About Me

Yes this is your blogger. Hello.

My name is Alexis

I'm 24

Paleo (90% of the time)

I work out 5-6 days a week

I have a sweet tooth that is NEVER satisfied

I live in California, but I used to live in Delaware

I'm a HUGE sports fan (all sports, but football, ice hockey, and baseball being my favorites)

I played volleyball for 13 years and I miss it everyday

I have PCOS and I'm overcoming it (or at least trying to) with clean eating

I have one sister (and a baby brother on the way!)

I have an English bulldog named Chesney, but he lives back East :(

I have my Bachelor's in History and Secondary Education but I live for culinary arts and nutrition

I hate odd numbers

I'm super impatient (thanks Dad.)

If you ask me to bake you something, I probably will

I'm not sure what else to put on here...I hope this answers your questions...if you even had any

And here is my first post...kind of summing up why I'm here:

Hello everyone! Well probably the 4 of my friends I'm going to send this link to...hi.

As you may know, or will know after reading this sentence, I've always been interested in culinary arts. Whether it was cooking dinner for two or baking cupcakes for 150, I LOVE to be in the kitchen. It's where I find peace...and also make a huge mess.

I grew up with my mother always calling me into the kitchen to help her bake or cook dinner and I eventually started trying to do things on my own. I would follow recipes, but I always loved adding different twists or changing it up a bit to make it my own.

In my senior year of high school, I had to make the life changing decision (or so I thought at the time) WHAT DO I WANT TO DO WITH MY LIFE?! Living in Delaware, if you don't know, it is VERY small. It takes about 2 hours to drive from the top to the bottom. Everyone knows everyone and most of the time you do the same old same old, and I had done all that so far. I thought about going to culinary school, but at that moment in my life, I wasn't as ambitious as I am now. So I took the road more traveled by, and went head first onto the path of high school history teacher. I won't lie, I loved college. I had an amazing experience and a phenomenal volleyball career that I wouldn't change for the world. But I always felt that there was something missing. I still found myself baking and cooking when I could and any chance I had I would whip something up for someone's birthday or graduations party, hell I'd bake a cake for your grandfather's colonoscopy if you asked.

Regardless, after my four lovely years in college, 10 days after graduating, I up and moved to California. Now of course this had some planning involved and there were other revolving reasons which I won't get into, but I felt I needed to get out of Delaware and discover more...I knew there was more to life that the first state, and I wanted to discover them all...or at least a few more than I already had.

So I flew to Seattle, and took a 2 week road trip down the coast, struggling, eating, sleeping, eating, making new friends, and eating some more. I finally made it to Cali and have been here ever since. I've made friends, lost friends, and made some more. I've lived in more than 10 different places and experienced things that at the time, didn't know how I was going to make it through, but am now extremely grateful for having to overcome.

I now am slowly getting my life back together. I was diagnosed in February 2014 with PCOS (Polycystic Ovary Syndrome) which isn't rare but something that I of course, don't look forward to dealing with my whole life. I found out I had it once I started to gain weight (a total 40 lbs) in 8 months...which for me didn't make sense...why? Because I work out 6 days a week and eat very healthy. So that is something I'm dealing with and is an even bigger motivator for me to eat healthy and stay active.

I was vegan for about 3 months and then after constant bloating and just not feeling right with my body, I switched over to a Paleo diet. Not that I'm a yo-yo dieter, I just like to try things cold turkey, full force. This doesn't work for everyone, but it works for me :)

And so with all of that, this brings me to this blog...which I do hope to keep up with.

So I'll begin to dig deep into my brain to piece together recipes I have just thrown together on a late Tuesday night and make them into things you can do yourself. I'll have all kinds of recipes on here. Just bring an open mind and I promise you'll be enjoying it all.

I have a BIG sweet tooth so I'm sure you'll see more desserts than anything, but as I continue my journey into clean eating, I hope you'll join me, at least for a few stops along the way :)

With love and oatmeal raisin cookies (gluten free of course!),

Alexis xoxo