About
Hi everyone, my name is Angela Liddon. Oh She Glows is a healthy living website that is dedicated to inspiring and motivating others to lead full, happy, and healthy lives. I recently started up my own business, Glo Bakery, which is a healthy bakery filled with wholesome goodies! Join me in my journey as I follow my dreams and chronicle it all in between. For my FAQs, see here.
Let me tell you a bit about myself. I have an undergraduate and a Master’s degree in social psychology. During university I also took several nutrition courses as I have always been passionate about nutrition. I’ve done psychology research until I was blue in the face. I LOVE writing and have had tons of experience with it. I have completed an undergraduate thesis, a Master’s thesis, and countless research studies/articles. I got a job in the field during the last semester of my Master’s degree. In my job I did lots of hands on, practical research and I even had the opportunity to write a book chapter.
During my undergraduate career, I gained about 25 pounds! I struggled with disordered eating, obsessing with calorie counting and the scale, as well as food itself. It took me several years before I finally decided to stop the obsession and free myself from the struggle. After a long journey, I was able to lose the weight- and more- in a healthy manner, free of obsession.
For all of my before and after pictures, from high school until the present year, see my Before + After page.
Recently, my husband Eric and I moved out of the city and I left my full time researcher position. It was only at this time that I truly reflected on where I wanted to take my career and what I wanted to do with my life. At this time, Oh She Glows was several months old and achieving great success. It gave me the inspiration to follow my dream of starting up my own healthy bakery. And the rest was history as they say!
My background in psychology and nutrition has inspired me to educate others how to lead a healthy lifestyle without deprivation!
I struggled with disordered eating and a poor body image for over 10 years before I finally found my road to health.
I’m writing about how I finally found peace with my weight and my body and I want to show others how to listen and trust their body and that it is ok to eat lots of nutritious food. Food is NOT the enemy.
Let’s stop denying ourselves and start listening to ourselves more! Let’s take away the guilt that is often associated with food and our bodies.
Check out my video called Goodbye to the Obsession that challenges women to let go of the obsession with food and weight!
I eat a mostly a vegan and unprocessed diet which was a gradual shift over the years as I learned more about nutrition and health. I will show you healthy, good tasting recipes that I create to keep myself inspired about food. Food used to be the enemy for me, but now it is a huge source of pleasure in my life! I also started the Green Monster Movement (follow GMM on Twitter here!) and have been enjoying Green Monsters as a part of each day!
If you are new to OSG and don’t know where to begin, you might want to check out my most popular posts of all time.
I also love to write and I hope to write a book some day (any publishers out there?!). I am currently collecting research on the benefits of health blogs. Want to fill out the short 10 question survey and contribute to my research? Click here to be taken to the survey. Thank you for your participation!
You can check out some of my Hot Topic posts below.
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Are you curious about how I got started blogging and want to know some tips I can offer others? Check out this interview I did over at Health Blog Helper. I answer questions like: Lessons I have learned from blogging, How many hours a week I spend blogging, Tips for a successful blog, Why I started Oh She Glows, and mistakes I have made.
I have written a detailed series of my journey to living a healthier lifestyle. In this series I talk about my struggles with finding a healthy balance in my life and the sometimes bumpy road I travelled to achieve my current state of inner peace with myself.
Road To Health Series:
How living a healthy lifestyle has changed my body.
My Road To Health: Part VI (How I went vegetarian and then vegan)
Random Fun facts about me:
Twitter: Follow me on Twitter! @ohsheglows ; @ilikeitgreen ; @globakery
Location: Ontario, Canada
Exercise: 6 times a week (cardio is usually hill walking or running; strength is lots of core work and 30-Day Shred). I workout about 45-50 minutes a day on average with typically 1 off day per week.
Preferred drinks: Herbal tea (new favs are fennel, chai, any Yogi tea), Japanese Sencha Green Tea
Vice: My huge Sweet Tooth!
Cut out and never looked back: All Artificial sweeteners
I got healthy: For the past several years, I have been maintaining a gradual weight loss. My highest weight in university was 147 pounds (I am 5′4" tall). Since my highest weight, I have gotten healthy by eating whole, nutritious foods and working out. I don’t weigh myself anymore, but instead I go by how I feel and how my clothes fit me. I maintain my weight loss by working out several times a week and eating lots of healthy food, mainly focused around veggies, fruit, and whole grains. However, I do make room for treats- I typically have a sweet indulgence every day. It helps me stay balanced and not feel deprived. I want to show people that it is possible to eats LOTS of healthy food, stay fit, and feel energized when you wake up in the morning!
For fun: Baking, photography, running, fashion, nutrition/fitness, modeling, celebrity gossip (killing brain cells daily), reading
Hates: Sushi, Mayonnaise, Carbonated drinks
Loves: Cucumbers, lasagna, Spelt, big salads, thin crust veggie pizza, hummus, avocados, fresh baked desserts (my specialty!), apples, stirfrys, tea, cookie dough/cake batter
Career: Master’s Student in Social Psychology –> to full-time Researcher –> to Entrepreneur starting up her own healthy bakery and healthy living website.
Degrees: 2 (BAH, M.A)
Pet: crazy Bengal cat, Sketchie 68,000 hits can’t be wrong.
Favourite TV shows: The Office, 24 (JACK!!!), Gossip Girl
Married: To the love of my life Eric, on August 31, 2008 
Check out our wedding photos here.
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You wedding video is beautiful! I shoot weddings for a living and this is one of the prettiest I’ve ever seen. What song is this?
Heavenly Day by Patty Griffin
You make a beautiful bride! The bridesmaid dresses are so sweet!
You look so happy and pleased, I want a wedding like this. I really admire you!
oh wow I just found your blog
model behavior linked it. very cool 
your interests are similar to mine. and you look gorgeous on your honeymoon. can’t wait to read more!
just found your blog on modelbehav. i love your wedding video! super classy
i LOVE that i’ve finally found someone else who doesn’t love sushi. i also have a very guilty obsession for celeb gossip (i’m on perezhilton.com like 10 times a day). anyways love your blog and can’t wait to see more posts!!
Thanks for all your compliments!!!! *blushes*
just found your blog through a comment maybe and look forward to reading!! Gorgeous, you and the video
Hi Angela! Thanks so much for stopping by my blog! Your blog is awesome! I can’t wait to read more!
i LOVE YOUR BLOG AND WEDDING PICS! congrats! Can I add you to my blogroll?
STUNNING video Angela!!
Beautiful! Great music choice, too
Hey! I just found your blog today, and I think it’s wonderful! Your wedding video is absolutetly stunning
Gorgeous video! Who sings the song?
Gorgeous wedding photos!
thanks for the comment on my page – will have to check out the video when i get home. Cant watch them at work.
looking forward to reading more!
I love this page! Your outlook on life is so inspiring, and exactly how I strive to live! Thanks for sharing your passions with us, I’m looking forward to reading more!
I’m so excited to see another blogger with a bengal. I have a brown marble, Mowgli. He plays fetch but refuses to do anything else trickwise.
WOW what a great page. You are beautiful from the inside out!
One word. Gorgeous! Love the wedding video. So sweet. Oh and…”The Office” is my FAV show too. “That’s what she said…”
Sheila
http://www.livewell360.com
I love your story. And this video is amazing!
Hey! I’ve “heard” about you on blogs, but I’m glad to actually visit & see you! Oh yes, she glows! Can’t wait to read more! Take care & thanks for visiting!
Hi! I just found your blog and I love it! You are so fabulous and inspiring
I can’t wait to read more!!
Love your blog! You have a lot of great information. I vice is my wholemade sweets as well! I love to bake and cook! Can’t wait to ready more.
You made a very beautiful bride!
Hey,
My name is Erika, and I’m a fairly new blogger
(Peaceandpeanutbutter.wordpress.com)
Love you blog, and your wedding video is beautiful!!!
Oh my God…I live in Canada as well…and seriously if you are hiring – for anything that could I could manage to live off of and pay the loans..;)…please let me know!! It would be a dream and a passion of mine. I would break down and cry – no joke. I won’t go into detail, my blog curtails my obvious search for peace and happiness…but anyhow -HUGE CONGRATS to you and your amazing acheivements girl!! Way to go – inspirational!
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your blog is inspirational.
i too was always around 125 lbs…being 5″2′ made me still look floppy…i guess if i were to put it into perspective, 125 lbs is pretty good now that i am 148 lbs… i seem to be going up a few going down a few…i have been like this for a few years now…well, after i had my kids… i am an extremist and a perfectionist. if i set out to burn 400 cal each time that i am on my treadmill, i will meet my goal and if it is supposed to be 5 times a week, i will workout. and then, i see 2 lbs down and i panic…i binge or i stop working out…but instead of forgiving myself for the binge, i feel like i need to punish myself for not being perfect and then i fall off the perfect routine… i am so sad…i hate taking photos because i know i am pretty but i cannot look at myself because all i see is fat, stretch marks, loose skin…so loose…that when my husband looks at it he feels really bad that i have it… he is so supportive…he too began at 210 and no he too is 170 but i am still 148…and i cannot seem to grasp control…i get new energy and i working hard and then i had an injury i guess hips…i guess it is considered pelvic but i could not work out and i still can’t….i will go to my dr today again for some therapeutic massages…but i am just not sure that i will ever end this battle…i want to be toned and healthy…and my goal is to just eat raw food, whole food in every sense (from the ground up0…and i do bikram yoga- which is amazing but now i cannot do it because of my injury… i feel like i am drowning and i cannot come up to grasp for air…i am mentally beat…and i am the one who is giving myself that beating…
i am probably one of many. and you probably think that i should just get a grip. and i agree. thank you for your time.
Hi Angela,
I just wanted to send a note and say thank you for a very insightful and honest blog. I really appreciate your perspective on health and fitness. And thank you for living your dreams! I have yet to try a glow bar, as I have been out of North America for a year and a half but I look forward to trying one when I get back.
You have been a source of inspiration for me to start my own blog. I launched it Monday and am having a really great time with it so thank you!
Faith
The one on the left looks like collard greens, SO good and very southern. they’re all over the place down here in NC.
My roomate and I were thinking about doing this this summer as well and to make it a challenge!
enjoy!
I love your site! I’ve been reading for a full year now. you do a great job at posting really interesting material. I came across an article in the NY times i think you would be interested in:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/13/sports/13runner.html?ref=nutrition
Hi Angela,
I have to say that I love your site. This is one of many firsts for me. Usually I am not big into blogs, but stumbled upon yours from SmartPrettyandAwkward, and I also tend not to be into a lot of health food. I have been reading your blog every day and as of exactly one week ago, I have had no processed food and started to eat organic. I already feel better, I really do.
Thanks for all your amazing insite and recipes. You’re definitely my inspiration! I look forward to many more to come!
I was SO excited when I stumbled upon your blog today! I’ve been wondering if I was the only other Canadian health blogger out there – I read so many inspiring blogs by women across the border. Now I have a local to look up to! I live in Toronto and just started blogging my journey towards healthier living (aka finding my ‘glow’) this spring. So far, it’s been such a great experience. I look forward to following you!
p.s. Loved your Scotia Waterfront 1/2 race recap – I just started a Running Room clinic to do my very first 1/2 marathon, and that is the goal race! Will you run it again this year?
Angela,
I have linked to you on my blog. Keep up the great work!
I have so enjoyed reading your blog (a friend recommended it to me) – it has quickly become one of my favorites! It has been such fun finding other foodies who share similar tastes
Angela, I ran across your blog about a month ago and you have been SUCH an inspiration to me!!! Your blog helps me keep a positive outlook on life and to enjoy every second of it! I also have been eating clean and losing baby weight and hopefully getting my glo back and get back into running marathons and triathlons, Thank you for such an awesome blog!!
I found your blog a few weeks ago through twitter and I have found it to be really positive and motivating! I have a similar story, I just finished my freshman year of college, 5′4 and 140 pounds. I love food, of course a bit too much. My parents are extremely into eating healthy and organically, but I have never appreciated this until now. I recently joined a gym and have become addicted to spin classes. I used to run every now and then, but I could never get myself into a routine, but I am getting more and more motivated everyday! Thank you for being such an inspiring person and continue to post fabulous recipes and tips!!
Hey!
Hows it going! i’m a huge fan of your blog and hope to one day start my own! I had a question for you. I grew a large garden this year and i decided to grow okra…but I have noidea how to cook it . Any ideas????? THanks!
Jen
Hi Angela,
Great blog by the way. I’m the founder of http://www.maplesyrupworld.com/ and we would like to feature your Frosty No Bake Glo Cakes(http://ohsheglows.com/2010/07/08/frosty-no-bake-glo-cakes/)!
Give us a shout!
Richard
Angela,
Just as so many before me, I have been truly touched by your blog. Whenever I am discouraged on this roller coaster of a ride to health I know I can find inspiration and truth in your posts and personal story. As a graduate student researching digestion, hormones and mood, personal experience of disordered eating/body image issues I could not be more appreciative of a vital mentor who has put all what I preach in practice.
I guess what I’m trying to say can be summed up into two words— THANK YOU!!
Hey Angela,
I love your website! I need to get some work done and it is distracting me yet again…there are so many interesting posts/recipes to review. Anyway, I am curious about a gluten-free diet. Are your recipes gluten-free? What are your thoughts about a gluten-free diet?
Thanks!
Liz
What is your email? I was hoping to email you some questions I had that I was hoping to ask you about. Thanks!
Hi Angela,
I just discovered your blog and I am so happy I did! I am really enjoying reading about your journey and will be following it from now on! I am a nutrition major and getting ready to apply for my Master’s so I can become an RD. What are some of your favorite nutrition books?? Thank you for writing and for your inspiration! You should definitely write your own book!
I’ve been going through your site since yesterday, and I just wanted to tell you that I absolutely love it. You are an inspiration!
hey lady
i just totally STUMBLED upon your blog and had to tell you that IT STICKS!
i’ve read through so much and just enjoy your writing!
from one fellow blogger (i do it full time, not sure if you do or not) you’re AWESOME!
keep up all the good work…i’ll be popping back by for sure!
cheers – morgan
and just fyi, if you want to pop by:
http://www.CasaCullen.com
http://www.RunwayDaily.com
http://www.GentDaily.com
hi there
just was turned on to your site by another another blogger, heather from hangrypants, and although i dont have time right now to get lost in the abyss of the internet… i really look forward to reading more… your bars look great too… i thought you were local since she is, but i see you are in canada
looking forward to reading more… gee… i could see myself doing this – and by the looks of it, it takes a lot of work.. thanks for sharing and best!
~ teri
Hi Angela! I LOVE your blog! I’ve been reading it for a while now and have found it to be so inspiring, informative and motivational! I just started my own blog and look forward to continue following yours!
Just wanted to say how amazing I think all of this is!
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(And what a shame I only ‘discovered’ it today
During my own ‘healing’, while getting rid of the eating-disorder, I kept a blog called ‘Innerglow’ (recently deleted it). How strange to see those words, still so special to me, in a totally different place – at least equally meaningful.
G(l)o on girl!
xoxo
How inspirational! I’m “reconnecting” here LOL. Great background.
I love that you ask about Publishers(!) I do that on my blog and others seem to get judgemental…why, it’s something I want…:(.
Anyhow – it’s a little scary though because I was thinking about doing something about the influence of blogs/internet/etc. on healthy living/dieters/eating disorders…yipes…sounds similar to you though…:(
I would just like to say, good for you, for documenting and, in a sense, revealing yourself for others to be inspired by. As a Toronto-born girl myself, I left the city after 21 years and have lived in a couple different towns now; that is by far one of the best decisions to eliminate stress from life – leave it behind. Now instead of being part of the rat race, I am a farmhand, have regained about half my old gymnast body (and am leaving the student body behind)!
Hi there! I love you moved out of the city!Good for you. Are you living at the countryside right now or you moved back to the city?
Hi Angela,
I stumbled on your site and just wanted to say how gorgeous your food shots are, and that your posts are a great read.
I’m also Canadian, and am new to blogging (I’m in the process of losing weight), so get inspiration from great blogs like yours. Thank you!
Roz
Hey Angela,
Just thought I would let you know that I absolutely love your blog. I am from lil old New Zealand down in the Southern hemisphere. Your recipes are awesome! You inspire me to experiment when I cook, and try different things. I am in love with avocado at the moment too. I used to HATE it. I can’t believe I ever did dislike it! It’s just so delicious! Again, thanks for the awesome blog.
NZ fan