Welcome

This is my fourth attempt at blogging
This time its a mix of the last few - both personal and public
I plan to blog my experiences with health, food, nutrition, fitness and life in general, and add things like tips, recipes and reviews to make it more interesting for you.

So I guess a quick into about me?
You can call me Red
I'm a uni student, struggling to balance frugality and health, as I have some mysterious sickness (IBS they say) which stops me from eating fat in huge quantities. I'm a lot better now, usually I just get cramps and smell bad, but before I was everything from sick to malnutritioned (and lost 15kg, and lots of muscle, so trying to gain back healthily and slowly) and physically injured, although this was unrelated. For a while I hated food. I couldn't eat anything and wanted to and kept "poisoning" myself with high fat foods, trying to break my intolerance. I'm still struggling with it, and sometimes succumb to a chocolate bar, but I pay for it the next day. Now I'm trying to set my body up for life - I was always the runt of the litter phsyically, and avoided exercise as much as I could. Now I can't hide any more and want to be healthy and happy, so I've got to overcome my unco-ordinatedness and push my limits. I guess I sorta had an eating disorder, if you define that as having problems with food, and if you count my occasional "binge" on bad foods (which could be 3 tim tams for me, or it could be half a kg packet of raw muesli, depending on me) then I do. But I'm, getting rid of it. I dont make myself spew, I NEVER starve myself. If anything I'm too anal about health: wholegrains, lean protein, and dairy are my vices (esp Iron) as before I abused my body with junk and I'm paying for it now.

So welcome and hope you enjoy your time. Some of you may recognise my old recipes from mini-spoons. :)