Faster Way to Fat Loss Honest REVIEW 2023
Here is my review of “the FASTer way to Fat Loss” program from Amanda Tress. I’m sharing everything I learned from carb-cycling to counting macros and how I lost 12lbs and 21.5 inches in less than 2 months!
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Here is my review of “the FASTer way to Fat Loss” program from Amanda Tress. I’m sharing everything I learned from carb-cycling to counting macros and how I lost 12lbs and 21.5 inches in less than 2 months!
Check out these DIY Thanksgiving Centerpieces! You can easily make your own Thanksgiving decor with these simple projects!
We bought at temporary inflatable pool for summer in our backyard.Here’s what you need to know from how to set up, extra supplies, and how long it took.
Celebrate Earth Day at home with these creative ideas for the whole family. There is something for everyone from Earth Day crafts to nature movies and more.
Want to keep your house clean but short on time? Grab this free 10 minute chore chart to get started. You might be surprised at how much you can get done!
Get organized in the new year with this family binder kit. Free printable meal planning tools and more to create a simple family binder and stay organized at home.
As a mom and the only female in a house full of males (including the cats!) I’m not afraid to shout my love of flushable wipes even beyond the bathroom.
There are plenty of summer sandals out there, but I believe I have found the most comfortable summer shoes for women. If you have been around for the past year or more, you know exactly how much comfortable shoes mean to me. I developed a painful plantar fasciitis injury and it has taken me nearly …
Everyday magic is being honest with yourself. It doesn’t = goodness, though sometimes it’s good. It doesn’t have to be over the top, but sometimes it is…
For someone who goes to Disney World as much as I do, you’d think I would have found the best shoes for standing all day by now. At long last, I have!
Cats are awesome! And this Cat Litter Scoop DIY project is pretty cool too! Level up your scooping game or get crafty on a backup scoop with this tutorial.
I’m finally beginning to realize that I don’t have to take every single thing as-is. It’s time to embrace my freedom to move beyond as-is living into a life that looks like mine.
With my first baby, I read everything under the sun. With my second, I narrowed the list to my top 5 books to read during pregnancy to prep for birth and those early months of parenting a newborn.
I love a good routine but life happens and it’s important to be flexible. Here are my tips to organize your thoughts in 3 steps.
Mondays are either awesome or awful with no in-between.But when I’m intentional, I can take my Monday blues and turn them into Monday productivity.
Probably painted over many times, I’m like this building. I may put on another hat or learn a new job. But each old layer is still there under the new.
I just want to make some progress, take a few steps forward and be gracious with myself. Here’s how I plan to use brain breaks to help me do it.
Work-life balance is the holy grail for working parents. Seeking it can be as frustrating our stress. Here’s how to make work-life balance work for you.
I started writing another post this morning and after a few paragraphs I knew I needed to stop and write this one. The truth is, I miss some things right now. This week, the kids are on spring break and while we took a really fun trip last weekend, I’ve been working with them here …
It’s interesting to see how things shake out in life sometimes. This year especially, I’ve already run the gamut on emotional health in the 5 short weeks we’ve had of 2017. I’ve been trying to be productive but the pieces aren’t fitting together. This weekend, I realized it was time to trade productivity for value …
Maybe you’re hanging on wondering how you will take the next step. I want to tell you something. You don’t have to know how it happens. You really don’t.
Play-Well TEKnologies hosts LEGO inspired summer camps and home parties all over the United States. We tried it out and I’m sharing our experience!
As the parents of boys in kindergarten and 2nd grade, it seems like we are hitting the sweet spot for reading. They have reached the point where they can enjoy books on their own or read aloud with the grown-ups. Over the past few months, we’ve amassed a few favorite books for k-2nd grade so …
It’s been a long time since I was a baseball fan but growing up, I was IN TO IT. I collected baseball stickers and watched the games and as a FL native, went to many spring training games locally. A couple of times on vacation, I got to see the real thing. One summer, my …
The truth is, some days are more clear cut but that’s the exception more than the rule. As a working parent, it’s necessary to work in small chunks of time.
In the wake of the third and final Presidential debate, I can almost audibly hear a collective sigh of resignation from the recesses of America. This is it. There’s no back-door, no last-ditch candidate swooping in to save the day. These are our choices. And when it’s over, we’ll be faced with another choice; whether …
It’s been a minute since I talked about health stuff and I have reasons. But I think it’s time to dust off this old category because I have some things to say about sugar and how it keeps trying to build walls around my health. Yesterday I started training for the upcoming Walt Disney World …
Today is my 9th wedding anniversary. On the one hand it feels like I have always been married. On the other hand, we are just getting started. Nine years has definitely been a journey for us. We’ve had really high highs but the lows have been enough to knock the wind out of us. At …
With two boys, I hear a lot about good guys and bad guys. As the self-proclaimed “good guys”, my boys have a deep inner need to protect. The stories are always about how they will save and how they will fight to the death if needed to defeat the bad guys, whose doom almost always …
When we planned our family getaway to Washington DC, we knew we needed a place to stay that was centrally located, safe and convenient for families. So, when I learned about all of the family-friendly amenities available at Embassy Suites when I was at the Mom 2.0 conference earlier this year, the Embassy Suites Convention …
5 time-management tips for how to work from home and keep your sanity this summer and maybe even have a little fun along the way.
I love to eat food and cook food and buy food. But what I don’t always love to do is create a recipe. What I need are great hassle-free meals to rely on.
Take the Summer Sleep Challenge to improve your sleep habits and be more productive. My response to The Sleep Revolution by Arianna Huffington.
If there is one thing I hear every single day, it’s that people have too many emails and too little time. Yes, we are living in an email world, and I am an email girl. You know? Truth is, when you work-from-home, life revolves around your inbox. Whether you work at home or in an …
Learning how to change your habits is the holy grail of self-improvement. Better Than Before by Gretchen Rubin was both frustrating and enlightening.
Lie: It will only take 5-minutes. I need to tell you a secret. I lie to myself all the time. Every day. Several times a day. What’s worse is that more often than not, I believe my lies. I intentionally disregard real life and my own humanity with impossible optimism for what will be accomplished. …
After reading and re-reading my application, I closed my eyes and clicked submit. I was instantly relieved and nothing else really mattered at that moment. I did the thing that scared me and now there was nothing to do but wait…. I spent the past few days in beautiful Laguna Nigel, California at the Mom …
In the past couple of weeks, I’ve found myself in a reactionary season where I haven’t been finding peace. I don’t like being busy because it stresses everyone out, yet that’s exactly where I am. My reaction time is slower, I have that uncomfortable feeling you get when running late and the organized part of …
Before I was married, doing taxes wasn’t complicated. In the past few years however, life and finances got a bit more overwhelming. This year, swearing that we wouldn’t wait until the last minute to file, we waited until the last minute to file
This is a sponsored post Mason Wartman, owner of Rosa’s Pizza in Philadelphia, PA. is a pretty laid back guy with a pretty great story. After spending some time working on Wall Street after college, he decided to return home to fulfill his simple dream of making pizza and selling slices for $1 each. But …