Here’s to a healthy 2010

Happy New Year!

I know it’s kind of belated, but it’s still January, so we can still celebrate the new year.

Back at my second home: Athens, Ohio

Honestly, I’m pretty disappointed in myself. I was hoping to continue updating through my winter break, but my season job took over my life. I was hoping my mom and I would cook up a storm and I could write all about it, but it never happen.

Have no fear, readers! I am back. I am going to try to update on a regular basis. It’ll be difficult this quarter with everything that’s going on. It was nice when I was being graded on how often I post.

This year, I am really focused on keeping myself healthy. After last year’s health struggles, I think that this year has to be my year. To help with this I’ve come up with goals for myself. I prefer goals to resolutions because I know resolutions are just made so they can be broken in February. So here are my goals for 2010:

• Drink my homemade yogurt shake every day! I have to admit that I was bad for awhile. I think I went a month without drinking my shake, which really is not good. Overall, I was still okay, but  I had my moments when I was afraid I was slipping back into my sick days. So this year I will drink my shake every day.
• Eat more of a variety. I should just be honest and say “eat more fruits and veggies!” but I think that I also just need more variety. Sometimes I feel like I stick to a few dishes and don’t branch out. This year, I will try to add my variety into my diet. More fruits, more veggies, different dishes.
• Stop wanting what I can’t have. I know the SCD is doing wonders for my health and the food is great. But I’m only human and sometimes I really just want those foods I know are bad for me. I am going to appreciate the delicious food I have and not give into my weakness for certain illegal foods.
• Less stress! I almost wrote “no stress,” but let’s be real. As a college student, there’s no such thing as “no stress.”  In general I’m a bit of a worrier and tend to get stressed out more easily than the average person, so this year, my goal is to chill out. I’m going to try to take things as the come and try not to sweat the small stuff.

This is my tenth month of the Specific Carbohydrate Diet and  going strong. I’m not sure how I’m doing weight-wise (I’ll have to check when I’m in Cincinnati this weekend), but I feel great!

I hope you are all off to a great start this year. I’d love to hear your goals (or resolutions if you prefer) and hopes for 2010.

May you all be happy and stay healthy!

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.