This website is not dead!
I’ve made some different lifestyle choices this past year, and something, unfortunately, had to fall to the wayside so that I’m able to maintain some sort of balance. That outlier was Now You’re Cookin’.
However, I’ve been slowly working on a redesign, since this blog has looked the same since *gasp* 2010 and hope to launch it in the next month or so.
So what have I been focusing on lately?
Well, as you may remember, my new year’s resolution was to focus more on fitness. It’s absolutely unreal that I have actually kept this resolution the entire year. I HATED exercise. Absolutley deplored it. The extent of me getting into an exercise routine had been 1. thinking about exercising over the course of 2 weeks or so. 2. After about 5 days, finally doing 1 mile or less on the treadmill, then some sort of haphazard strength routine from a page torn out of a magazine. 3. Possibly doing that same thing again maybe 3 days later. The End.
To recap my year, in a nutshell: I spent January/February working out 4-6 days/week. Weight lifting, some steady-state cardio, some HIIT cardio. Clean eating 5-6 meals/day 4-5 days/week, weekends were intuitive eating and a cheat/treat meal. March – July weight lifting, some HIIT cardio 4-6 days/week, IIFYM 5-6 meals/day, 4-5 days/week, weekends were intuitive eating and a cheat/treat meal. August – September 14 weight lifting 4-5 days/week, no cardio, intuitive eating.
September 15 I began training for my first half-marathon. After nearly an entire year of little to no endurance running. I’m now in Week 9 of 12, running about 30 miles/week. It’s tough, but it’s so rewarding because it’s something I never pictured myself doing or thought I could do. And I get to Eat. All. The. Carbs. 🙂
I go in to much more detail on my Instagram account, if you’d like to catch up there.
While recipe posts will still be on hiatus while I finish the redesign, I may be popping in here and there with some life updates. 🙂
And I’m just gonna leave this little link right here… I mad ethis Spicy Sweet Potato Galette with Broccoli, Bacon, and Balsamic Reduction last week and it was awesome!!