Happy Friday night! :)
I put together the most popular posts from the past 11 months. It is crazy that I am approaching my first year of blogging on October 31st (stay tuned for a huge giveaway by the way!).
I have been meaning to organize all of my series, boot camps, hot topics, and challenges into one quick and easy to locate page. Many of you have been asking me for a page where you can easily locate everything, so I am happy to finally have this put together. It will be updated frequently too. Let me know if I missed anything and I will add it in.
I have created a page at the top called ‘Hot‘ where you can find all of these posts whenever you need to do so.
Here are some of my most popular posts over the past 11 months! Happy reading!
My Road To Health Series: How I ended the disordered eating and got healthy
A Year Can Change A Lot Series: How I Changed Careers
Beating the Freshman 15 Series:
Projects, Movements, and Boot Camps:
My Race Recaps:
My very first race (10km) June 14, 2009:
The night before the race + how I prepared (video)
Race recap 1 (video)
Race recap 4 (what I ate!!!)
Acura 10-Miler (July 19, 2009):
Part 2 of my race recap (what I ate before and after!)
My 10-miler training plan + I answer your questions
Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront Half Marathon (Sept. 27, 2009):
Hot Topics:
Blogs and the Social Comparison Trap
The social comparison trap part 2
How food blogs changed my life
What our friends and family think of our love for food blogs
How to power through tough workouts
Comparing ourselves to real women
Reader’s comments on comparing to other women
Guilt and Exercise: What’s healthy?
Food Blogs: Passing Fad or Here To Stay?
Raw Food: Is it always better?
Photo Journaling: Helpful or Harmful?
Muscle Repair and Intense Exercise: Part II
North America’s Healthiest Cities: Where Does Yours Rank?
Make-up: Can We Live Without It?
Women and Aging: New Pressures Each Day
Exercise and Heat: How It Affects Us
When Healthy Eating Goes Too Far
I Talk about my exercise slump (video post)
Running in a Carb-Depleted State: Good Training?
Blogging Frequency, Content, and Quality
My Running Journey: From 1 minute to 10 Miles
The Galloway Method: Do Walking Breaks Help?
The Superwoman Syndrome: The Dangers of Over-Training
When To Push and When To Pull Back
Rest Days: What Exactly Do You Do for Rest?
Evolutionary Psychology 101: Why Diets Fail
Evolutionary Psychology 101: Exercise Is Key
Free Your Heart and Your Mind Will Follow
Models and Weight: From Runway to Real way
How To Beat Negative Thinking: Part 1 and Part 2
How Do Our Emotions Affect Illness?
How Do Reduce Stress and Increase Well-Being
The Sleep Cycle: Do you get enough undisturbed sleep?
Some of my favourite posts of all time:
1. My very first post: Boo. I admit, this is a no frills post, but at the same time my potential is just oozing out of it. lol. Notice how ‘Spooky Sketchie’ is a prominent feature in the post- no surprise there! There was a very similar Sketchie featured in one of my posts this week- anyone remember?
2. My 4th post ever: Running and Sketchie. Sketchie was an overnight celeb. I was dog meat.
3. Sketchie gets SAD No, not even cats are immune to Seasonal Affective Disorder!
4. My favourite ab exercises in pictures This was before I had ever heard of vlogging. Or drogging for that matter!
5. OSGMOM’s first appearance on the blog! I’m a nice daughter, I waited until we were outside of the airport before I snapped her pic!
6. Pumpkin-Apple Streusel Muffins– I LOVE these muffins and many readers have raved about them too. Take a gander at the pictures, you can’t go wrong when muffins look like that!
7. How To Beat the Freshman 15 (4 part series)– This was my second most popular series next to my Road to Hell, err…Health, that is.
8. All About Me and How OSG came about! My background education, work history, and the evolution of Oh She Glows and Glo Bakery
9. Where I got the name for Oh She Glows Isn’t that what we all wonder? Why the heck did she call it that?
10. 2008 In Review: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3 My life in 2008 at a glance. Tons of pictures!
11. Project Glow How to get healthy, glowing skin. I created this program for Caitlin over at HTP. PS- It worked!
12. Our Engagement Story– How Eric proposed. Notice that the first few pictures include tequila.
13. My Road To Health: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5a, Part 5b! My whole journey…from the bad days to the good days, the ups and the downs, and everywhere in between! This is by far my most popular series to date. I will be writing Part 6 in the near future.
14. My Before and After picture What everyone wants to see!
15. Glo Bakery: Skinni-Mini Glo Buns My most recent and hugely popular healthy cinnamon bun creation! 75 calories a pop and vegan to boot!
16. How To Design The Website of your Dreams (Guest post): Part 1, Part 2 Some interesting info if you are looking to improve your website
17. Angela Interviews Kris Carr from Crazy Sexy Cancer I get the chance to interview my idol!
18. Shop 4 A Cause Charity Auction: June 11th- Visit OSG to place bids on awesome stuff! My goal is to raise $2,000 for my first race on June 14th!
19. Bikini Body Boot Camp! Also, see here for the past 61 days! What us gals are doing each day to squeeze into that bikini come June.
20. How to Learn to Love Your Body– I address a very important reader question!
21. My recipes- including reader’s favourite recipes Only read if you want a puddle of drool on your keyboard.
22. Wedding pictures The happiest day of my life!
23. FAQ’s: I answer reader questions!
24. My birthday celebration OSG goes wild!
25. What’s inside my fridge? Parts 1-4. Part 5 What does my fridge and cupboards look like? What do I eat?
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I’m in this month’s issue of SELF magazine:
And lastly some exciting news…
I’m in this month’s Self magazine with 5 other awesome food bloggers! I was interviewed back in May of this year and kept it very hush hush until I knew it was in print.
The interview itself was quite long, but due to space constraints it was cut down a lot. They originally asked me to submit one of my favourite vegan recipes (which I did), but they didn’t have enough room to include it. I might just have to reveal it at another time I guess! ;)
I also wanted to say that my favourite substitute for an egg is the flax egg, but there was not enough room to include the description in the space allotted.
All and all it was a wonderful experience and I was surprised to even be considered.
It is on newsstands now. Eric picked up 3 copies today. What a sweetie! :)
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Stay tuned for Project Snow tomorrow. I have LOTS of questions on my mind after today’s long run!
I will also be telling you whether I am running a half marathon on Sunday!
ahhh congrats on self!!! thats awesome :) Im glad you posted it on the blog so I didn’t have to go buy the magazine (still kind of mad about the air brush scandal)
Aw congratulations!!! That is such a beautiful picture of you :) They couldn’t have picked anyone better to be in the mag!
Congratulations! I can’t wait to pick up a copy. I don’t comment that often but I actually have been reading your blog since your very first day and I will continue to for as long as you’re blogging!
Congratulations Angela!
yeah! i saw you in the mag!!! so cool!!! way to go!!! :)
Congrats!!! So awesome!
CONGRATS!
I can’t wait for my new Self to come!
Eeee congrats lady!! I can’t wait for my self to come in the mail!
Congrats! How exciting!
Congratulations on the Self feature. You deserve it – they shouold have done an entire article on just you. :-)
Congratulations!! How funny that I read this post today… I read that part of Self Magazine on the treadmill THIS morning and had to do a double take! I hope they can do a full article on you one day! One of the comments in the beginning of the issue (where readers submit comments about the previous issue) said she would like to see more “real people” because they are more inspiring than celebrities. Maybe that will open the door! :-)