So I'm going to try and actually blog now, as in posting somewhat regularly and frequently.  Currently, my motivation comes from my desire to run the Red Rock Relay Zion.  I've been training for it for a couple of months now, and aside from some shin splints that caused me to have to change my running stride (which is now much better, many thanks to the people at 26.2 Running in American Fork for being awesome enough to let me exchange a pair of shoes I'd run 10 or so miles in for another pair that better suit a forefoot/midfoot strike, and to my coworker who shall be known as Sven the Free Running Coach), it's been going well.

One of the best things that's been happening is that I've been able to coax myself into eating much MUCH better than I was before.  That's where blogging comes in.  Although I'm eating better, it's not perfect and I find it helps me keep on track to keep track of what I eat.  I've been using MyFitnessPal for this, but I find it tedious to look up everything I eat, and the tedium doesn't really have that "Maybe I won't eat something I know I shouldn't if I know I have to track it" effect.  So instead of tracking it there, I'm going to track it here.  Yes - I'm going to put everything I eat online on a publicly-viewable blog.  That means that, at this point, approximately one or maybe two other people will be seeing what I eat each day.  Big commitment, I know.  There's a good chance this will last all of three days, but I keep thinking if I try and start blogging about something every so often eventually it'll stick.  Maybe.  Anyways, here's my food for yesterday, in roughly chronological order:

• 1 peanut butter cake mix cookie (pick-me-up at 5:30 AM before leaving for work)
• ~1 cup old fashioned oatmeal with sugar and craisins (they taste great in it and the added texture is awesome to keep the oatmeal from feeling so blah)
• ~20 oz Dr. Pepper Ten (don't hate, it was on sale for $0.69 for 2 liters at Maceys and I've got a new baby at home)
• 5 homemade meatballs (smallish ones, not ginormous hunks of calorific meatiness)
• 2 slices Grandma Sycamore white bread
• Some home-canned peaches (not sure how much - a good amount?)
• 1 no-bake cookie
• 1/4 Totino's pizza
•  2 small/medium grilled marinated pork chops
• 1 smallish baked potato with sour cream, chives, and a little ranch
• A bunch of salad with bell peppers, craisins, tomatoes and various dressings (multiple servings, not some dressing suicide mix)
• (This is where it really starts to get ugly)
• One scoop of Butterfinger and one scoop of Baby Ruth ice cream in a bowl
• One small scoop of vanilla ice cream sandwiched in two no-bake cookies
• One scoop of Butterfinger and one of Baby Ruth (again, this time in a sugar cone!)

 Obviously the day didn't end as well as it started (which wasn't all that amazing either?).  Another good thing though is that I get to log what exercise I did:

• Bench press
• Incline press
• Tricep pull-downs
• Lat pull-downs
• Preacher curls
• Squats
• Lunges
• Crunches
• Side Crunches
• Plank
• Boat (if you know what this is, I'm sorry - it hurts!  If not, I'm sorry - you're missing a serious ab-killer)
• Leg lifts (on back, for abs)

Ok so maybe that doesn't sound like much but it was pretty late at night and I did it all pretty quick to keep my heart rate up, so it felt good anyway.

I realize at the end of writing this that my writing is dry.  Painfully so.  Hopefully it will get more interesting/funny/not-painful with practice.  If not, at least there won't ever be that many people looking at what I eat each day.  Yeah, that makes me feel better about my writing.