The Simple Things
Not taking pictures of everything I eat is hard. You’d think it would be easy to not do something, but after five years of photographing every morsel, meal time seems incomplete. Still, I think this particular resolution is important right now, because I need to remember what it’s like to eat without pressure: pressure to be thin, pressure to be interesting, pressure to cook pretty things. Instead, I am focusing solely on nourishing my body, and more importantly my mind. Instead, I’m taking pictures of the simple things that make me happy. Things like: Flowers… flowers… more flowers! Here’s a simple rule I live by: If someone says “Do you want to take a … {Read More...}
Special Delivery
I really am flabbergasted by how amazing ya’ll are. I’m overwhelmed—in a good way. While this blog has always been a running diary of my daily adventures in eating and exercising, it is also about having a healthy perspective. That’s the part I’ve lost, and in order to find my way back to that magical medium in my mind I’ve decided to cut back on the food photos and exercise diary. I’m not sure what that means, but my promise to you is to try and keep it interesting around here, and my promise to me is to be nice…to myself. I’m not giving up on photographing food completely, just photographing all of my food. Like today, today’s food needed photographing, … {Read More...}
Internet Hugs and Gratitude
Thank you. Thank you all for your supportive and wonderful words that made me cry all day yesterday—because I’m a big softy and I cry when people are so overwhelmingly nice to me (I didn’t cry in Michigan, that was another kind overwhelmingly nice). And I cry when people say things that ring true, and I know I’m being ridiculous but can’t seem to get back to that place where I know those things are true, too. Perfectionism has always been an issue for me. I don’t expect other people to be perfect, in fact I’m constantly telling the people in my life to be kinder to themselves when they fall short of some unreachable ideal they’ve set out for themselves. And yet, I … {Read More...}
Fitness
Guest Post: How to Choose a Good Personal Trainer
A Few Tips to Help You Find That Special Someone…. By Roy the “Fitness Fella” Hello again, friends, fans and followers of Kim. It’s been a year now since I last blogged on The Kim Challenge, and the lady asked that I contribute again. To … [Read More...]
Recipes
Recipe: Lite(r) Tres Leches Cake
Hey All, I’m home visiting my parents until Wednesday evening, so I’m not up to my usual eating of well-balanced things and exercise. Right now it’s all jelly beans all the time! Since being home I’ve entertained myself in the kitchen–which is what I do at home (my other home, the one I live at with The Fella), so really nothing has changed in my routine. Last week, couch-bound with nothing but a bevy of takeout menus to keep me {Read More}
Reviews
Ellie Fitness Wear Review
Let’s face it, when you hobble into the gym on crutches people are going to stare at you. So, you may as well look good. Truth be told, I probably have more spandex pants than anyone over the age of eight should legally be allowed … [Read More...]
There’s nothing to fear…but maps and clowns
More on Oregon later, first things first, let’s get down to picking a Self FitKit winner… Emily, expect an email from me requesting your mailing address! Everyone else, stay tuned, there are more giveaways up my sleeve. Okay, now back to regularly scheduled blogging. The Fella paid me a pretty interesting compliment the other day, and it got me thinking. We were talking about my “Say Yes” attitude to life. Basically, whatever opportunity, no matter how scary or how {Read More}
May Resolutions
I’ve heard a rumor that it’s May. It sure doesn’t feel like May, and I’m not one to buy into rumors, but just in case these whispers are true, it’s time for a new round of resolutions. Last month, I was all about finances. And, not to pat myself on the back or anything, but I did focus my energy much more on saving than spending, and I did get a new job. That new job has inspired some new {Read More}
Weekend Edition
Weekend Edition: January 5-6
You know what's awkward? Sitting around the gym waiting for a class to start. I always feel like I should be doing something productive, or the other people at the gym will think that I just come to the gym to watch them workout. You know … [Read More...]
Common and Stress Me Out!
Funny thing about me: I’m most productive (…and functional) when I’m insanely busy. We all have our quirks, mine is an incessant need to feel overwhelmed. Lucky for me, I just got a new job, new freelance work, and started working on a new novel in a writing class…and oh yeah, the press push for my book is starting. Hoorah, consider me stressed. First, about the job: I can’t tell you what it is because I’ve signed a confidentiality agreement, {Read More}
Goodbye Body Media, Hello Fitbit
My life was forever changed in 2010, that was the year I discovered the BodyMedia band (Here’s my initial review). You may have seen it on the contestants of Biggest Loser. It’s an armband that functions as a pedometer, while measuring your heart rate and doing something magical with your sweat (I don’t know what, but it seemed fancy at the time) and calculates your calories burned, level of intensity during exercise, sleep effectiveness, and distance walked each day. {Read More}
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