Food Blog Week!

Do you feel like you don't have a firm grip on all the food you consume? Do you use a calorie counter? Are you regularly surprised by your daily calorie total?

No? Just me? ;)

I've been watching my food intake and exercise fairly regularly for about 1 year now, yet I've failed to really lose the 10-15lbs I want and tone myself to a level I'm happy with. Whenever I spend a few days eating healthily and exercising regularly, I end up spending the burned calories on a couple needless splurges. I'm watching what I eat without really respecting the process.

And from what I gather this is a pretty common problem, especially with girls in my 20-30 age group. We seem to get out of college, into an office and sorta fill out. We get into relationships, into routines, into desk chairs and get complacent. Exercise gets a little harder, the sofa at the end of a long work day gets a little softer, and consequently so do our hips, our thighs, our tummies. Come mid-twenties you find yourself still eating and drinking like you're 19 but not really burning like ya used to. And you realize: It's time to start watching what you eat.

SO, I'm making an effort to break the habit. Over the next week I will be watching what I eat. There may be some chocolate in there, there might be the occasional movie popcorn or snacksize doritos, but I'll be tracking everything honestly in an effort to really examine what I eat.

And you can track it too. Because for the next week 16th - 23rd June I will be posting a photo of every lil thing I eat on silent45. It's overkill, I know it is, but it's a cleaver through my old habits. It's an overblown gesture that I hope will cause me to more closely consider food before I eat it, rather than after (in the form of bitter, bitter regret). And I'm hoping that by putting it up on the interwebs others might learn along with me.

So be sure to check in and follow along. I'll be posting throughout the day. I'm starting the first one riiiiight now:

Coffee and Special K 90cal bar for breakfast

Oh and bear witness to my Michigan pride right there. Thanks for the mug Kaitlyn!

Stay tuned!