Pizza Rolls are to Blame for My Moodiness...

I LOVE FOOD.

I love healthy food, I love unhealthy food, I love every kind of food in between healthy and unhealthy... I love gourmet food, I love processed frozen food. I love dipping food in other food, wrapping one kind of food with another food, mixing foods, putting food with other food into a dish and baking it... I love food.

...But what I have noticed lately is that I don't function properly on bad food dipped in other bad food with a side of bad food. My stomach hurts, I get almost immediately fatigued, occasionally, my muscles ache, sometimes I even get moody. Yes. All of these things happen when I eat crappy food. And they probably happen to you, too, but you've gotten so used to these side-effects that you think that any food will do this to you.

Today, I made a mistake. While grocery shopping for the most ridiculous light bulbs on the planet, I bought a bag of Pizza Rolls. And instead of just eating them plain, I dipped them in ranch dressing. And had some M&M's to go along with them... I managed to avoid the soda (I don't usually drink a lot of soda anymore anyway) but within 10 minutes of my little bad food binge, I felt horrible. Exhausted. Cranky.

This is one of those things that I keep doing to myself even though I know it does me know good.

So I decided to test my theory (and many others' theory supported by a lot of scientific research) that bad foods make you feel bad and good foods make you feel good. After the weariness/annoyance/overall crappy feeling started to set in, I got up and made a very healthy shake. Banana, cocoa powder, chia seeds, oatmeal, coffee, peanut butter, ice cubes. I mixed it all up and voila! Guess what? 10 minutes in... I felt FINE again. Energized, even.

Again, like I said, there is already much scientific evidence behind this. I know I've not stumbled on something no one else knows. But I do know that even though I've known this for a very long time now, I keep "treating myself" to foods that make me unproductive and unhappy almost immediately after entering my system. Why am I doing this to myself?!