Healthy Eating?

Living the healthy lifestyle is tough. Eating healthy, exercising, getting enough sleep while being a full time college student taking 21 credit hours is no easy task. I need to have a beach body by the time school gets out and it shall be no easy task. 7 weeks to go!

This all started yesterday. I was sitting at my desk, eating some Kit Kats and Chex Mix, which watching Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations. This particular episode was the Iceland episode, and Anthony went there in the middle of the winter, when there is only 4 hours of sunlight. Supposedly Icelanders (is that what they are called?) just work out a lot and live one of the healthiest lifestyles instead of complaining about how much it sucks to live in a place with relatively no sun. So as I sit there stuffing my face with copious amount of junk food, I think to myself, this HAS to change.

Enter Mackenzi.

She, too, was complaining how she wanted a beach body by summer, and how she actually wanted to do something about it. There we were, sitting in our tiny, cramped dorm room, talking about how we should be healthy but doing nothing about it. That all changed within five minutes and we hit up the RPAC. We then decided we would eat only healthy food for the rest of the quarter and work out almost every day. We were so motivated, but how long would this last?

The next day:
Wake up, only a little sore from the gym, and eat a healthy breakfast (a hard boiled egg, an apple, and a granola bar) and head out to class. I'm feeling pretty good about myself, and it was time for lunch, so I opt for a salad and peanut butter crackers. And within a half hour of my lunch I am starving. I can ear my stomach growling and I'm starting to feel weak. All I wanted was some mashed potatoes with gravy from Fresh and maybe some pudding. Something heavy that would fill my up. All this damn healthy food does not fill you up, and I was not loving it at all. So I took a nap hoping my hunger would subside (I don't know why I thought that... maybe all the healthy food is altering my thought process), but I woke up with a stomach screaming for food. Then I caved: I had a pudding cup. The best pudding cup ever, though. But after that little slip up earlier I've been pretty good; I went to the gym, had a healthy dinner, and now I'm sitting in the Thompson doing homework/writing a blog entry.

So as day 2 comes to a close, I'm hoping the next 7 weeks or so will not be as bad as this, and my stomach will adjust to just eating a lowly salad for lunch. No promises, though.

I should really work on my Lollapalooza entry. Or maybe I will wait until the schedule is released tomorrow. Yeah, that sounds good.

Everyone should check out Justin Townes Earle. Now.