Hi friends!! Q&A #8 woohoo! These have really taken off, I love getting so many questions from y’all and I can tell that a LOT of them revolve around fitness & nutrition, which is great because I could talk about that until the cows come home. More to come next week of course! Have a happy hump day!
What do you do for a living? Is it in fitness and health?
I sort of like to think I have two full time jobs because the blog takes up almost as much time, ha! But yes my “day job” is that I work in Corporate Health & Wellness for a hospital system here in Charlotte. I am a Client Service Manager, so basically I have a territory of clients and I help manage different services for them. I have literally thousands of occupational medicine clients that use our facilities for things like pre-employment physicals, drug screens, etc. and then my higher touch clients include my wellness clients, which have services like biometric screenings, incentive management, and health coaching to name a few. I also have a few onsite clinic clients and with those clients, they have chosen my hospital system to put an ACP (Advanced Care Practitioner, either an NP or PA) in their place of work to offer an clinic onsite and their work for their employees. I give aggregate employee health presentations, utilization reports, and various other types of reporting to the client. So that is sort of a high level explanation of what I do. So it’s not really in fitness necessarily but it does impact the health of an employee population for our clients so in that way yes it is in health, but I am personally not a person delivering care but more so managing accounts and client relationships.
Do you usually drink more than one glass of wine on weekends?
Yep pretty much always! Ha, but really I mean I think on Friday and Saturday nights it’s pretty common that I have 2 glasses of wine. Occasionally I may even have three but often I can stop at 2…but I do like a heavy pour so…ya know it might balance out to three depending on what you consider a “glass” haha 🙂
How do you keep your hunger under control when running long distances? I get so hungry after a long run!
This is something I definitely struggled with when I was training for races, and the battle I felt with it sometimes was really overwhelming! But it’s super normal for your body to be hungry after running long distances. At this point, I haven’t ran over 9 miles in many years, so I don’t think the hunger really gets me like it did, for example, when I was marathon training. And the frustrating thing for me was that I thought I was going to get really lean marathon training…NOPE. I gained weight! Like, 8 pounds! So now I think my running is in a place where I’m able to do it because I love it, but I don’t necessarily get the “runger” and incorporating my circuit workouts is what really helped me lean out and tone up a lot. But my advice to try to keep hunger under control when you are training or running long distances is to eat more protein. This is hard because I know for me at least I craved carbs so much, and I’m not saying avoid them you definitely need those too to restore your glycogen stores, but eat some protein at every meal or snack. Have a couple hard boiled eggs or chicken…I love the little tuna packets that come in different flavors…protein bars are obviously easy. My collagen powder helps me get more protein first thing in the morning with my coffee. But protein will definitely help you curb your hunger, and then make sure you’re drinking enough water!!
What are your go-to snacks and do you eat Quest, Perfect, or RX bars?
I’ve never had Perfect bars but I hear great things…I need to try them. I have had RX bars before and they are pretty good…I’d like to try more flavors but I like how simple the ingredients are. And I’ve had one or two Quest bars in my lifetime…I don’t really like them the texture is weird to me, lol. I shared some of my favorite protein bars in this post if you want to check that out!
You can get some of my favorite snack/meal ideas in this post of what I eat in a typical day. I also answered this in the Q&A #2 and #6 that you can read here….Like I said it’s a popular question 🙂 Which is for sure why I am going to be including my favorite recipes, meals, snacks, and everything in my program coming soon I am working so so so so so hard on!
What is a weight run that you use in your workouts?
So just FYI for a lot of my moves in my workouts, I have an exercise index page here that has picture demos of moves. But again I am going to have pictures of every thing in my new program so you’ll know exactly what to do, not just me telling you “do x move x times”. I know that page is not super user friendly because you have to scroll through but in the program I’ll have all the moves with the workout so it’s super simple.
A weight run is one of my favorite moves. It seriously sculpts your entire arm and shoulders and upper back while you also tone your legs, booty, and core while you stabilize. And it’s also a great cardio move because it will definitely get that heart rate up!! So for this move, you will be in lunge position so your lower body is static. Bend your knees and stabilize your core by flexing. Don’t hold your breath 🙂 You will need a light weight for this move, I generally use 5lb weights in each hand or sometimes 7.5lbs. You will move your arms back and forth like you are running but again your legs are static (not moving). I like to change my lead foot every set so when, for example, I say do 30 Weight Runs per side, that would mean do 30 on one side with your left foot forward, and then 30 on the other side with your right foot forward. I also count to 30 like every single time your arm comes forward it’s a rep, not every other time, if that makes sense.
What is your makeup routine? Your skin is glowing!
Thank you! I have gotten a lot of questions about my makeup routine following my skincare posts (which you can read here and here) and so I’m thinking I’ll just dedicate an entire post to it. Would y’all want to see a video of how I do my makeup? I mean, I’m no beauty blogger but I think watching a video is easier to see and understand. I can just do my everyday look which is super easy and quick 🙂
What are some tips for staying healthy when working in an office? I just got my first office job after working on my family’s farm which kept me very active. What kind of lunches and snacks do you bring?
I linked a bunch of my favorite lunches and snacks above in those previous posts, but aside from the food scenario with working in an office, it’s important to be mindful of how you are sitting and how much you are sitting. You want to be ergonomically correct at your desk. I know many workplaces can get you an ergonomic assessment to make sure your desk and chair and everything are compatible with your body. Also, I think it’s important to get up and walk around at least every 30 minutes even just a stroll around the office. We actually have a treadmill desk in our office after begging our leadership to get us one, so now there is one in an office all it’s own so we can all just take turns using it and you can take your laptop in there to work so it’s nice. But even just getting outside to walk around the parking lot if you can really helps get steps in. Take the stairs, all that jazz 🙂 I also like to say make sure you’re constantly drinking water because this way not only are you staying hydrated, but you will have to get up to walk around to go to the bathroom, lol. I pee like every hour at least usually 😉
xo,
Bess
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