Kelly Trepp, Author

With the new year right around the corner, you are undoubtedly about to face a flurry of New Year's resolutions plastered across your social media feeds. You may even be scribbling your own goals and resolutions in your daily journal, or sharing them with a loved one for accountability. Goals are great. I think we should all set goals and regularly reassess them and measure our progress... but when it comes to setting that New Year's resolution, I have a challenge for you. As the hours turn to minutes, and the seconds tick by on the countdown to our new year and new selves, I want you to ask yourself what it is that you want from 2019. Do you want to be the perfect mom (does that even exist)? The perfect spouse? The perfect disciple? Do you want a perfect body? Maybe you want to find the perfect job or the perfect house or the perfect [enter object here] that will finally make you happy. I have chased the perfect body. I have chased the perfect wife. I am constantly...

Monday starts the new challenge of kickin' it old school. 2 million years-ish old school to be more exact descriptive. I'm talking about the 30 day Paleo Challenge that just began at my CrossFit gym . "What is paleo," you might be wondering. The word Paleo is short for Paleolithic, as in the paleolithic era .Think cavemen. The Paleo diet is more than just a fad diet (it has to be, it's been around for more than 2 million years). It's a way of living. Man, as he has evolved today, has survived for millions of years ( I know, I know, I'm repeating myself, but seriously if it's been around this long it can't be bad ) on a diet of food items that can be hunted or gathered. Basically, if you can kill it, pick it off a tree or pick it up out of the ground, you can eat it. The video below does a pretty good job of describing what foods are Paleo friendly. Another part of the Paleo diet is exercise. Cavemen didn't run 26.2 miles a day ...