Let me first be clear that while this blog coincides with the New Year, it was hatched a few days before, and thus I am choosing NOT to consider it a resolution. On December 28th, over dinner with a close friend and her mother, I had the most recent in a string of thought provoking conversations. The three of us toasted to a new years resolution early, to say YES to the things that make us feel good, and NO to the things that do not. On the heels of a year filled with soul searching and decision-making, this seemed like a terribly simple answer to the question of how does one live a life in which they are happy?
I am not a life coach, a therapist, a doctor, a chef or a nutritionist, but I have personally experienced the way in which body image and happiness are linked. So I have been spurred into action by some Brie induced stretch marks (honesty first), and an outpouring of food related information about what we should and should not be eating. For me, I have decided that I am going to say YES to finding a way to improve my body while simultaneously channeling my LOVE for cooking.
Taking a page from the books of Elizabeth Berg, Francis Mayes and even Ms. Julie Powel, I am going to document this challenge, as much in hopes that others will benefit as to keep myself on track . . . and somehow I will find my way back to a healthy body, a healthy mind and a healthier outlook on life.
As blogs tend to do (or so my blog proficient friends tell me) I am sure that this one will find it’s own voice, but for now it is cooking, things that I have found or will find helpful, and the self-indulgent ramblings of a transplanted New Englander.
Enjoy!
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