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10/10/2026

🎃👻🍬 THMH TRICK OR TREAT: DAY 10 🍬👻🎃

SATURDAY! October.
The weather is getting good. Maybe. When I scheduled this post, it was forecasted to be chilly and possibly rainy.

👻🍬 DOUBLE TROUBLE: FALL ADVENTURE EDITION
Today I want you to GET OUT OF THE DAMN HOUSE.

👻 THE TRICK:
Get at least 60 MINUTES of intentional movement OUTSIDE. It ain't gonna rain all dang day. Hopefully. Hahaha!

Walk
Hike
Bike
Paddle
Explore a park
Walk downtown
Do a corn maze
Go apple picking
Wander around a giant pumpkin patch
Whatever

It does NOT need to look like a workout.
Just spend an hour of your Saturday using your body outside.

🍬 THE TREAT:
Make it an ACTUAL FALL ADVENTURE.

🎃 Pumpkin patch
🍎 Apple orchard
🌽 Corn maze
👻 Haunted attraction
🍂 Fall festival
🥾 Fall hike
🧙‍♀️ Halloween event
🎃 Explore somewhere decorated for Halloween

Bring your kids.
Bring your partner.
Grab a friend.
Go alone.
I don't care.
Just go DO something.
We're combining movement with LIFE today.

Because being healthy isn't supposed to mean spending your entire existence inside a gym.

Build a body that lets you go do cool s**t...
Then go do the cool s**t.

AND HEYYYYYY!!!!!

Today is also the FINAL DAY of Bingo Card #1!

I'll have a separate post for you to drop your completed cards for tomorrow morning's $10 prize wheel - that post will go up at 8PM TONIGHT FOR YOU TO DROP YOUR CARD ON!!!

So finish those last squares if you've got 'em!
POST A PICTURE FROM YOUR FALL ADVENTURE TODAY. Or! If you really wanna help me, post it on your stories and tag me!

I wanna see where everybody ends up.

DAY 10! GET OUTSIDE AND GO PLAY. 🎃🍂👻

No time for the gym? Don't know where to start? Overwhelmed by the thought of working out?START HERE! This isn't fancy. ...
10/09/2026

No time for the gym?
Don't know where to start?
Overwhelmed by the thought of working out?

START HERE!

This isn't fancy. You don't need a gym membership or a bunch of equipment. You just need to MOVE.

🍂 Do this full-body workout 3x/week.
🍂 Start with 1–2 rounds and work your way up to 3.
🍂 Add a 30-minute DAILY walk

That's it. That's your starting point. Stop overcomplicating s**t.

And if you're local and want someone to show up at your house, help you get stronger, and yell at you along the way?
I've got openings for 1:1 personal training.

Let's get to work now and not wait until you're overwhelmed with the holiday season. I know this game, ladies. LOL!

🍦 SERVING SIZE THURSDAY…ON A FRIDAY!Listen. I had this post all ready to go and just didn’t schedule it. Sooooooo….Fashi...
10/09/2026

🍦 SERVING SIZE THURSDAY…ON A FRIDAY!

Listen. I had this post all ready to go and just didn’t schedule it. Sooooooo….Fashionably Late Friday. Haha!

This week: ICE CREAM.

Before anyone loses their s**t, NO, we’re not coming for your ice cream. I love ice cream. You should enjoy your ice cream.

But let’s talk about what an actual serving looks like.

The ice cream pictured is your standard vanilla ice cream.

🍦 Serving size: 2/3 cup (102g)

🍦 Calories: 190

The bowl in the picture? That’s exactly one serving. I don’t think it looks THAT small. Haha!

Now, here’s my question.

When you get yourself a bowl of ice cream, are you measuring out 2/3 cup?

Or are you grabbing the biggest spoon in the drawer and scooping until your heart says, “That’s enough”? And then topping it with more stuff (bc I def add some chocolate syrup or M&Ms occasionally).

Depending on the size of your bowl and how generous you’re feeling, you could easily end up with two or three servings.

That’s 380–570 calories.

THAT’S NOT THE END OF THE WORLD.

Ice cream isn’t bad. Eating more than one serving isn’t bad. And you absolutely do not need to feel guilty about enjoying dessert.

But here’s where awareness matters.

If you’re trying to lose weight, you’re consistently tracking your food, and you’re logging one serving of ice cream when you’re actually eating three, those differences can add up.

Serving sizes aren’t rules about how much you’re allowed to eat. They’re reference points to help you understand how much you’re actually eating.

That’s the entire point of these Thursday posts.

Not restriction. Not guilt. Not turning every meal into a math equation.

Just a little education so you can make informed decisions about your food.

Nooooowwww…
Are you a reasonable little bowl of ice cream person or a, “I’ll just eat directly out of the container” kind of person? 😬

10/09/2026

🎃🍬 THMH TRICK OR TREAT: DAY 9 🍬🎃

IT'S FRIDAY! Hell yeah, brother!

We're heading into an October weekend, so for the next few days we're leaning HARD into the whole reason this challenge is called TRICK OR TREAT.

Today's assignment?
🍬 TREAT: ROMANTICIZE THE S**T OUT OF FALL.

Sometime today, do ONE THING that makes it feel like October.
Not exercise.
Not nutrition.
Not something productive disguised as self-care.
Something FUN.

🎃 Carve or paint a pumpkin
👻 Watch a Halloween movie
☕ Get a fall coffee
🍎 Make something apple or pumpkin
🕯️ Light the fall candle you've been hoarding
🧙‍♀️ Decorate your house
🍂 Sit outside in your pajamas
👻 Go to a haunted house
🎃 Wander around a Halloween store
🧡 Put on your favorite fall sweatshirt and go somewhere
Make a spooky snack with your kids
Drive around looking for Halloween decorations
Whatever makes your little fall-loving heart happy

And here's the rule:
You actually have to DO IT.
You cannot say, "I watched Hocus Pocus while answering emails."
No.

Sit your ass down and WATCH Hocus Pocus.
October goes by stupidly fast.

Enjoy it while you're in it.

I'm in Chatt with the boyfriend and I plan on being outside as much as possible this weekend (pending rain, bc it ain't looking good for tomorrow/Sunday) and doing Fun Fall Festivities. Alliteration, anyone?

Come back and tell me what you did for your Friday Treat. It's always fun to see what everyone else does!

Bonus points for pictures because I wanna see your October stuffs.

DAY 9. GO BE FESTIVE. 🍬👻🍂

10/08/2026

🎃👻 THMH TRICK OR TREAT — DAY 8 👻🎃

Did you enjoy your TWO Treats in a row? 🍬🍬
Did you think maybe I'd gone soft?

That October was just gonna be protein and vegetables and texting your friends and taking care of yourselves?
That's adorable.

👻 TRICK, BI***ES.
Today we're doing something incredibly simple.
But you're gonna have to do it THREE TIMES. 😈

👻 TODAY'S TRICK: 10 AFTER 3

After THREE meals today, I want you to get up and MOVE for 10 minutes.

That's it.

Breakfast → 10 minutes

Lunch → 10 minutes

Dinner → 10 minutes

Walk outside.
Walk the dog.
Hop on the treadmill.
Walk around your office building.
March around your house.
Take a lap around the parking lot.

🚨 BUT WAIT! TEACHERS, NURSES & OTHER PEOPLE WITH UNFORGIVING JOBS:

I already hear you.

"Ashley, that's cute. I can't just leave my classroom/patients/job and take a leisurely stroll after lunch."
I GOT YOU.

If three separate 10-minute walks genuinely aren't possible with your workday, your Trick is:

👻 Get ONE 10-minute walk after whichever meal you CAN.
PLUS
👻 Find the other 20 minutes somewhere else in your day.

Two 10s.
Four 5s.
One 20.

Walk before work. Take the long way back from the bathroom. Pace while you're on the phone. Walk the parking lot before you drive home. Get outside when your shift ends.

Your goal is still 30 intentional minutes total.
We're adapting the HOW, not eliminating the challenge.
I don't care where you go.
Just move for 10 minutes.

And NO, you don't need to power walk like you're late for a flight.
This isn't about crushing a cardio workout.

We're breaking up sitting, adding some movement to the day, and giving your muscles something to do with some of that glucose floating around after you eat.

Muscle contractions can increase glucose uptake through GLUT4 without relying solely on insulin, which is one of the reasons movement after meals is such a ridiculously simple habit with a pretty great payoff.

And before you tell me you don't have 30 minutes today...

Good news.
You don't need 30 minutes.
You need 10.
Then later, you need another 10.
Then one more.
That's the game.

Three meals.
Three little walks.

30 total minutes of movement without ever having to "find 30 minutes to exercise."

👻 10 AFTER 3.

Come back tonight when you've gotten all three and drop me a 👻👻👻.

Let's see who gets all three.

DAY 8. GET YOUR ASS UP AFTER YOU EAT.

YOU DESERVE TO EAT ENOUGH.And I’m gonna keep screaming that until some of y’all finally believe me.The 800, 900, 1000 ca...
10/07/2026

YOU DESERVE TO EAT ENOUGH.

And I’m gonna keep screaming that until some of y’all finally believe me.

The 800, 900, 1000 calorie “diets” are back in full fu***ng swing because super skinny came back in a few months ago.

I need you to hear me:
YOU. DESERVE. TO. EAT. ENOUGH.

Calories are literally a unit of measurement for energy. Your body needs energy to LIVE.

To regulate hormones.
To maintain muscle.
To support your brain.
To digest your food.
To sleep.
To recover.
To have an immune system.
To get through your day without feeling like a half-dead Victorian child. You don’t have consumption!

It kills me watching women fall back into this s**t, but what REALLY kills me is watching young girls get sucked into it.

Some of us remember the 90s and early 2000s.

We grew up being told smaller was better. We had Cosmo and every other magazine screaming at us about how to lose 10 pounds by Friday, flatten our stomachs, shrink our thighs and survive on Diet Coke, Special K and air. Remember those Snackwells and 100 calorie snack packs? Ughhhhh!!!

And now?

These girls have social media beating them in the face with it all. day. long. Different platform. Same bulls**t.

“But Ashley, I want to lose weight. I need to be in a calorie deficit.”

CORRECT.

You do.

A calorie deficit is how fat loss happens.

But a calorie deficit and eating as little food as humanly possible are not the same thing.

More deficit is not automatically better.

The goal is to create enough of a deficit to lose fat while still giving your body enough energy to function, train, recover and maintain as much muscle as possible.

When you take that deficit to an extreme, eventually something gives.

Maybe you white-knuckle it for a few weeks until you’re so fu***ng hungry that you binge and then convince yourself you “failed.”

Maybe your workouts turn to s**t.

Maybe you lose muscle along with the weight.

Maybe you’re freezing. Exhausted. Irritable. Constipated. Thinking about food 24/7. Sleeping like garbage. Recovering like garbage. Your s*x drive disappears. Your NEAT drops because you’re too damn tired to move.

Your body adapts to the energy you’re giving it.

It doesn’t give a single f**k that you wanted to fit into smaller jeans by Christmas.

It is trying to keep you alive.

And congratulations! Now you’re lighter, but you’re also weak, tired, miserable and incapable of having a good time.

THAT IS NOT THE GOAL.

Fat loss should not require you to stop living your life.

You should be able to lift weights.

You should be able to go for a hike.

You should be able to play with your kids.

You should be able to recover from your workouts.

You should be able to think clearly.

You should be able to go out to dinner.

You should be able to have energy.

You should be able to maintain muscle.

You should be able to have a fu***ng personality.

This isn’t only about how your body looks.

It’s about how your body feels and functions.

You can want to lose fat.

You can intentionally eat in a calorie deficit.

You can have physique goals.

AND YOU STILL DESERVE TO EAT ENOUGH.

Those things can exist at the same time.

The goal isn’t to see how little food you can survive on.

The goal is to build a body and a life that you actually want to fu***ng live in.

Adult lunchable!
We’ll be making our own adult lunchables and overnight oats jars next weekend at the THMH Fork Yeah: Make & Take Edition

10/07/2026

Today, at a networking event, I mentioned I would have two spots opening due to having two ladies “graduate.”

This brought about a fun question:
I thought fitness was forever. What are they graduating from?

To which I responded, “ME!”

My goal is for you to feel comfortable and confident going into the next chapter of your fitness journey solo.

Sure, I have a few ladies who’ve been with me for literal years and have no plans of leaving me…but, as a blanket/general statement - your goal is to be able to go to the gym and feel like you belong there. ❤️

So yes…fitness is forever. Paying for a personal trainer is not. 😆

It’s been a while since we did this, sooo let’s play!
10/07/2026

It’s been a while since we did this, sooo let’s play!

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