Tweet What You Eat: taking food diaries to the next level

As usual, I was going through my Yahoo! Group discussion board emails for SCD and I ran across one post about a new web site. The site, Eat Right, is based in Ireland. While exploring this site I found something very interesting: Tweet What You Eat It’s a Twitter-based food diary. “Use Twitter to track what you eat, and now your weight, by ‘tweeting’ food items to your personal food diary on Tweetwhatyoueat.com from your mobile phone, IM or through Twitter.” Using your Twitter account you send direct messages to TWYE, so

your friends can’t see what your food diary. TWYE says, “Twitter is the perfect platform for a food diary application. You can send Twitter messages from a phone via SMS, your favorite IM client and even the web through Twitter.com! That makes it very versatile for our on-the-go lifestyles.”

It’s cool to see a new application for the Twitter technology, and I think it shows that Twitter can be used for more than just updating about your life. I’m not sure I’ll be tweeting my eating habits anytime soon, but perhaps someday.

The Skinny Girl Margarita

This weekend in NYC, I discovered the “Skinny Girl” Margarita. I turned 21 on Saturday, so I had my first real drinks over the weekend. As surprising and rare as it may be at OU, I don’t drink alcohol very often. Actually, I haven’t drank at all here. Now that I follow SCD, drinking really isn’t a top priority and there aren’t many options for alcoholic beverages that I’ve found. I guess some of you who have been on SCD longer may know more about this than me. Anyways, we went to Planet Hollywood to celebrate turning 21 at midnight and the waitress suggested a “Skinny Girl” Margarita. Now, that name right there sounds like something for me. I am, indeed, a very skinny girl. According to my internet research, the Skinny Girl is for women watching their waistlines, but in my case, I’m just watching out for those sugars. Said margarita is not like typical ones because usually there’s margarita mix made with a concentrate that has tons of sugar in it. This drink, however, has freshly squeezed lime and lemon juice instead of the concentrate and they topped mine off with some club soda. It was pretty tasty, but definitely not something I could drink all the time. I think if I want an adult beverage, I’ll stick to my very dry red wine for now.

The Skinny Girl Margarita On the Rocks

* 2 oz of clear Tequila (100% agave, Patron Silver)

* (count 1, 2 while you pour, no need for measuring)
* A splash of fresh lime juice
* A splash of Cointreau, Grand Marnier or Triple Sec ((for SCDers, a liqueur is a no-no, so skip this step, or add something else in))

Combine all ingredients over a glass of ice.

Garnish with a lime wedge and salt  if you’d like.

Also this YouTube video of how to make the Skinny Girl Margarita