I sat down at my computer, logged onto WordPress and wrote my very first blog post! I had no idea who I was writing to or if anyone even cared to read it. I just wrote about my day. At first just my close friends and family were reading and then it slowly other people stumbled upon it and started reading.
Over the past year this blog has taken me on a fantastic journey. I have documented my meals, my workouts, trainings, my outfits, and my favorite documentation of all- my races!!! You guys have watch me struggle through 5k’s and smile through a half marathon and so many other races in between! I have written about my ruts, “funks”, happy times and sad ones. I have received so many comments and e-mails from readers, some who shared their success stories with me , some who thanked me for inspiring them and a few negative Nacey’s 
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I have made some great friends!
Attended a number of blogger meet ups including HLS 2009, Fitbloggin ’10 and the Healthworks Blogger Bash!
This blog has given me SOOOOO many amazing opportunities! (remember when I had lunch with Gary Hirshberg?) It has had it ups and downs and I love looking back at the evolution. Whether you have been a reader from day one, or this is the very first post you have laid eyes on- I thank you from the bottom of my heart for reading, commenting, emailing, starting discussion, lending support or just sitting back silently and enjoying I am so grateful to have such great readers!!!!
HAPPY 1st BIRTHDAY Food, Fitness, Fashion! Here is to many, many more!!!!
What better way to celebrate my blog’s birthday than a jar oatmeal?!
Like the Birthday candle?! I added some fresh bananas and strawberries for a yummy fruit and nut taste 
I had coffee this morning with my co-worker Esmeralda, I got a grande skinny vanilla latte. Delicious!
Today’s Outfit:
Black wide leg capri’s, Red short sleeved jacket, white t-shirt (Forever 21), leopard print flats (who knows they are at least 4 years old), silly red head (my co-worker Wendy).
Birthday Giveaway!!!
In honor of my participation in Healthworks Beach Body Bootcamp and my Blog’s Birthday, Tazo tea is giving a lucky the SAME fun gift pack I reviewed on FFF last night!!!
To enter this giveaway, post a comment about your favorite thing about Food, Fitness, Fashion. I am hoping some of you that have reading for a while will come out and enter to win?! Come on…this is a great giveaway! You have until 8am Friday morning.
Enjoy your Wednesday!
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Hmm can I say I love everything about your blog =) I do love getting recipes off your blog and new food ideas for me to try out!
Oh I hope i win, I never win anything lol. And I love some passion tea =)
Happy birthday FFF!
And my comment was not meant to enter the giveaway, but I know that can screw things up, so SORRY!!! I will enter. I LOVE YOU ALI! YOU are FFF, and make it awesome. Sorry if that is cheesy, it’s true.
Hmmm.I love seeing your vast array of lovely outfits everyday and also that you are a great inspiration for me with running and keeping active!
Happy blog birthday! What I love most is the consistency – great eats, great clothes, and fantastic discussions about being healthy and happy.
There’s always something great to read!
i love your fashion posts
I love that your blog gives a realistic view on living a healthy, whole life. You seem to strike a good balance of having fun and living healthily and you portray that really well!
Happy Birthday!
i love your clothing pics!
also, i love reading about your fun times w/ your girlfriends (like may) – it’s great to see that you have such a wonderful life as an individual outside your fantastic relationship with adam. random, but i always notice it! 
Clothing pictures and posts like yesterday in which you admit to being in a funk and what you are doing to pull yourself out of it!
Love your honesty and sense of humor!
I love your honestly and you are such an inspiration to us all! I read your blog every single day! It is awesome! Keep it up
Sorry I can’t type *honesty (by the way I am not trying to enter twice, just trying to correct my terrible typing!)
Happy 1 yr! Amazing how fast a blog can grow. I love your mix of running, fashion and just being able to relate with you. I like that you show us when you go out to have pizza and beers bc it’s okay for everyone to do that once in a while.
I love the clothing pics!!!
I really enjoy your writing style – you sound very real. I really look forward to reading FFF!
This is a great giveaway. Happy one year anniversary. I can’t really name one thing I like the best because I LOVE it all!! From your fashion to your food to your real life. You are very real and honest.
Congrats on 1 year! Here’s to many more.
I love your honesty and enthusiasm for life. Keep it up!
That’s the best outfit photo I’ve ever seen.
Congrats on a ridiculously succesful first year! Best wishes that the next year brings even more greatness.
Hooray for 1 year! Although I’m new to your blog, I love following Boston-bloggers, and getting some motivation from your exercise work ethic. Here’s to many more good years. =)
I’ve been reading your blog for a while now and i love it and i look forward to reading!!! my favorite thing about your blog is ur love for iced coffee
, i love your daily outfits, and your post about your half marathon just made me smile and made me want to do it all over again! You are so inspirational! 
happy birthday FFF! 
I love that you add the fashion aspect instead of just food and running like many other blogs. As I’m starting my career in the business world, you inspire me to still look cute at the office! (Shopping online at banana right now…uh oh..:)
I love the food ideas you give. I’ve tried so many new things that I never would have. You also give good yet small suggestions to healthy living. (and I always look forward for Oscar to make his random cameos)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY! I feel so privileged to have been a reader since day 1!
My favorite thing about FFF is YOU! You are you, and that’s what makes your blog so amazing. Its true and its real. And well, I get to be in it every so often so that’s pretty awesome too
I like your frequent updates, your honesty, your drive, your relatability…that enough? Don’t be greedy.
I love your gorge outfits and that you’re a real girl – you drink beer for gosh sakes! I think that ‘realness’ is missing from a lot of other blogs in the blogosphere…. Congrats! Next month is my EIGHTH blogiversary…
happy bday FFF! my fave part is the fashion, i love it!!
I love how I can relate to you like you’re just “one of the girls” even though we’ve never met! It’s nice to have a Boston counterpart working full time, going to grad school, working out, feeding our addiction to iced coffees, and embracing wedding season! Happy blog birthday!
Yay! Happy birthday FFF!!!!
You are my favorite thing! That’s why I read, you are what makes FFF special.
I haven’t been reading for too long but I love seeing your outfit everyday. Makes me inspired to put a little more effort into mine!
Your blog has given me so many great ideas for food and workouts..and reading about your experiences makes me want to start training for a marathon.
I love how much you love nut butters! And how real you are.
Your blog is so, “real”(highs/lows)…and I love your sense of fashion! Your blog is motivating also!
Happy One Year!
I love that your blog is so down to Earth! Some blogs are hard for me to stay committed to reading everyday b/c I find some suggestions/comments/lifestyles just too difficult to bring into my everyday life. I love that you are real and that I can totally relate to EVERYTHING that you write about. You are a busy lady, but still find time for your friends, family, health, and of course FASHION! You are a wonderful role model!
Happy 1st Birthday to FFF!
i love your honesty about how difficult striking a balance in life is. BUT you do it so well and with such a great attitude, despite your “funks”!
I definitely love the combination of pictures to writing. Your writing is personable, enaging, and relatable, while your pictures serve as the ideal complement. Thank you for writing a blog that truly defines what it means to be content with life.
– Melissa
I love that you still live your life – and realize that a healthy one can include beer, bbqs, and crazy times with friends!
I’d love to win some Tazo Tea!
My favorite thing about FFF is the fashion! I love seeing your outfits and when I recently had to get a new wardrobe for work, I found myself looking for ideas on your blog!
Happy Blog Birthday!
I love the outfits that you post and the fact that the items come from reasonably priced stores!
Congrats on making it a year! I appreciate any blogger because I know what it takes to make one of these happen. It’s not easy all the time. I love your entire theme and especially love reading local blogs. Keep up the good work!!
I love the inspiration your blog gives me to go to the gym as much as i can and eat as healthy as possible for me (with a cheat day here and there
I appreciate your honesty and how you put yourself out there for others to admire and critique.
Of course i also enjoy the outfits and food ideas that you give me daily. Thank you so much for opening up your life for us all to enjoy! I will keep reading everyday. Congrats on your one year blog birthday!
Hi Ali,
Love today’s outfit with Wendy. Hi Wen.
I love your blog because it’s very inspirational. You go about your daily life making good choices and taking care of yourself and it makes me feel like I can do that same.
Glad to see in your previous post that you have gotten out of your “Funk” those are the worst.
Hi, Deb…… E! *waves
Happy Blog Birthday!!!
My fave aspect is the daily fashion….you give me some great ideas!!!
Happy Happy Blog Birthday! Love your outfits and running stories
I love passion tea… and FFF! Your blog is a fun mix and I always look forward to reading it. You inspire me every day to be happy and productive!
Happy birthday FFF! I have only been reading for a few months, but I really enjoy that the blog gives a view of healtly living from several perspectives. I also love getting ideas for new eats or fashion!
I love your fashion posts…. especially the jacket your wore today!
Happy BDay FFF!
LOVE the outfits pics (and use of color!) I’m usually stuck in a black, grey, green, white rut – and I love seeing your outfits to help me break out – I wear yellow now, hurray!
And I love that your blog is REAL – beers, pizza, lots of coffee; I like that you put it all out there. Go FFF!
My favorite thing about food fitness fashion are the weekend recaps. Even though I miss reading on the weekends I love reading about all your exciting events from the weekend esp. the wedding stuff! I also love how honest you are like about your “funk”. Keep up the good work and Happy Blogivarsary!
I enjoy reading about all of the healthy eating tips and recipes and have implemented many of them while trying to eat better myself. You’ve turned me onto Chobani (with all the mix-ins), spaghetti squash and more!
Hey Ali,
My 2 favorite things about FFF are the running posts where I get a chance to geek out a bit and the give-away’s!
If it is free, it is for me!
Dan
Happy Blogiversary!!! I adore ur outfit posts and positive attitude (even when you get tired, stressed or in a funk, you find a way to snap out of it and that is inspiring!)…it makes reading fun!
Hi Ali,
What I like best about FFF is how honest and up-front you are. I love reading about your healthy lifestyle, too, and your running posts get me motivated to get out there and pound the pavement as well! Keep up your inspiring posts, they’re great!
Amanda
First off, I love that we have the same name
(Go 1 “L”s!)
What I love most about FFF though, is the reality of your adventure with food, fitness, and fashion. I love getting new healthy recipe ideas to try, and it’s honestly so refreshing to witness a healthy lifestyle on a day to day basis. You LIVE it, rather than just preach it. I dealt with an eating disorder last year, and it’s nice to know that other women are happy and content with a healthy diet that isn’t super strict. I’m constantly inspired by your blog, and am so thankful to have stumbled upon it this year.
Keep up the good work, and HAPPY BLOG BIRTHDAY!
Ali
my favorite part is your recaps of bars, restaurants and races in the boston area (where i live)!
I’ve only been reading for about a week, and I really enjoy getting to see the trials and tribulations of another runner; as many others have stated, I love your honesty! I also enjoy getting to see the foods that you fit into an enthusiastic, healthy and, most importantly, feasible, diet. Glad you’re feeling better!
what i love most is you..you are so real and honest, not sugar coating to make people think you eat broccoli and and carrots all day –you have your good days, not-so-good day, indulgences, etc… and bring it right on back to being fit, and fashionalble — keep up the great work
First of all, congrats on blogging for a year!! Secondly, I think my favorite thing about your blog is that you are so REAL!! You dont fake the fact that you enjoy treats, but also balance it with exercise and veggies most of the time!! Good luck with the next year of amazing blogging!!
I love how honest you are in your blog. You write about your ups and downs and are always upfront with your readers, which I think takes a lot of courage. I also love all your fun posts, you seem like you know how to have a fun time and don’t stress about it afterwards
i like that you always remember to post your outfit photos!!! happy bday FFF!
I am enjoying reading your entries! Can’t believe it’s been a full year already. wow! My favorite part of the blog is the simple, time-saving and healthy snacks you eat. I also like to see your outfits! Really practical and pretty! thank you!
I really love when you post your outfits. They’re always really cute, and i love how you tell us where you got the pieces from
I love seeing your refreshing outlook on food, fitness, and fashion. One that is approachable, easy to follow, and easy to relate too:) Thank you!!
I’m a new reader but I love seeing your outfits! It’s so helpful as someone new to the work world
Congrats on one year! I like all the running details, how much you’ve trained for races, how you felt before and after. I like your honesty!
I loveeee this blog! I love all the new recipes and healthy eating ideas. You are seriously an inspiration to work out and be healthy–but to still eat delicious things, which is hard!
Happy blog birthday! Love you and your daily outfits
Your blog is very inspiring. Seriously! It’s better than the weight watchers website for keeping inspiration. I think it’s because it’s so honest. Congrats on your first anniversary.
I love your blog! It’s what inspired me in writing one of my own. Thank you Ali
Your meal recaps help remind me about portion size and give me fresh ideas for healthy options (because it is so easy to fall into a rut!)
Don’t laugh but it keeps me connected to what’s going on with you, seeing that I don’t get to see you everyday anymore. The cute outfits and healthy eating tips are just extra bonuses!!
FFF is a fun way to see how other people (you) are doing the same things that I like to do … run, eat, and be fashionable!
Happy Blog Birthday! My fav part about FFF is that I’m a fellow Bostonian and love to read about places I know and love too (ie. HW!!)
i really enjoy your attitude! you’re so positive and upbeat and seem to really like yourself and care about others and you try to spread that around. also, if i’m being completely honest, i like seeing my sister (ashley t) pop up now and then. and not to be too cheesy, but it really makes me happy to know she has a friend like you!
it aint easy bein’ cheesy
Stumbled upon your blog recently from Carrots N Cake, and I have been reading ever since.
I am drawn back every day because I love the variety, that most of your posts include exercise, food, an outfit as well as your real life. It’s interesting to keep up with.
I’ve always hated running (too many tramatic flashbacks to junior high gym class!), but your persistence and positive attitude have really inspired me to push myself harder and remember that I’m going to the gym for myself, not for anyone else! I can still barely run for 10 minutes straight, but that’s better than the 5 minutes I could do before, so I call that progress! Thank you for your honesty and all the heart you put into your posts.
Happy First Anniversary, FFF! My favorite part about your blog is how down to earth you are. Plus, the beer!
Well Happy Birthday, FFF! I love the fashion inspiration you provide, as well as your upbeat take on food and fitness. Being a Boston girl (and Healthworks member, woot!) myself, I also really enjoy seeing familiar places and faces. Hope you’re having a great week.
A blog with sweet dog pics, AND shoes……what more could a girl want?!?!
I love seeing and hearing about Boston! It’s so neat to have at fitness-nut so close that I can relate to
I enjoy your blog a lot! I like that you appear to be honest about your feelings regarding running. I, myself, am not a runner, but a biker and there are definitely times where I’m in funks and don’t want to ride, but I know I have to push through. I also enjoy seeing the different outfits and getting ideas for meals.
Happy “Birthday”!
Love the candle, that’s so cute.
I loved how you recounted your training and the race itself… it inspired me to believe that I might be able to manage a half-marathon myself one day, and that it would be worth it to try!
I love to see your outfits, hear about your running and also see what you eat, to give me food ideas!
My favorite thing about FFF is when you show pictures of your outfit for the day! They are always super cute!
I’ve been following for awhile but commenting for the first time. Congrats on 1 year of your blog
So exciting! I’m sure more exciting things will happen in the years to come.
Happy birthday FFF! I love everything about your blog – I think food, fitness, and fashion go together great
Happy Birthday FFF!