Stowaway Vita

Hey guys! Happy almost-Friday! Hope you’re having a great day so far <3 I can’t believe how many of ya’ll were shocked/wondering if I brought my Vitamix with me to the Bahamas… well… Heck ya I did 🙂 This girl likes her smoothies wayyyyy too much to leave the beloved Vitamixalicious at home 😉 The…

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Guest Post: Injury Recovery with Julie

Hello, Fitnessista readers! This is Julie from Savvy Eats, and I am honored to be guest posting for Gina while she is off soaking up some Bahamian sun! Like Gina, I recently broke up with running. After taking almost 8 full weeks off because of an IT band injury, I realized I wouldn’t be going…

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Guest Post: RhodeyGirl Dinner Party

Healthy Dinner Party Menu With a healthy dinner party menu like this one, your guests will leave the evening full of smiles, feeling perfectly satisfied but not overly stuffed. As a reader of the incredible Fitnessista, you are probably interested in fitness and healthy eating. I am too. I am Sabrina of RhodeyGirl Tests and…

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The Honeymooners

Hey everyone! How are ya?? Hope your day is off to a great start 🙂 Last night, we had a blasty exploring the resort and surrounding area. Our first stop was the beach. The water here is SO WARM! I’m usually a giant chicken and haaaate cold water, but I can actually see myself swimming …

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Chocolate chip Fit bars

Hey lovely bloggies 🙂 Hope you’ve had a wonderful day. So glad ya’ll enjoyed the picture of little Gina and my mom’s awesome 80s hair 🙂 I’m very lucky to have many incredible madres in my life <3 Today has been spent pack-a-lackin. As always, I made a list: and got started on that biznazz.…

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Big Dreamin’

Hi guys 😀 How’s your Friday been?? Mine has been pretty wonderful 🙂 The pilot and I did Insanity and then had bfast. It was funny –during the warm-up, which is really more like an actual workout, the pilot was being a huge goofball. He was sprinting around me in circles and lifted the Buddha…

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Feliz Cinco de Mayo

Hey everyone! Happy Indian Food Wednesday, which also happens to fall on Cinco de Mayo 🙂 So Indian or Mexican cuisine it is.. unless you want to create an Indian-Mexican hybrid dish (and send me a picture!) 😀 I’ll be having vegetarian fajitas and a margarita after Zumba. Ashley and I just finished Insanity (which…

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Impulse Buyer

Hey everyone! How’s your day going? Mine has been pretty good- it’s RAINY today! I lurve it 🙂 I especially lurve it because I haven’t watered my herbs since last fall and magically some are still alive- I’m going to re-plant after our tropical vacay. Thank you for all of the vacation tips! This afternoon,…

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Some Like it Hot

And some like it hot, sweaty and covered in Viesa hair. Sweaty workout pics are kinda gross, but I just had to show ya’ll how booty-kicking Insanity is. I sweat like I do in a power yoga class with the heat cranked wayyyy up, even though we have the AC on over here. Crazy! Today’s…

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In the Muffin Mood

Hey everyone! Happy [cookie] Friday! How’s your day going? Anything fun going on this weekend?? Yesterday afternoon, I had a smaller hemp-seedless Chocolate Cherry Bomb And met up with the girls for dinner at Bleu Cafe. I usually like Bleu ok, but after the ridiculous feasts we had in Vegas, it seemed more mediocre than…

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Always count on ‘roons

No matter what craziness is going on in my life… I can always count on macaroons 😀 It’s been what seems like forever since I made a batch, but I’ve been meaning to make some for Cristy and two bloggy friends.. and today was the day. Sorry Bella, no roons for your little polar bear…

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Vegas, Baby

Hi guys 😀 HAPPY FRIDAY! What are you up to this weekend?? We got into Vegas at about 1am Vegas time, which is 4am Valdizzy time. I *tried* to sleep on the plane, but airplane sleep is quite different than real sleep. Needless to say, the ol’ internal clock is a little out of whack…

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