Hi everyone, my name is Angela, the creator of Oh She Glows. 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.
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.
Before + After
During my undergradute 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. I am now smaller than I was in highschool and the best part of all is that I can eat lots of delicious food and not worry about calories.
My husband Eric and I
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)
Me at my Master's Convocation October 2008
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.
Questions/comments? Email me: angela@ohsheglows.com
