Does my blue spot look great in it? The problem with a lifestyle outdoors

Does my blue spot look great in it? The problem with a lifestyle outdoors

When planning a trip to the home of the bungee, Kia complains about the effects of a lifestyle outdoors

This year I will be 36, and if it hadn't been to the terrifying discovery that cellulite also crawls over the stomach, I might have continued my diet with sugary snacks and drinks forever. Instead, I pay a little more attention to the things I eat. There is still desserts and ice cream, but overall a little less.

The fact that it now requires more effort to remain in shape is not a big surprise; After all, beauty magazines tell me that for about two decades. It is surprising to have to think about how I treat my body in a different way.

I run an outdoor blog, so of course I make outdoor things-what a girl who grew up in the city does not always go out well. There were some extreme things like the jump from a plane at a height of 13,000, but they are the more prose things that hurt me.

alt = "Kia is preparing to dive in Tonga"> Atlas & Boots ready to dive in Tonga

Peter and I joke that I fell off bike in the most beautiful places in the world, including Bora Bora, the Galápagos Islands and the French landscape.

That was no longer fun in Cambodia when I hit the concrete with my head and grew my forehead to the size of a golf ball. I remember the shock of the fall and the sharp iodine that sprayed on my wounds: a cut on my left eye, a cigar -shaped grind on my right hand, a plum -sized laceration on my left arm.

days later, when the liquid ran out of my head, I got two blue eyes and finally looked like this on my long flight.

alt = "swollen forehead and blue eyes after a bicycle accident"> Atlas & Boots swollen forehead and blue eyes after a bicycle accident in Cambodia

Today, 18 months later, the performance point still hurts when I rub too much when washing. The cuts on the eye, hand and arm left all scars.

alt = "A wound covered with iodine. This has left a scar." This left a scar.

A year after the bicycle accident, I was riding in Montenegro when my horse slipped and took me with me and partially nailed myself underneath. It was rather shocking than painful, but the resulting bruises were not nice.

This is how a fall from the horse looks

The bruises (below) have healed, but if I sit strange today, I still feel a stitch where I was stepped into my back.

alt = "bruises on the back of my leg"> Atlas & Boots bruises on the back of my thigh and leg after I have stepped up by a horse

And then there is my right ear that in my opinion is fine now, but after a dive there was a popping for months when I had difficulty compensation. Every time I swallowed, I could feel how my ear crackled like a weak static charge.

I share this before a trip to New Zealand, the home of commercial bungee jumping. Of course I have to do one. I love the thrill in height and the feeling of free fall. I love how my stomach turns when I think about jumping from this rocky lead. I love the view to do something frightening.

So, yes, I will do bungee in New Zealand if everything goes according to plan, but I will also pay more attention to how I deal with my body. Scars and stories are more interesting than beauty, but I prefer to keep my limbs and skills.

What does that mean in practice? I will still go out of my comfort zone and get involved in risky trips, but I will make sure that I train more thoroughly and prepare myself, wear the recommended safety equipment and address it when I feel uncomfortable. I am healthy, fit and powerful and I want it to stay that way.

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