Family, Fitness, Nutrition...Balance

     As we are bringing in 2018 it is time to reflect on the past year.  What have you accomplished, what did you let go, are you happy with where you ended up?  Can you look back and say I am happy how things turned out, or do you look back and say I wish I made different decisions?      Personally there will always be decisions you make that you wish would have different outcomes.  You chose whatever it was at that time for a reason, you just have to look at the bigger picture now and decide if that reason was truly worth it in the long run?  For me, there are some things I would have chosen differently now.  For one, I would have stuck more to my healthy eating plan, but you know what, sometimes we just need our chocolate and I justify that by making sure I work out more.  Now that might not be the right way to go about things, but for me it worked and it made me happy so that was enough.  That is what I like about li...

Well...as you can tell I have fallen off the blog bandwagon. Life has gotten so busy but it’s my hope with the new year around the corner I can get back at it. Or at least post once or twice a month! So when I last left you I was training for my first half marathon!  Training went well and I felt ready...still very nervous, but ready physically. The morning of the race it was cold!!! 28 degrees to be exact so it took some encouragement to get out of a nice warm car and start warming up!! It took 4 miles before I got feeling back into my toes, but otherwise I was warm and even took my gloves off... so i am glad I listened to the pros about dressing 15 degrees warmer! It's been said things do not always go as planned, and that is true on race day as well.  I was almost to mile 5 and my phone died, or at least I thought it did.  I thought it was because we were in the boonies, but in hindsight I think that it was too cold and just shut off.  So from mile 5 until...