Cook By Color

Cook By Color I feed it beautiful, nutritious food that I make with love and care. I take it for walks, adventures and show it many wondrous things.

After years of struggle, trial and error, severe food sensitivities, IBS, thyroid disease, crippling bouts of hopelessness, fear and doubt, I’ve finally embraced a healthy relationship with my body that does not depend on a number on the scale. I nourish it with all the love I can, and make self care a priority, not a best case scenario. With all the things in this big world that I can’t control; I can harness love and respect for this perfectly imperfect bod, and you can for yours too.

10/29/2025

on my way to make my 40’s my healthiest, happiest and hottest yet. anyone joining me? 🤝

making major progress in strength, weightloss, momentum. challenged by logistics in this swing season as the weather changes / routines too.

working to creating habits that can adapt with the seasons of the year and the seasons of life but always in the pillars of nutrition, movement, hydration, sleep and finding joy in the journey ( and in life, duh).

weightloss journey, healthy habits, personal development, natural weightloss, atomic habits

10/23/2025

What if we actually ✨fuel✨ instead of running on empty?

I was finding myself feeding everyone all day, and not myself!?

This habit is 2 months strong and it has enough variety from loading my tortilla with a different leftover protein / veggie / sauce everyday but it’s simple enough to not tax the executive function part of my brain that’s so tired 😂

Your friend Stephanie is inching towards 40 with so much intention, purpose and habit I can feel myself morphing into the woman I’ve always wanted to be. Healthiest, happiest and hottest 40 year old woman, mom, wife, business owner. 🔥

10/06/2025

What if we can ✨romanticize✨ the experience instead of resent it? I’m still here, prioritizing my pillars: nutrition, movement, hydration, sleep and finding joy!

I’m 5 months out from my 40th birthday and I swore to myself I was going to work for my healthiest, happiest and hottest self, and I’m showing up for it every single day. Keeping promises to myself, prioritizing my goals, and it is a truly pleasurable process with this ONE mindset shift.

How can you romanticize your process? If I can do it in my dark dingy garage, I know you can find a way, too!

I’m losing weight, I’m getting stronger. Im watching my body change (slowly slowly slowly) but surely! My habits are solid AF and I’m constantly improving, shifting, editing what works and what doesn’t especially as the seasons change. 🍂

10/01/2025

What if I can rewire my thoughts?

instead of seeing myself as a mom with aesthetic, physical, emotional goals, not yet met…

can I start to see myself as a loving mom experiencing a MOMENT with my kid who will one day drift away from these moments?

can I appreciate all this body of mine continues to do for me ON this healthy / happy / hot journey I’m on?

can I work to squash the negative self talk and embrace this life(!)exactly as I am (?) WHILE I work towards my other goals (!!!) and both can coexist perfectly and peacefully?

This summer came with a syllabus I didn’t see coming // soaking it all in. Took some time, and feeling infinitely better...
08/09/2025

This summer came with a syllabus I didn’t see coming // soaking it all in.

Took some time, and feeling infinitely better. 🫶

Hope you are well and living colorFULLY 💫

Philosophy lesson: Everyone’s got opinions (and… you know). Mine is worthy just because it’s mine. Will be sharing more of me exactly as I am.

History lesson: These really are the good old days, and I’m noticing while I’m in them which had been hard for me in recent times. Reconnecting to myself gives me more capacity to prioritize what’s really important to me.

Environmental Science Lesson: Slowing down enough to feel the grass in my toes, the love all around me, the wind in my hair, preferably on Nick’s 40th birthday present 🚤 .

Physical Education: Working toward hot, healthy, and happy; and knowing it’s OK that getting strong and losing weight will make me happier.

Anthropology lesson: Studying my own little Stanley crew and how we love, argue, laugh, and how to support them to be the good people the world needs.

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