FitCity Moms Blog

Getting Healthy: How the Y Can Help You Meet Your Goals

This week, guest blogger Heather Chastain, Electronic Media Coordinator with the YMCA, shares all the tools the Y has to help you meet your health and fitness goals. Deciding to take control of your health is a big step, but it’s not a journey you have to go through alone. That’s why we make sure [...]

Battle of the Sexes: A Little Healthy Competition with My Husband

It’s February, so we’re really into 2012. Another year has come and gone, and so quickly I might add. I will say I was pretty happy overall with 2011. I introduced some great lifestyle changes in food and health to my family and I have gotten my autistic son into sports (baseball and gymnastics). But [...]

10 bits of inspiration

Resolutions getting a little rusty? Feeling a little uninspired to cook something healthy or get some exercise in your day? Here are 10 sayings that I found to inspire you (and me!). I’ve included attribution where I can, but I found most of these on Pinterest. Today just get up and go because yesterday, you [...]

5 FAQs about our FitCity Moms Contest

Entries for the Next FitCity Moms contest are coming in every day, but we know that some of you have a few questions about the contest. Here are the answers to the most frequently asked questions: Do FitCity Indianapolis moms have to live in Indianapolis? FitCity moms need to live in the greater Indianapolis area, [...]

Paula Deen

It’s the Big News these days- Paula Deen has come clean with her diagnosis of Type 2 Diabetes. She was diagnosed 3 years ago and is now trying to make a major overhaul to how she is perceived in the public eye as she goes from being the Queen of Butter and Sugar to an [...]

We’re Looking for Our Next FitCity Mom!

Currently, our FitCity Moms Blog features five Indy women who share ideas, recipes, challenges and triumphs as they try to lead a healthy lifestyle. Now it’s a New Year, and we’re looking for a new mom to join our FitCity Moms blog. If you’re trying to help yourself and your family lead a healthier lifestyle, [...]

2012 is Off and Running … But I’m Not Yet!

I know it’s January 6, 2012 but I’m not really in the New Year yet. I am still writing 2011 on things, and I haven’t made any resolutions either. I usually have something that I am committed to changing but not yet this year. I did manage to give away all of the sodas leftover [...]

Jumping in to 2012

Here I am, on the cusp of another new year while the crumbs of Christmas cookies and cream-cheese laden appetizers are still stuck under the keys of my laptop. Nagging thoughts of New Year’s fitness resolutions keep creeping into my head. I’m making myself dizzy trying to mentally configure carpool schedules with routine visits to [...]

Yes, We’re Having Cookies for Christmas

It’s just before Christmas and my house is in full swing. There are gifts to wrap, cards to be sent, family and friends to see and cookies to bake. Yes, I have an annual tradition of making cookies and other goodies. Typically, I make at least two different cookies and chocolate truffles. This year, I [...]

Three Healthy Gifts You Already Have to Give

I have always been of the belief that the best “gifts” don’t fit in a little box. But when I “think outside of the pretty box,” I think about the gifts that I have to give to my kids and my family for Christmas and every day. First, I think of the gift of time. [...]