Something about something...

So apparently there's wild fire in the woods north of AZ? At first I heard it in passing, and I was sure that it was going to stop soon...but I'm still hearing about it now. A little bit more every morning. I heard something about there not being a way to stop it until monsoon season. I don't even know when monsoon season is....I've lived here for five years now -_- but in my defense...who cares? My auntie called me all the way from Canada yesterday (I love her) to make sure the family was ok. I'm in phoenix though; the valley. if a wildfire DID ever start here....we might be in big trouble. My sympathy and prayers go out to the people who had to evacuate their homes and such. Must be a terrible ordeal.



On to less depressing matters. On sunday I will embark on a journey of much difficulty. A DIET! *sigh* And I have to stick to it because I made a bet with Veronica that if I succeed...well actually I didn't decided on MY terms yet, but she says if I fail, I have to buy her Dunkin Donuts coffee for a week! I don't wanna do that! So...I'm going to have to learn self discipline next week. What am I doing to prepare? Eating all the junk food I can THIS week. Terrible, right? I know. I think I'm a food addict. I love food. Can't help it. It's not even like I eat all the time, I just have terrible eating habits. I may eat only one meal in a day, but it'll will be something terribly fatty like com chien ga (my vietnamese chicken fried rice from a previous post). Not only do I eat foods that are terrible for me, I hate some foods that are good for me; like fruits. I am not a fan of fruits. There are very few fruits I enjoy eating raw. They are grapes. That's about it. I like peaches, but they're furry, so I only eat them canned. The reason I agreed to this diet is because it is a week long. After that week, I can't go back on it for two weeks. Hopefully during this week, I will learn better eating habits.

If you switch the top two rows with the bottom two, that's my diet. Well...Idk, I eat a lot of carbs too, I guess. It's not my fault. I didn't ask carbs and fat and meat to taste better than veggies. I should've just stayed vegan.



At any rate, should I succeed in this endeavor, I will have lost ten pounds in one week, which I consider to be quite a feat. No doubt it will be hard...but not impossible. I have to go shopping. I've made a list of the things I actually can tolerate consuming from the stuff I'm being forced to consume. I'm not looking forward to this. I want it to be over and see the results already. I'm really going to miss my beloved carbs.

What you see here is breakfast. Multigrain bagel (what's left of it) with reduced fat strawberry cream cheese from Dunkin Donuts, and an all natural fruit smoothie (no sugar added). I'm trying to pick up on some healthy habits already. But my lunch plans are a little different...

Chili cheese firedog from the hotdog stand. I start the day right, but somewhere along the line I go....here. Maybe it's the stress from work. I'm at work in both pictures (you can see my blog being created in the background of the top one hehehe).

I hope I learn self control before I start my fall semester at ASU. It's so easy to get caught up in a busy day and eat horribly due to bad planning. I think what I need to do is get more organized...and less lazy. Because if I cooked more, I would probably eat much healthier. So I'm going to figure out how to be more organized, buy some cookware, plan menus, shop for ingredients and cook for he week. There are a couple cooking shows that help with that, and I have both food network and cooking chanel, so I think I'm all set. Of course, I will be blogging about my struggles through this diet :-( maybe I need a better attitude about it....and lots of prayer.