Fit Your Life

With the weather changing and the shackles of winter starting to loosen their grip…many women are itching to get outside and go for a jog! One of the hardest things to put a postpartum body through is running. Let me explain: Running is literally jumping off one foot and landing on the other potentially thousands of times in a relatively short period. This prolonged, repetitive, vertical impact on a hard surface challenges the postpartum body in several ways:    1.  It’s jarring for your pelvic organs- organs that have undergone a tremendous amount of anatomical shift during pregnancy and again in the postpartum period. Usually, there are ligaments that firmly tether your organs to their anchor spots inside your body. Under the influence of pregnancy hormones, these ligaments become lax so that your uterus can grow and everything else can get out of the way. Pregnancy hormones take months to be flushed from your body postpartum; and, breastfeeding horm...

In my little family, breakfast is by far our favorite meal.   It’s the only meal where I can make one thing and know that, 9 times out of 10, everyone will be happy.   That being said, mornings are usually the busiest time of day for us so I love to have breakfast made the night before.   Taking one less to do out of the morning helps us all start our day happier.   If I could give you one tip for prepping your breakfasts the night before, it’s prep once, eat twice or even three times.   Any time I have the chance, I double the recipes and we either eat the meal two mornings in a row or I freeze half and have a breakfast ready to eat another day.   Here are my family’s favorites: 1.      Overnight oats I love how simple and versatile overnight oats are.   You can throw together almost any combination of grains, fruit, milk, protein, seeds and sweetener and you will have a winner.   Here are a few of my favor...