Life is crazy enough with school, work, bills, deadlines, blah, blah, blah. It's important to find what makes you happy for the moments in between the madness. For me it's the outdoors, gardening, cooking, being with friends and family, and learning about how to lead a healthier life. I believe the concrete base to a happy life is a healthy life. But I also understand the difficulty of being healthy when there seems to be so much else to do and not enough time to do it in.

This is my final year as an undergraduate Nutrition major at the University of Vermont. The stress of pending expectations has never felt so heavy; a full course load, GREs, applying to graduate school, and becoming a certified yoga teacher, but I have made it a goal this year to be as healthy as I have ever been even during a stressful time. This blog is to help support others in my exact position with too much to do, too little time, and few funds to maintain a healthy lifestyle.

I am living with my brother, Ben, a total health nut, who is coming back to school to study physical therapy. We have some strong differing opinions about what health is, but we support each other in our individual pursuit of health even if we don't always agree. Hopefully together we will be able to bring a well rounded view of what a healthy lifestyle could look like.