My Favorite Foods....in a very particular order

#1: Cheeseburgers. Good ones that weigh half a pound and the grease drips down your arm when you take a bite. Not some silly BigMac. I like to take mustard, ketchup, and a little mayo and swirl it together til it makes a new orange sauce that it rather delicious. I like cheddar cheese. No mozzarella. No pepperjack. Cheddar. I like it cooked medium, I like it pink inside. I like to have it with lettuce and a whole wheat bun (because of course, I am healthy). When OI'm feeling randy I like grilled onions and grilled peppers on it. I like jalapenos on it. I like ranch dressing on it. I think I want a cheeseburger for lunch.

#2: Chocolate Covered Strawberry's. Oh my gosh so delicious. However, I attempted to make these yesterday for Jerry and I's romantic valentines day dinner and they did not taste any better than they looked.

#3: Belgium Waffles: Light and Crispy. This will change your life

#4: Broccoli. Kind of embarrassed to add this to the list but I just couldn't not put it on. (after all, I am supposed to promote health). I like it steamed, stir-fried, in a casserole, raw, baked, with a cheeseburger, or any other way you can prepare broccoli.

#5: Ranch Dressing. I am not lying when I say I could drink this. I enjoy it on everything. Cheeseburgers, french fries, I cant eat pizza without it, chicken nuggets, potato chips, tortilla chips, broccoli, celery, carrots, burritos, tacos, nachos, my fingers......

Hold the bacon, please



I promise I haven't been neglecting this blog, I just have been lazy and busy (if you can do both of those things).......more of Ms. Kenz to come :)

Fish Burps

Getting a Masters in Health and Exercise Science makes me believe I should live the healthiest of lifestyles.

I run 5 days a week because if I didn't then I would be a hypocrite.

I try to steer away from fast food and junk food (not well, but I try) because that's what healthy people do.

I don't smoke because its repulsive (oh, and unhealthy).

I take a multi-vitamin every day because that sounds like it should be healthy.

I feel like I get questions about this kind of stuff frequently. Lots of people will ask me what kind of vitamins they should take, or when is the best time to drink a protein shake?, Whats the magic way to lose weight?, Should I eat more calcium? More Zinc?, My back hurts - what can I take? Stop here. My back really does hurt.

I typically can't answer any of these questions having to do with nutrition - my only answers are what I read online or what nutritionists I work with tell me (which I do understand is more QT than most Americans spend with a nutritionist so I give myself credit on some of my knowledge). I am pretty good at making up answers however, not to brag, so consider yourself warned next time you ask me a nutrition question - I may know it...but I also may be bullshitting you on what I think sounds good.

I asked one of my classmates, a (very fast) runner, a healthy person (like all of us, duh), and also a girl who is up on her nutritional supplements (or could be a good bullshitter like me - but I'm willing to believe her) about this back pain that I'm sure as a 22 year old pain I should be having. She recommended taking fish oil - said helps with joint pain. (not to mention it helps with lots of other things...helping control cholesterol levels and reduced inflammation around the body - not only in the joints...but of course, I knew all that)

I thought I would give it a try...
I started last week.
The pills are large.
And urine-colored.
I ended shortly after.
My burps smell like fish.
It's so rancid it makes me want to throw up.
Don't let the cutesy wootsy design fool you


No joking, they were miserable. Any little big of indigestion you had was awful. I guess I didn't even realize how much you have those little burps that no one else even notices until I was trying will all my might to NOT have them. However, the 3 days I made it through them - I am convinced my back was feeling better - not as stiff and my runs were smoother. I just cant deal with the burps. Anyone take fish oil? Can you handle it? Other suggestions for joint pain? (stop running 40 miles a week is not an option) I've heard flax seed is supposed to be good...but I don't know how I feel about burping up flax. After all, I don't even know what flax is.

New Day, New Year, New Resolutions

Happy 2010. Two thousand Ten? Twenty Ten? Haven't yet decided what I want to call it - so typically you get Two Twenty Ten out of my mouth. Incorrect, but you know what I mean.

The Holiday was good. Colder than those living in the south can handle, but for me, a northerner or a "yankee" as they like to call me, enjoy the cold and the 10 and 20 degree temperatures. I am however, a little upset I went an entire Christmas and New Years without seeing any copious amounts of snowfall. Landing in Detroit a couple days before Christmas there was an inch on the ground, and thats all I ever saw. Bah Humbugh. I got to spend 4 days home in glorious Ohio, doing nothing except drinking more than I should, eating a lot more than I should, and running a lot less than I should. Whatever, thats what New Years resolutions are for right?

New Years Resolution One: Drink Less. Yeah right.
New Years Resolution Two: Eat Less...or maybe just healthier, I could do without the handfuls of chocolate chips at 11:30p
New Years Resolution Three: Hit the gym. I run, sure, but this flappy stuff under my butt and "biceps" is starting to look more like my grandmothers
New Years Resolution Four: RUN MORE. At least 35 miles per week. I like it when it hurts.

The day after Christmas, the family packed the car and we were in for the 12 hour miserable car ride down to our beach house in Kiawah Island, South Carolina. You can ooo and ahhh but let me stress that Kiawah is not all as great as it sounds for the 22 year old that doesn't golf. If you are a golfer, like my entire family, its great, you can golf every day in 45 degrees and be without the fear of an alligator biting your arm off (see: alligator ouchies ). But me, not so much. I ran every morning and was done by 11 where I then played tennis for an hour with the oh so cute pro's there and then sat around all day waiting for nothing. My days were done by noon. Oh woe is me. Needless to say I was a major pita*. But hey, that's what New Years Resolutions are for.

New Years Resolution Five: Don't be such a pita around my parents. After all they have given me everything that I have and I am nothing but grateful for that. I could do a much better job at showing that.

I spent New Years Eve in Charlotte with Jerry. I had been waiting forever to get his gifts, and he definitely did good. While I didn't get the Tiffanys diamonds I was hoping for, or the new pony I wanted, I did get a lot of practical things that I will be able to use throughout the year. These included such things such as a Cig water bottle (I guess its unsafe to drink out of plastic ones sitting in your car for 3 weeks?), a pair of soccer cleats (I play flag football and soccer and cant seem to take a single step without falling on my kadunk, "pretend" pulling my hamstring to get attention, and I would love to blame my not being able to catch a football on the fact that I wear tennis shoes...needless to say, I am going to have to find something else to blame my uncoordination on), a sleeve for my laptop (my treatment of anything expensive is very poor), a nice little sweater jacket, Shrek 1, Shrek 2, and Shrek the Third (these rally to be the single best gift I have just about ever got), and a book that he has been telling me to read for a long time.

New Years Resolution Six: Actually read the book - and then work on putting the book into practice and being more positive about everything...the ways I approach things sometimes can be a little ridiculous...what we like to call the downward spiral approach (I cant do this so...Ill never get a job..Ill never have a family..no one will like me...Ill live in a box..have no children...die in my 40s alone and poor). Ridiculous...and I know it.

I have actually began this resolution. The book is How to Win Friends and Influence People. I would tell you what its about but I would like to think the title is self explanatory. I have read 2 chapters, and I think they already have changed my ways of talking and conversing with people. Maybe now I'll make more friends in lame old Winston-Salem. Or with my new attitude maybe I should say..."I can't wait to make some friends here in Winston-Salem, the land of Opportunity". Sarcasm? 100%. But, its the right idea.

Sooo, here I am, back at WFU for another semester. While my break was spent mainly looking for schools I am interested in going to for my PhD program, I guess I should focus on this semester so I can get into a good one.

New Years Resolution Seven: Get all A's. I was .75 points away from this last semester. I can make it rain here.



*Pain in the ass. Whoooops! Also, I would like to note that I am not always a pain in the ass, just more than I think I probably should be