Hi all! Lazy Achievers is rebranding and moving to a new site: thisismecristi.com.  We hope you can follow us on our journey of health and wellness!

I really love the keto lifestyle. I know there are lots of delicious things that one must part with in their original sense, however the secret is to keep your focus on all the rich things you get to eat! Also, if you’re hankering to have some sort of carby thing, chances are there is some sort of substitute recipe out there that will satisfy the craving (enter Fat Head Dough instead of wheat based pizza dough... what?!?! So good)

The second reason I really love this lifestyle is because it is one of the only ways I’ve seen dramatic and immediate improvement in my health and weight loss.

The very first time I dove into keto, I did very little research and jumped right into the deep end. Although I lost like 8 pounds in that first week, I also got the keto flu something awful and had absolutely no idea that that was even a thing. (I ended up taking a pregnancy test thinking that maybe that was the culprit to why I felt so terrible, alas no baby on board at that time). The flu-like symptoms lasted about 4 days and then the cloud lifted and I was a whole new person!

Brain-fog lifted, energy... woke, motivation--- on fire! I followed the orthodox, classic keto approach to the “T” and I dropped weight like crazy. Nearly 45 pounds in total.

I've been in and out of  the keto diet or ketogenic lifestyle, if you will, for the past 2 years.  The first time was my most in depth time and I was able to lose about 30lbs in 3 months, which was crazy! It was the first time in my life that I saw real results in a relatively short amount of time and every day that I saw a few ounces or pounds come off that scale or saw my jean size shrink from a 8/10 to a size 4 was everything I needed to keep my spirit up, my discipline in gear and my motivation on track. 

I've had a lot of family and friends ask me where to find out more information about the ketogenic lifestyle and its always a very long text because there are so many great places and people to learn from. 

These are my favorite Ketogenic Resources  though:

Do you like journaling or currently have a journal that you use consistently? You are ah-mazing! I want to be you by the end of 2019...that's one of my goals anyways.

I definitely like the idea of journaling and/or using a planner, but have always found it difficult to keep up.  Back in high school, we were given a planner to keep up with schoolwork, tasks to-do, schedule tests and quizzes coming up... obviously I went to school pre-cell phone era, yeesh that totally aged me. 

Anyways, my point is that in those years, I was very organized and productive. Why didn't I continue the habit? Looking back, I really wish I did.

Welcome! Danny and I have created this website with the hopes of inspiring with what inspires us everyday.  Why lazy achievers, you ask?  Well, we've realized that it is too easy for days, weeks, even whole years to pass without purposeful living. So, in an effort to transform our and our kiddos' lives, as we live in and around our routines, we will be sharing how we find joy in them...or, rather, how we are constantly finding opportunities to make something mundane into a joyful, gratifying experience.

It all started with how we yearned for some lazy time without the guilt of having 'things to do'. Then, D & I decided, enough is enough, "I don't wanna have to go fishing for what I want in the pantry, it should be right here."  So we simplified and organized that. That felt so good, we organized the fridge, then the freezer, then the baker's pantry, then the garage, on and on.  At the end of each new organization, we saw how our family spent less time fishing and more time doing.  So by implementing some simple systems in and around our daily routine, we've found more time to do the things that not only need to get done, but also the things we've been wanting to do, which, in some cases, is just to not do anything!

We'll be sharing the systems we've created and are working on within our home environment, our health & fitness, as well as some relationship & parenting advice that works for us and other fun stuff. Life is simply too beautiful to not take an active role in it and commit to our dreams, even if it's just the dream of allowing ourselves to be lazy for the next hour or so.

We hope you'll come on this incredible journey with us, looking for all the ways we can guiltlessly feel lazy, setting our routines on track and achieving what we really want. You may not have realized it yet, but you too are a lazy achiever. Welcome to your new home!