Nutrition & Diet
Why I Stopped Making Perfect Dinners (And Started Making This Instead) Last Tuesday, I stood in my kitchen at 6:47 PM, staring at a sink full of dirty pots while my kids asked for the fourth time when dinner would be ready. That's when it hit me:
Weight Loss Wisdom
Your Body Fat Isn't Your Enemy (And Other Lies We Need to Stop Telling) Spoiler alert: It's complicated, and that's actually okay. I used to have a very specific relationship with my body fat percentage. By "relationship," I mean I checked it
Nutrition & Diet
Why Your Slow Cooker Is Actually a Time Machine I used to think slow cookers were basically fancy soup kettles for people who couldn't be bothered to actually cook. Boy, was I wrong. Last month, I was staring at a chunk of beef chuck roast that had been
Fitness & Exercise
Why CrossFit's "Commandments" Are Keeping You Small I've been seeing this list of "CrossFit Commandments" floating around again, and honestly? It's making me a bit uncomfortable. Don't get me wrong—I spent six years as a competitive CrossFitter.
Sleep & Mental Wellness
Your 4-Month-Old's Sleep Isn't Broken (Here's What's Really Happening) Picture this: You're finally feeling like you've got this whole baby sleep thing figured out. Your little one was doing those magical 4-5 hour stretches at night, naps were
Sleep & Mental Wellness
The 11-Month Sleep Reality Check Nobody Talks About Let me start with this: if you're reading this at 3 AM while your 11-month-old is wide awake and you're questioning every life choice that led you here... hi, friend. Been there. Actually, I'm writing this
Weight Loss Wisdom
Why I Stopped Trusting Calorie Calculators (And You Should Too) Let me tell you about the time I calculated my daily calorie needs down to the exact digit. It was 2,247 calories. Not 2,250. Not 2,200. Exactly 2,247. I'd spent three hours plugging numbers
Fitness & Exercise
Why Comfortable Learning is Killing Your Progress Last month I found myself face-down in the dirt of a Mongolian wrestling ground, getting absolutely demolished by a 60-year-old herder who barely spoke English. My ribs ached, my ego was bruised, and I couldn't feel my left shoulder. It was
Sleep & Mental Wellness
The 10-Month Sleep Schedule That Saved My Sanity (And Might Save Yours Too!) Currently writing this at 11:47 PM while my 10-month-old finally sleeps after deciding that 9 PM was the perfect time to practice standing in his crib for the 847th time today. Hey there, fellow zombie parent!
Weight Loss Wisdom
Your Hand Knows Better Than Your Scale I used to carry a food scale everywhere. Restaurants? I'd guess and then spiral about the inaccuracy. Friends' houses? Awkward conversations about weighing my salad. Beach trips? That scale came with me, obviously. The obsession with precision nearly broke me.
Fitness & Exercise
Stop Shaming Rest: Why Your "Sneaky" Breaks Are Actually Smart Training Listen up, warriors. I gotta tell you about Sarah. Sarah was crushing it in my 6 AM class last Tuesday. We're talking about a beast who deadlifts 2x bodyweight and can string together muscle-ups like
Fitness & Exercise
Why Your Deadlift Sucks (And It's Not What You Think) Let me tell you about the day I nearly shit myself under a loaded barbell. It was 2019, some dingy powerlifting meet in Oakland. I'm standing over 495 pounds thinking I'm hot stuff, and
Weight Loss Wisdom
Why Your Muscle-Building Strategy is Probably Too Complicated I used to spend three hours researching the "optimal" post-workout meal timing before I'd even stepped foot in a gym. I'd bookmark articles about anabolic windows, debate whether to take creatine with or without carbs, and
Nutrition & Diet
Why I'm Obsessed with This "Weird" Tuna Salad (And You Will Be Too) Okay, confession time. Last Tuesday, I ate the same lunch four days in a row. Not because I meal-prepped like some organized human being, but because I literally couldn't stop making
Nutrition & Diet
The 32g Protein Chili That Actually Tastes Good Remember when I thought "high protein" meant choking down another bland chicken breast while staring longingly at my roommate's pizza? Yeah, those dark days are behind me now. Last Sunday, I was meal prepping for the week (because
Sleep & Mental Wellness
Your 3-Month-Old's Sleep Schedule (And Why It's Okay If It's Messy) Can we talk honestly for a second? When my twins hit the 3-month mark, I was drowning in sleep schedule charts, wake window calculators, and Pinterest-perfect nursery setups. I thought if I could