I made it to the first destination: Amsterdam🇳🇱 Wow, I forgot how cold it can get here. I'm glad to be back to the city I called home for a while but this time with my mom. It's a mother-daughter trip! Preparing for this trip has been overwhelming. Despite everything here are my takeaways and wins: - I can function with less sleep but that is not sustainable for my body nor my mental health. Sleep and mainly quality sleep is important. - Mobility workout, mindful movement and asking for help is the best way for me to prevent injuries. - Consistency is key but I'm human and life happens. Dailing back is okay but next day normal is they way to go with everything. I've consistently walked 10k steps minimum for weeks now but day before I just couldn't. Next day I jumped right back to normal and got the steps in... even on travel day and first day here. - Overall Win has been the mindset change. Choosing difficult options because they are aligned with my goals, not making excuses first but genuinely trying to achieve goals and dailing back when required. Attaching my steps progress since joining this community 😁

I gave everything to Fitness. Fitness gave me everything back and more! I’ll always believe that everything great in your life starts from prioritizing your health and body first. The spillover is undeniable. I wouldn’t be here engaging with all of you lovely people if it wasn’t for Fitness. We got work to do! ❤️❤️❤️

Hii lovely Skool Fam, Thank you all for being my accountability partner(s) during my fasting days. Your support, encouraging words and check-ins were a constant reminder of my goals and not to give up. This was my first 8 day fast after years… to say I was a little apprehensive at the beginning may be a bit of an understatement. I absolutely did not want to give up halfway or be a potato because it felt a difficult at the moment. My takeaway from the 8 day fast is that I can do things that I find difficult if I’m willing to reframe my thoughts and be consistent. The more I show up, the more confident I will get. Also I have to give a special Thank You to @F L for taking on the challenge and completing all 8 days with me. The goal was: - 8500 steps daily - Hydrate daily (2.3L for me) - Move 90 mins daily - Minimum 4 workouts Our stats for fun: @F L got an average of 12845 steps daily, spent an average of 126 mins daily actively moving, stayed hydrated and did 4 workouts during the 8 days. I got an average of 11089 steps daily, spent an average of 130 mins daily actively moving and hit hydration and workout goal as well. Also managed to hit a new PR of over 10k steps daily for 15 days straight🥳 Once again, Thank you all for asking about the festival, for checking in and for being my accountability partners🫶🏽🙏🏼 You all are the best!💜 Ps. Not that anyone asked but I’m still sharing😬🤣 I used to make lists of ridiculous reasons not to do something while actively doing said task or activity. For example, often while walking I’d be complaining to my self about why walking/movement at that time was difficult. Here are my top 2 ridiculous (little funny) reasons not to continue: 1. The neighbours dog is getting stressed 🐶 For context I was walking in circles. I’m assuming because the dog did not have me in its line of sight at all times it would get stressed. The dog always gives me puppy eyes and patiently waits for me to go pet it… so I shouldn’t be stressing it like that was the thought. 2. My shoes and the rocks are trying to kill me. Lol.. while walking I stumbled a few times and had a few sharp rocks get in my shoe.

Choosing program 3 because I am already doing it. 4 days a week.

First day at Universal Studios was a good one! We played around with the kiddos and discovered something hilarious, our family can handle tennis, football, and rugby… but we are definitely not built for basketball 😂😅🙈 don’t judge us 🤭 I stayed within my calorie deficit the first day, which felt like a win! 💪 Second day, I did go about 200 calories over, enjoyed a hamburger with fries 🍔🍟 and honestly, it was worth it. I didn’t bring my scale (left it at the hotel 😅), but I was still able to use my food scan camera to snap a pic of my burger meal and track it as best as I could. I made it to the gym the first night 🏋️‍♂️ but the second night… whew… I was exhausted from all the walking and running after the kiddos. That park will humble you real quick! 😂 We drove to and from , traffic from SF wasn’t too bad, enjoyed some good music and scenery 🎶🌄 On the way home, we stopped at a viral spot called Mark’s Kitchen in Fresno and had to try her bomb a$$ sh!t 😅 Let’s just say… I was counting calories up until then, but all self-control went out the window 🙈🙏 and boy, that was an experience 😂 What I learned from this trip: Trips are not as easy as we think when trying to stay on track 🥴 BUT I also learned that enjoying the moment with the kids while staying as mindful as possible with your goals is doable. It’s okay to enjoy here and there … otherwise you miss the important moments. I can’t tell you how many times I had to turn down some good-looking food on this trip… it was a real struggle! 😮‍💨 Still, I kept moving, stayed mindful, and made memories with my kids , nieces and nephews and that’s a win in my book ❤️ **Here are some pics from our Spring Break trip 😌