Day 330: Processed Food

OMG what is HAPPPENING to me? I had a hotdog for dinner for like three days in a row and haven't cooked all last week. No big deal I love hotdogs, and they're turkey dogs, so at least I haven't stooped to red meat or pork. Oh but I ate pork, too. Bacon...this weekend. It was yummy. So I looked at the nutrition facts and was appalled so much sodium, so many ingredients that sound so gross. What am I doing to my body and blood pressure?

Rewind to 2005.
After returning from Costa Rica where I had spent 5 months, I came back no longer eating red meat or pork. I didn't eat it the entire time I was there, and the body does a funny thing, if you don't eat it, you don't want it. Well fancy that. I also transitioned to going natural because I didn't want chemicals in my hair. My body was lean from doing a lot of outside activities.

Fast forward to 2008. After returning from Honduras, along with red meat and pork, I gave up eating processed food mostly because it made me sick. I have given my body so much natural fruits and vegetables homemade cheeses and milk and other delicious foods that it couldn't take eating stuff that wasn't organic. I gave up frozen foods because they often had salt and preservatives, soda for the sugar content, caffeinated beverages, no fast food/restaurant food and even anything that was bleached white from their natural color (sugar, flour, bread). I went for a jog everyday one to two miles. I was amazing.


Fast forward to 2009-2010. Being in the states, boy do you start to give in and lose control. Sugar, flour and bread returned. I could only eat bread as a reward once every two weeks. Still no soda, no caffeine, hardly any fast food. Oh but I ate bacon and being around the BF forced me to eat things like Hooters Wings and Ranch dressing. I also allowed myself to eat french fries, only if I was going out to dinner. He worked out religiously, so in turn I worked out religiously.

Today: Still no soda, no caffeine, maybe a Ginger Ale once a month. Bread is still a treat but a weekly treat. I crave things like donuts, which I don't remember ever wanting. I usually cook all my own meals to stay healthy, but for some reason I am on an unhealthy (and expensive) kick. I think it has to do with how much "good" food you have to consume if you are working out a lot. I can eat apples, oranges, meat, and cheese and still be like oh I need more protein. I am still working out Mondays, Thursdays, Saturdays and/or Wednesdays and love that I walk a lot to get to work on the metro.  I'll get over it soon and even cooked my lunch for tomorrow. Send me positivity vibes. Cause I look good, but I am an inner fattie.

*PS After my hotdog I may have had a Carmello. Just one...but I bought two. Oh and some rice crackers, dang those things have a lot of carbs

Hey you, yes you, with the Taco Bell dinner. I'm not judging you. Well at least not today.