It is with great sadness but also happiness that I write my final blog with FitCity Indianapolis. This site has been such a great source of information to the residence of Indianapolis and surrounding areas. I am sad to see it go, but its completed its mission and its time to help others.

It seem like only yesterday that I started writing as one of the Mom Bloggers, giving my life and family experiences to share with all of Indianapolis. …

In September 2009, I joined the FitCity Indianapolis team as a FitCity mom blogger. I was overweight, out of shape and ready to make a change. Here we are, nearly three years later and I am overweight, out of shape and needing to make a change…again. What’s happened in those months between has been one wild ride.

I’ve lost weight — almost 30 pounds. I’ve gained weight. I’ve started thinking about food and exercise differently. I’ve shared some successes I’ve …

I hate saying goodbye to friends. I used to hate the end of the Carol Burnett Show when she would pull on her ear and sing,

I’m so glad we had this time together,
Just to have a laugh or sing a song.
Seems we just get started and before you know it,
Comes the time we have to say “so long.”

Of course, with the Carol Burnett Show you knew a new episode was coming on next week. But if I had a …

Prior to 2010, I never put much serious effort into my health. Up into college, I had been healthy enough (meaning thin enough). After college, I started to gain but never felt like it was out of control. Then marriage and 2 babies left me very aware that I wasn’t taking care of myself. I was working towards figuring out what I needed to do about it when I discovered FitCity and then became a Mom …

FitCity Indianapolis started back in 2005 as a social marketing initiative to help the Indianapolis community fight child obesity, at a time before the issue was on the daily radar of the city. Our goal – then and as it is now – has been to provide mothers and families with the information, resources, recipes and support to live healthy, active lives.

FitCity was one of the first organizations to recognize the childhood obesity crisis, and according to our funder, …

Summer is here with a vengeance and my kids typical snacks just won’t work anymore. Normally, once a week I heat up the oven and make homemade granola bars, oatmeal cookies, a yummy trail mix and a pretzel/honey/cereal snack. But now with 90-degree weather happening every day I want nothing to do with my oven. So I have had to rely on items from the fridge to mix something up quickly. I’ve found a few favorites that I am sure …

My friend Amy recently posted about bike riding here on Fit City.  She gave some great tips on riding with your kids.  I want to share some tips on starting to ride on your own.  Cycling is great exercise.  Personally, it’s an activity that I simply enjoy.  I’ve done the running thing and I set and accomplished goals.  But I never came to really enjoy running.  When I ride, I simply enjoy it.  I enjoy the wind in my …

Picture this…Me, sitting at the kitchen table, lost in Pinterest working diligently on a blog post. In the background I hear the TV, the sound of water running through the pipes to the sprinkler outside, and klink, klink…

“What’s that sound?,” I wonder. I turn to look and see my nine-year old eating sugar out of the canister with a spoon.

Seriously people, I need to conduct an intervention. This …

Last week, Mayor Bloomberg of NYC created a stir when he proposed banning over-sized sugary drinks and sodas. In his proposal, super-sized, ginormous, mega-deluxe drinks over 16 ounces would be a thing of the past. Bloomberg and anti-obesity advocates theorize that under the new rules people would consume fewer high-calorie, high-sugar beverages and the city’s obesity rate would decrease. For some, Bloomberg’s proposal takes a novel approach to a serious issue, but to others his idea is an …

Summer is here, which means school is coming to an end and countless trips to the pool and zoo with my kids. Summer time also means backyard BBQs and tomatoes! For some reason this year the thought of fresh ripe tomatoes has me very happy.  Whether I eat them by themselves or on a burger, I just want them!

My husband and I have really been trying to eat more fresh vegetables in the last few months. Tomatoes really being a …