Skwigg asked in her journal how we found ourselves at Happy Eaters?
I came from the Body for Life Women's Club. Or was it something even before that? We followed a woman's story / blog and it turned out she wasn't real..or wasn't what she told us she was. It was bizzare and someone called her out on it. The whole site blew up. I think you then took over the moderation. That was late 1990s, early 2000. CRAZY! I was trying to lose fat and become strong. I didn't know how to eat. I had no clue. Time goes by so quickly I can't even believe it. I remember when you began your blog and did a transformation contest. I remember Leanness Lifestyle. There were many of us that began our own blogs at that time, following your cue. I continued my blog until last year. It became solely my ultra running race reports and pretty repetitive. I mean, how much was there to put in a race report that was new and fresh after 25 years! I was no longer a brand new runner and no longer amazed that I could run such long distances. I learned over time that my body needed plenty of fuel to perform, that lifting kept me strong and that I would never eat only 1500 calories a day that I felt I needed to earn. SO thankful those days are gone. I feel like I am entering a new place again. Seems that every 20 years a new lifestyle unfolds. I found yoga in 2017 after injuring myself and not being able to run for 18 months. I practiced hot yoga almost every day during that time then went to yoga teacher training for a 300 and 500 hour certification. When I healed I began to run high mileage again. I wasn't going to do that. I was going to keep away from ultra but there I was. I'm still teaching yoga, practicing yoga, meditation, lifting and running. I'm more into being kind to my body instead of pounding it into the ground. I do still run and have a few ultra races on the calendar this year but nothing like all the prior years. I am then going to ease into lovely one hour long daily runs through the woods with Tempo as he matures instead of 6-8 hours solo and being tired and sore. That doesn't feel like something I want to do all of the time anymore. We will do some canicross events and I look forward to that.
How did you find yourself here?
Hello all! It has been a while! @skwigg I am pretty sure I found you through the BFL forums. (I remember pages and pages of text posts with no subfolders or anything… I would refresh for hours and read the updates!) I forgot about Venus Index and I don’t think I ever got into Leanness Lifestyle, but I was a reader of the skwigg blog from the early days! Nice to check in and I’m glad I got some notifications in my inbox this week to nudge me over to say hi, all!