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Continue reading →: Misconceptions about ExerciseYou have to know what you’re doing before you start doing it. The gym is the perfect place to practice. You don’t need to know how to do the moves before you come take a class: an instructor will demonstrate the moves and you can follow along imperfectly until you…
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Continue reading →: Healthy-ish Fast Food
If you were to make a graph depicting the number of times I get fast food and my weight in pounds, there would be a direct correlation. Here’s the thing about fast food: literally anything I make at home is healthier than anything I get in a drive-through line. Drive-through…
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Continue reading →: A Picture of Health“Healthy” is a term that has become a trigger word for me. I have learned from my own fitness journey, my journey through motherhood, and working as a personal trainer that “health” is difficult to quantify and different for everyone. I was sitting in a graduate-level class recently and we…
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Continue reading →: A Few of My Favorite (Fitness) ThingsChristmas gift ideas for your fit friends, those aspiring to be fit, or for yourself!
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Continue reading →: Good Finds at GoodwillI have reached a point in my life where I can afford to pay full-price for clothes. Within reason, of course. But I’ve also reached a point in my life where the idea of overspending is so unattractive to me. Even though I have enough money in the bank to…
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Continue reading →: The Ugly Truth about Weight LossI lost almost one hundred pounds, which is close to the weight of my seventh grader. My body is healthier, stronger, and more attractive to me. In many ways, my life is better because of the success I’ve had on this journey (which you can read about in my post,…
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Continue reading →: Back to School BluesI always feel depressed at back-to-school time. I enjoy my kids when they are home for the summer, I hate packing lunches, but mostly I grieve for how much they’ve grown and changed from the start of one grade to the next. This year was especially hard for a few…
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Continue reading →: Strong Like MomWhen I was growing up in the nineties, I knew that my mom would sometimes do cardio (Jazzercise), but I only knew it was for the purpose of losing weight. I never saw or knew about women lifting weights (but she does now, and she deadlifts 150 pounds!). My mom…
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Continue reading →: My Favorite “Fit-spiration” MediaBooks, shows, podcasts, and more that helped inspire me to lose 90 pounds.
Hello,
I’m Kate
Thanks for joining with me as I share my journey of losing 90 pounds and how I went from being an overweight and overwhelmed mom, to marathoner and personal trainer.
Fresh Start Fitness 