The Healthy Life

My name is Sara. And this is my blog about living life to the fullest. To me that means many different things. First off all it means living it at a weight where I love myself and love how I look and feel while at the same time where I can still indulge. This means I’ll never be a skinny minny but I don’t care. I used to weigh that perfect weight. Now to be honest when I weighed it I didn’t think it was the perfect weight when I weighed it because I did want to be a skinny minny, I did think beauty was in a flat tummy, thighs that didn’t touch and tiny arms. Now I realize that that is just one type of beauty and that is a type of beauty that doesn’t go with the body that I was given. The bodies that I used to want I don’t want anymore, like Britney Spears (of old not of new!), or Jessica Alba (though it pains me to admit it). Now I want to look like America Ferrara, Scarlett Johanson, or Kat Dennings. Funny how with age (I’m approaching 30) things and perspective change. I don’t want a body that I can’t enjoy food with, I want the best of both worlds!! Which means that I want to weigh 150-155 again. Right now I weigh 178.6lb (a few weeks ago it was 182.2, just 1.8lbs shy of my heaviest). I go to Weight Watchers every Wednesday night to get back to where I was.

The second aspect of a life well lived is being active. I have run 2 half marathons, completed many smaller races and a sprint triathlon. But this summer I was sidelined after getting hit by a car while riding my bike. That definitely didn’t help in the weight gain department!! I’m pretty much back on the exercise train but it hasn’t been perfect I can tell you that. But being active has definitely made a noticeable impact in my life. Considering my weight gain and the 6 weeks off from no exercise I’m still pretty fit. I may be only a few pounds shy of my heaviest weight but I don’t look like I did at my heaviest and I definitely attribute that to the fact that I’m in much better shape!

The other aspects of living a fulfilling life are having strong relationships (especially a good strong marriage – check!), loving what I do (job wise, and right now totally love my job, unfortunately it is a contract that finishes up Dec 31^st), being mindful of what I eat (not only in terms of weight loss but in environmental and ethical concerns), and living a spiritual life (not a specific religious one, meditating every day is a goal but one that is on a backburner right now, want of focus on my physical being right now!).

I did used to have a blog that I made private but I missed everyone. I will not be divulging identifying details because I do not want to be googled! But I want to have a place where I can talk about healthy living, and where I can support and be supported through life!