Michigan

I always forget how green it is here until I come back. It's sooooooo beautiful here. People say Austin is green, and compared to the rest of Texas, it is. But compared to here, it's brown, brown, brown!

In other news, I realized yesterday that diet really does affect fitness. I was eating all sorts of awful things on Saturday that I don't normally eat. Pizza, some chicken (not horrible, per se, but just not what my body is used to at this point), some packaged "grasshopper" cookies, 3 beers (probably should just stick to 1 or 2, and in fact, should probably rule it out all together when i'm training for a triathlon), and *gasp* worst of all, some snack foods with trans fat in them. You know what's scary is, I'm actually to the point now where I can sometimes tell by the taste when something has trans fat.

Well, on Sunday I went for a 5-mile run around my brother's place. I mapped out a nice route on mapmyrun, waited until I had (at least mostly) digested my snack, which (yuck!) including some kind of nut mix that had some weird sesame sticks (one of the offending trans-fat sources). honestly i never should have even bought that stuff. I only did because I made the classic mistake of shopping for groceries when I was hungry.

So I was running and enjoying the relative coolness (it was only like 80 or 85, which when you're used to running in 102 degrees, feels quite nice), but about halfway into it I started to feel sooooo sick. I seriously thought I was going to vom. In fact, when I got home I actually did (a little). (Which made me feel better). Whenever I am tempted to eat bad things I shouldn't, I am going to force myself to remember how gross that felt and hopefully it will bolster my self-control.

In related news, there is a ton of food here yet almost nothing to eat. Seriously, if I ate the kind of stuff my brother's house is stocked with on a regular basis, I would feel like crap all the time.

If I had the money to do it, I would be so tempted to throw away all the food in the house and replace it with really healthful stuff. But, in addition to me not being able to afford it, I don't think it would do any good, since most good-for-you foods require some preparation (yeah right, like THAT's going to happen...), and I really do'nt think such a gesture would be appreciated.

*sigh* oh well fortunately there's a grocery store not far away...

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