Thankful Thursday

In honor of Turkey Day here are all the things I am thankful for.

• Clothing. Something has to cover the cellulite and stretch marks.
• Uggs. They may be ugly but damn if they aren't comfy.
• Wine. And wine glasses. And bottle openers for said wine.
• Beer. Kegs. Pint glasses. Power Hour. Pitchers.
• Football. Boys in tight pants playing with balls.
• Coolers. Keeping my booze cold. Great for bets. Also decent seating when in a crunch.
• People uglier than me. I know it's bitchy but don't even pretend like when someone less attractive than you is in the same room you don't secretly thank god for small favors.
• Liquor. Shot glasses.
• Bars. Somewhere everyone knows your name. Because you puked everywhere, took half your clothes off and went home with a rando.
• Hot boys. A girl can dream.
• Piedmont Park. I like to play with balls there.
• My blackberry. How the hell else would I get through the day? Who would entertain you with inappropriate or blatantly obvious tweets?
• Friends and Family. Because it's what everyone says. And someone out there probably listed me so this is really just to cover my bases.
• Mexican food. Feels so good going down...the next morning I may weigh 5 more lbs and feel like shit but damn last night was good.
• Other drunk people. This doesn't bear explaining.
• Sober people. For rides home, duh.
• Sweatpants. Ohhhh god I love sweatpants. There are even some guys who look sexy in them. Probably not any of my readers but don't fret, I don't look sexy in them either.
• Blogs like Barstool Sports, masshole sports, bulldog in exile, fired n fabulous,imboycrazy.com, Livit, Luvit and 8 billion other blogs I read every day (perhaps I should highlight one a week....hmmmm).
• The library. Every once in a while I need to get my dork on.
• The internet. dear Al Gore, thanks for helping me stalk people. Love Berryfine.
• My apartment. It's just me and my nudity whenever I hit the doorway. So delicious.

God, that's a lot of stupid, material shit to be thankful for. Your turn, what ridiculous shit are you thankful for that you're too embarrassed to say at the dinner table today? Don't worry, I won't judge.

I LOVE Trader Joe's

So...I've been suuuuuupppperrrrr unhealthy this week (where the FUCK are you motivation?!?!?!). Yesterday after work, I decided I would walk to the library and get my new library card (yes, I am a dork) and then over to Trader Joe's for some grocery shopping. It's really hard to be healthy when you have no food in the house and you wait till your starving to make a food decision. Don't believe me? Here's yesterday's food diary:

• Breakfast: Everything bagel slathered with sundried tomato cream cheese and a diet coke (out of the can, from the vending machine. Best damn thing in the world).
• Lunch: Arby's Turkey Bacon Ranch with curly fries and Sierra Mist (We live in Atlanta, Arbys is based in Atlanta, Coca-Cola is based in Atlanta, and yet Arbys insists on providing its customers with fucking pepsi products. Sorry Pepsi, it ain't my bag).
• Snack: Mini Mint Ice Cream Mouthfuls (purchased at Trader Joes because it said Mouthful. I have the sense of humor of a 12 year old boy).
• Dinner: Holy Guacamole (a delicious bowl of cheese dip with a glob of guac and salsa and a side of chips), Trailer Park Taco (fired chicken with awesome shit I can't remember in a corn tortilla) and TWO pomegranate margaritas (of which I would have continued drinking BUT they were 8 bucks a pop). Where did this mouth orgy occur? Cantina in Buckhead.

Clearly, I need to stock up on groceries (in my defense dinner was because my BFF Ally came into town and we needed to grab a bite together. Nothing is better than friendship and Mexican my friends). So, onto my love for Trader Joe's. Even when you buy something that's not so great for you (Mini Mouthfuls) you don't feel too bad about it. I have this false sense of health when I walk into that store. Also, I never thought I would say this but the limited options are actually HELPFUL because you don't have a choice to be obscenely unhealthy when you make decisions (ummm 2 containers of Ben and Jerry's what?!!?). Also, its walking distance to my apartment so thats a plus. And the cost cannot be beat- for the low price of $36 I got the following:

1. Trader Joe's reusable bag to carry my goods in (only a buck! and prettier than Kroger, Publix and Walmart).
2. Bananas ($.19 per banana what?!?!?!)
3. Strawberries
4. Turkey
5. Turkey Burgers
6. Pita Bread
7. Hummus
8. Feta Cheese
9. Simpler Times Beer ($3.49 for 6- a pilsner. I'll let you know if its any good)
10. Riesling ($3.99. Two Buck Chuck doesn't make a Riesling. Bastard)
11. Mini Mint Icecream Mouthfuls
12. Spinach
13. Two dark chocolate candy bars (apparently dark chocolate is good for you. Don't judge me. And it was $.49 a pop so I couldn't resist. Total impulse buy)

So, I'm pretty new to the whole organic, healthy, whatever food and Trader Joe's. If you have any recommendations of products I should try, leave them in the comments section. I'll pick them up and give 'em a review for ya!Also, only Courtney gave me songs to run to yesterday :( They were great but I felt unloved!

Home for the Holidays Day 1

I think I did pretty well for the first day of the Thanksgiving holiday. My parents wanted to treat us to Mexican tonight. It is TOUGH having Mexican without margaritas but I stuck to water. I got there late which meant 1/2 the cheese dip was already gone. Also, good for me. I stuck with chicken fajitas for dinner and piled on the veggies. I steered clear of the rice but I smeared on sour cream so that was bad.

I took a break from work today to hit the gym and then went again tonight after dinner because I REFUSE to gain weight over the holidays. We'll see what tomorrow brings!

Epic FAIL

Weight: 165
Workout: 30 minutes stationary bike
Food Diary:
Breakfast- multi grain cheerios with skim milk
Snack: 2 servings of Quakes
Lunch: Chicken Quesadilla with onions and green bell peppers
Snack: Tomatoes, Cucumbers and Feta in balsamic vinegar and oil
Snack 2: Strawberries
Dinner: Benihana's Hibachi chicken with fried rice, zucchini, shrimp, soup, salad, 2 glasses of red wine and birthday cake

The alarm going off and subsequent hitting of the snooze button should have been an indication of how your day was going to go. You set it for 5 am thinking you would squeeze a workout in before work since you had a birthday dinner to attend to that night. 30 minutes later, you only had thirty minutes to work out. You had hoped to run since you am training for the Buckhead Sizzler 10 k in September but your knee has really been bothering you so you settled for biking instead. Added bonus, you could sneak some reading into your day. Of course, the calories burned on that are practically non-existent but the point is you did something.

YOU WERE HUNGRY ALL DAMN DAY.

By 8:30am you were jonesing for something, anything. You busted out the bag of Quakes which your lazy ass failed to separate after saying you would and ate about 2 servings of delicious caramel rice cakes. You chugged some water. By 10:30 am, you were hungry again. Obviously, you need to work on figuring out which foods are both healthy and filling but you guess that is the point of this whole thing- to learn healthy habits and incorporate them into your life (added bonus- you get a good laugh). At 11 am your boss comes around saying they are buying lunch. Now, you are too broke to turn down a free lunch so you are on board no matter what it is. Which is, of course, Mexican food. Without a menu or nutrition label to guide you, you just pick something you know you'll like- a chicken quesadilla. Which turned out to be smaller than you thought. After eating that, you felt full and thought FINALLY.

YOUR RELIEF WAS SHORTLIVED.

By 2 pm, you are home and STARVING. By 3 pm, you are insisting to yourself that you have to eat something. You should listen to your body...even when its screaming at you to stuff your face with sweets? Okay, you should listen to your body, respect its opinion and then eat what you know is best for you (kind of like what a husband does to his wife). So you tackled some of your delicious tomatoes and cucumbers mix and threw some feta cheese into it. You actually devoured it and for an hour felt satiated. But hunger won out again. This time you hit the fridge for some strawberries. Two days into the week and you are already out of fruit and almost out of veggies. And broke. Jeez eating is costly.

And then came BENIHANA'S.

You tried to be good, promise. You even went so far as to look up Benihana's to see if you could find nutrition information. Turns out they are the one restaurant that does not provide this information. After failing at that research, you googled them to see if ANYONE has anything remotely like their nutrition information (they don't). Finally, you chose your meal based on cost. Jesus, 17 bucks for chicken? He didn't even do a smoking volcano! And of course, after having two glasses of red wine with your friends, you were so hungry you forgot your vow to only eat half of what was on your plate. In fact, you kept thinking, 'man these are incredibly small portions!' To top it off, it was a birthday party so of course you had cake.

Well, folks, EPIC FAIL. You suppose we will call that your cheat day. Sucks it was so early in the week!