Fitlicity (2026)

14/06/2020

I stand before you as the self-proclaimed HBIC of Habit-Based Health... but it wasn’t always this way. Allow me to share an Al-ecdote straight from the pages of my most powerful project yet, the fitlicity HBIC Handbook: “It feels like yesterday, and a lifetime away... the day I decided to do something about it. It being... my life. Looking back at how I looked at myself, I was completely possessed by my reflection – whether avoiding it all together with every passing of a tinted window on a crowded corner or analyzing every inch until the piece of glass perched above my vanity surrendered to a cloud of steam. I posed and pinched and sucked. I lay on the floor in fetal position, fingers pressing down onto a distended belly. I woke in the hazy darkness that separated my days and spewed gut-wrenching panic over the side of my bed. I leaned on an altered state of awareness, slugging long after last call until I slurred and stumbled. I tracked low-calorie bag after low-carb box to make room for the paper-napkin-trails of takeout containers and tastykake wrappers towering in my trash can. I did anything to escape the feeling of crawling out of my own skin. Clawing at the confines of my body with cling-wrap suppressing my stomach while I slept and cleanses suppressing my appetite when I woke. Captivated by my own captivity. I accepted it. After all, it was just who I was. I could see her, every day, staring back at me. A patchwork projection. A puppet. A prisoner. A pawn. Like ritual, the piece of glass perched above my vanity surrendered to a cloud of steam. But this time, instead of stepping into the shower, I sunk down onto the hard tile floor. Naked, I closed my eyes and conjured an image of myself. Not my skeletal structure, not my shape, not my skin. But my soul. My (space) self. It flickered in and out of my consciousness, fuzzy and fragmented. And to my surprise, from where I was standing, she looked nothing like my reflection. So I set out to bring her to the surface where I could see her.”
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Between the sass and the science, you’ll get a glimpse at the girl who got me here and gets me where I’m going. The fitlicity HBIC Handbook drops digitally on MONDAY.

13/06/2020

Did ya hear what I’ve been hustlin’ so hard to cook up for you?! Peep my stories for the dish! 👀 And come back here for a lil taste of a Habit-Hack you’ll find in the fitlicity HBIC Handbook: Half Your Haul! 🛒 Don’t get your tastebuds twisted. I’m not talking about slashing your sustenance stash. Whether you’re in-store or online, spend half of your shopping time in the produce section before perusing on. Two halves make a whole bunch o’ *real food* and now... you **own it** Happy hauling!
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The HBIC Handbook drops MONDAY, ! 👊🏼 Holy health am I hype!! 🤩Stay tuned for more peeps at the power packed inside the pages + sign up for FITLICITYFAM email exclusive first access! @ Newport Beach, California

12/06/2020

Eating Whatever You Want, Whenever You Want is easy as 1, 2, 3... 4... 5! 🤫 Look to good to be good and good-for-you?! You’ll taste the difference yourself. I’m cookin’ up a big ol’ batch of the Secret Sauce and it’s comin’ to you in just FOUR DAYS. Don’t sweat, there’s enough to go ‘round for the whole 💁🏼‍♀️ Are you plating up what I’m putting down?
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dEATS for the Easiest Damn Dinner Ever 👉🏼👉🏽👉🏾 frozen + thawed tilapia filet seasoned with lemon juice + salt + pepper and placed in a parchment paper pouch with veggies of your choice baked for ~20 mins at 400. I went with broccoli [and garlic and grapes] here! Served with a side of sautéed collards and cauli mash [on fitlicity.com!]

11/06/2020

I’ve been plannin’ + preppin’ + cookin’ over here... but not just my usual plates packed with protein + produce. SOMETHING BIG IS COMING. It’s on the tip of my tongue... can ya taste it?! 👉🏼👉🏽F I V E ⭐️ D A Y S 👈🏾👈🏿 Stay tuned for taste-teasers.

10/06/2020

CrossFit is a corporation. Take away the company, and you have a concept. Take away the trademark, and you have theory + technique. Take away the (mis)marketing, and you have methodology. Take away the logo, and you have a lifestyle. We don’t do CrossFit, we lift, run, jump, hinge, pull, push, and play. We don’t compete in CrossFit, we compete in functional fitness. We don’t train CrossFit, we train cardio-respiratory + stamina + + + + + coordination + agility + balance + accuracy. We don’t teach CrossFit, we teach functional movement mechanics + mindset. We don’t believe in CrossFit, we believe in superior standards – of skill, of success, of self, of society. We don’t belong to CrossFit, we belong to a . We are not CrossFitters, we are elite athletes + average affiliates + and even amateurs. We are brothers + sisters + friends + family. We are people who pursue progress + expect excellence. As the brand that claimed clout + responsibility for representing this broad + inclusive + global regimen, both the silence + subsequent statements from CrossFit leadership are sickening + disturbing. If you think a group of people who constantly ask “was that low enough?” when they squat are going to stand for anything less than a superior standard of ourselves and the social responsibility our sport in the midst of a civil rights movement so deeply intertwined with our common goal of disbarring chronic disease from our communities, you got another thing comin’ for ya. I stand **for** the fundamental right to accessible, equitable, broad, inclusive functional food and fitness. I stand **against** anything else.

08/06/2020

Allow me to introduce myself, loud n’ clear. I’m Al 👋🏼 I’m the founder of . And while I put a face to the handle, fitlicity isn’t a profile picture. Nor is it a profile of pictures or a series of stories. It’s an essence that can be embodied by everybody and every space body. The girl + grid you see when you scroll + swipe undergrid a set of Principles and Philosophies that go beyond skin-deep. fitlicity is soul-deep, sister. fitlicity embraces evolution even when – especially when – it feels uncomfortable. fitlicity is applied active-awareness that breeds adaption. fitlicity is the intersection of belief and behavior. It’s a core-choice congruence – and I’m not just talking about abdominals and vertebrae, I’m talking about action and values. fitlicity is elevating and expanding a superior self-standard, every damn day, always and in all ways. fitlicity is recognizing that how you show up in the mirror each day is a mirror reflection of how you show up day in and day out. fitlicity is a fierce promise to protect and pursue the fundamental right to optimal health. The power is in your hands. Always has been, always will be. As the voice and vessel of fitlicity, I empower you to use it.
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This account is my personal account of actualizing all of the above. Using professional education + personal experience, I seek to empower effective + efficient eating and exercise efforts with a focus on functional food + fitness through a core-choice congruence. This melting point is what I call Habit-Based Health. And it means that how you do anything is how you do everything.
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As a member of the , how that shows up in your bowl or on your body might look different than mine [which is a whole lotta barbells and brussels sprouts], and to that I say – serve what serves you, boo 👊🏼👊🏽👊🏾👊🏿
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You are here, and I’m hype to have you! Say hello 👉🏼👉🏽👉🏾👉🏿

07/06/2020

“Do the best you can until you know better. Then when you know better, do better.” -Maya Angelou
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This quote isn’t pass or pardon. It’s an instruction. What do you know now? Now that you know, what will you do better to do, better?
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I know that violence takes many forms, that you can kill a human without shooting or suffocating them. Hunger is violence. Neglecting school children is violence. Discrimination against a working man is violence. Ignoring medical need is violence. Racism infiltrates every space and sector of the food + fitness systems – from the people who propagate produce, to purchase potential, to places of play + physical activity – creating inequities that deny the fundamental right to pursue Optimal Health and result in devastating disparities in the healthfulness of communities of color, with lives being claimed by chronic medical and mental conditions such as obesity, heart disease, diabetes, cancers, and depression + anxiety at disproportionate rates.
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I know that it’s not equality that I need to encourage, but rather equity that I need to empower – especially through education and experience in youth + adolescents.
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“You may write me down in history
With your bitter, twisted lies,
You may trod me in the very dirt
But still, like dust, I'll rise.

Does my sassiness upset you?
Why are you beset with gloom?
’Cause I walk like I've got oil wells
Pumping in my living room.

Just like moons and like suns,
With the certainty of tides,
Just like hopes springing high,
Still I’ll rise.” -Maya Angelou

06/06/2020

Black Bodies Matter. Black Minds Matter. Black Lives Matter. “Racism and our response to it kills us more than anything” - Kevin Washington, PhD // President of the Association of Black Psychologists
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African Americans are 20% more likely to experience serious mental health problems than the general population [Health and Human Services Office of Minority Health]. Racism is a form of trauma that disproportionality affects Black women (and men). Trauma in the form of racism can be directly or indirectly experienced. Driving while black, shopping while black, and everyday racial micoraggressions are direct examples of racial trauma. The most common examples of indirect trauma are the viral videos of unarmed black women and men being killed. Both are devastating + debilitating.
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Consider cyclical, contemporary crisis tethered to a sociohistoric survival + trauma: “Processing the violence, injustice, and inequities that are part and parcel of black and melonated skin...during a pandemic that is decimating black lives, health, and communities most.“
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Research + history tell us that three basic images exist: the Strong Black Woman, the Angry Black Woman, and the Jezebel/Video Vixen. These inflicted images have implications. They impact both the lens [how black women are scene by individuals/society] and the mirror [how black women see themselves]. As the faces facing these schemes and stereotypes, studies show that black women feel obligated to suppress their emotions, resist being vulnerable, and succeed beyond standard measure, often putting mental health at risk. A history of being depicted as “the help” makes asking for a sign of weakness, a symptom, a deeply troubling character flaw. Instead of turning to a therapist or counselor, many black folks suffer in silence. Why add another stigma to the mix of being melonated?
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05/06/2020

Black lives matter. And black lives are being taken by chronic medical + mental health conditions. At the root of these conditions is hunger. At the root of hunger is racism.
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Food insecurity is not a result of shortage, rather it is a product of persistent structural racial inequities that continue to limit communities of color.
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Black households face hunger at a rate more than twice that of white households. Due to racial inequity, communities of color are disproporationately surrounded by Food Deserts (defines by the USDA as “areas with limited access to nutritious foods). Only 8% of African Americans, specifically, have a grocery store in their census tract.
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Food insecurity + hunger have severe consequences for a child's social, emotional and cognitive development – from increased anxiety and aggression to lower test sources. It's related to depression, hypertension, diabetes, and obesity in teenagers and adults.
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Food bank donations are crucial, especially in times of crisis. Take action to make sure everyone in Minnesota has access to the healthy food they need with + narrow your search to a local level with Food Finders and
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But simply providing people of color with “enough to eat” has proven to be an unsustainable solution to eradicating hunger. It’s about the on-going opportunity to nutritious + delicious foods.
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Those stores and food relief programs that serve communities of color typically offer more packaged and processed hyper-palatable food-products with high amounts of salt, simple carbohydrates, and fat. rather than fresh produce + plants + protein, which only exacerbates the health disparities of food-insecure individuals.
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In other words, it’s about eradicating racial inequities.
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04/06/2020

Black women vote at comparatively high rates and had a higher voting rate than all other groups of men and women during the last two presidential elections.
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More than six in ten black women are in the workforce, making them one of the two racial/ethnic groups of women with the highest labor force participation rate among women and the only group of women with a higher labor force participation rate than their male counterparts.
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About 28 percent of employed Black women work in service occupations,
the occupational group with the lowest wages. Jobs in this broad occupational group often lack important benefits such as paid sick days.
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Black families depend on black women’s earnings. Eight out of ten black mothers are breadwinners, who are either the sole earner or earn at least 40 percent of household income.
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Since 2007, The number of businesses owned by Black women is the largest increase among all racial and ethnic groups of women and men.
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👉🏽👉🏾👉🏿 These stats, and the stories behind them, do not align with the systems and structures in place and the struggles that result.
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03/06/2020

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There is no food justice without racial justice. Nationally, the rate of food insecurity among black households is more than double that of white households.
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“Our current food system is a legacy of exploitation and racism - land stolen from Native people, a US agricultural empire built on the backs of enslaved Africans, today’s farmworkers being predominantly underpaid immigrant and migrant Latinx workers, and many of the school food professionals that feed our kids being Women of Color who earn less than a living wage. Black, Indigenous, Latinx, People of Color and Immigrants are the backbone of our food system and ensure we can eat. They’re also a constant target of racist acts and violence.

If you are White, saying you are not racist is not enough. Institutional racism and structural racism are at play in our communities, destroying the fabric of human good, and we must dismantle this. Children of Color participating in school meal programs have been publicly shamed when they lack the funds to pay for their meals. Black and Latinx youth have substantially higher rates of obesity than their white peers, as do Indigenous youth. Our national policies do not equitably commit resources to feeding our children, our future. People of Color are disproportionately represented on the frontlines of COVID-19 response and in our food system as essential workers, and are dying at higher rates due to the prevalence of underlying health conditions - a direct result of systemic inequities in access to healthy food options, health care and safe working conditions. And in the case of police brutality and murder, People of Color are killed by police at higher per capita rates than White people. Structural racism allows these sobering statistics to become normalized, accepted and perpetuated.” Helen Dombalis, Executive Director

02/06/2020

FOLLOW 🏃🏾‍♀️🏋🏿‍♀️🧘🏾‍♀️🤸🏿‍♀️🚴🏽‍♀️ .arias .camille .roots.athlete // DONATE ⭐️
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“For black Women’s navigating the obstacles of race and gender, stereotype and burden, requires a dexterity that’s constitutes a whole other layer of athleticism – an ability to contort in plain sights often without being seen...the myriad of coping mechanisms they’ve come up with to get themselves, body and soul, across the finish lines of sport and life...are given voice by athletes who compete in different lanes or fields of play but who share common experiences than can include alienation, uneven opportunities, and simply a self-doubt that comes from wondering whether you should be there at all.” - The struggle is real: the unrelenting weight of being a black, female athlete via

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