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Chloë Emanuelle

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Happy Thanksgiving from me and my two lil turkeys (swipe for a picture of nana where she isn’t asleep) by @goforchlo

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6 years ago

If you would have told me a year ago that I’d wake up on weekends and look forward to working out, I would have laughed at you. Or sent you a “Sure, Jan” meme. •

I hated working out for most of the past decade and I didn’t have the healthiest relationship with it. I’d work out to deserve a cookie. I’d work out to burn off the cookie I let myself eat. I’d work out to fit into jeans or to “look good” in a bikini. Work outs were basically a punishment. I never worked out just for myself and for how it could make me feel. •

The flare up I had in December was a wake up call for me. I needed to be healthier and I needed to be stronger. And for the first time, I started looking at working out as something I was doing for my physical and mental health, instead of just my physical appearance. I didn’t think my motivation behind working out would change how I felt about it, but it did. When I stopped working out to change how I looked, I started to love it. It’s the 30 minutes or an hour that I give myself to completely disconnect from the rest of the world and focus on myself. I look at it as something I get to do, not something I have to do. I don’t beat myself up if I don’t work out a certain amount of times a week. I rest when I need to. I don’t associate eating dessert or pizza with the need to burn it off. It has made me so much happier. I still have cellulite and stretch marks and my stomach isn’t perfectly flat. Maybe some of those things will go away the further I get into this journey. Maybe they won’t, and I’m okay with that because I’m so much more than any of that. These are my non scale victories. What’s one that you’ve had lately!? •

#bodypositive #bodypositivity #bodyposi #fit #workout #workoutmotivation #fitnessmotivation #fitness #balance #bbg #healthylifestyle #endometriosis #endo #endometriosisawareness by @goforchlo

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7 years ago

The first picture is my most liked picture on Instagram and it’s such a lie. It was taken a week before my first surgery for Endometriosis during the saddest summer of my life. I’m sure I got in bed and cried after I took it. If you swipe you can see the picture I took a day before where my endo belly is so bad that I look months pregnant. You can see the heinous post surgery selfie that I don’t remember taking. You can see my swollen stomach days after surgery. You can see some of the burns I get regularly from the heating pad that’s never hot enough. The last picture is from 10 days ago, because this illness is chronic and it will forever be part of my story. I wrote it all down, the link is in my bio and I hope you’ll read it. #endometriosis #endo #endometriosisawareness #endometriosisawarenessmonth #endowarrior #invisibleillness #chronicillness #chronicpain #1in10 #endosisters #endostrong taken in Link In Bio by @goforchlo

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8 years ago

“February 13th, Galentine’s Day, is about celebrating lady friends.” •
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Gluten free adaption of @inagarten’s cookie icebox cake + @arianagrande lyrics + my Hagrid level cake decorating skills = Galentine’s magic #7rings #7slices #glutenfree #feedfeed taken in Pawnee, Indiana by @goforchlo

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8 years ago

I almost wasn’t going to share this. But this is me today. Laying in bed with a heating pad tucked in my sweatpants and avoiding moving as much as possible because moving is pain right now. Being so bloated that I look several months pregnant. This is Endometriosis.

It’s been a little over a year since I had a true flare up. It started this morning in the shower. A blip of pain that passed so quickly I thought I imagined it. A couple hours later it came again and I thought maybe my abs were sore. An hour after that, I stopped pretending that I didn’t recognize this feeling. Every step is agonizing. When I have to walk I walk as carefully as someone who’s carrying a bomb. Because I am but the bomb is my abdomen. I canceled the date I had tonight. I called my gynecologist and made an appointment for an ultrasound. I cried, because I’ve been doing so well and my life has gotten so normal. I think I tricked myself into thinking I was better forever from something that has no cure just because I had it under control for a little. And what if this is the beginning of going back to being symptomatic all the time? I cried because it hurts so bad and how did I forget how much this hurts. This isn’t normal or ok. And thats why I’m sharing. Because millions of women have this and we don’t talk about it enough. So I’m talking about it because we all have reproductive organs and we have to stop being weird about it. We have to stop making women think it’s normal to be in this much pain on our periods (or whenever endo hits you). And what do I have a platform for if not to talk about things like this?? And I’m sharing for the girl who’s also in her bed with a heating pad under her sweatpants feeling so alone. The more we talk about it, the less isolating it is. (And friendly reminder that my DMs are always open to chat about it)

#SpeakEndo #endometriosis #endo #endometriosisawareness #endowarrior #endostrong #endosisters #chronicillness #invisibleillness #chronicpain by @goforchlo

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8 years ago

When your turkey comes out of the oven and you can finally drink. Thankful for all of you who kept following me through almost two years of radio silence on here. I’m so appreciative your faith that I’d do something with this platform again. And thank you guys for all of the love on my website this week 💕 I hope you all have a happy and safe Thanksgiving!

#Thanksgiving #HappyThanksgiving #GlutenFree by @goforchlo

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8 years ago

What I want y’all to think I look like in the kitchen vs what I usually look like
AND what those pumpkin maple cinnamon rolls look like because that’s really all that matters 😏

One of the biggest things that kept me from starting a blog was how intimidated I felt about taking pictures. How can I make everything look good all the time? I don’t consider myself traditionally artsy and good at stuff like that... and I’m usually lookin like a real mess in the kitchen. But you know what? WHO CARES. I’m never going to get better if I don’t try. Life is too short to never step outside of your
comfort zone. What do y’all find intimidating? •

#glutenfree #dairyfree #cinnamonrolls #eeeeeats #baking #glutenfreebaking #feedfeed #foodporn #foodie #foodstagram #isthatenoughhashtags by @goforchlo

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8 years ago

HI FRIENDS.

Over the past year and a half, I’ve received hundreds and hundreds of messages on every platform about why I stopped posting on here.
Here’s the truth: I gained 30 pounds. Between my actual Endometriosis and the medicine required to treat it, I gained all of that in a year. I didn’t want to take pictures of myself. I also wasn’t in the space mentally where I could have handled the “does it look like she’s gained weight??” comments. Because I had and it was out of my control and it sucked. I also was just totally drained and spread thin from being sick for so long. I didn’t have the energy for this. And that’s okay. So I rested up. I lost half of the weight (starting #bbg tomorrow to work on the rest). And during my time away I started really working on recipes. Recipes that I’m so excited to share with you guys in the near future, along with a ton of other things. I’m just happy to be back and hopefully y’all are happy to have me. Tell me what you’ve been up to while I was away! Big life stuff, small life stuff. I want to know 💗 ps Sidney says hi! by @goforchlo

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8 years ago

Here's this throwback of Winnie to help you guys destress from Black Friday 💗 #goldendoodlepuppy #goldendoodlesofinstagram by @goforchlo

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10 years ago

I'm tired, but I made it home to vote and that's all that matters because #imwithher . . . *any negative comments will be deleted* by @goforchlo

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10 years ago

Just call me Kylie - shoutout to @andre__butler for killin it last night #halloween by @goforchlo

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10 years ago

When your eyes look so dark that your liquid lip looks light in comparison 🙄 (Lip is teeny tiny from @colourpopcosmetics cause I know y'all will ask haha) by @goforchlo

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10 years ago