Too much, yet not enough

I’ve been writing love letters. Doesn’t that sound so incredibly beautiful, and curious? I wish these feelings on the folio were being gingerly typed on a green Smith Corona and he responding in his favourite ink and white blank sheets of hope. But instead, fingers on keys almost as quickly as the brain is devising […]

Make a list… even if it’s one thing (A tribute to Candy Chang)

There are certain things in life you will never forget. It may be a feeling, a smell, a taste, the touch of an ex lover’s hand; all disguised in a memory or a moment from your past. For me, and my incredibly romantic attachment to everything, I don’t forget much. When I retell people around […]

“I did not come in last,” she said and this is what it meant for her.

I wrote a blog back in September about a 5k gone wrong. I had made a goal a few month before with my then boyfriend and we were to train and prep for the 5k, run it and then go to the wine festival that was happening in the hosting town. Well, I didn’t train, […]

This Has Nothing To Do With Weight Loss – Trust the Uncertainty

As I went out on my interval run/walk this morning, hastily preparing for a 5K run I have in only 24 days, my mind was rambling with thoughts and feelings. With only four minutes left on my stopwatch, I could feel my chest getting tight and my breath become shallow – these are all sensations […]

The Summer of Giving Up

I had to. A while back, I reached out to an old weight loss warrior friend with whom I hadn’t talked to in over two years. We exchanged “whatcha doin’s” and life went back to cat videos and dead lifts (me and him respectively). It was an Instagram post that he wrote a while back […]

The Fear of Being Regular

This title may not be the best, but I have to say, life in general has labelled “normal” sized people as regular. “Oh, are you looking for regular size or plus?”. I mean, come on, we all know the Fashion Industry is the leader of all things true, so if they believe this, surely the […]