Because That Granola I Had For Breakfast Makes This Totally OK

I am, by no means, an unhealthy eater. Yes, I occasionally have Skittles for breakfast. And yes, sometimes I eat giant bowls of homemade popcorn, covered in butter and popcorn mix (a delicious mix of powdered cheddar cheese, salt, marjoram, garlic powder and some other tasty, tasty things) the night before 9 mile runs. (Note, don't eat that much salt before doing things like that. You will regret it at about mile 4.) Admitting to all that begs the question: who hasn't done those things at one point or another? According to the calculations (and rationalizations) of one of the top 5 healthiest people I know (also a vegetarian) (Meaning she is healthy and a vegetarian, not that we are both vegetarians. Go meat!), pizza counts as a good recovery meal after a run because it has carbs, dairy, and veggies. (Let it be known, I 100% agree with this logic. In fact, I'm shocked I didn't come up with that myself.) The point is: everyone has their moments.

The life long love for cooking means I eat at home at nearly every meal, even pre-move, so I know where all my food comes from and what's in it. When I eat, I tend to eat small portions. I try to have only one glass of soda a day, if that, and mainly drink just water. Recently, I've even been adding things like ground chicken and turkey into my repertoire, trying to eat more fish, always have a vegetable or a salad with lots of veggies in it with dinner, etc. The point is: I'm really a decently healthy eater.

Tonight, after dinner, I decided I wanted a little something sweet. I went into the freezer and had a fruit bar, literally pureed, frozen fruit, arguably the healthiest dessert ever, in my hand. That's when I spotted the bag of frozen mini-Snickers.

Can you guess what won? Slash can you guess how many of those little guys won?

Did I mention the 1/4 pound of peanut M&M's I ate work today? Yeah.....

It's Official

I signed up for my first half-marathon today. This ranks somewhere on a very fine line between the best and worst idea I have ever had. I definitely anticipate some excellent blog content to come from this experience. (And even though it is for Team in Training, an excellent cause, I'm pretty sure this is going to be content of the hilarious, I can't walk a straight line sober variety, and not of the I'm changing my life one mile at a time variety.)

For starters, today I learned what a 'singlet' is. Well, sort of. To fill out an application that basically needed no information beyond my name and address I had to send 5 different texts to my friend A, whose idea this all was in the first place. Apparently a singlet is some kind of half leotard you wear on race day. (Where I come from this is known as a tank top, but what do I know.) Apparently my large boobs to shrinking (seriously!) waist ratio plus my lack of any knowledge of anything about running equals, I'll probably be the one person on race day who doesn't have a singlet. Either that or it's going to be a fat guy in a little coat scene which will probably be equally as hilarious.

Wish me luck folks. Wish. Me. Luck.

I Have Begun Exercising

No, seriously, I have. OK, so it's only been 3 days. And it's only the Wii Fit but still, 3 days is a start and if you've never used the Wii Fit, don't knock it 'til you try it. Particularly if you, like me, are using the brand new Biggest Loser game you bought your Mom for Christmas. (No, my Mom hasn't used it yet but isn't that what being a mother means? Your kids use your money to buy you a gift that is really for them?) You can set up your own little training program, they give you diet challenges for the day (today I have to eat one raw vegetable), it's really a treat.

The first day my diet challenge was to prepare at least one meal at home. Which I did. It was ribs and potato salad. Do we think that's what they were talking about? I should probably mention here that's it is Friday and in the Fahnestock household which means Bocce's Pizza and wings for dinner so I plan on making that one raw vegetable the little bag of carrots that comes in the box.

In other related news, I may be losing my mind because I'm pretty sure I just signed up to run a half-marathon. More details on this one to follow. Also, jaws off the floor please assholes.

Healthy.

Two days ago, for breakfast, I had a bag of fun-size Skittles.

Yesterday, I had a Vanilla Latte. And Pepperoni Pizza Combo's.

That's all.