NewLizFitness

 Hello Fit Fam, I am trying to stay true to my goals of 2025 but I am finding it hard this year. I wanted to be consistent and see progress. Although I genuinely do think I am making progress, I am finding consistency to be a challenge. I have been lazy, and tired, and let excuses get in my way too many times to count in a month and a half! We are in the middle of February and in honor of Valentine's Day I am deciding to love my journey. No matter how imperfect it might be or inconsistent! I have found some success in small moments. I am working out, I am finding ways to eat better. I am being more intentional about my family life. I am still needing to work on work-life balance but I am getting there. I have lost sight of my fitness career. I moved into this amazing new path with digital marketing and I am starting to see that time is just so limited. It doesn't mean I cannot still continue to grow professionally as a fitness professional, it just might look and feel very diff...

 Hello Fit Fam, As we come to a close of the 2024 year, I am looking back in absolute awe at what has happened to myself, my family, and my world! From big career changes to our house trying to fall apart to losing my way with fitness; I am looking to get back to consistency and keep moving forward! I always pick two words to focus on going into the new year. They are driving factors for how I want my year to be. Motivation to keep me focused and centered around my goals. This year I have decided to pick: 1) Consistent 2) Progress With all the mentioned changes in my life, I am looking to get back to being consistent. Consistent in all aspects of my life: fitness, nutrition, sleep, work-life balance, family time, online personal training, mindfulness, housework, and me! I have an amazing journal called Commit30. It breaks down easy ways to track workouts, nutrition, and other daily, weekly, and monthly habits. I have used it before inconsistently but this year I plan to use it cons...

 Hello Fit Fam, Let's talk about Failure! As I wind down the 2024 year and look back I am filled with many emotions. This year was filled with so many big changes for me. Stability felt like such a foreign concept. I kept getting excited and making big plans and then some unexpected circumstance derailed me from my path. They weren't always bad circumstances but they were unseen. I had to pivot, make a new game plan, and set my sights on something I wasn't working towards. It has been a year of adapting to change and I can say looking back that all of the ups and downs have been worth it! Going all the way back to January I was about to leave a job that brought me back into the workforce after a short stay-at-home stint with my kid. I love to work and always wanted to go back to work, as I find that being out of the house in the workforce is good for my mental health! I worked that job in fitness equipment sales for about a year. It was good and exposed me to a whole new si...

 Hello Fit Fam, Happy Fall! It is now November and I have finished my October Health Challenge. It was for sure an adventure with all the lovely things happening in life. I have learned a lot about myself and how I plan to move forward with my health and well-being.  In October I returned to full-time work halfway through the month. I also got back into what I feel is a regular fitness routine. I focused on family time, keeping my house in order, and trying to hit 5 main health aspects daily. If I were to give myself a score out of 100 I would honestly say I scored an 80%. I feel like I made plans weekly that I could stick to with a goal at the end of the month. I was on track...for the most part but fell short in some areas and succeeded in others. Let's break the 5 main areas I focused on down, 1) Fitness - Now this is my jam. I felt like I was consistent in working out the whole month. What I will say is I am no longer working in the fitness industry so finding time to be p...

 Hello Fit Fam, I am sitting in bed getting ready for my first day of work at my new job, which starts tomorrow. It is a weird feeling different from any other I have experienced. I have had other jobs and other first days of work. I have been nervous and excited. I have had to learn new things in my positions with skills I have not had before.  For some reason, this time feels different. I am about to make a pretty big change from working in the fitness industry for my entire professional and educational career to a new field of marketing and business development.  I know the just of what I am stepping into but I know there will be much to learn. I am nervous but so excited to explore all this new position will teach me. I am ready to learn, grow and expand my professional knowledge.  I will never truly let go of fitness. I am excited to take the time to focus on fitness in a personal capacity instead of a professional capacity. I can prioritize my workouts, healthy...

 Day 1 of my October Challenge! I have completed day 1 of 31 days on building a better me! I had some great success and then some iffy success. I worked out, I got my hydration in, I did my mindfulness practice, I connected with my accountability buddy, but my nutrition wasn't quite on point.  I skipped breakfast—oops. I ate a decent lunch, yay! I ate a kids' dinner—sorry, I have a 3-year-old, so making food for us sometimes means eating chicken nuggets and fries, haha! I know nutrition is my weakest area regarding well-rounded health and well-being. I love to exercise. I LOVE water and always hydrate. I am a social butterfly. And honestly, mindfulness work has become something I love! Nutrition is just my sworn enemy! But that is the point of this lovely challenge to...challenge myself! I want to be transparent through this process as I think people often feel like others have it all the way together when it comes to their health. No one is perfect and even the best athletes ...