Showing posts with label plants. Show all posts
Showing posts with label plants. Show all posts

Friday, January 29, 2010

Back to Basics

You ever have those days when you realize you are being totally hypocritical? I have realized that I have not done a very good job lately of eating good food. So I am trying to get back to basics! As Michael Pollan says, "Eat food. Not too much. Mostly plants." Simple, simple, simple, yet sometimes so hard, especially in a midwestern college cafeteria! I think I just have to accept that I am going to spend more money on food, and that will involve making concessions. But honestly, would I rather spend money on stupid stuff I don't need (those gnome pajamas I bought at Target, although I love them, were entirely unneccesary) or on good food that will be an investment in my future body and be living out my food morals?
Especially now that I am starting out of season conditioning for volleyball, I remember how much better I feel when I exercise and eat right. Like, yesterday I did and hour of jump and agility training and played for an hour in the morning, and then swam for an hour last night. 3 hours of working out, and last night I didn't go to bed exhausted like I had the last few weeks.
We talked about photosynthesis yesterday in Plant Biology- it never ceases to amaze me how smart plants are. Imagine if we could make our own food! Once again- have you thanked a plant today?!?!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

No more sodie pop

Today I decided that if I'm going to complain about corn and high fructose corn syrup, I better stop eating so much of it. Since it's pretty difficult to avoid in a college cafeteria, I'm cutting soda out cause it's easy. I don't drink a ton of soda, but enough that it's better that I don't. I just finished watching the documentary King Corn (research for a paper for Plants class), and they said that your likelyhood of diabetes doubles if you drink one soda a day!
I'm excited for the State of the Union tonight- I'm watching it in my suite with a bunch of friends.

Overall, life is good. Still stuffy, but other than that I am braving the cold and the stress.

I had a scare that I lost my awesome old Sigg water bottle the other day, but turns out I just left it in the fitness center!!! Phew!