Favorite Fitness & Healthy Food for Weekend Winning

Raise your hand if you’re ready for a long Memorial Day weekend? I know I am! We’ve had the busiest month filled with graduations, moving kids home from college for the summer, out-of-town races, end-of-year award banquets and school activities and more.

I’m ready for a little R&R and low-stress food duty. My fitness plans are relaxed and go-with-the-flow, but I’m hoping to do some stand-up paddle-boarding, time take a trail run, and to complete the Murph Hero WOD again this year. After all this, the most strenuous meal I’ll be taking on is to grill up my Weeping Tiger Beef Kebabs and they are super tasty and easy! To keep the weekend focused on doing the things that bring me joy, I’m share some of the recent “food and fitness” things that have been adding value to my life! Continue reading

How to Get Runner Feet Ready for Summer Rest, Recovery & Relaxation + OOFOS Giveaway

So, how many miles have you crossed of your training schedule since the beginning of the year? Maybe 300 miles, 500 miles or, for some of you hardcore runners, I’m guessing in excess of 1000 miles to date. As the weather is warming up, those hardworking feet are starting to slip out of socks and running shoes . . . and those “workhorses” are kinda looking and feeling life hooves. Am I right? You know I am!

Read on to find out How to Get Hardworking Runner Feet Ready for Summer Rest, Recovery & Relaxation (Plus don’t miss the awesome giveaway for a pair of OOFOS which are post-run recovery sandals that I swear by and are ideal for everyday too)! Continue reading

Personalized Meal Plans for Paleo, Keto, Vegan or any Diet Tribe with PlateJoy

Let me introduce you to my new best friend, PlateJoy. PlateJoy is a meal planning service that lets me personalize my weekly menu pretty much every which way and is always changeable during the menu-making process. Some of these customizations include family size, weight loss goals, types of cooking appliances on hand (like microwave, slow cooker or instant pot), dietary preferences (like low carb, Paleo, Mitterrandian, keto, low FODMAP, diabetic, vegetarian, kosher, gluten-free, dairy-free, and more — even nursing mother). Meal Planning Made Easy - PlateJoy

So many “other just-for-me” considerations are taken into account like how much time I have for breakfast, whether I’m in a leftover mood, preference for variety, and what specific ingredients I want to avoid due to allergy, availability or that I just don’t have a taste for. Read on to learn how easy the plan is to implement into life (I even have a great $10 off PlateJoy discount code FITFORK10): Continue reading

Spring Break Detox: Jump Start Summer Health & Fitness Goals

This post is sponsored by adidas, however all opinions, comments and enthusiasm remain my own!

Spring Break has come and gone for most of us, sigh. Whether you were celebrating with no responsibilities on a beach somewhere fabulous or partying down with the kiddos at an amusement park, chances are you probably overindulged on food and drink and short-changed yourself on sleep among countless other possible indiscretions (!) Now worries though, life is about balance and it’s easy to get back on track with your health and fitness goals with my holistic “Jump on Summer” Spring Break Detox.

jennifer thefitfork adidas Spring Break Detox

When most people hear the phrase “detox” in a health and fitness connotation, they immediately think strictly a DIET detox, maybe to the extreme like fasting or just drinking juices. But, I’m not really a fan of such food-restrictive detoxing – while my “Jump on Summer” Spring Break Detox incorporates getting back into a clean-eating routine (but not starvation mode), it also attends to the other parts of our lives that may need a gentle (or hard) reset. In addition to eating nourishing foods, focusing on hydration, sleep, meditation, exercise and optimizing free time are all other areas where you can detox and get a fresh start for the remainder of spring and summer. Continue reading

Friday Fit Five: Diet of 1/3s, Mountain Lions, Why I Don’t Stink & More

Ending the week with a Fit Friday Five, not that my week can be distilled down to just five things of interest – but these anecdotes thoughts and ideas for healthy living are too good not to share! 

Read on to find out what I’m eating, how I’m working out, what I’m wearing and how I’m taking care of myself. Hopefully one or all will take you a step further down your health and fitness journey. Continue reading