Wine and health

While researching the Mediterranean diet, I cam across some notes about red wine and saw something I really liked:

Wine and health - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "In his circa 375 BC play Semele or Dionysus, Eubulus has Dionysus say:
“Three bowls do I mix for the temperate: one to health, which they empty first, the second to love and pleasure, the third to sleep. When this bowl is drunk up, wise guests go home. The fourth bowl is ours no longer, but belongs to violence; the fifth to uproar, the sixth to drunken revel, the seventh to black eyes, the eight is the policeman's, the ninth belong to biliousness, and the tenth to madness and hurling the furniture."

All I can say is, SO TRUE! Who hasn't progressed through all these stages, or at least almost all of them. I'm not sure how large Dionysus' bowls were, but I think that they must have been quite large. This is a great reminder to drink in moderation, so as to enjoy the benefits of wine, but not to wake the demons that lie within.

In vino veritas ~~ In wine is truth

The binge before the purge storm

Next Monday is the start of a 12 week healthy living program that is being sponsored by work. I've been tracking my eating habits for the last week and it's BAD! I didn't think my habits were this awful. There are barely any vegetables and fruit but there is a lot of junk. The question is, is this brief window an accurate view of my long-term eating habits or is it a skewed vision because I'm eating extra bad because of the junk drought coming up? Mardi Gras is a good example of people engaging in this type of behaviour.

Am I flashing for beads or am I just a junk junkie?

Working from home can be hazardous to your pants

Or, at least it was for mine. They've all gone and shrank themselves somehow. Not really sure how it happened, but I really hope that it's not going to continue in the future. I refuse to buy bigger pants (silly, I know) but am not comfortable at all in the ones that I have now. I honestly was surprised that it happened, as I thought I was aware of how much I was eating and I attempted to be active everyday. Looking through my Beginner Triathlete log though, I see that I might not have been as active as I thought I was. And the eating thing? Who knows, as I didn't record anything for that.

I am drifting further and further away from Ironman shape. For the last 1.5 years, I've barely kept to any sort of a routine for more than a couple weeks at time. I moved, I started traveling for work a lot more, I started getting injuries... Those are excuses, I know, but that is what has kept derailing me from the track I want to be on.

Onwards and upwards, right? The past doesn't matter, what matters is what you do in the future.