Fast Five…

1. When I eat pizza, I eat all the toppings off, then any left-over cheese, then the sauce. Then, if the crust is thick enough, I pull the squishy, doughy base off and eat that before finally eating the rest of the bread. I don’t do this with all pizza, but most.

2. I didn’t eat meat for eight years. I just decided one day (I had just turned 13) that I was not going to eat it anymore, but my dad tried to talk me into eating it at dinner that night. And the next night, and the next. I am incredibly stubborn, so this just gave me more reason to not eat meat. After a while, he stopped trying to convince me, but by that point it was just second nature, so I still didn’t eat any. It wasn’t until I was almost 21 that someone actually asked me why I didn’t eat any meat. Once I realized my only real reason was to piss my dad off, I started eating it again.

3. During those eight years, however, I still ate fish and seafood. Nothing could make me give that up!

4. I have been called the anti-female before because I don’t like chocolate. It’s not that I don’t like it as much as I can only eat it in small quantities before it is just too intense for me. And that if I am given the choice between chocolate and pretty much any other dessert-like food, I will pass up the chocolate for something else. Especially if that something else is fruity. (4a. Bubba is doing his best to break me of my non-chocolate ways.)

5. I only eat in the evenings. I fast for the full day, ingesting nothing but water and hot herbal tea. Then, after I get home from work, I let myself eat. Yes, it might seem extreme, but let me tell you: I had chronic heartburn for the last year and a half (as in, if I could go one day without horrible heartburn I would consider it a small miracle). Once I stopped eating breakfast and lunch, my heartburn went away almost immediately. I think I have had minor heartburn only twice in the last month. Also, we save a lot of money on food now!