Some Background

I'll attack this post in two parts, explaining the chosen title of my blog.


Paleo

I've been blessed with a mother who has chosen to take health and fitness very seriously. She's a renaissance woman and had tried many careers: lawyer, English teacher, actress. But after a (thankfully minor) cancer diagnosis circa 2003, she decided to do everything she could to be healthy. This eventually led her down the Paleo Path, and I have (luckily!) been inundated with mountains of supporting evidence ever since. She has since become a personal trainer and is currently training in the Anat Baniel Method, which does amazing things for adults and children with physical limitations.

This is a short video of how my mother came to learn about Anat's program!



Elle est si charmante, n'est-ce pas?

(For more info, you can find a video of Anat working with a child with a brachial plexus injury here, or go to Anat Baniel's official website.)

Anyways, back to yours truly. Over the years, I've made various attempts to stick with the Paleo diet, and have become a fairly competent weight lifter (i.e. I understand good form pretty well). But as I stated in my previous post, I've not adhered to either part of that equation consistently. I expect that I will post some before and after photos once I'm sure I have something after that's worth showing!


Bride

I met my fiance, Mike, through a mutual friend in February 2009, and we started dating the following April. We had actually gone to the same high school, and vaguely each knew who the other was, but we were not in the same year (he's a year younger than me). I quickly realized that he was the funniest, sweetest, most amazing guy I'd ever met. We basically became inseparable over the course of the next year, and we got engaged this past March (although I think we had already figured out we were meant for each other months before). Here's a photo:



Aren't we cute? I love him so much!

Anyways, I'm looking forward to the big day but I also want to be able to look back on my photos and think that I looked beautiful and healthy!

And then I want to stay that way!