Banana Bread

Today, I was trying to decide between 2 subjects for my blog, that no one reads except a select few: "Things I believe my generation still does not understand" and "Great time wasters of my generation." Instead, I will write a blog about the college or "on the go" diet.

As a student, I try to make healthy decisions, however, a busy schedule or work, school, social outings, and getting older has taken a toll on my metabolism and diet. Seventy-five percent of the time, I would like to say that I make healthy decisions when it comes to eating meals. I am not a person who likes to make a meal of junk food; however, the temptation is there and for 25% of the time I do fall victim to having to make poor food decisions due to time and money restraints.

For the past year, I have sustained on four types of food: vending machine food, resteraunt food, concession stand food, and home made food.

On average, I usually hit up the vending machine and concession stands the most. While I do try to make healthier decisions on the type of foods I do eat, I stand defeated when realizing that no matter how hard I try I always end up eating unhealthy.

Then factor in the fact that I work in a place that randomly has free food for me to eat (like the homemad banana nut bread a professor brought itn, it quietly sits on my desk, waiting to be eaten by ME) and my ass and stomach are goners. :-(

Or the fact that I have a love of food that takes me to places with buffets, large portion sizes and all the sweet tea I can drink.

In my defense, I eat more ethnic food than fast food (i.e. Indian, Vietnamese, and Greek). I stay away from fast food because, well, I like food enough to NOT subject myself to the cheap/fake stuff.

The above reasons are probably why I have gained about 10 pounds in the past year.

So, I will try to do this: Pack my lunch &snack & dinner every night and make sure to bring it to school with me. Then, if I have to.... make even healthier decisions on the types of food I eat.

This will be hard because I do have to stay on campus longer than I planned for on some events but......
it's what I have to do
if I want to be healthy.