First Week Recap

I’ve got some catching up to do since I started quantifying my habits about a week ago. I must say I’m extremely disappointed in my complete lack of cooking this week. I thought tracking my habits would shame me into the kitchen, but it hasn’t exactly worked out that way. Over the course of the week my fiance J and I have eaten at McDonald’s, Panera Bread and *foodie gasp* a food court.
The food court was an accident.
We started out our hunt for food in the worst possible way: by staying in our pajamas all day hardly accomplishing much. I wish I could say we ended up such a sad location because I was studying all day, but the numbers don’t lie. There was a decided lack of studying. J wanted to look for a suit for his residency interviews {he’s finishing up his fourth year of medical school} and we were also hungry. I was also feeling incredibly nauseated and just wanted egg drop soup. Our current location being the bastion of nightmarish suburban sprawl that it is, there was about an hour and a half wait for entrance into our local Chili’s of Chinese Food. After driving around aimlessly, hangry and nauseated, we decided to just head over to the food court since we wanted to go to the mall anyway. Because nothing cures a stomachache quite like MSG.


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First Post as a Quantified Foodie

I was given the assignment to track and quantify something about myself over the course of my semester in grad school. I love to cook and was curious to see if I would spend less time cooking as I added studying into my routine. I usually cook very elaborate, time consuming dishes, but I’m not sure I’ll be able to cook such fancy-schmancy meals now. I’m also tracking time spent driving to go to grab something to eat. Will I stay true and cook? Will I give in to the lure of fast food and restaurants in the name of speed and laziness? Only time will tell.