Healthy Skin Challenge!!

Hello! So I have finally gotten over being sick for the past week which is the cause of me being M.I.A. for a while. Now that I've explained my absence, I'm going explain my new experiment to test out how much food can really affect your skin. Okay, we've all heard the phrase "you are what you eat" so does this phrase apply to keeping healthy skin? I've researched a few articles and put together a list of five items I'm going to incorporate into my diet to improve my skin. At the end of two weeks I'm going to put up a post on my results. So the top five items are as follows:


Water!!!
Okay, so I'm pretty sure everyone knows it. The key to hydrated skin is eight glasses a day. To test how much of an affect it has on my skin I will be drinking only water for the next two weeks aside from my protein shakes and green smoothies. That means no sodas, juices, gatorades, or milk. We shall see if this drastically changes anything.

Strawberries
Strawberries are chuck full of vitamin C, said to protect against UV rays (not so sure how accurate that is...), and are a good anti-aging food.

Tomatoes
Tomatoes are rich in antioxidants and are completely delicious.

Carrots
Carrots are rich in vitamin A which is super good for your skin! What's up doc?

Spinach
Again with the vitamin A which is found in dark greens. 

So, I'm planing on immersing these foods in my diet and reporting how much of a difference they do or do not make!

-Kathryn

Eat, Pray, Love

I began watching this movie, actually I'm still watching this movie haha, and it just really inspired me. I've been planning on going to Europe in April and this movie made me want something more from this trip. I'm going to be spending my time in Ireland, England, and France. At first all I wanted was to shop, eat, maybe meet a few new people, the typical American experience. I now just have this hunger to explore something more and completely submerse myself in a culture unfamiliar to me. I wanna feel something new and different, go to the small, unknown, poor towns. In this movie a man says Americans need to feel like they need to earn the right to relax, have a break, and just be content and happy. Italians on the other hand just let themselves be calm and content and do nothing. They know that it is not something that is to be earned, but it is something that is deserved to all people. I think there's a lot of truth in that. A lot Americans work themselves to death their whole lives, worrying about money, their future, how people view them. My grandmother is 75 and still worrying about life. God made some of us lucky enough to be alive and the fact that we can treat this gift as something to worry about is kind of a slap in the face to the one who granted it to you. Sorry ranting again haha. So basically I just wish more people would just let themselves be content and glad to be alive, not be so controlled by the hassles of life and just let themselves live. The world would be a much happier place.

P.S. Gonna go down to B-A-M and pick up a copy of the book. Probably will do a blog post about which I like better :)

-Kathryn Holly