Food. I Eat It. **Updated**

Time to share my sparkling wisdom one more time.

Aimee aks:

If you wouldn't mind sharing, what kinds of meals do you eat for breakfast and lunch? I know that might sound like a weird question, but I consider you a fit person (even though I've never really met you) with a healthy weight. I've been taking unofficial polls of my friends who are fit, just to see what they eat and how often.

See people, this is why I blog. Because someone out there thinks I'm fit and tells me so. :) Truthfully, when it comes to the exercise aspect of being fit, I would agree with you. I am in good shape, the best shape I've ever been in. But the goodness stops there.

I eat way too much junk. And worst of all, I skip breakfast all the time. I am just not the type of person that can eat first thing in the morning. And I don't like eating before going to the gym, which I know is bad. But I do it anyway. If I do eat breakfast, it is after being up for at least an hour, and even then will be very light. Maybe a couple of pieces of toast or one bowl of cereal. I don't drink milk often either. I hope no doctors are reading this.

For lunch, I only do slightly better. If we have good food in the house, I eat lunch. If we are down to peanut butter and jelly or leftovers, I probably skip it too. I know--terrible! But a good lunch to me is a tuna sandwich on toast (why does it taste better on toast?) with some chips. Or a turkey sandwich with some chips. Once in a while I will eat some leftovers, but I'm incredibly picky. Maybe I eat cheese and crackers and some deli meat, if I have it on hand.

I'm lucky in that I do have a good amount of control in terms of portions. So I might just eat chips for lunch, but it will be a bowl, not a bag. My weakness is sweets, and if we have them in the house I'm in trouble. I made some rice krispie treats a couple of weeks ago and I ate half the batch by myself, easily. This is why I have to work out like a mad woman.

So, don't eat like me. Please. It is not good for you. We do okay at dinner, but that is only one meal, and the least important one probably. I know that these horrible eating habits will catch up with me and I am working on making improvements. I've been given fair warning that it all goes downhill once you hit 30, so I'm trying to be on top of that. I've got the exercise part down, but the food aspect is taking longer to work for me.

And now you all know I am not as fit as I pretend to be here on the blog. Any more questions? Or do you want to keep whatever illusions about me that remain?

Update: After kickboxing this morning, I shamelessly drove to a local drive-thru Mexican place and bought two delicious potato, egg and cheese breakfast tacos. So I do eat breakfast, just at the wrong time. And today's breakfast is delicious. I did choose unsweet iced tea as my beverage, so I'm making small steps toward being less junky.