Wow what a month!

July has been another great month in what has been a wonderful year so far!

This month I have:

- Had a great time in Brighton including two blogger meet ups with the lovely Tam and Cat:

  

- Enjoyed one of the best meals of my life

- Completed the Great North 10k and achieved a personal best of 49.57!

- Continued to improve my running in general

- Started introducing more structure to my resistance training again

- Had the blog featured on the Channel 4 Food website!

- Reviewed my wardrobe and make up and generally gave myself a boost in terms of my appearance.

- Bought my Excalibur Dehydrator!

- Attended the Kendal Calling Festival with Alpro Soya (more on this to come!)

There are a few things I wanted to do this month that I just haven’t been able to including more time for meditation, focusing on sticking to a grocery budget and completing more assignments for my diet and nutrition course. I’m actually ok with this, I’ve had an amazingly enjoyable and successful month in all other respects and sometimes you need to remind yourself that you are not Wonder Woman and can only do so much!

I also blogged last month about my weight and that it had dropped again (when I am now looking to gain a little weight or at least maintain). My approach with this has been to add in a lot more nut butters, banana’s, bigger servings of chocolate and protein powders and continue to listen to my body. That may not sound like a lot, but I’m sticking with what I feel comfortable with right now and I’m happy that this month I have gained! For the first time I can genuinely say that I feel completely positive and happy about that :-)

Goals for August

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• Have a great Birthday!
• Continue with my training for the Great North Run half marathon in a consistent way and without injury
• Continue to fuel myself with wonderful foods and listen to my bodies needs while making sure I eat enough
• Experiment with my Dehydrator
• Complete more assignments for my course

August Sponsors

I’d like to welcome back Viva Pure, Goodness Direct and iHerb as sponsors this month. Don’t forget that the discount codes are all still valid if you fancy treating yourself to some goodies. PB&Co anyone?

I’m taking a break this month from running a sponsor giveaway as I have ran one for the last three months and let’s just say I have some really exciting stuff in the pipeline for the blog in coming months so I’m putting all my energy into that!

If you are interested in sponsoring the blog – you don’t have to be a business - if you have a blog and are looking to develop it and attract more readers you can sponsor me too – I’d love to support other bloggers! Its extremely reasonable, I’m not doing it to make a lot of money put it that way, and anything I do get goes straight back into maintaining the blog and hopefully making it better :-)

If your interested please email me at laura@keepinghealthygettingstylish.com

How was your July? Do find it tough trying to meet all of your goals? What are your goals for August?