This is my first Post, but not my first blog. I am trying this blog thing again, I started one once but never really updated it.
My goal for this blog is to update it at least once a day, I am sure there will be a few days I skip, but I will do my best to update it as much as I can find time to do.
So a little about me. I have decided to try blogging again because I have been reading a lot of blogs and they have inspired me. I made a rule for myself, until I get into a rhythm of blogging everyday. The rule is I am not going to allow myself to read any of the blogs I read almost everyday until I have updated my own blog. I figure I have the time to read blogs so why shouldn't I have time to update one.
My blog is going to be about me (obviously), but me through what I eat and how I exercise. I named my blog Eat. Run. Garden. because I love to eat and cook, I like to run, and I try to grow my own food in the summer time in my Garden. I am a 25 year old women, I have a husband, a dog, a cat and a house. I am in the process of switching careers. My "career" right now is manager at a burger and fry place (that makes it hard to eat healthy all of the time), I tried photography for a while but finding the time to grow my career and make money to support that growing career didn't work out so well for me. Hopefully I will soon become an elementary school teacher, I am starting classes in September!
A little about this blog!
On Eating:
I love to cook and I love to eat, I was a vegetarian for 7 years until I started to eat chicken again and very, very recently I have started eating some beef, but I will only eat grass feed locally grown beef and not very often. Meat still kind of grosses me out so I still usually chose the vegetarian options if there is one.
I try as much as possible to eat locally and seasonally but I wouldn't consider myself a "locavore" or anything. I try to eat healthy but I will almost always try anything once.
There is one food I do not like: I do hate cilantro, I can't stand the taste. I don't know what it is but to me cilantro tastes like dirty soap, which is one reason I find
this site quite funny.
On Running:
Freshman year of college I started running and I liked it, I was running 2.5 miles a day by mid summer. Then school started back up and a combination of being bored with running (I wasn't pushing myself and I set no new goals once I reached 2.5 miles) and become really busy with school and work (I was taking 6 or 7 classes and working 20 or more hours a week) lead me to stop running. I would, every once in a while, try to go out for a run. By "every once in a while" I mean once every couple of weeks which meant that I couldn't run as far as I use to be able to and I would get frustrated. It wasn't as fun as it use to be. Because I pretty much stopped excising but kept eating the same I started to gain weight. I gained 35 pounds! in about 4 years, so it was a slow gain but it was still a big gain.
Last July (July 2009) I decided to do something about it, I started running again and I joined Calorie King. I have lost 25lbs and I am started to run 5k's. I feel so much better, I would like to lose another 10-15lbs but I am sure that will happen as long as I can try and continue to eat healthy and excise.
I have started making running goals for myself and I enjoy running again! Right now I can run 3 miles at about a 10:30/mi pace. I have 2 goals for myself I want to run a 5k in under 30 mins (my PR as of right now is 31:26 <-- I did that hungover too!) and
I want to I am going to run the New Bedford 1/2 marathon in March. I know I can accomplish both of these goals while having fun.
My next 5k is on September 12th! I can't wait, it is the same course I ran for my first 5k.
On Gardening:
In 2008 my husband and I bought a house (we weren't married yet but we are now), that summer I had a small, small garden: 1 zucchini plant, 2 tomatoes, and a basil plant. The next year I made the garden way bigger and it was great, I had lettuce and herbs and zucchinis, carrots, tomatoes, 1 green pepper, kale, raspberries and more! It was great, I also started a gardening blog which I updated about 6 times.
This year I still had the same size garden but I had way less time to garden, I was working 45+ hours, I was planning a wedding and I was trying to run 10-15 miles a week so I still have some stuff just not nearly as much as last year. I try to eat from my garden first, then find locally grow food and then go to the grocery store, this is why I am including my garden in my blog.
So this is what my blog is going to be about. I hope you are still with me after that loooong post. Thanks coming and Welcome!
Gray and dark and kind of rainy. Not so good when you are trying to get out of bed. But not a bad day for a run.
Per usual I had coffee but I added a glass of water as well, I just needed it.
And some delicious oats, Kath Style.
It was Tega! My puppy dog, he is kind of lazy though. After about a mile he starts to drag which does make my run harder but he needs exercise too.
