Hey there blog buds!

Hope your new year is off to a great start!  Back to reality after a really wonderful and relaxing holiday break.

Check out some of the delicious creations we’re back to making in school (still can’t get a good shot of food in the very dim banquet hall lighting):

Steamed Halibut with Mustard Sauce

Steamed Tempeh with Mustard Sauce & Roasted Veggies

Ginger Lemon Spritzer

Collard Dolmas with Quinoa & Feta

Skillet Tempeh Reuben over Massaged Kale

We’re in the “IMPROV” phase of school now, where we are given a recipe title and an idea on ingredients, but no measurements or instructions.  It’s been really fun so far!  This week has been focused on Digestive Wellness.  The halibut was amazing – and I’m still suffering from sticker shock when I saw how expensive it was.  That photo above at the top was $25 worth of halibut – only ONE pound!  We really are fortunate at this school that we are treated to wonderful, healthful ingredients to cook.  Truly your proteins should be healthful and as free of toxins/pesticides/hormones as possible, so that’s one area where you don’t want to skimp on quality.

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A CHANGE to FitFeat

The next two months are going to go by in a blink.  Do you ever start thinking through all of the things you need to accomplish by a certain date and it just takes your breath away?  I’ve spent quite a bit of time over break with thoughts swirling around in my head of the projects on my plate.  That’s a big part of why I really made an effort to relax and recharge over holiday break while I had the chance.

I felt myself starting to freak out just a bit, wondering how I’ll ever get it all done.  When that happens, I know the next step is to sit down and capture everything on paper into a set of project plans so that I can see it as manageable chunks, rather than panicking at the big picture.

Outside of all of the school stuff and externship hours (I still have 30 left to track down), the big thing on my plate is getting everything pertaining to my next business up and running.  Especially the business plan, client forms, website, etc.  Busy times!  But also very exciting.

This all means that I’ll be taking a bit of a hiatus from regular posting on FitFeat.  When I started the FitFeat blog I was off work for a summer and had a LOT more free time than I have now (or will have for the immediate future).  After getting my projects listed and timelines set, it became clear that the hours I usually dedicate to blogging need to be redirected to completing all those items for finishing school and transitioning my business.

As time permits, if I have something great to share like a new recipe or workout or article (or just a simple hello or photo message!), I’ll definitely get out here and write.  It will be hard for me to stay away, because I think about ideas for the blog constantly.  I hope you’ll keep FitFeat in your Google Readers, RSS feeds and subscribed by email so that you still see the occasional posts as they are published.  I’m not hanging up my blogging hat completely – I just need to dial it back quite a bit over the next couple of months.

I didn’t want to have a bunch of time pass by between posts and have you all wondering where I went, which is why I’m posting about this.  I’ve had a couple of blogs that I follow do that – one day they are posting all the time and then all of a sudden you never hear from them again!  It’s like reading a book that has no ending -  I still wonder what happened to those bloggers that I used to follow.  I promise not to do that to you!  :)   I’ll keep you updated here and there!

I definitely want to say a BIG thank you to all of you who read regularly and comment regularly – I hope you know how much I appreciate each and every comment that hits my inbox!

OK friends, all that said it’s time for me to get busy!  I’m off to get working on the new website and I hope I’ll see you on the next post!

Make it a GREAT day!

– Shari B. =)

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