Can I get an amen? 🙏🏿 I'm not a mom.
Growing up I know I asked this a million times. As I now watch my friends raise families, I can see how defeating this question can be.
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Between the tantrums, potty training, soccer games, sick kiddos, working, working out, loving your spouse, dealing with aging parents, and everything else in between- FOOD!! It's what's for dinner!
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Moms, dads, grandparents raising grandchildren, uncles raising nieces and nephews- I see you, we see you!
Edited: Mom, I'm sorry!
It's hard to stay #bodypositive in a world of diets. It can be exhausting explaining IE and how it doesn't mean I eat donuts for every meal, but if I did, so what?
When I was younger, I'd flip through popular magazines idolizing the homogeneous images of thin bodies and thin women. I thought being smart, funny, and beautiful were inferior to thinness.
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In my 20s, I spent countless hours over-exercising and meticulously prepping my meals because our culture has taught us to FEAR weight gain. So, instead, you must do EVERYTHING within your power to never change. No matter what.
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My 30s have started to hit me.
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My knees ache from wear and tear of previous soccer days. My center of gravity seems off. My social circles are changing. My career is starting to take root. Life is, you know? Life-ing.
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Some days, it's hard to trust my body. My body is under a lot of stress considering life's uncontrollable events. It's hard to not get caught up in the next big fad.
Our society commonly suggests to ignore life and all of it's nuance in order to seek health. Our society's version of health means weight loss and body size. As if altering those two measures alone answer all of life's messes.
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As I have adopted IE and trusting my body to do what it needs to do, it can feel lonely. People question my research, education, and logic.
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I'm happy for my community who get it. My community that supports sensible nutrition and body positivity. My community that knows crash and fad lifestyles don't work. My community who is here with support when people are ready to accept the body they have and trust it to take care of them.
I am a proud granddaughter and daughter of service members. So, when my friends @scarsandstripescoffee asked me to try their coffee. My only answer was yes! .
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Scars and Stripes Coffee is roasted in Oklahoma and is down right, great coffee. It's roasted, packaged, and sold by veterans. Each bag sold helps veterans and active duty service members.
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S&SC sells and ships whole bean, ground, and even K-Cups nationwide!
#scarsandstripescoffee #notsponsored #movingwrightalong #unitedwebrew
I have a confession, I read @cooksillustrated for fun. So, when I sprout off some random facts about potatoes or bolognese, odds are I read it here.
Cook's Illustrated is where I learned how to make the perfect pancake (and paying thousands of dollars on dietetics/nutrition school). While mixing, resting, and ingredients all come into play, most go wrong with the skillet temperature. Medium-high heat is king.
I served up some delicious @kodiakcakes flapjacks for breakfast today. I say "served" even though I served myself. 🤣 Topped elementary-style with butter and Aunt J's butter-flavored syrup. 😯 Gasp.
I like to live on the wild side.
Happy flippin' 🥞 Saturday!
One thing you should know about me: I rarely buy salads from restaurants. I seriously can't justify spending $9 to $15 for a salad.
According to @plate_iq, in 2017, the average markup on a Cobb Salad was 248% 🤯, meaning a salad that cost about $3.45 to make was sold to us for $12.
I found this @goodfoods plant-based queso at @aldiusa and before I was tempted to shovel it down my throat with tortilla chips 😛, I tossed together this 🥬romaine salad with bell peppers, radishes, cilantro, and cotija cheese.
This queso was 💯! So, I probably spent about $12 on ingredients, but.. I can make like 🥗🥗🥗🥗🥗🥗. What's you fav Aldi Find?
