Hi friends! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week. It’s been a lovely blur between Christmas and New Years, and I’ve enjoyed all of this time with the crew. We’ve enjoyed slow mornings, hikes, shopping, nails, reading, and movies. I’m definitely not looking forward to school returning, especially the early morning scramble and hours of homework.

I hope that my friends who celebrated Christmas this week had a beautiful holiday. My dad and stepmom were out of town – my step-grandmother passed away. She was so kind and wonderful, and I’m grateful we were blessed to have her in our lives. We had a low-key Christmas Eve at home with Chinese takeout and Christmas Chronicles, and I met up with madre for midnight mass. They turned the lights down for Silent Night and it was the perfect way to start the holiday.

The girls were up bright and early for Santa’a gifts and stockings, and then the family came over for family gifts, tamales, beans, egg casserole, cinnamon rolls, and the Pilot’s famous egg nog.

We spent the morning together, drinking coffee and eggnog, and exchanging gifts,

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Sharing the details of this 21 day healthy habits challenge. We start on January 8th and details to join are here!

Hi friends! How are you? I hope you’re having a wonderful week and that those of you who were celebrating Christmas had a beautiful holiday. We had an amazing holiday here, and I’ll definitely share a recap in this week’s Friday Faves.

For now, let’s talk about a little healthy habits reset.

I’m not sure if you’re feeling the same way, but I’m definitely ready to get back in my routine and start 2024 feeling energized and amazing. It’s been a bit of a flood of alcohol and sweets around here, and while it was 1000% worth my while I enjoyed every second, I’m looking forward to getting back to the habits that make me feel my best.

I figured we could do a little 21 day challenge, and I’d love to have you join in!

When I talk to friends, clients, and potential clients, they typically fall into two categories:

– Those who are overwhelmed and not sure where to get started to accomplish their goals

– Those who know what to do, but are unsure of how to make it work in their real life. They start off too strong, are doing things they don’t even necessarily like, and when they can’t stick with it, they give up, or move onto the next new thing.

21 days of healthy habits

Here’s how the 21 day challenge will work:

We’re focusing on building foundational habits that you can maintain for the long haul. We’re creating the anchor habits that will help you improve body composition, sleep, mood, mindset, overall health, and performance. You can get the results you’re waiting for, without fighting your body, and while keeping your hormones and nervous system happy. 🙂

The party starts January 8th with an optional 7 or 14 day functional medicine detox. (If you’d just like to do the detox, my tracking link is here and you can use the code FITNESSISTA10 for 10% off!) I’d order yours ASAP if you know you’re going to do this. Sometimes shipping is very fast, other times, it takes a little while. I’ll be doing the 14-day version! This detox is completely optional and Read more

Hi friends! I hope that you have a wonderful day, and a very Merry Christmas to my friends who are celebrating today. Wishing you joy, happiness, love, and vibrant health. Thank you so much for being a part of my life!

For now, we’re going to enjoy some coffee and nana’s egg casserole, watch the babies open gifts, and spend the day in our jammies with family.

Have a great day and I’ll see ya soon.

xoxo

Gina

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Hi friends! Happy holly jolly weekend to ya. What are you up to? We are baking cookies, cleaning, and getting the last bit of holiday to-dos completed. I’m also putting together something fun for January; I’ll have it up here on the blog next week.

We had a loss in our family this week, so Christmas is going to look a bit different from our usual routine. I’m definitely looking forward to mass with the fam, spending time together, and watching the kids open their gifts. I may share more later, but my heart is hurting right now.

Friday Faves 12.22

A roundup of the week + some faves:

A trip to the Fairmont Princess in Scottsdale. This has become a yearly tradition, and it’s something we all look forward to. They turn the resort into a winter wonderland, with tons of holiday light displays, Santa, ice skating, s’more pits, and rides. The kids always have a blast. This year, we went with a group fo friends and it was even more fun!

Some pics from the trip:

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Today, I’m so excited to welcome Ali Shapiro to the podcast!

Here’s what we talk about in today’s episode:

– Her health and wellness background

– The “all or nothing” mentality

-The importance of flexibility for maintaining long-term consistency

147: Ditching the “all or nothing” mentality with Ali Shapiro

Ali is the host of the top-ranked podcast Insatiable, a holistic nutritionist, integrated health coach, and rebel with a serious cause.

She’s academically, practically, and empathetically aware of how the medical system, diet culture, and body positivity movements all have their own flavor of crazy.

Ali developed TRUCE while in graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania, where she drew from her 17+ years of working with real life clients and her own personal healing journey from emotional eating and having cancer as a teenager.

Ali’s work and clients’ unique success has been featured in well + Good, mindbodygreen, Prevention, Women’s Health and Forbes, as well as industry leading podcasts Being Boss, Tell Me Something True, and Food Heaven.

Follow Ali on Instagram and check out her website here.

More resources from this episode:

I love love love the meals from Sakara Life! Use this link and the code XOGINAH for 20% off their meal delivery and clean boutique items. This is something I do once a month as a lil treat to myself and the meals are always showstoppers.

If any of my fellow health professional friends are looking for another way to help their clients, I highly recommend IHP. You can also use this information to heal yourself and then go one to heal others, which I think is a beautiful mission. You can absolutely join if you don’t curre