About the new direction

Hey!
Do yourself a favour, loves, and read yesterdays post. I talked about the new direction I`d like to take in this blog, and also my new photography/creative/personal blog, found here. (Oh, and you’ll also notice a bit of a change in the title/tagline of this blog…what do you think?)

Anyway, as aforementioned, I don’t want my blog to be focused on these things anymore:

A) Weightloss (as in, counting down the pounds) & exercise (as in sharing my workout schedule).

B) Depression (because that’s something I feel as though I’ve shared too much about. It makes me uncomfortable, actually. But blogging is honesty, and so I shant delete any posts.)

Like I said yesterday, weightloss and exercise aren’t a focus in my life right now.
I realize in retrospect how horrible that really sounds!
I mean that in the sense that I’m not putting all of my energies into them. I’m focusing on being more active in life in general (more walks, more parks, museums, photography shoots,nights out,art galleries,bike rides, etc).

I just suck at “working out” per se, so I’m not going to stress about it right now. Why stress about it? Life is meant to be beautiful and fun.. not constantly stressful! (And focusing on losing weight in my everyday life makes me constantly stressed).

I feel a little bit weird saying all that, because there are bloggers out there who are amazing, fantastic and wonderful people who make weightloss-blogging work for them. They find inspiration through sharing their everyday journey. They blog through their triumphs & their successes. They carry on.

I, unfortunately, am not one of those people. I just can’t focus on weightloss enough to blog about it. That is an honest fact, and I’ve become okay with it.

If I do feel as though there is something related to exercise or my own weightloss that I want to share, I most definetley will! But I just don’t want to focus on my calories, how many hours I did at the gym, or my newest attempt at working out. I find it a bland, boring and repetitive thing to write about ( I’m not saying that your blogs are boring!)…I just can’t personally make it interesting, especially when I have nothing to say.

I feel a renewed sense of self in the last few weeks. Coming out of the aforementioned depression is really jazzing me up and making me want to splash colour into every area of my life. Keep checking out my creative blog to see what I’m getting up to! (I got accepted to a design program and I’m messing around with polaroid & film photography!).

So, since I’ve told you what I don’t want to blog about, what can you expect from this blog in the future?

-Notes on living more boldly & shaking up the routine ( Adventures for this summer include zorbing, rock climbing & kayaking)

-Recipes & healthy cooking adventures ( I am going to take full and complete advantage of England’s EPIC amount of local markets & healthy restaurants this summer)

-Things that make me happy (aka anything I feel like writing about that that makes me smile or enriches my life. Travel, reading, whatever)

I definetly want to lose weight, no doubt about it. But I’m hoping that by working towards becoming a bit more of a happier, active, creative person…it will come off on its own. By eating fresh, beautiful food. By bike riding in gorgeous parks. By walking more, smiling more, and thinking about the little decisions I make.

Once again, thanks for reading & stay tuned.

Love,
Amanda