The Healthy Living Summit : Food Bloggers as Star Trek Convention : Trekkies

Cheers to that!

What an interesting weekend I had at the Healthy Living Summit. This was an event organized by food bloggers, for food bloggers, to share ideas about the latest and greatest in the food blogosphere.

Honestly speaking, the Healthy Living Summit is to food bloggers what a Star Trek Convention is to trekkies!

Friday Festivities

So let me start from the beginning. Friday afternoon, I met Cat, my blog-reader roomie, and we bonded right away! She knew I was interested in local food, so she brought me a Maryland-made bag of Michele's Granola. Flavor? Cherry Chocolate Macadamia. Amazingly, decadently delicious stuff.

We headed over to the cocktail party at Rustic Kitchen for the most delicious white sangria and a smorgasbord of appetizers. My favorite was the fig jam pizza with spicy greens and goat cheese sprinkled on top. Oh, how I could have devoured the entire brick oven-cooked pizza on my own.

Saturday Goings-On

Saturday started with registration plus a Stonyfield Oikos bag filled with tons of swag. From Barney Butter to fruit and nut bars to coupons for Stonyfield yogurt, I could tell all us bloggers were in free sample heaven.

Janel started off the morning with a great nutrition presentation on healthy eating, and let bloggers know that the best way to eat healthy is to 1) meet with an RD to determine your individual needs, 2) listen to your body and 3) practice moderation. We also had Zesty give us Blogging 101 tips.

Over lunch of sandwiches, grilled veggies, and fresh fruit, Gina and I met up, and realized we share the same birthday, same year!

After the afternoon sessions, we drank Pom pomegranate juice during our break.

After closing remarks and TONS more giveaways, the group took a beautiful group photo!

For dinner, we joined our fellow bloggers and headed down to the North End for some Italian food.
We shared a cannoli (we were practicing moderation) from Mike's Pastry.

After experiencing the sheer amount of crowdedness, Cat, Nicole and I decided to veer off to a North End pub for dinner. We had a great chat about nutrition, fitness, weight (gains and losses), and personal bests (and worsts) we've experienced; it felt like I had known these girls for years!

One very restful sleep later...

...the Healthy Living Summit girls headed to the Charles River park for a run.

This rejuvenating run was a perfect way for us to end a great weekend of meeting, greeting, and teaching each other about blogging, nutrition, fitness, confidence, communication, and sharing.

Overall, it was an amazing summit with some very useful blogging information; it felt inspiring to meet some of the most strong, powerful, beautiful (on the inside and out) women around who openly share their stories (in the public format of a blog) of health, fitness, wellness, and barriers they overcome to acheive their success. Looking forward to next year! :-)

I was SO inspired by this Summit, that I will be randomly choosing a winner to receive a City Sports Boston T-shirt I snagged today! Leave a comment on this post by FRIDAY for your chance to get this lovely classic T!

25, 25, 25

New to my blog? Want to know what 25, 25, 25, is?

Q: What is 25, 25, 25?

A: This is my attempt to dole out some of the infinite wisdom I've gained from people along the way in my almost 25 years.

August 16 - 9 days until I turn 25: Find your niche; live in it, thrive in it.

Question of the Day: Did you attend Healthy Living Summit? What'd you think? If you didn't attend, do you think you would after reading about it?