It's so great and makes me laugh whole heartedly every time I read it. So, hope everyone has a marvellous weekend full of non-snowy days and sunshine!
- Leish
xo
Friday, April 4, 2014
Hilariously True - "The terrible and wonderful reasons why I run long distances"
Have you heard of The Oatmeal? If you have, awesome! Your life is already improved and brightened by it. If you haven't than I have a small treat for you: The Oatmeal. It's a comic strip (not really a strip but you get the idea) on the internet, and he prints books, but based on real life events of the artist. Lucky for us he is an ultra marathoner and dedicated one of his comics to his experience with "The Blerb" haha. Trust me, its worth reading AND its mostly pictures which we all know makes reading just a little more enjoyable.
It's so great and makes me laugh whole heartedly every time I read it. So, hope everyone has a marvellous weekend full of non-snowy days and sunshine!
It's so great and makes me laugh whole heartedly every time I read it. So, hope everyone has a marvellous weekend full of non-snowy days and sunshine!
Spring is in the air and I am back on board
To say I have been temporarily away would be an understatement. From a look at the last time that I had posted I have been away just under 2 years. So, what I have been up to, you ask? Well, in the time since I wrote that last post, I was pretty consumed with work. In fact, I became a workaholic and the most disappointing part of realizing you became a workaholic is that you do it at the expense of things that bring you joy in life. I let go of running, eating healthy, exploring the city and really just sort of lost my way somewhere. So, I return to the drawing board in search of my "happy place" and to draw on some self-motivation through some online therapy: blogging.
For the most part, I suppose that a lot has changed in 2 years. For one, I am 2 years older which means my back has begun hurting on occasion. This is actually a new phenomenon in my life, I don't particularly enjoy it since it serves as a reminder of my declining youth but am glad that I still look the part of a 24 year old. Another change has been that in my absence from a active healthy lifestyle I seem to have found a few extra pounds. I should note that while I am not exactly happy at the end result, the journey via pastries and french fries was absolutely delicious. The number of times I "shame ate" a box of mac n' cheese or ate ice cream for dinner would make any 12 year old envious, and any clean eater cringe. But I will man-up and own my delicious mistakes for what they truly are: a mistake.
I suppose this post is to put into writing that I have every intention to pick this blog up again and do my best to get more stuff about me and my journey up here and share out whatever I find works for me and what I've read works for others. I am a crazy researcher so even if I don't feel like something works for me, I will post some info from other places who love it just so everyone gets a different perspective.
For those who will see this and think this is a crazy nutrition blog or exercise blog: this is NOT that, it's actually far from it. I do not follow any fitness fad, I'm not vegan/vegetarian/gluten free/dairy free/clean eater/macro counter/carb or fat avoider. I simply eat until I am full and try to eat as many vegetables as I can. Unless its a special day where I will eat my own weight in cheeseburgers/pizza/cinnabon; but I am trying to limit those days since they turned from "special days" to "everyday". Also, in terms of exercise, I like to run but I also acknowledge that I need to incorporate other exercise into my life. This includes weight lifting as I have a tendency to injure myself by over training with distance and not compensating with resistance training.
All this being said, I set 5 major life goals for 2014 because 2013 was actually a pretty rough year for me. The first two were work and location related: I wanted to move back to downtown Toronto and I needed to switch jobs. So I spent the first 3 months of 2014 trying to accomplish those. My next goal is to get back on track with my health, and that is what I am trying to do here!
So, here I am on a Friday night sitting in front of my laptop re-introducing myself to the world on this page and hopefully this is the beginning of a beautiful second round at this blog!
For the most part, I suppose that a lot has changed in 2 years. For one, I am 2 years older which means my back has begun hurting on occasion. This is actually a new phenomenon in my life, I don't particularly enjoy it since it serves as a reminder of my declining youth but am glad that I still look the part of a 24 year old. Another change has been that in my absence from a active healthy lifestyle I seem to have found a few extra pounds. I should note that while I am not exactly happy at the end result, the journey via pastries and french fries was absolutely delicious. The number of times I "shame ate" a box of mac n' cheese or ate ice cream for dinner would make any 12 year old envious, and any clean eater cringe. But I will man-up and own my delicious mistakes for what they truly are: a mistake.
I suppose this post is to put into writing that I have every intention to pick this blog up again and do my best to get more stuff about me and my journey up here and share out whatever I find works for me and what I've read works for others. I am a crazy researcher so even if I don't feel like something works for me, I will post some info from other places who love it just so everyone gets a different perspective.
For those who will see this and think this is a crazy nutrition blog or exercise blog: this is NOT that, it's actually far from it. I do not follow any fitness fad, I'm not vegan/vegetarian/gluten free/dairy free/clean eater/macro counter/carb or fat avoider. I simply eat until I am full and try to eat as many vegetables as I can. Unless its a special day where I will eat my own weight in cheeseburgers/pizza/cinnabon; but I am trying to limit those days since they turned from "special days" to "everyday". Also, in terms of exercise, I like to run but I also acknowledge that I need to incorporate other exercise into my life. This includes weight lifting as I have a tendency to injure myself by over training with distance and not compensating with resistance training.
All this being said, I set 5 major life goals for 2014 because 2013 was actually a pretty rough year for me. The first two were work and location related: I wanted to move back to downtown Toronto and I needed to switch jobs. So I spent the first 3 months of 2014 trying to accomplish those. My next goal is to get back on track with my health, and that is what I am trying to do here!
So, here I am on a Friday night sitting in front of my laptop re-introducing myself to the world on this page and hopefully this is the beginning of a beautiful second round at this blog!
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