It's time to really think outside the box!

Hello to everyone who is taking a look at my new and improved blog! For those who don't already know me my name is Liz, and I decided to start blogging about what I know best.....my life. :)

I have never blogged before, and choosing something to blog about was probably the most difficult thing I have encountered this far. After many failed attempts it finally came to me!

I have many passions in my life but a couple that stand out, and drive me each day, are fitness and nutrition. I have always been interested in these topics and my relationship with both have taken many forms as time has gone by.

Beginning in my teens my relationship with food and exercise was more of a negative one. I had a poor self image of myself so I would feel guilt, sadness, and anger after many meals or after I would get on a scale to weigh myself. Those negative feelings would drive me into the gym in order to fight against any possibility of weight gain. I was never overweight physically, but mentally I would look at myself and see something different than what others saw. I would attempt unhealthy approaches to weight loss but would always find myself in a continuous battle within. Nothing helped.

As I grew older and went off to college I needed to declare a major, and because I was always in the gym I felt as though exercise and sport science was the way to go. I was hooked, I loved my classes and knew it was the right fit for me. Educating myself on how to exercise and eat to promote health was something that was helping me, and then I could help others as well.

Now, a few years after graduating from college I finally feel as though I am starting to get a grip on what it truly takes to have balance in nutrition, fitness, and life in order to promote optimum health.

The journey to figure this out is different for everyone and I understand that. My blog is here to show you that there is no perfect way to lose weight, increase health and happiness, or improve physical fitness. Life encompasses many different elements and if we forget about or ignore some of those aspects it can throw off this fragile balance. It's time to think FAR outside the box and bring pleasure back into our meals, and fun back into fitness in order to find the lifestyle that works best for YOU and no one else.