pinterest | PancakesandPilates

I’ve been eating a lot of peanut m&ms and chocolate chips lately. Maybe it’s the stress of moving, maybe it’s the general stress of my job or maybe it’s just fall season and I’m feeling happy and festive. (It probably doesn’t help that I keep a stack of quarters in my desk for the m&m machine across the hall and an open bag of Hershey’s special dark chips on my kitchen counter.)

I want to be healthier. I’m not just going to wish, I’m going to do. I’m cutting back on junk and kicking up my workouts. My 10K is over, Law Firm Fit Club is almost over, and it’s up to me to keep challenging the strong, healthy woman who deserves so much happiness.

Where to find motivation? Helloooooo, Pinterest.

I love the Pinterest fitness board and regularly update my own version, called Healthy, Happy and Totally Kick @ss. Yesterday, I came across a really disturbing pin that I now can’t find for the life of me. It was a beautiful, very thin, morose looking model with the phrase “Eating Isn’t Very Chanel” written over the image. Think about that for a second. Then think about why someone would put that on a fitness pin board. Are you sad too?

Pinterest is such an amazing place. People are finding and sharing things that make life beautiful, fun and worth living. It’s a place to find inspiration to live the life you imagined. Starvation is the opposite of living.

If you want to be envied, be confident.

If you want to feel beautiful, get fit.

If you want to be happy, live healthy.

Here are some better pins, in my opinion