{"id":142,"date":"2009-07-14T09:10:07","date_gmt":"2009-07-14T16:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/?p=142"},"modified":"2009-07-14T09:10:07","modified_gmt":"2009-07-14T16:10:07","slug":"if-youve-got-it-chop-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/2009\/07\/14\/if-youve-got-it-chop-it\/","title":{"rendered":"If You’ve Got it, Chop it"},"content":{"rendered":"

Last week, I uncovered the much sought-after secret to healthy living.<\/p>\n

Eating healthy and being physically active.<\/p>\n

While it\u2019s not exactly rocket science, there are many barriers preventing us from taking this knowledge of “how to become healthy and fit” and actually applying it to become healthy and fit. While it is challenging\u00a0 to incorporate these behaviours into hectic schedules, I might have given you the impression that I\u2019m just plain lazy.<\/p>\n

If you\u2019re not completely convinced, this might do the trick.<\/p>\n

I hate grocery shopping. Absolutely despise it. I hate grocery shopping more than I hate cooking. So while I try to eat healthy by selecting more fresh fruits and vegetables, I end up being punished by having to grocery shop more often and then I\u2019m stuck eating the same thing all week so things don\u2019t spoil. Let\u2019s use romaine lettuce as an example. As someone who lives alone, I\u2019ve got to eat salad everyday to finish the romaine before\u00a0it spoils. While salad can be tasty, please remember how lazy I am. I\u2019m too lazy to spend time at the grocery store buying an array of ingredients to prepare fancy salad creations and I\u2019m much too lazy to spend the time chopping these ingredients to prepare such salads.<\/p>\n

So here\u2019s my game plan: If you\u2019ve got it. Chop it.<\/p>\n

Let me elaborate. Let\u2019s say you\u2019ve got half a red pepper that\u2019s pretty close to spoiling. Chop it. You\u2019ve got a ton of romaine lettuce because the market doesn\u2019t sell half heads of lettuce (that\u2019s a rant for another day); chop it. What about that cucumber? Chop it. Got a handful of dried cranberries leftover from those cookies you made two months ago? Toss them in. I\u2019m not creative when it comes to\u00a0 grocery shopping or cooking, so my strategy is to just put what I\u2019ve got together and see what happens.\u00a0 I’m fairly certain no one’s ever died from a poorly designed salad.\"salad\"<\/a><\/p>\n

I made this salad the other day:<\/p>\n

Ingredients:\u00a0<\/p>\n

-romaine lettuce<\/p>\n

-yellow pepper<\/p>\n

-cucumber<\/p>\n

-peanuts<\/p>\n

-Italian parmesan and herb dressing<\/p>\n

So I guess the moral of my story is you can be both lazy and healthy.\u00a0 <\/span>Until next week\u2026<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Last week, I uncovered the much sought-after secret to healthy living. Eating healthy and being physically active. While it\u2019s not exactly rocket science, there are many barriers preventing us from taking this knowledge of “how to become healthy and fit” and actually applying it to become healthy and fit. While it is challenging\u00a0 to incorporate […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":741,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/741"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":149,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142\/revisions\/149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/missionfitpossible\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}