When you go from a junk food addict in your early 30s in need of blood pressure medication, to a marathoner with a healthy weight and a sustainable diet, no one makes you a doctor. No one gives you a master’s. But I’ve accumulated a ton of knowledge through research and trial and error that has not only helped me get healthy, but stay healthy in realistic, sustainable ways.

With this blog, I hope to share what I’ve learned so far and what I’m still learning. Such as how to apply the lessons I’ve learned going from couch to marathon to tackle what may be even bigger goals. And how to take the top-10 lists of most blogs and magazine articles and make them work in real life.

Like, we get it, spinach is super healthy, but how do we convince your mouth that it’s good enough for entry. And limiting refined carbs is important to losing weight and staying healthy, but we need dessert sometimes, too. Mental health is a factor, too, right?

And I know some days this is easy, but sometimes it’s not. Sometimes it’s easy to push yourself through an interval run and make a healthy salad for lunch, and sometimes your kid knocks over your TV, it’s raining and you start to feel like you have no business training for a marathon, a 10K, etc. 

I’ve had to round up and manufacture all kinds of inspiration to keep moving forward, something else I hope to share with you.

Hope you enjoy. Let me know what you think. And keep running.