Q&A: Your tickets to the gun show.

I like to show off my physique by making embarrassing faces
whilst awkwardly riding mechanical bulls. 

How do you maintain your weight? Any tips and secrets?

I am definitely not the girl who can eat whatever she wants without gaining weight.

In fact, I'm pretty sure I can put on a few pounds just looking at desserts.

(It's some sort of weird, osmosis-y magic business, I'm telling you.)

80(ish)% of the time, I eat like a health nut. I base my meals around fruits and veggies,

I measure my portions (I'm that weirdo who scoops her ice cream into a measuring cup...
you'd be surprised how small one serving is, though!) and I know the calorie counts
for most of the foods I eat regularly. I don't keep a food journal, I just add up
the things I eat and aim for each meal being around 300-400 calories.
(Plus some 100-200 calorie snacks; I love me some snacks.)

The other 20(ish)% of the time, I love to go out for Mexican or order pizza or get Coldstone ice cream (mmmm, Coldstone). And I thoroughly enjoy every bite of it.

When it comes to exercise, I'm one of those lucky people who genuinely loves working out.

I'm a walk-a-holic. I walk for an hour almost every day,

and I try to get in 20 minutes or more of "sweaty" exercise most days, too.

My current favorite sweaty exercise includes high intensity interval training (HIIT), 

like alternating between a minute of sprinting and two minutes of jogging,

Jillian Michaels-30 day shred work out videos 

and elliptical workouts. 

I try to do some weight training a couple times a week, but I have to admit, I'm not nearly as good at fitting those sessions in (they're just not as fun as my beloved cardio).

I have a love/hate relationship with running.

I love the idea of being a runner, but running definitely doesn't come naturally to me.

I try to run on a regular basis, and I'm very good about it if I have a race coming up, but if there's no public display of running looming in my near future, there's no promise I won't trade
my weekly runs for some other form of cardio.

Like every girl out there, I have my share of body insecurities.

And I have days (or days that occasionally stretch into a week) when I think, "Exercise? No, thank you, I'll just sit on the couch and go swimming in this carton of ice cream instead."

But I try (try being the operative word here) not to beat myself up about it when I miss a workout

or devour an entire chimichanga at Maria's Mexican restaurant, because
A) nobody's perfect and

B) chimichangas are freaking delicious.