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Tis' the Season for Food: Holiday Foods don't Stop your Progress

 Now that holidays are over, I can now give my full attention to my blog. We have started the new year,  finally, it feels like forever ago that the whole entire world turned upside down. Hopefully it's on the up and up now.  While the holidays were upon me, so were all of the holiday foods, desserts, cookies, eggnog, and hot chocolate. Being someone who works out on a daily basis, makes sure to get enough nutrients in my body to make sure I have the strength to lift the weights that I love to lift, having the gym closed was an absolute nightmare.  I thought that I'd be okay, but in truth, I wasn't. I felt as if all of my social media was filled with girls in matching gym sets, at their open gyms, working out and making sure that they don't lose their gains. Honestly, I was a little jealous, and found myself poking at my stomach a whole lot more. Watching the videos and seeing the posts really made me self conscious about what I looked like. I eventually stopped pili...