Not all of us can be runners. I wasn’t a runner my whole life. Until just last year, I had never once been able to run a mile continuously without stopping to walk, and certainly never finished with a single-digit time. It turns out the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in that regard. …
Healthy Pumpkin Spice Latte Smoothie
It’s National Coffee Day and we’re out of the house before 10:00 am on a Saturday for a full day of fun: a fall play date at Cantigny and then two back-to-back kiddo birthday parties. This mama needs coffee. But this mama also needs breakfast. In honor of the unequivocal arrival of fall (it’s not even …
The Case for Clean Eating
I’ve been on a post-summer fitness reset for three weeks now. I purged my pantry, cleaned out my cabinets, refreshed my refrigerator, and got serious again with another session of FIT4MOM DuPage County Body Back. The program has so many benefits, which you’ve heard me talk about time and time again. But what’s really hitting …
PB and J Protein Smoothie Bowl
I could eat peanut butter for every meal of every day. On toast, with apples, in smoothies. After dinner, I often eat it straight off of a spoon as my dessert. So here’s a smoothie bowl recipe inspired by my childhood favorite PB & J sandwich (back then, it was on Wonder Bread, of course. …