{"id":25436,"date":"2015-09-25T09:59:12","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T13:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/?p=25436"},"modified":"2015-10-23T14:42:29","modified_gmt":"2015-10-23T18:42:29","slug":"committing-to-wellness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.studentlife.utoronto.ca\/lifeatuoft\/2015\/09\/25\/committing-to-wellness\/","title":{"rendered":"Committing to Wellness"},"content":{"rendered":"How are you feeling?\r\n\r\nWell, I hope.\r\n\r\nMy name is Madelin and I have the wonderful role of blogging about my pursuit of wellness this academic year. I\u2019m a second year student, constantly looking to embrace every opportunity for wellbeing on campus.\r\n\r\n
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A photo of me feeling well on campus!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nI am trying to be my healthiest me, and I hope my personal accounts will be helpful in\u00a0your pursuit of your healthiest you<\/em>.\r\n\r\nSpeaking of which, HealthyU<\/a>\u00a0is a four-part framework of student wellness that offers a balanced foundation for a healthy lifestyle.\r\n\r\nI imagine nutrition, physical activity, mental health and resilience, and personal safety as the four legs of a chair I\u2019m sitting in to study\u2014 if one theme is off or lacking, and my chair wobbles, my studies suffer. When all four legs of my chair are sturdy and in balance, I\u2019ve given myself the ideal conditions for productivity, concentration, and achieving my academic and personal goals.\r\n\r\n
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My four-legged desk chair<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nWe can tackle the notion that \u201csitting is the smoking of our generation\u201d with a different analogy in another post.\r\n\r\nCan I be real for a quick sec and admit that my position as the HealthyU Crew Blogger makes me a bit anxious\u00a0me because I\u2019d be a hypocrite if I pretended that my chair never is rocky. I am not the authority on health or wellness. My qualifications for this position: I\u2019m a human.\r\n\r\nSometimes I buy dark chocolate with the intention of completing a mindful chocolate eating exercise<\/a>, and eat the entire bar mindlessly.\r\n\r\n
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oops. I ate the entire bar of dark chocolate<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n\r\nSometimes I take the escalator (I mean, the escalator takes me) when I could equally use the stairs.\r\n\r\n