Hillary
Who is the Nutrition Nut?
I am: a long distance runner, a college student, a sister, a health enthusiast, a foodie, a baker, a dark chocolate addict, an optimist, and a bit nutty… I’m Hillary.
Welcome to Nutrition Nut on the Run, my personal blog about living on the healthy side of life. This little corner of the blog world is a place where I enjoy documenting my life by sharing my love for the written word, food, exercise, and the process of pursuing a balanced, fulfilling, and happy life.
What you will find here: real food, recipes (usually vegetarian), the stresses achievements and adventures of being a college student, and the strides I take running on and off the trail.
My hope is that this space will help to improve my writing and generate a playground for photography. As a current Food & Nutrition Communication student – 1 semester to go! – I am trying to practice what may be a part of my future career someday.
I believe that a healthy lifestyle is ultimately reached when one stops trying to be healthy and just lives healthy… and I like to think I am a good example of that :) As I share my life with you, I would love your respectful comments, advice, and discoveries.
More About The Nut
I will graduate May 20, 2012 with a B.S. in Food & Nutrition Communication.
I don’t travel without chocolate.
I eat vegetables as if they are going out of style.
I was voted Most Likely to Become a Famous Chef in my senior class.
I used to wear the label: “dancer/gymnast/swimmer”. Today it reads “runner”.
I am a California girl at heart.
The thought of breakfast is what gets me out of bed in the morning.
My favorite place to shop is the farmer’s market.
Owning a pink Kitchen Aid mixer is on my life list.
I once got 6 blue stitches in my chin as a result of “eating it” on a treadmill.
I lived in Children’s Hospital Oakland for three weeks. It changed my life.
I am nuts about nuts, and I am always on the run.
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I like this already!
Very neat recipes, photos, and inspirational words.
Way to go.
Love,
J
Hill:
I love your blog and it makes me so proud of you. It is so great to know that you are out in the world taking care of yourself and spreading your wonderfulness!
Happy trails friend,
Sarah
Hey Hillary! I’m lovin’ the blog–hooray for getting it up and running! So glad I get to read about your life now :)
I love your blog Hillary! Excellent example you are leading and it all looks so yummy! Would you come cook for me? ;) I wish I had your energy!
Hey Hillary! Thanks for the blog love : )
Foodie/Nutrition Blogs are so much fun to visit because there are so many great ideas out there. It’s also a great support system for when you’re having an off or down day. I’ll keep checking out your blog.
xo
Health & Happiness,
Jocelyn
Hi Hillary: What a great blog and idea. And your photo of you is beautiful. Am proud of you and happy for you. Aunt Judy
Hill -
You are so inspiring!!! Keep up the blog. I am excited to follow it!
Hey Girlie, loving what I’m seeing already! I can’t wait to keep on perusing through more of your upbeat words!
Hi Hillary! So glad to find your blog! Love your philosophy and your field of study sounds right up my alley! I look forward to reading more!
I can’t wait to read more about you.. we have a lot in common!
Gorgeous picture of the beach! Looking forward to reading more!
You’re “About Me” sounds just like me :) Looking forward to reading!
Hey I just found your blog and I love it!! Such cool pic of you doing a cartwheel on the beach! Cant wait to read more of your blog!! <3
pretty picture! : )
health freak… foodie… baker… hm, kind of sounds like myself ha
I love your blog! Great food pics, and I dig your food philosophy because.. well it kinda sounds like mine!! :-D I look forward to reading on.
Hi Hillary! just found your blog and loving it. guess what? I just started blogging last July and I’m a dietetic intern and nutrition communications grad student…we have a lot in common. yay! looking forward to reading more. : )
Very curious – what is a food and nutrition communication degree? I’ve never heard of this before, but sounds interesting!
Hey girl…just came across your blog. Great read! : )
oh my gosh, your major sounds INCREDIBLE! how fun!
Hi Hillary!
I just wanted to say how awesome it is that you are doing this! I am new to the world of food blogging, just discovered it a couple months ago and LOVE it! It’s awesome reading about your life and relationship with food, nutrition, and well being because I myself am working towards a Nutrition degree and eventually becoming a dietician so it’s great to hear about your struggles and triumphs in ochem and such while I am going through the exact same haha. anyways, thanks again for this. I look forward to your blog everyday!
You are gorgeous! We love your blog =)
Hi Hillary, I just found your site via KathEats…I’m going to be starting college in the fall as a dietetics major and am really nervous that it will be nearly impossible to eat healthy living off of the dorm food…how did you survive your first few years when you didn’t have your own kitchen?
Hi Danielle -
Honestly, it was a little tough. I rarely ate in the dining hall, and spent too much money at the gourmet grocery store down the street. Unfortunately, I still gained the dreaded Freshman 15 despite avoiding the unhealthy eats =/ One year of eating a ‘not-so-ideal’ diet didn’t kill me though. Don’t worry about it too much. You will figure out the ropes and ways to make healthy meals. You’ll enjoy having a kitchen again, I’ll tell you that! =)
Hey! I just found your blog… love your fruits and veggie shirt! :)
I love your blog, Hillary! I’m so excited for your passion for media and nutrition and look forward to witnessing an exciting career journey!
I’m so excited to have found your blog! Can’t wait to read more :)
Hello! I have to ask what camera do you use? Your pictures and food are so vivid and yummy looking! You are also extremely photogenic!
Great blog!
Thank you… I use a Sony Cyber-shot. It’s suited me well, but I hope to graduate to a ‘big girl’ camera someday : )
What a cute t-shirt!
Hi Hillary! Thanks for stopping by my blog and leaving such sweet comments! Your blog is amazingly done. I love your photography and the food you eat, along with your style – it seems very in line with my own. I look forward to reading more!
Hi Hillary, just found your blog and I love your pics and your food! :D
I just found your blog, so great! The more I dig around online, the more I find like minded collegiate health-nut foodies like me. It’s comforting, you know? Sometimes it can feel like we’re from a different planet when everyone else our age is boozing their way toward a four year degree. Throwing lots of love and support your way! Not to self-promote, but I have a little health-food blog myself that my boyfriend and I play around on. Stop by sometime!
xo, Kelsey at Happyolks
P.S. What school do you go to!?
I like your philosophy! I wish I had eaten as healthy when I was in college. Still working on it now… =P
Looking forward in checking out your blog!
That top is adorable! I love that you are all about balance. That is something I am trying to strive for each and every day! =)
Hi Hillary! I recently started a blog of my own. It’s been a bit of a challenge to remember to capture every meal and to make interesting posts, but the thing I’ve been finding most difficult is getting people to read my blog! How did you promote your blog in a way that brought you so many loyal readers?
Comment away, girl! Get yourself out there in this wonderful community. Don’t be shy. BE yourself, and if you really want the traffic, regular posting is essential. Welcome to our world :)
You have great material here Hillary. This is very inspiring and I look forward to following your blog. Awesome shirt as well :) I need to find one of my own.
Hey, just letting you know I got the O.N.E. coconut water in the mail today!
It’s awesome, thanks!
Oh, good! :)
Hi Hillary. I love your blog! I just got finished reading your article, “Carnivore. Herbivore. Locavore”. Very well written. Happy Thanksgiving. I look forward to staying connected!
Thanks for commenting on my blog!
Nice to meet you! :)
Just found your blog and I love it! I WANT your t-shirt you have on about loving fruit and veggies – I must find it!
I absolutely ADORE your health philosophy. It is SO true – a healthy lifestyle is ultimately reached when one stops trying to be healthy and just lives healthy. <3!!! I can't wait to read more!
Just came across your blog today. I’m excited to start following you! Your photos are fantastic.
You are definitely an inspiration to all your fellow healthy-living students! Love the blog and all the beautiful photos – so excited to read more!
Hi! So rather than commenting on my About Me, I wanted to check out your blog and comment here!
First of all, I love your blog and everything you do!
It’s never too late to go to CIA :)
I did my externship (it’s a 4 month internship at a restaurant somewhere in the world that’s part of the program) in Sonoma, CA, so I was able to see the campus. It’s beautiful! Especially because it’s in the middle of the vineyards. However, I might be a little partial to the Hyde Park campus. I’m in love with it.
Hope you keep reading! I’ll be reading yours!
I went to Sonoma State University for a couple years and have eaten at The Girl & The Fig — small world, no?
So glad to have found your blog! I am a health nut at heart, LOVE running outside and have a love affair with dark chocolate :) Can’t wait to keep following you!
Hillary,
It’s so inspiring to find fellow college students who place a high importance on their health, as it is a very rare thing in these years! I’ll admit, the temptation of pizza and beer got the best of me freshman year, but I am so glad I’m past that. And I think you hit it dead-on when saying that being healthy is the point where you stop thinking and obsessing about making healthy choices and it simply becomes second nature. I used to deny it when my friends called me a “health nut” (I’m not sure if I was embarrassed, or what?) but now I embrace it. So kudos to taking charge of our lives, our bodies, and our well-being :)
This was so fun to read! I love all your photos. I’m only 16 but I definitely want to major in Nutrition so it’s awesome to hear that you’re following that path! 2012? Girl that’s so close! :) Love your blog. I’ll be around for sure.
Hi Hillary! I just found your blog, and I can’t wait to read more. I also never travel without chocolate ;)
Best bio ever!!! I already love your blog, but I don’t think I had ever quite read over this and it’s awesome!!
Just found your blog, great inspiration and yummy recipes – awesome :)
I’m having fun already — can’t wait to read more!
love love love the format of your about me section! You are an amazing writer and your chronicles of living a healthy, happy life in college are really inspirational. You definitely have another fan over here and I plan to read often! Love your obsession with vegetables and that you “eat them like they are going out of style”. And your running sneakers = love.
Read my blog when you get a chance so we can be blog friends!
Thank you, Alaina – so sweet :)
I am already looking forward to reading more!
Thanks for visiting my blog earlier today. I’ve actually checked yours out before, but have never commented. How cool is it that you were voted most likely to be a famous chef!? I wish my high school would have had that category…
Seems like we have so much in common Hillary…love of running, food, being a student (but maybe not love of that!). Congrats on only having one semester left ’til graduation. It will be here before we know it!
I just bought those same Asics, love them!
You have a fabulous blog, Hillary! I really love your philosophy about food, health, and life in general. I look forward to stopping back and reading more! P.S. Great degree choice! I can already tell it will be perfect for you. :)