Sign up for my 5th Annual {DIGITAL} 10 Day Love Handles Be Gone Challenge, starting February 4!  It's just $10!!!!

Each February, I host a Love Handles Be Gone Challenge, focusing on core exercises and scripture to pray over your loved ones.  This year, it will be a DIGITAL Challenge!  Instead of having a group to check in to, you'll receive a weekly email from me, for 2 weeks.  (If you participated in my Healthy Holiday Challenge in December, it will be very similar to that set-up)  The Challenge begins February 4 and you'll receive emails on Sundays, Feb 3 and 10, for the week ahead. 

You will receive tips, core workouts, and my 10 Day Scriptures to Pray for your Loved Ones - delivered right to your E-Mail Inbox!  Instead of having a group to check in to, you'll just receive a weekly email from me!

Each email includes:
- 2 core strengthening workouts to complete each week
- Scripture to pray for your loved ones (10 days)
- Core strengthening tips

This Challenge is only $10!  Sign up NOW, by completing the SIGN UP FORM below!  Grab your friends to join us!

,Happy New Year!  I'm so excited to announce my brand new Program for 2019: my OVERcome Your Obstacles 4 week Program. 

God laid this on my heart several months ago when I started thinking about how to further help women really push past their biggest obstacles.  In the year and half of running my Back to BASICs Program, I've seen countless women make change, learn the BASICs, and learn healthy living habits.  I also realized the need for a program to really mentor women in a more unique way to overcome their obstacles.  To still focus on the basics {Bible study, Accountability, Sweating, Ingredients (food), Changes (small changes)} while taking it a little further and more intentional.  I've taken the basis for the BASICs Program and essentially updated in a brand new, fresh, and deeper way.  This OVERcome Your Obstacles Program is 100% different from the BASICs program.  New scripture, new curriculum, new everything.  I've taken what I've learned in the BASICs Program and put it into making the OVERcome Program what it is. 

In the Fall, I did a few Instagram polls for research and learned that women struggle the most with Nutrition, Finding/Making time to exercise, and accountability.  This fueled what God had already laid on my heart to focus on the top 4 health areas that women struggle the most to overcome: Nutrition, Exercise, Routine, and Personal Obstacles.

I started praying about what God wanted me to do with this passion, how to structure it, etc.  Over the next several weeks, I fine tuned it and put it all into the structure that is now the OVERcome Your Obstacles Program.

What is the OVERcome Your Obstacles Program?
It's a 4 week, online program to help you overcome your biggest obstacles.  We focus on the 4 main health hurdles that we face.  During the 4 week program, we focus on 1 of these focuses a week.  To OVERcome, we focus on:

O: OBSTACLES: Identifying them FOR YOU and making an action plan to overcome them.  Make your own personal mission statement.
V: VIGILANT NUTRITION: Mindful & Intuitive Eating.  Nutritional Awareness.  Nutritional guidance.
E: EXERCISE: 5 day workout plan | 20-30 minutes (provided for you - beginner option, at home, and gym options available)
R: ROUTINE:  How to make healthy living fit YOUR lifestyle and schedule.  Figuring out the best routine for YOUR life.

What makes this program different from the Back to BASICs Program?
The Back to BASICs Program focused on the basics you need to know to start your health journey, jump back in after time off, or give you a boost/refresher.  The OVERcome Your Obstacles program brings a bit more personalization and mentoring to your health journey.  I'll work with helping you identify your biggest obstacles and making your own personal mission statement to tackle them.  I'll teach you about mindful & intuitive eating as I guide you through awareness nutrition and how to finally feel like you know what you need to know.  Plus, we'll work together to make exercise fit YOUR schedule.

What's the workout plan like?
It's a 5 day workout plan.  Each workout is 20-30 minutes MAX.  There's no need to spend more than half an hour working out, if you're giving it your all 5 days a week.   That coupled with all you'll be implementing and learning, changes WILL happen.  You choose between the at home or gym plan.  (There's a beginner plan available, as needed, too)  It all depends on where your health/fitness is at, and where you workout.  It's a mix of Cardio, High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT), Full Body weights, core, and stabilizing workouts.  Small (5-8 lbs) and Heavy (10+ lbs) handweights are required.  I've created this workout plan, specifically for this Program.  It's developed in a way to help women in any health, see results in as little time as possible!

What is "Mindful & Intuitive Eating"?
Simply put, it's nutritional awareness.  We focus on the mental, physical, and even spiritual ways food affects us all.  I work with you to help you figure out how to get a handle on it for YOU and your nutritional hurdles.  We have to be vigilant in our nutrition or we find ourselves in unhealthy obsessions or cycles.  We conquer all of that in this program.

Is there a Bible study included?
Absolutely!  Each week, we'll be digging into a scripture relating to that week's focus.  It will help us dig into what God says about it and learn how to truly make the connection between faith and fitness.  It's important to figure out nutrition, exercise, routine, and overcoming obstacles, but until you see what God says about it all, it won't truly click.  You won't truly find success.

Who is the OVERcome Your Obstacles program suited for?
Women of all shapes and sizes, ages, fitness levels, and walks of life.  It's for any woman looking for a way to dig deeper into nutrition, exercise, routine, and conquering your personal health obstacles.

How much is the program?
$45.  That gives you access to the group's private Facebook page (where all the Program/videos/devotions/etc take place).  Plus, you'll receive your 4 week workout plan of choice AND my OVERcomer Packet complete with freebies for meal planning, grocery shopping, food journaling, scripture, etc.  As always, you also receive ME as your personal Coach for those 4 weeks!

What does the Facebook group involve? The Facebook group is simply an online accountability group.  It's our private place together.  I post our daily devotions there and we use it to check in with our food and workouts.  Doing this, helps you in BIG ways.  Knowing you have to share your food and workout with the group helps you stay on track.  We have specific sign in days, but you're welcome to sign in as often as you need!

What's happening to the Back to BASICs Program?
I'm not sure yet.  I am leaving that up to the Lord and continuing to seek His plan on it.  For right now, I'm moving forward with this new curriculum he's given me and leaving the rest up to him.  If you're a previous BASICs client, you'll really enjoy the OVERcome Program.  I thought about many of your struggles, comments, etc. as I worked through developing this curriculum.  You will 100% still benefit from this program.

To sign up or receive information, complete the Sign Up Form below!  To see the SUCCESS previous clients have had in working with me, CLICK HERE.  You'll see testimonials and before/after photos!

Every year, we make goody bags for our neighbors. This year, we made Christmas Potpourri. It’s super easy and smells so good!

We tied them up and added a little tag with instructions. The perfect little Christmas gift. The kids loved putting the bags together. ☺️

​Christmas Potpourri
1 orange
1 lemon or lime
2 cinnamon sticks
2-3 bay leaves
5 whole cloves

Instructions for Tag:
Slice fruit. Add water. Simmer on stove top and enjoy the smell of Christmas!

Wow!  Outside of Landon's main teacher, I never realized just how many teachers you'd be expected to give Christmas gifts to!  This year, with Landon in Kindergarten, it's been a wakeup call.  I never even thought about the Related Arts teachers!  Don't get me wrong, I'm happy to love on and show appreciate to all the teachers who work with Landon, but it adds up quick!  One of my closest friends is a teacher so she helped my group of friends figure out just what teachers want (and don't want)!  I landed on these Hand Soaps this year.

I took advantage of one of the Bath and Body Works Handsoap sales and snagged enough for his Related Arts teachers.  I made these little tags and tied them on.  Easy!  I also made 2 special ones for the EAs who always help us with pick up and drop off.  They're the sweetest ladies and so friendly.  One of them is also the EA in his room.  I wanted their tag to say something different because they are just so sweet and helpful getting Landon in and out of the car, and talking to Allie, too  :)

I've linked the FREE PDF printable for you to use too!  I hope this helps out your Christmas budget this year!

What do you give your child's teachers for Christmas?