Tonight I went to the grocery store determined to only buy healthy foods. I grasped my grocery list in hand, which was mostly comprised of ingredients from "200 meals under 200 calories" (or something like that)

I was so excited for this new eating healthy venture I was about to embark on. This was going to be a new journey for me, and one I was really looking forward to. That is, until I realized just how expensive eating healthy was going to be.

While I buy fruit and vegetables during most of my trips to the food store, the main staple on my shopping list is always Diet Coke. Diet Coke to me is what methamphetamine is to crystal meth addicts. (sidenote: did you know "nazi dope" is slang for methampetamine? learn something new everyday) And when I say I buy fruit and vegetables on most of my food shopping extravaganzas, I mean I purchase one orange and an onion, so imagine my surprise when I actually made my way to the produce section...

Fruits and vegetables are expensive! $1.29 for one grapefruit? The nerve! $2.99 for a pound of red peppers? The horror! I won't even mention to you the price of asparagus - I thought it was a misprint. I was in shock. I quickly started doing the math in my head, aka pulled out my iphone and used the calculator. So I decided to carefully select a small amount of fresh foods. They go bad so fast there is no way I'm wasting my money on this nonsense. I ended up with 2 grapefruits, strawberries, green peppers and an onion. I should mention I really like onions.

As I made my way over to dairy, I picked up Laughing Cow Low Fat Cheese. Do you know how much cheese cost? $7! Do you know how much ramen I could buy with that? A LOT.

The rest of my shopping trip was a blur, I no longer wanted to think about the obscene amount I was spending on groceries (my average grocery bill: $25 every 2 weeks)

When I got home and started putting away the groceries, I felt HEALTHY. As if being in close proximity to all the granola and bran cereal instantly created a leaner, lovelier me.

This whole healthy eating thing is going to hurt my pocketbook, but it may just be worth it in the long run.

Let's just hope I can stick with it. I have strong reason to believe that my prefrontal cortext never fully developed. My reasoning for this belief: I have very little will power. Meaning: if someone happens to be around me that is not partaking in healthy eating I quickly could be swayed to eating french fries even if I'm not hungry. If I smell food I have to eat. It's sorta a problem.

Here's to hoping my prefrontal cortext will prove me wrong. If it does, I have a little pair of black shorts that are dying to make it out my closet.