
Week 1: This isn’t your typical fitness blog.
First… you should know I don’t blog. 🙅🏽
Sure. I’ve filled up a journal or two (or three) in my life, but an actual blog? Nope. Never. You’d think as someone who loves to write that I would have jumped on the opportunity to type my heart out for the world to read, but that has never been the case.
Long story short: I knew that in order to run a successful blog, I had to find my ‘something’ that I felt strongly enough about and in turn would actually enjoy doing once a week.

Second… you should know I don’t do ‘fitness.’
Aaaaaaannd by now I’m sure you’re probably thinking: ‘What the hell is she doing writing a FITNESS blog then? 😒’ Well, before you ‘Girl, bye’ me… let me explain.
No matter how hard I tried I always felt like a fish out of water.
For as long as I can remember I have always struggled with my weight. I was never the active kid growing up. While all of my classmates and friends were outside playing sports, I was indoors doing whatever 90s kids did back then. Don’t get me wrong… I tried my hand at the whole sports thing, but nothing really stuck. No matter how hard I tried I always felt like a fish out of water.

Basketball? Quit. Karate? Stopped. Volleyball? Dropped (twice).
By the time I realized sports just wasn’t my thing, I was a freshman in high school. I had just dropped the volleyball team. Note: I still to this day have no idea how that game works. So, just imagine me on a team… exactly.
However, it wasn’t long before I got back to my roots. Growing up, my mom had me in ballet, tap, hip-hop and the occasional art class. That’s right, I am an ‘arts’ girl. So, the start of my sophomore year, I signed up for drama club, choir, and this instrument-focused organization called MIMA.

I’d eventually go on to help start our high school’s first improvisation club and then our first speech club. Believe it or not, there was a time when I was participating in every single one of these clubs at the same time.
Truthfully, these kind of activities have always come natural to me and while they’re awesome for making friends and building character… they’re not exactly the best at building muscle.
Fast-forward five years… and the muscle still isn’t there. I didn’t grow up in a household that valued eating healthy or working out. My mother will tell you that from the minute I woke up the first thing on my mind was: “What’s for dinner?”
As I get older, I’m beginning to want more for myself and my health. Less blaming, complaining, wishing and hoping. More doing. Period.

‘NO DAYS OFF’ is a lifestyle, a motto, a mood. 💁🏽✨
As I mentioned earlier in this post, I don’t do fitness, meaning I have yet to do fitness consistently enough to consider myself an expert. I repeat: I am NOT an expert.
That said, it’s my hope that by having this weekly blog to track my workout routine, food consumption and various activities, I will be able to hold myself accountable and possibly inspire those just like me to be the best version of ourselves.
‘No Days Off’ is all about the journey.
It’s about educating myself and pushing myself every step of the way as I try new workouts and meals, and interview people I admire.
The title, “No Days Off,” isn’t meant to be taken literally. I’m not saying one should work out every single day of life or that I am setting out to do that. (Although if I could that would be nice. 😂🤞🏾)
Rather, “No Days Off” for me is the idea that every day should be an opportunity to make a good decision for my health, to eat better than the day before and to aim not just for that “summer body” or that “Beyoncé body” but for the body I’m trying to have for life.
So, here we go! Xoxo

Special shout-out to Fernando, Doreen, Tina, Elizabeth, Joce, Jessie and my mother Anita for being so supportive while I was trying to find the perfect name for this blog!