This Day Last Year

I wrote my first official blog post!  I say official because I may or may not have been writing posts in Word for a few weeks prior while I tried to get up the courage to create my own blog.

In other words…

Happy One Year Blogiversary to me!

I think I’ve come a long way since that first post, which included horrendous pictures like this…

Good god, how embarrassing.

Things are looking much better (and bigger) nowadays. 

Overnight oats in a fancy shmancy glass, topped with granola, coconut butter, peanut butter, almond butter sauce and cranberry/blueberry jam.  What can I say, I don’t like having to pick and choose.

As painful as reading over my earliest posts are because of how awful some of the pictures are and how often I just stuck to the “post what you ate today” format, I actually really enjoyed browsing through them.  I expected to look back and cringe, but instead a saw a girl full of passion for all things healthy and delicious, who wasn’t afraid to try new things in the kitchen or admit when a run went badly or a recipe turned out to be a flop. 

I looked and sounded happy. 

And although this year has had it’s fair share of rough patches, all in all, I’m still that happy passionate girl today

Happy, passionate and did I mention goofy embarrassing?

I’ve stepped outside my comfort zone and tried new foods, found new forms of exercise, opened up to new friends and cultivated relationships with those I already had.

I learned to listen to my body.

I grew out of some of the bad habits I had with food and found a much healthier relationship with it.

I stayed true to myself and didn’t let others get in the way of my happiness, even if that meant staying in on a Friday night.

With tea and cookies, obviously.

But I also allowed myself to indulge. 

I think finding a balanced life is always a work in progress, but right now I can say I’m truly happy with the lifestyle I found in this past year. 

And more importantly, I’m happy with myself.

Thanks for sharing this big blog milestone with me, friends.  I honestly don’t know where I’d be without you all.

P.S.  The outpouring of love continues and I thank each and every one of you for your wise words

                                                                                     

Recipe and race review are still coming, I promise!