Run for happiness


Hey guys! I love running because it helps me ease the stress of my personal life and helps me find peace. I do other sports, but I always fall back to running :)
The world was a terrible place, cruel, pitiless, dark as a bad dream. Not a good place to live. Only in books could you find pity, comfort, happiness - and love. Books loved anyone who opened them, they gave you security and friendship and didn’t ask anything in return; they never went away, never, not even when you treated them badly.
— Cornelia Funke (via atomos)

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Run, Eat, Repeat: Michael Pollan's "Food Rules" →

holyweightblogbatman:

  1. Eat food.
  2. Don’t eat anything your great-grandmother wouldn’t recognize as food.
  3.  Avoid food products containing ingredients that no ordinary human would keep in the pantry.
  4.  Avoid food products that contain high-fructose corn syrup.
  5.  Avoid food products that have some form of sugar (or sweetener listed among) the top three ingredients.
  6.  Avoid food products that have more than 5 ingredients.
  7.  Avoid food products containing ingredients that a third-grader cannot pronounce.
  8.  Avoid food products that make health claims.
  9.  Avoid food products with the word “lite” or the terms “low fat” or “nonfat” in their names.
  10.  Avoid foods that are pretending to be something they are not.
  11.  Avoid foods you see advertised on television.
  12.  Shop the peripheries of the supermarket and stay out of the middle.
  13.  Eat only foods that will eventually rot.
  14. Eat foods made from ingredients that you can picture in their raw state or growing in nature.
  15. Get out of the supermarket whenever you can.
  16. Buy your snacks at the farmers market.
  17. Eat only foods that have been cooked by humans.
  18. Don’t ingest foods made in places where everyone is required to wear a surgical cap.
  19. If it came from a plant, eat it; if it was made in a plant, don’t.
  20. It’s not food if it arrived through the window of your car.
  21. It’s not food if it’s called by the same name in every language (Think Big Mac, Cheetos, or Pringles).
  22. Eat mostly plants, especially leaves.
  23. Treat meat as a flavoring or special occasion food.
  24. Eating what stands on one leg (mushrooms and plant foods) is better than eating what stands on two legs (fowl), which is better than eating what stands on four legs (cows, pigs and other mammals).
  25. Eat your colors.
  26. Drink the spinach water.
  27. Eat animals that have themselves eaten well.
  28. If you have space, buy a freezer.
  29. Eat like an omnivore.
  30. Eat well-grown food from healthy soil.
  31. Eat wild foods when you can.
  32. Don’t overlook the oily little fishes.
  33. Eat some foods that have been predigested by bacteria or fungi.
  34. Sweeten and salt your food yourself.
  35. Eat sweet foods as you find them in nature.
  36. Don’t eat breakfast cereals that change the color of the milk.
  37. The whiter the bread, the sooner you’ll be dead.
  38. Favor the kinds of oils and grains that have traditionally been stone-ground.
  39. Eat all the junk food you want as long as you cook it yourself.
  40. Be the kind of person who takes supplements – then skip the supplements.
  41. Eat more like the French. Or the Japanese. Or the Italians. Or the Greeks.
  42. Regard nontraditional foods with skepticism.
  43. Have a glass of wine with dinner.
  44. Pay more, eat less.
  45. Eat less.
  46. Stop eating before you’re full.
  47. Eat when you are hungry, not when you are bored.
  48. Consult your gut.
  49. Eat slowly.
  50. The banquet is in the first bite.
  51. Spend as much time enjoying the meal as it took to prepare it.
  52. Buy smaller plates and glasses.
  53. Serve a proper portion and don’t go back for seconds.
  54. Breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince, dinner like a pauper.
  55. Eat meals.
  56. Limit your snacks to unprocessed plant foods.
  57. Don’t get your fuel from the same place your car does.
  58. Do all your eating at a table.
  59. Try not to eat alone.
  60. Treat treats as treats.
  61. Leave something on your plate.
  62. Plant a vegetable garden if you have space, a window box if you don’t.
  63. Cook.
  64. Break the rules once in a while.

Every Facet Of Strength On A Full Blown Scale: Sneaky Reason You Might Be Bingeing →

myasscancrackeggs:

The night before, I only got about four hours of sleep because I had tea after dinner, so the caffeine kept me awake. So when I woke up, I was extremely tired. I didn’t have much energy to do my usual workout, so I half-asses through it. In addition to that, I just kept being hungry all the time…

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cookiesandcrosstraining:

It takes time management. Going to bed early and waking up early. Working out even if it means you’ll have to run errands in your sweaty workout clothes. It takes knowing when to say no. It takes knowing when to say YES. It takes pushing yourself to your limit, and then pushing yourself some more. It takes fueling yourself properly in order to be able to push yourself even further. It takes no excuses. It takes tempo runs, hill repeats, speed work, and long runs. It takes pushups and sit ups and every ab/thigh/arm/butt exercise out there. Most of all it takes believing in yourself. Anything is possible, if you let it happen. But it takes all this and more. 

cookiesandcrosstraining:

It takes time management. Going to bed early and waking up early. Working out even if it means you’ll have to run errands in your sweaty workout clothes. It takes knowing when to say no. It takes knowing when to say YES. It takes pushing yourself to your limit, and then pushing yourself some more. It takes fueling yourself properly in order to be able to push yourself even further. It takes no excuses. It takes tempo runs, hill repeats, speed work, and long runs. It takes pushups and sit ups and every ab/thigh/arm/butt exercise out there. Most of all it takes believing in yourself. Anything is possible, if you let it happen. But it takes all this and more. 

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jrdnhgbn:

Skinny Love (Bon Iver cover) - Birdy

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iamfire:

Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) (by LuluLetty)

iamfire:

Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) (by LuluLetty)

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iamfire:

Al… (by etringita)

iamfire:

Al… (by etringita)

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advice: don’t (try to) break up without meaning it 100% . shit is about to get real

advice: don’t (try to) break up without meaning it 100% . shit is about to get real

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