If you’re anything like me, the holidays caused you to go from this: To this: Fortunately for you, now is as good of a time as ever to get into the best shape of your life. Before you know it, it will be time to put away the big comfy sweaters and bust out your […]
My good friend Matt, founder of Speak Your Silence, reached out to me a couple of weeks ago and asked if I would be interested in writing a guest blog post in order to share my experience with speaking MY silence about being molested when I was younger. I couldn’t be more honored to be […]
Just because you indulged a little bit this holiday DOES NOT mean that you should throw away your efforts to get healthy! You might feel like your progress has been lost, but that is all in your head. Now is the BEST time to get back into your routine, get a good sweat going, and […]
It’s so interesting how much our mind comes into play when it comes to meeting our goals or how we measure our success. We get so caught up in NUMBERS. In measuring our success with statistics, pounds, percentages. I think it’s completely ridiculous that I can be having a perfectly good day, feeling confident about […]
I stumbled across this “Holiday Challenge” and all I have to say is… I AM SO IN! Unfortunately, it is already December 8th, so I have a little making-up to do! Over the next few days, I plan to do the required squats for that day, plus make up for the squats I have missed […]
It’s so easy sometimes to get stuck in our own minds, dealing with our own demons, behind our own masks. It’s so easy to forget that the people around us are fighting their own battles and dealing with their own struggles and trying their best just to make it in this world. It’s human nature […]
Originally written on October 27, 2012 My name is Macaile Hutt and I have been carrying a heavy backpack for 7,273 days. That is 174,552 hours or 10,473,120 seconds. No matter how you look at it, I have been carrying this backpack for far too long. I have tried to sugarcoat it, write it […]
So the holidays are officially here. Which means lots of food, family, and great times…but it ALSO means straying away from our diets, finding excuses to skip the gym, and ultimately taking steps backwards…away from our goals, away from our progress, and into a giant black hole that we will never escape. (Okay, so that […]
I have always been a firm believer that people are brought into our lives when we need them most, sometimes positive, sometimes negative, but always for a reason. There are times when we don’t understand what that reason is until we are able to look back on our experiences, and then there are times that […]
I just need to take a minute to really bask in all of the amazing things happening around me. I have had to stop multiple times lately to pinch myself and ask, “is this real life?” There is a rule of attraction that talks about how you attract whatever you are putting out into the […]