On a bit of migrating…

Hi everyone!

Recently I finished up some schooling for Nutrition, and part of our assignments was to create a web presence.

I chose to create a website, which I worked very hard at. However, at this time I am not going to go into business for myself and I therefore did not want to continue the hosting for the website domain. I DO however want to keep the content I created because I worked hard at it and I am proud of that content. And at least one person has told me it has helped them.

SO, I’m trying to save the content by importing it to my blog. I’m also attempting to import the entire website to a free page on WordPress, to see if I can also salvage the rest of the page.

Please enjoy the content I’ve added, it’s a lot all at once but I wanted to be sure it would be safe.

Thank you!

S

On Self-worth…

Men and women today both face an enormous amount of pressure to look a certain way.
As a woman, I have felt that pressure from a very young age.
Beauty was the be-all end-all of being a woman. Now, I’m not here to say there is no pressure for men to also be good-looking, but I wanted to focus women because that is what I relate to best.

 

When I was a kid, I couldn’t wait to grow up. I wanted to be a woman, I wanted to be strong and intelligent and powerful. I looked longingly at images in magazines and actresses in movies and couldn’t wait for the day where I would be just like them.

Just one thing wasn’t quite right– I would look in the mirror, at the tender age of 10, and had decided that I was ugly. And that I would always be ugly. I just accepted that as fact.
A small consolation in my mind was that in an effort to feel worthwhile, I spent a lot of time trying to develop a great personality. If I could not be beautiful, I at least wanted to be intelligent and funny. It’s hard to tell whether I believed those things didn’t matter had I been beautiful. But being beautiful, to me, was the most important and the least attainable.

On Consistency…

What is something that, without fail, you do every day?
For many people, it’s things like having a cup of coffee in the morning, listening to the same radio station while they get ready for work, maybe it’s having dinner at the same time every evening. Perhaps it’s something even more simple, like brushing your teeth before bed, or showering first thing in the morning, or checking your phone as soon as you wake up.

 

 

No matter what it is, everyone will have certain things that are a consistent part of their lives. Like auto-pilot, something that they don’t even thing about because it is so ingrained in their daily routines.

On Balance…

What do you normally think of when you hear the word “Diet”?
Most people probably think: Restricting, being hungry, “eating like a rabbit”.

 

 

 

The Oxford dictionary defines “Diet” as “The kinds of food that a person, animal, or community habitually eats“

While one of the more popular terms for Diet can mean to restrict in order to lose weight, diet is generally the term simply meaning the foods that a person or group of people eat regularly.
But no matter how you spin it, there is certainly a stigma behind the term.

The thing is, even if you are looking to lose weight and/or become healthier, it doesn’t have to be this ‘all or nothing’ notion.
The key to succeeding in anything, really, is balance.

On hydration…

Picture this: a 21 year old woman wakes up in the morning to begin a shift at a mall at 9:00AM. She pounds back a large Tim’s coffee (This was before their size changes– That Large is now their Medium.)
She finishes her short shift at noon and heads home to scarf down some takeout food (probably a burger, chinese food or a poutine) and then take a nap.
She gets up around 2:00 and gets ready for her evening shift at the movie theatre. On her way to work, she picks up a large energy drink. Probably Rockstar or Redbull.
After a few hours of work, she takes her break and enjoys some of the ‘finer dining’ the theatre has to offer. A hot dog, poutine or perhaps just some popcorn for dinner. With a big pop. She might even pick up a second energy drink if she’s feeling particularly sluggish. Other days, if she’s too full or doesn’t feel like drinking an entire can of energy drink, she will pop some caffeine pills.  Likely taken with her pop.
Eventually she goes home around 11:00PM-2:00AM, depending on her night.
Rinse and repeat.

A little about me…

Hi everyone!
I thought it would be a good place to start by talking a little bit about myself for my first post.

I love food! I think it’s so awesome that we get to play with different flavors and textures, that there are so many amazingly creative people who can invent such new and exciting things for people to taste. There are endless possibilities with food.

So why am I here?
A couple of years ago, I started realizing that the choices I was making for myself were not very informed. I knew I wanted to be healthy, but I didn’t have a hot clue how to begin. So I started looking online for advice.
I spent a lot of time on social media, specifically Instagram, looking for motivation to help me work out. I started finding real women with real transformations who really inspired me. And one thing really stood out for me– Every single one of these women promoted two things- Hard work, and a healthy relationship with food. Fuel for their bodies.

On bigger, better; Dreams

I grew up in a small town somewhere in the mid-south of the Canadian Prairies.
This meant I was mostly surrounded by a farming community, a lot of older generation people set in their ways. The town I grew up in, while I’ll always call it home, is not somewhere I’d ever want to settle down in. The community is incredibly stubborn, close-minded and gossipy. Everyone knows everyone, even though the population holds around 50,000 people.
For a short part of my life, I moved to a town that was even smaller, a mere 4,000 people. I always dreamed of moving to a big city. A bustling metropolis, filled with so much opportunity and things to explore.

On health, motivation and depression

Ah yes, I haven’t blogged in quite some time, primarily due to all of my goals becoming very stagnant.
I’ve finally taken a small holiday from work just to catch my breath. So far I’ve taken things slow and easy after a busy weekend as a kick off.

I’ve had a lot of concerns on my health lately, mostly mentally. Generally I am actually healthy physically, minus my poor eating habits and sedentary lifestyle.
So I really want to focus on that for this blog.

Of quietly exploring city life

Hello beautiful people.
It’s been some time since my last post, but that’s mostly because – again- I wanted to blog about fitness and managed not to be very fit at all.

Instead, though, I’ve been happily exploring and enjoying living in a big city for the first time. Every weekend, every time we step out for an excursion, it’s like a vacation for me. It’s really odd to me that I live here, and that I don’t have to travel a long way to get back home.

The past couple of weekends were full of fun adventures, and every night was spent back in my cozy bed!!

I-KEA this office is nice.

So yesterday we were finally able to make a stop at Ikea to gather up some supplies for the office of my Dreaaaaams.
Okay I actually don’t dream about offices, but I had obsessively scanned Pinterest for days looking at ideas on how to make a nice office space.
I came up with an idea, and also someone tipped me off on a CHEAP way of doing it.
Kids. Seriously. Don’t buy premade desks, buy your table tops and legs separate. SO much cheaper. Brilliant. Thank you Ikea! It’s SO GOOD and I love it SO much. I’m very excited to get this room finished with the rest of our plans for it. But meanwhile, I am seriously enjoying working at a functional computer desk, and I get to have my man right beside me when he comes home (instead of being at the dining room table. Blah.) But I’m getting ahead of myself. We actually had a great weekend.