The Birth of a Photo Food Blog

I'm not sure if I had heard of a photo diet before I decided to make one, or if I only discovered that they already existed through multiple failed attempts to claim a blogger URL related to pictures and food and health and diet.  Maybe I somehow absorbed the idea through one of the insipid women's magazines that I love and hate at the same time.  You know, the ones that offer health and fitness advice to people who don't have real lives outside the gym/kitchen/Whole Foods Market/ridiculous hot yoga studio.  Health advice for people with the same depth as a saltine cracker.


How I decided to keep a photo food blog is another story entirely. I am what I refer to as a bi-polar eater; 15 days of any given month, I eat near-perfectly making sure my plate has plenty of fresh fruit, vegetables, and lean proteins.  The other 15 days of that same month, I exhibit some pretty bad habits: you know, skipping breakfast and lunch, downing eight beers and going to freaking town on a bag of whatever snack food comes my way.  I used to be able to feel fine no matter what I ate, but now, as I get older, I don't seem to bounce back as quickly as I used to.  What used to be fixed with a couple of ibuprofen and a few glasses of ice water now takes hours, sometimes days to feel right again.  I used to wake up after wild nights with a headache and sometimes a few embarrassing wrongs to rectify, but never seriously worse for the wear, however now I wake up feeling (and looking) like death.  My skin sucks, I'm bloated, and I feel awful.  I decided that my lifestyle (a touring musician who enjoys beer and partying and late nights and everything that goes along with that) will maybe never really mesh with my health-nut bent, but perhaps I could feel a little better by working on what actually fuels my body: food.


 Being a visual person, I decided I wanted a visual account of what I was putting into my body.  Perhaps having to pull out my phone and photograph every nosh will have me rethinking late night calories, skipping meals, and other bad food habits that are detrimental to my health.  We'll see how it goes...