✋STOP and DO THIS NOW✋ STEP 1) Look in the mirror. STEP 2) DO NOT say a single negative word about what you see. STEP 3) Tell yourself five things that make you beautiful JUST THE WAY YOU ARE! 👇ARE YOU IN? #lovetheskinyouarein Before we can ever change our bodies (you don’t need to change by the way), we have to love the body we have now. If you don’t love your "before," you’ll never love your "after." Guess what? It’s going to be hard. Loving yourself - it’s a difficu

This is for all the girls who have ever been on a diet and have “yo-yoed” with their weight year after year. I feel ya, sister, I honestly do. You are probably looking at these pictures and thinking, “That’s not a transformation.” But this is probably the biggest transformation I’ve posted to date. Let me explain. The picture from 2010 is from my honeymoon. At the time, it was the smallest I’d ever been in my adult life. Like most brides, I wanted to get skinny for my wedding

"There is nothing as powerful as a change in mind... if you don't change your mind the same experience will perpetuate itself over and over again because everything outwardly changed, but nothing inwardly changed." - Unknown This is one of my all-time favorite quotes. Sometimes I get stuck in my little positive coach-world bubble, which is wonderful for me --- but then I forget about the challenges that most women face on a daily basis. I was recently reminded of them. Women

I was having dinner with a few friends in NYC last week and they asked me how I stuck to my program even with social engagements, dinners out, and the rest of the typical life stuff. The thing is that I don't stick to the program during those times. If I'm out with friends or at a BBQ, you'd probably look at me and hate me because I'm happily stuffing my face without a care in the world. Even when I did the first round of the 21 Day Fix, I had two social events where I splurg

I'm calling for you to take action today. I don't want you to simply read this. I want you to read it and share it, because Lord knows we need a little more love in our world today. Today our social media feeds are filled with thoughts, prayers, opinions, and stories from the devastating school shooting in Florida. Normally, I don’t follow trend and post about tragedies after they take place. I watch. I listen. I feel. But for some reason making a social media post simply sta

"Don't forget to fall in love with yourself first." - Carrie Bradshaw I saw this quote today and it really struck me. After being in the best shape of my life for my bikini competition on December 3rd, it's a good thing that I fell in love with myself BEFORE ever deciding to compete. Six years ago, I contemplated doing a bikini competition IN ORDER to fall in love with myself, and if I had done a competition then I'd be a mental mess right now because my body doesn't look lik

"I'm pretty sure karma brought all this bad stuff into my life. Somewhere along the way I did some really bad things and now I'm paying the price for it. I'm supposed to live a bad life because of something I did in my past..." - Very special person said this to me last night. This is how I proceeded to respond: "If I love ya, I'm not going to enable ya." 😬😬😬UMMMMMMMM.... WAIT, WHAT?!?! That's not how life works, buddy. Let's get a few things straight - If you are wallowin

Am I the only person that can look at pictures from years ago and remember exactly how I felt about my body in that moment of time? I do this with so many pictures. I look at them and can remember if I felt pretty, uncomfortable, chunky, thin, or just "blah." The picture on the left is from Fake Patty’s Day 2007. I was at my heaviest. I remember being incredibly uncomfortable and insecure with my body that day. I tried layering on multiple tight undershirts to see if that’d m

And, no, I'm not talking about when you are sleeping. I'm talking about creating BIG DREAMS and PLANS for your life. When was the last time that you let yourself do that? Some of you just wrote me off as crazy. I'm okay with that. The truth is that a lot of adults don't dream. We are stuck in the monotony of every, boring day. Before all of this coaching stuff, I had dreams. But never in a million years would I have actually acted on them. I was way too scared. I mean, what

"There is nothing as powerful as a change in mind... if you don't change your mind the same experience will perpetuate itself over and over again because everything outwardly changed, but nothing inwardly changed." - Unknown This video explains the mental transformation that I've experienced this past year with my fitness journey. The quote above really sums it up. Love yourself - before and after. Xoxo, Ruth #LoveYourself #SelfLove #BodyTransformation #BodyImage #Dieting #We