Since I found out that I’ll be moving 3000 miles to a new country for grad school, I’ve been trying to take the opportunity to overhaul my life from decluttering and digitizing, to exercising and eating right.
Confession, I’m kind of a lazy person – I’m a workaholic and a bookworm. So the idea of exercise used to make me feel like curling up with a good book. But in the last 4 months, I’ve gone from not being able to run for 5 minutes straight to running 20km a week. And I feel pretty darn proud of myself for making that change. I owe it mostly to a really great running program from the University of British Columbia called Learn to Run 10k, which you can find here (pdf warning). If you’re trying to learn how to run, I’d really recommend it because each day’s run really does build on the previous run and the increases in difficulty are never too big.
The next step on my goal to a healthier life is eating right. When I was a kid, we used to eat mostly vegetables with just a little meat and it was great. But once I moved out on my own, eating like that became a real challenge. When you’re only cooking for one (or two now), it seems like far to much work to make the three or four dishes per meal that my mum used to do for a family of five. I can usually manage some rice and meat, but that’s about it.
I also keep running into the problem of what vegetables to cook – when it comes time to make dinner, all I can ever think of is carrots, celery, tomatoes and lettuce. Not exactly an exciting mix. Tasty, sure, but kind of repetitive. Anyway, I’ve been trying for a while to experiment with new vegetables every couple weeks.
To encourage me, and to help me keep track of it all, I’ve set up another blog for that. If you’re interested or have any ideas for what I could try, check out Finish Your Veggies!.
And tomorrow, I promise I’ll post an Epi post!
