Beauty...
Be your own
kind of beautiful
Be your own
kind of beautiful
By Mollysims.com
Anyone else need a vacation from summer vacation? You’re not alone. That’s why we brought in our favorite food blogger and mom influencer, Jeannette Aranda (aka Shut The Kale Up), to share her tips and tricks for handling summer burnout. What began as a platform to share meals and recipes to improve her relationship with food soon evolved into the popular brand Shut The Kale Up, amassing thousands of followers. Today, Jeannette considers herself a health enthusiast and is passionate about discussing real-life topics and sharing her personal experiences, earning praise from her followers for her extreme authenticity and vulnerability on social media. In this episode, Molly and Emese dive deep with Jeannette, exploring how she manages a two-household home, overcomes mom guilt, finds time for self-care, and, of course, shares her favorite kid-proof recipes and strategies for dealing with picky eaters.
“The easiest and my go-to always are snack boards. Mmind you, they’re meal boards because they’re truly meals on a board. To assemble a snack board, I’ll cook some sort of protein and a vegetable that they’re into. The way I get them into eating vegetables is by taking them to the farmer’s market, and having them help me pick it out, which by the way, it’s usually cucumbers. My kids’ favorite is my sushi boards. I go to the farmer’s market on Saturdays and pick up fresh fish, I get their salmon, and they slice it up really thinly, so you can eat it cooked or raw. Then I leave it in the freezer to hopefully kill off all the parasites, and after a day or two, I unfreeze it. On the board I add salmon, sticky rice, mango, seaweed salad, cucumbers, and they go to town. I also do this with steak and potatoes. It’s really them serving themselves, so they feel in control.”
“I used to cold plunge every morning. In fact, I actually bought a cold plunge because it helped me so much during tough times. I think of it like this, when a stressful situation comes along, I’m able to breathe through it and kind of sit with it because in the cold plunge, you can’t think about anything else. Your body is in legit shock and the endorphins afterward just feel really good. It’s hard to be in a constant state of fight-or-flight. If you’re used to that, when you’re calm and relaxed at home, it almost feels like, holy shit, what’s going on…something bad is about to happen. As for my workouts and diet, I wake up, I weight train, and I go to the sauna at least two to three times a week. That really helps with my skin and detoxing. I used to meal prep, but I don’t now because sometimes I wake up and don’t want what I meal prepped, and then it goes to waste. I eat very, very simple right now. For breakfast I have yogurt with blueberries, nut butter, a banana and some sort of protein so that it’s heavy on the protein. My midday snack is usually some sort of high protein meal like an apple with nut butter and cottage cheese or a little scoop of yogurt. When dinner comes around it’s always chicken or steak and, a simple salad like greens with olive oil, butter, salt, and pepper.”
“I have learned that nobody is going to save you and nobody is going to come and get you. At the end of the day, no one’s there for you. Yes you may have family, friends, and a community, who have been there through thick and thin, but at the end of the day, it’s just you that has to get yourself out of a deep, deep hole. It’s the resilience and endurance that someone might have which can pull them out. The biggest thing that helped me heal was taking a step back and realizing that oversharing isn’t going to heal me, even though it might feel good in the moment, it’s not healthy to share every single emotion all the time because your emotions are so up and down—they’re fleeting.”
