Wow, it's really been since January since I've posted? Spring is certainly a time of renewal! I've really been looking at my personal goals and my fitness goals, I've stayed off the scale and stopped letting a 3-digit number define my success, and I've started really branching out physically. I'm also working on some projects professionally and working feverishly to get a thing or two scratched off the bucket list!
A few things are planted in the ground, lots of greens like spinach, kale, Swiss chard, and lettuce, I'm hoping to get my front yard small space vegetable garden the rest of the way planted between rain showers this week. This blog might possibly turn into a plethora of garden pictures and tips before this is all over! The best way to know exactly what you're putting into your body is to see how that food was treated when it was raised, and the best way to know that is to raise it yourself!
This brings me to another point, and that is, this blog. It started out as a "weight loss" sort of thing, but right now, that's not where my head is, so I've been feeling quite reluctant to post about weight-related sorts of things. It's quite possible I've been losing again, people have been commenting on my appearance and my clothes fit me a bit looser (but I like stretchy clothes with little fit, so not sure if that's the best way to measure), the point is, I really don't care about weight loss...I care about health! I care about getting myself as fit, mentally, physically, and spiritually, as I can. Weight loss tends to follow these things, but doesn't even begin to measure the strides I've taken over the past 5 months. I intended this year to be all about fun, about starting new projects, forming new friendships, and really getting out there and enjoying life, but what I'm seeing is that on my quest for fun, I'm enjoying a side effect of healing which is an amazing thing!
I am probably going to lose some followers because I'm not going to post about my weekly losses, my daily calorie burn, or my food journals. These things are terribly important to people who are new to the weight loss journey, but they don't mean much to me anymore. "Building a Better Mel" means just that...helping myself become the best me I can be. That means crossing things off my bucket list, advocating for making healthy and delicious foods available to everyone, getting my gardening in and watching the living foods that I'm putting into my body develop, and getting some super sweaty, intense, and fun workouts in along the way! Expect more posts from me now that I know my direction, honestly, I was terribly lost for a little bit, but I"m back with the energy that a only a rainy spring afternoon can produce. Here's to doing whatever it takes to truly build a better Mel.
