Hello Pizza, Goodbye Flipside... Monday, September 23

My Homemade Healthy Pizzas

Whole wheat tortillaA very simple tortilla that I made on the frying pan at the club.  It consists of whole wheat flour, oregano, a dash of pepper, and water.

Pizza toppingsBroccoli, onions and garlic, with a bit of tomato pasta sauce on the base, a small amount of cheese for tease, and a dash of loose Parmesan cheese for extra bite.

I was cooking up a storm at Hulk's today as a result of one member catching a whiff of the pizza I had made for my late lunch.  Next thing I knew it I was making pizza after pizza and handing them out.  

I've been thinking about adding a Sunday ritual to our week at Hulk's -- a Sunday sit-down meal with members.  I'd post on our Coaches' Corner the meal of the week and members who want to join in could sign up.  I'd limit it to a certain amount of members and charge them something like $5 for the sake of buying the ingredients.  Our Sunday crowd that trains is small -- Sundays are always a slow day but a short day.  Perhaps our Sunday sit-down meal would encourage more to come out but the main point of it would be to promote healthy eating and to help build the 'familyship' within our club.  

In OTHER news...

Today I announced on the Flipside Fitness Facebook group page that I have decided to pull the plug on the group.  Over two years ago I sat with my friend, contemplating it and envisioning it being a great group of women -- a community for us foreign women.  It did become that great group I envisioned but I feel the strength of the community isn't so present anymore.  I feel I am fighting so hard for something those I am fighting for are not wanting and for this reason I know it's not me giving up but me letting go.  I can't be the only one that wants this for them and because of this I feel discouraged.  It no longer is to me what it once was and so it's time for me to put it to rest.  

Many of the fabulous females I have met via Flipside Fitness still remain with me.  They're training with me at Hulk's Boxing, meeting with me for coffee, or messaging me from where they now are -- their home country.  I've met some really inspiring women, many of which have since left Korea and started another chapter in their life but I see them on Facebook.  I will continue to meet fabulously fierce women too but they'll be the ones who walk into Hulk's.  

Perhaps it's not the group that has changed but me.  My interest, effort, time and money all goes into Hulk's now and I really want to focus in on it and its' members.  Planning events and hosting special contests will still very much be a part of my life but now I want it to only consist of those at Hulk's.  My passion for fitness and health is what sparked the birth of Flipside Fitness and it's because of Flipside Fitness and my weekend boxercise classes that Hulk's then evolved.  Hulk's was a dream both Snickers and I were saving to start in Canada but we took a leap of faith and built it here.  Running both Flipside and Hulk's is exhausting but I do it because I love it.  I no longer love Flipside Fitness though because I feel that it's holding Hulk's back from becoming more -- me from becoming more too.  

Flipside Fitness had it's run but now it's over.  Now it's time for Hulk's to really get the due recognition and attention it totally deserves.  Hulk's is my dream and I want to live my dream entirely, not half a$$.