Sunday, January 01, 2012

Competing with Michael Phelps for calories

I have read articles that stated Michael Phelps' daily caloric intake (during training) as 10,000 calories. Within the past 24 hours, I feel like I have consumed a Phelps-worthy amount of calories.

Although today is technically the first day of the new year and would be an ideal day to start eating better, I have simply merged today with last night---in other words, I've just been on a day long food rampage:) I've consumed Tostitos chips, large amounts of seven layer dip (most of the seven layers being fatty substances like sour cream or guac), cupcakes, brownies, sweet potato chips (your daily serving of veggies--according to the packaging), pasta, chicken on skewers, and some token veggies and hummus.

I kind of like the idea of starting off the first day of the new year with utter gluttony and then, tomorrow, beginning anew. I guess I could have gone to the gym today and started off the new year "right," but the gym is notoriously PACKED on January 1st. I think it was much more intelligent to lie in bed in pajamas, consume abundant amounts of carbs without having any plans to really expend the energy that I consumed, and watch marathons of shows like Jersey Shore. I would say I feel horrible about watching such trashy tv, but honestly, everything on television today was garbage. A majority of channels had all day marathons, most of which were dreadful shows that encouraged vapidness and sloth, or a combination of both: Housewives of Atlanta, Keeping up with the Kardashians, One Life to Live, 650 Pound Virgin, House, Samantha Who, Storage Wars, Hoarders, and on and on. In following with the theme of today's television, I chose to be slothful today:)

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