do Health Month from Jan 6th-Feb 6th

I don’t know if this form of eating as morality really works for me. But it was kind of fun to be like everyone else and be “on a diet”, I can definitely see what the anorexics get out of it and why this site is so attractive to them.

There are about 9 days left in Health Month and as predicted I can feel my will faltering. When Todd asked me what the hardest part of Health Month has been, I said coffee… because I don’t really fully understand why it’s part of the rules. And now, I’m starting to feel that the purpose of Health Month has been satisfied and therefore each of the rules is becoming more difficult to adhere to. And I guess I’m just a little grumpy. I plan on sticking it out to the end, at which point I have no idea what I’ll do other than to commence February’s Extremely Moderate Health Month theme.

Green Rooibos kind of tastes like green tea…

It is 6 days into the health month; sugar does create a big problem for me. I usually have instant breakfast and a piece of toast with peanut butter. They both have sugar in them. I can’t eat any backed goods such as muffins. I can’t eat energy bars, which is my lunch when I am busy. However, I had a wonderful crab meat stuffed salmon for lunch today at the Capital Grille.

I realized that this could be an excuse to eat whatever I want. There’s nothing on the prohibited list that I normally have more than a few times a week (except the tea) so it’s easy to give up. But I could tell myself I’m being “healthy” by following all the rules and pig out on fruit, nuts, vegetables, salmon, yogurt, brown rice, beans, eat half of the PCC deli case, etc. Needless to say I don’t think I’m going to lose any weight on this.

OK, I’m doing it from January 2nd to February 2nd, but same difference.

So far so good, but it’s kind of boring, and I’m hungry a lot of the time. Made a huge batch of brown rice so I can have rice and beans for lunch tomorrow, yum yum. My standards for deliciousness have dropped considerably!

I went to the vending machines at school today and realized there is not a single thing in any of them that I can eat. Which makes me realize how much crap everyone usually eats.

Injured runners had significantly lower intakes of total fat (63 + 20 vs. 80 + 50 g/d) and percentage of kilocalories from fat (27 + 5 vs. 30 + 8 ) compared with non-injured runners. A logistic regression analysis found that fat intake was the best dietary predictor, correctly identifying 64 of future injuries.

http://www.jissn.com/content/5/1/1/abstract

Venessa is doing this and since she does the lion’s share of the cooking, I figured ‘what the heck’. So count me in, but know that I hate dieting and/or eating healthy.

I am a tea drinker and I had no idea how difficult it will be to stop drinking my tea. Now when I think about it I had one tea before work, one on the way to work, one when I arrived to work, one during lunch, one after lunch, two more before the end of work, one on the way home. Mostly all were 16 oz cups. Man, I am going through serious withdraw just writing about it..

Not too hard for me, except No Sugar. Does it mean no sweets at all?