Ramblings Post #282
You are what you eat. Which means at
one point my entire body was made up of pizza, wings, hoagies and beer.
Ah college. But my body really needs to be made of leafy green veggies,
baked or grilled meats in sparing quantity, and lots of
water. It is in fact made of veggie fried rice, chocolate, coffee and
crystal light. It’s like I can’t make up my dietary mind. At least I
really enjoyed the wings and beer.
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| Krispy Kreme. Now I want a box. Hmmmm. |
One of the grand problems of tracking
your food intake is that you actually see what you eat. It’s easy to
forget those mini-Milky Ways and Oreo six pack on a normal day, but if
you have to write it all down? Ugh. The whole exercise is
more disheartening than you might imagine, unless you’re a health nut.
I didn’t used to drink this much
coffee. I never got into the coffee craze and really only went to
Starbucks just to get out of the house during my “Introspective Period,”
as I’m going to refer to it, so looking at my intake notes the amount
of coffee I’m drinking is ridiculous. Maybe it’s because it’s free,
maybe it’s because I put in enough sugar to power an elementary school
for five years, or maybe because it’s free. Did I say that already?
Someone remind me to look up caffeine poisoning.
I
do drink a lot of water, which is good. And I eat a lot less salad than I
thought, which is bad. I used to go through bags of salad like
clockwork, but as of late I might eat one or two salads a week. My baked
chicken consumption is down
as well. And my broccoli. Actually, all my vegetable consumption is
down. Note, that when I say down, I mean down from where I thought it
might be, in that I hadn’t kept track in a while. It’s the old I was
millionaire until I counted my money type thing.
Makes you want to stop counting. On the other hand, up until last
weekend I was controlling the snacks pretty well. Damn you Dig'em!
All this tracking my food intake is as part of a group of my friends that is working to better their health. And by better their health I mean they're making it competitive and buying every gadget under the sun to prove they are in shape. And I'd like to be a part, well, a more participatory part, but I'm not signing up for one more app, not buying any more equipment and I'll be damned if I'm gonna participate in Meatless anything. That's how they get you! Damned vegans. First it's just a Monday for a while, then why not every Monday, and before you know it, BAM, you're eating tofu bacon and kale for breakfast and you're hooked on potato shakes. Nope, not me. I'll do the 10k steps a day, the workout and less sodium, keep my calorie count in limits and the exercises, but don't mess with my bacon.
And yes, it's on my food tracker. Less calories than you think too.
Barkeep, let me get a vodka and tonic. What? Vodka has like no calories or something.
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