buche de noel, cakes, chocolate, chocolate covered diamonds, christmas, christy dean, cookies, cupcakes, exercise, fitfluential, Fitness, health, job, juicy j, motivational mondays, music, pastries, rap, resistance bands, sweets, training, weekend, work, workout
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#MotivationalMondays- Wake Up Calls
Wake up calls can either be your best friend or your worst enemy. Over the past year, I’ve had my fair share of those worst enemy wake up calls, but they have changed me for the better. Over this past … Continue reading
Posted in Motivational Mondays
Tagged best friends, body, cardio, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, Fitness, lightbulb, love, muscle, pinterest, respiration, run, sets, sweat, sweet life, sweet tooth, tabata, wake up calls, weights, work
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#MotivationalMondays- Fitting It All In…
…your pants? The word pants is used figuratively in this sense, but can stand for a literal meaning as well. Pants can be a fashion statement… means to survive… …or a nightmare. We all know the muffin top only belongs … Continue reading
Posted in Motivational Mondays
Tagged advice, aladdin, bed, bike, blackberry, chocolate covered diamonds, coffee, easy, facebook, fashion, fast, Fitness, genie, gym, iphone, morning, motivational monday, pants, pinterest, positive, quick, running, schedule, snooze button, social media, time, tired, transit, twitter, walking, work, workout
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#MotivationalMondays- Better Than 5 Hour Energy Workout
On a recent outing with friends, story sharing became the main course and food seemed to take the tapas back burner. Story sharing always leads to eyes wide opened, jaw dropping, sex and the city type “oh my god Samantha!” … Continue reading
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Tagged 5-hour energy, adderall, beverages, christy dean, drinking, drinks, drugs, energy, energy pills, exercise, Fitness, friends, health, motivational mondays, nutrition, rants, raves, stimulants, sugar, supplements, unsafe, vitamins, work
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#WIAW- When Life Hands You Take Out, Do You Take It?
So that little colony of bees is back at work concocting some more of that honey in my life again. (A.K.A.- I’m super busy and loving the results it’s yielding.) Unfortunately, when most of us encounter the big bad “B” … Continue reading
Posted in *EAT LIKE ME*
Tagged chicken, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, Cooking, eating, eggs, excuses, Fast food, food, fruit, halftime, healthy, hummus, jenn, m&m's, madonna, mcdonald's, nanoosh, nutrition, peas and crayons, pop culture, salad, sausage, social, soup, Super Bowl, tacos, veggies, what i ate wednesday, work, wrap
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The Power of Positive Thinking & The Law of Attraction
My adaptation theme of this post today is derived from the ever biblical quote, “If you build it, they will come.” “If you think it, it will happen.” One of my daily pet peeves is when people complain about not … Continue reading
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#MotivationalMondays- Holiday Hangover Edition
Anyone else wake up looking like a giant piece of ooey-gooey apple pie this morning? I mean apple chunks hanging from your ear lobes all the way down to your toes? Walk of shame to the bathroom as you felt … Continue reading
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Tagged 2012, abdominals, apple pie, back, beat, biceps, chocolate covered diamonds, christy dean, drill sargeant, drinking, exercise, family, food, gifts, gossip, hangover, happiness, health, holidays, motivation, nasty, nutrition, prancer, push ups, sandpaper, santa, sick, sir issac newton, talking, tired, triceps, watercooler, work, wrapping paper
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