Hello, I am Mello...

Hello fellow bloggers! This is my first Blog ever, so I am new to all of this. Just for a quick introduction, my name is Daniel Mello, I am college student at Cal Poly Pomona in Southern California, studying Kinesiology and Health Promotion. My life consist of mainly school, work, working out, coaching, running, cooking, and time with family and friends. Throughout most of my life I suffered from childhood obesity which carried its weight on me just until a few years ago when I decided to change my life a bit. I had to make many big changes and with those changes came a lot of sacrifices. I began to dedicate most of my time working on my fitness and diet. After about 4 years of making tons of health changes to myself I was able to lose 110 pounds. It was no easy ride, it took a lot of work throughout those years, but I would not change anything about it for a minute. The one thing about losing so much weight is maintaining and keep it off. When you have the kind of mentality I have which is: ALWAYS HAVING THE MUNCHIES, it is extremely hard to maintain consistency with what I eat. I had to learn ways to make delicious and healthy food replacements for the fattening one's I use to love... Ok I still love, sometimes... A lot of times, I cheat and have fun with my food, but for the most part, I do my best to keep it relatively healthy. This blog here is to show my personal and collaborative efforts to make healthy/delicious food that reminds me of the unhealthy food I use to eat. I have always had a passion for cooking and used my creativity to make fun healthy snacks and meals. There is nothing overly complicated or special to these snacks and recipes I make. They're simple and fun and I hope to inspire people to try the recipes out and even make your own recipes to go with them as well. Lately I have been on a huge Smoothie kick, lots of smoothies, everyday. Hope you all enjoy my post and share with friends!