Epiphany!

I tend to be fairly careful with the food I cook. Keep the Sodium down, limit the fat and balance the protein, carbs and vegetables in a healthy manner. I like whole grains and things that are high in fiber, so it's usually not particularly difficult for me.

But I never really thought about lunch. I don't know, maybe I was stuck in the belief that if you didn't cook it it didn't count or something. So I'd get a sandwich at Quiznos or Eriks, or a Cobb Salad at Chilis, or a Pannini at Dave and Busters. Never think a thing about it.

Sure, sometimes I'd never actually get hungry enough to make dinner, especially if I ate a late lunch, and despite my otherwise healthy eating habits I never seemed to lose any weight no matter what. Well, today, for no good reason I started looking at the nutritional information for my lunch mainstays on the web. I was shocked. It seems it's routine for the food I eat at lunch to run 1500-2200 calories and even more shocking, consistently over 2000 mg of sodium!

My lunch is trying to kill me.

So that's it, then. I mean, sure, there'll still be lunches out with the gang, and with customers when necessary, but for the rest of the time I'm going to change my ways. I'll be going home and putting together something healthier, tofu and beans and peanut butter and salads and things. The key, I suspect, will be to find things that are good enough to eat and filling enough that I'm not starving all the time, because that would make me cranky.

And hey. Life's too short for that shit...