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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 13h

Hahaha I still do a coffee and Advil on weekends before long runs. A classic combo! 😂

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 14h

Thanks, Beccy!!

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 14h

About this specifically, so if this *sounds like* you, reach out. I may not reply immediately, but I’d love to tell these stories with you. It’s existential.

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 14h

Issue but I think it’s important to be transparent about how this isn’t always a rosy “break” or “fun new chapter,” but a terrifying drift from shore with no safety net. We need more honest narratives about this, and so I’m being truthful here, and I’ll continue to. I am working on a few projects

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 14h

Of a parent who died last year - and another who has cancer - is also. That 24/7 started to look like 48/7 and the math just wasn’t mathing. I am one of the net almost 400,000 moms of young kids who left the workforce this year, and it feels … awful. I have longform content coming about this thorny

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 14h

So, this isn’t an easy post to write but two weeks ago to the day I quit my job. Not at all permanently, in fact I need to find something soon - and I hope if my network here has any leads you’ll share them. But being a chief of staff is a 24/7 gig, and being a mom of 2 kids under 5 and the daughter

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 22h

Let me know how it goes!

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 23h

Also I stopped eating first bc I sort of need to start working out before I’m ready. The more I have to do the greater the risk I abandon ship

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 23h

Yep! Don’t stand OR lie back down. Limit 5min. Re: food, I work out fasted because I get nauseous otherwise but depending on your routine and fuel needs you can fuel before! I used to do a banana or a half bagel. I basically chug cold water, drink electrolytes while working out, and then eat tho.

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 1d

When your alarm goes off. I also chug a small glass of water. Much harder to fall back asleep at that point. But it’s the best thing I’ve ever done! You can do it, I’m not even very tough

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 1d

So many but the biggest is just commit to it sucking for 3 weeks. There’s a bit of a flywheel where you have to be up early to be tired early enough to get sufficient sleep to do it again. It gets a lot easier. Also, I always lay out my clothes, water bottle, everything. Final tip: sit up in bed

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 1d

I didn’t think I’d be able to get 7.5 morning miles before a child woke up to ask for snack but nothing gets you running faster than fear of a 4yo approaching you silently like the twins in the Shining

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 1d

The brutal precarity of being able and willing to work but being limited by interlocking forces out of our control is the singular issue of motherhood in 2025 and beyond

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 1d

The most soothed I can be is when dinner is in the crockpot, the dishwasher and washing machine are both running, I’ve gotten through my email, and it’s not even noon

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 1d

I forget which comedian said “rednecks and cops are natural enemies” but like??? Yes??

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 2d

As a like 5th generation hillbilly I’ve been saying true hillbillies have never been boot lickers

Robert Komaniecki @komaniecki.bsky.social · 2d

Woke 2 is going to kick so much ass

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 2d

It astonishes me that through decades, through therapists and wellness fads and kids and jobs, I have always had running and it has pulled me from every single dark place

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 3d

Toddler fits 💖✨

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 3d

I do salt stick chews but idk if that’s enough

girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 3d

I’ll try it! Everyone raves about LMNT - good as the hype?

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 3d

I’m relearning my whole fueling strategy - the last time I trained like this I didn’t have to parent all day after! It’s been a wild ride haha

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 3d

That’s smart - it was cool today so I didn’t do any salts and that maybe was my downfall. Good thought!

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girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 3d

I take a lot of these and they’re so good! I may need to put them in my run bottles instead of taking them before and after

girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 3d

@mbs77.bsky.social summoning u girl

girl fieri @laureneahmed.bsky.social · 3d

Running Sky, how do I get my electrolytes balance together so my long run days don’t all end in migraines? I’m fueling enough, possibly more than enough, I just cannot kick it on any run over 11m

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