I ate so much crap yesterday. Breakfast was fine: a bowl of oatmeal with fruit (my usual). But it went downhill from there. My midmorning snack was a packet of Lorna Doone shortbread cookies from a vending machine. Lunch was two pieces of pizza, followed a short time later by a Nestle Crunch bar. Then it turned out one of colleagues had brought in a homemade apple pie, so I had a piece of that in the afternoon. Dinner before my chorus rehearsal was McDonald’s, and during our break I had a chocolate Krispy Kreme donut.

That’s right. I had oatmeal with raisins, shortbread cookies, pizza, a chocolate bar, a piece of apple pie, McDonald’s, and a chocolate donut.

McDonald’s isn’t a regular part of my diet, but I’ve been eating too much chocolate and other sugary products lately. I don’t drink coffee, but I have a chocolate bar almost every afternoon at work. While I don’t put on weight from this stuff, it does make me feel a little icky. So I’ve decided that I’m going to eat healthy today. No chocolate or sugary or greasy foods, just for one day. I’ll have a salad or a sandwich for lunch, and my afternoon snack will be a piece of fruit. Dinner will be real food, and no sugary desserts. I figure if I commit to just one day, I’ll have a better chance of following through.

(I should probably take up some sort of cardiovascular exercise, too.)

This all reminds me that a professor in college once told us that the four food groups were sugar, salt, grease, and beer.