Healthy Diets

         This may be a dumb post but I just ate a chocolate chip muffin and cheesy potatoes drenched in maple syrup so it’s on my mind.  A healthy diet is really difficult to maintain.  It’s the truth.  I thought I would be eating vegetables, fruits, and other healthy options in all of the dining halls on my college campus, but it’s really hard when there are so many unhealthy options.  I’m not saying that there shouldn’t be unhealthy foods, just that it makes it hard (for at least me personally) to eat healthy.  Every once in a while, I ditch fries for sushi but that doesn’t mean I’m thriving with a healthy diet.  It’s so simple to eat strawberries for a snack but it’s hard to consistently choose fruit over the muffins and ice cream that I now tastes so good.  Walking around a college campus all day helps to combat some of this caloric intake, but I don’t always feel great.  This is not a post telling you how to eat healthy or making myself feel better for my choices; I’m merely trying to say that eating healthy is a simple concept but hard to manifest in your life.  I try to cut back on sweets and I don’t think I’ve eaten “bad” one day but then I think back and realize I really have.  I cave to chai tea lattes, chocolate chip cookies and pretty much any potato product.  Don’t even get me started on how dehydrated I always am because I forget to drink water and how good muffins and ice cream is on campus.  It’s crazy.  I have granola bars in my room but I’ve eaten too many if them so now I have to be in a very specific mood for the.  I’m just ranting now but healthy options are hard.  There’s a vegan part of Virginia w. Kettering dining hall that has really good pasta that I get sometimes but I get two pieces of toast with it so that’s not great.  I need to try to drink more water because that helps your metabolism and skin and yada yada yada, but I just forget.  It’s okay to forget and I guess me writing this is the first step towards making change… but the cheesy potato casserole will probably still be my breakfast go to.  And that’s okay too.  As long as you don’t feel bad or bad about yourself there is not need to change yourself, including your diet (unless medical professionals tell you to, then it’s probably a good idea to cut those potatoes).  Healthy eating is hard but