Thank you so much for starting this journey with me. I am so excited to finally have my blog up and running.

This blog is something that has been in the works now for a few months because I wanted to share, inspire, and motivated others. Something that seems to be lacking these days. This will be a platform of sorts to help keep me accountable in my fitness and personal journeys. I will be checking in frequently with personal updates, fashion, my favorite thing of the moment, fitness updates, and much more.

Weather you are new to fitness and healthy habits or a seasoned vet, I am so excited to get to know all of you. Please feel free to comment on my post, and to connect via Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, Email, etc. See the social media icons to the right of the page.

Here's little background about who I am and why I am so passionate about what I am doing.

So I have always been active and fit as I did lots of dance, cheerleading, and gymnastics in my school days. Now I have not always taken supplements, vitamins, and eaten the right foods. So that will probably be the hardest part of this journey for me. In fact after college cheer practice I would go get 2 cheese burgers, 1 large  fry, and a large soda from the fast food joint across the street from the college. A very high metabolism made everything very easy for me to keep this type of diet.

Fast forward to the end of college and I got married in 2009! Hands down one of 3 of the best days of my life. Now I married into a Mexican/Italian family with both my Mother-in-law and Husband being professional chefs. I already come from a household where life revolves around the kitchen for family gatherings and big meals, but this meant more food, and lots of it!


One year to the day of our wedding anniversary I found out I was pregnant with Garcia Baby #1. What a surprise right! I gained about 20 pounds and was only mildly sick the whole pregnancy. Throwing up only if I ate certain foods. I still don't like eggs and apple juice, Potatoes still smell funny, and I can't even look at an orange! lol. My first pregnancy ended 2 weeks late and in an emergency c-section. I kept being told "if I wasn't in pain, I wasn't in labor," and that I didn't know what I was talking about because it was my first baby. After 4 attempted membrane scrapes (ouch), 5 sleepless nights, 2 trips to the ER, 12 hours of no progression past 1.5 cm  dilation after water breaking and pitocin, they wheeled me to the OR. Come to find out my Daughter had the cord around her neck and was sunny side up. And the reason she couldn't progress during labor was because my tail bone was in the way with an abnormal curve into the cervix. Needless to say she was perfectly healthy!