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Gift Guide for the Fitness & Athleisure Lover

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Life is all about balance, am I right? Go to an indoor cycling or barre class and then enjoy a glass of wine that night at home.. errr bottle of wine? 🙂 I personally need to get back into a steady fitness routine.. it’s always a plan in my head it’s just making it an actual routine that’s the issue. Anyways, whether you’re a homebody, a fitness fanatic or like me and currently stuck somewhere in the middle – there is something for every girl in today’s gift guide.

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April Cyclebar Health & Wellness Update

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I seriously can’t believe it’s almost May. That we’ve nearly completed 4 months of 2018 and summer will be here in the matter of weeks. May is always a busy month in general with graduations and Mother’s day. it’s also my birthday and for some reason I thought it’d be a good idea to make it the month of our wedding anniversary too, ha. BUSY BUSY. Anyways, before we get into the craziness of all that I wanted to share an April Cyclebar health & wellness update with y’all.

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March Health Update {My Weight Loss Journey with Cyclebar}

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Six weeks into 2018 {on Feb. 11th} I shared with y’all that I was down 10 pounds and today I’m excited to share that I am down another 6 LBs. We are 11 weeks into the new year and 4 weeks since my last post update. Since beginning my weight loss journey in August 2017 I’ve lost a total of 37 LBS with 16 of those LBS being in the last 11 weeks. It’s definitely been a very slowww journey to say the least, but to be honest, it’s probably been the easiest trial of trying to lose weight that I’ve ever attempted. I’m not consumed by it, it’s not controlling my daily life, and I’m not being hard on myself by putting unnecessary pressure to hit a certain number on the scale by a specific date. by Not putting an expiration deadline on my health is what I truly believe has been the biggest factor as to why this hasn’t been such a treacherous experience for me.

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Leawood Cyclebar’s 1st Birthday Bash + Health Update

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I’m excited to share a little update on my 2018 good health and weight loss journey with y’all on this Monday morning. We are 6 weeks into the new year and I am happy to say that I am down 10 lbs since my first post which i shared with you all 5 weeks ago. I have continued to eat well and eat smaller portions, though I still indulge & honestly probably a little more than someone who is trying to lose weight really should. Along with that I’ve been going to Cyclebar in Leawood three to four days a week. Don’t get me wrong, 10 lbs down in 6 weeks is great and I’m so happy with those results as I know it very well could have been much less. These next 6 weeks though I really want to give a little more effort by really reallywatching my sugar and carb intake and start going to Cyclebar four to six times a week. Cyclebar in Leawood is celebrating their one year anniversary this month and they are doing something so fun and completely free to non members. this birthday bash event is coming at such the right time for me and it will definitely make it easy for me to bump up my weekly class attendance.

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My Current Morning Skin Care Routine

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I originally had this post featuring both my AM and PM skin care routines but it was lonnnng. So, I’m going to break it up into two separate post’s this week for you guys. Starting it off with today’s post sharing my morning skin care routine.  I mentioned in my ‘A Year in Review’ blog post that taking good care of my skin is a major part of my 2018 goals. I really started caring for my skin when I got engaged in 2015 and even then I wasn’t doing all that I could have been. Before then, there were many times {more than I want to admit} where I’d go to bed with my make up on. I wasn’t following a routine and I thought a make up wipe, face wash, and a basic moisturizer was good enough. If only we could only go back in time to tell our younger selves to take better self care, sigh.

The older I get the more I realize how lucky I am to have a healthy body with no major issues. I am so grateful for that and I want to really start taking the best possible care of it that I can, which includes my skin. Jack McFarland from Will & Grace says it best, “There’s no shame in getting old. There’s only shame in getting ugly.” 😉 Aging gracefully is a goal of mine and I’m taking all the preventative measures I can in order to do so.

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My 2018 Health & Fitness Goals + Cyclebar

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nike cropped sweatshirt // VS slate KNOCKOUT LEGGINGS {ON SALE} // NIKE ROSHE SNEAKERS {on sale} // APPLE WATCH 

Ever since I turned 20 I have really always struggled or yo-yoed with my weight. I would start a certain diet  and work out regimen and lose a little weight with it but in the long run I would get burnt out fast and nothing ever stuck. in the spring of 2013 I lost 30 ish pounds and was happy with my weight only to gain it all back that winter. I pretty much struggled with emotional eating and weight gain until getting engaged in June of 2015. In prep for the wedding I then lost a good 40 ish pounds from that august to the following May in 2016 when we got married and went on our honeymoon. After returning from our honeymoon I completely gained all of that weight plus more back and felt like I kept gaining little by little each month as we made our way into 2017. This past August (2017) at my highest weight ever I decided enough was enough and that I was determined to lose the weight, for real this time.  Honestly and more importantly I really just want to be healthy. I’m in my mid 20’s and should be at my prime, and I’m determined to get there this year. i think now that i’m wanting to lose weight for the right reasons and not for an event deadline it should go a lot easier with less pressure. whether it takes me another 6 months or all of 2018 to lose it, i know it will be worth the hard work to feel my best.

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A Year in Review + Blush Velour Jumpsuit

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hi friends, happy 2018 to you all!

i posted this pretty blush velour jumpsuit on my instagram page a few weeks ago and i’m so sorry it’s taken me this long to do a full post on all the details. i love that jumpsuits are so on trend right now as this was the perfect piece to wear to a holiday party without having to freeze my legs off in a dress or skirt. i know the holidays are over but a jumpsuit would also be perfect for any banquets or weddings you have coming up this winter and even more perfect for a dressy valentine’s date night look next month.

with it being a new year, a fresh start, a clean slate – whatever you want to call it. i wanted to reflect on 2017 and share some of my new resolutions/goals for 2018 in today’s post as well. i know, i know, it’s a very cliché thing to do and it’s something that doesn’t and honestly shouldn’t have to wait until january 1st to sit down and do. even so, I’m still pretty into it and enjoy setting new goals to better myself & lifestyle. can we also address how satisfying it was that the first day of the new year was on a monday this year? so lovely.

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Holiday Gift Guide Part Three: Health & Fitness Gifts

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only fourteen days until it’s a new year and resolutions set in and your local gyms and studios become packed full of new clients. whether your new to the work out scene or have lived this lifestyle for a long time now just remember to be kind to everyone no matter how annoyed you may get that they took your fav stair stepper machine. I myself recently just re joined (I went this summer) cycle bar, an indoor cycle studio here in Kansas City though they have studios all over the unite states. i really love going to Cyclebar, it has such a fab energy with amazing music and instructors. While yes, it is a group class and you can choose to have your stats up on the board along with everyone else’s my favorite part is that they always reiterate that you are here for you and competing against your best self. anyways, i’ll share more on cyclebar in the next few weeks but for now i wanted to share some great last-minute gift ideas for the health & fitness gal in your life.

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Holiday Gift Guide Series Part One: Gifts For Her

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 With Christmas only being a little over a month away {6 weeks to be exact} I wanted to start sharing my holiday gift guide series with you guys. I will be doing quite a few post’s within this series, along with the best of sale post’s including black Friday deals. make sure you aren’t missing out on anything  and be sure to subscribe to the blog where you’ll get post’s sent straight to your inbox {You can sign up over on the right hand sidebar}. also be sure to follow me on Instagram and Facebook as I will always share my post’s there too.

Today I’m going to start the series off with my Holiday Gift Guide For Her. ‘Her’ being any of the fabulous gal’s in your life. from your closest girlfriends, your mom, sister, grandma, aunt, whoever it may be. I also enjoy making these gift guides because it helps me make my own wish list I can send to my husband and mom. It’s so vey easy to fall into wanting items for yourself while shopping for others during the holiday season. Have no shame and send this little hint hint list to your loved ones. 😉

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Must Have Mask Monday + My Round Up of Current Favorite Beauty Products

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Like most women I have become obsessed with skin care, really just self-care in general, since being in my mid twenties. In my late teen years and even my early twenties I think I pretended to care and thought I was doing ‘good enough’ when it came to taking care of my skin. Ohhh boy, was I so very wrong about this. It was probably age 23 that my skin started showing the first signs of aging as in ‘you’re not 13 anymore and can’t just go to bed with out washing your face and everything be okay’. It was age 24 and the year I got engaged that I actually made the commitment to start doing something about it. Basic things like drinking plenty of water, using SPF on the daily, and washing your face every night before bed are all very important, yes. Though in my personal opinion finding the right products that are proven with reviews and stand the test of being great quality is right up at the top of the list. With that being said, I wanted to share some of my favorite skin care products along with hair care products that I’ve been using within the last few months and even some of them for half my life.

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