Some sympathy please

I've been pretty busy this week trying to keep track of everything I eat. I look up calorie counts on everything I eat and and then enter it all into a log. It actually gets pretty complicated and time consuming, especially when I cook something myself and have to enter in all the different components. And why am I going to all this trouble? Am I trying to lose weight? Is this a new year's resolution gone wild? Actually, no. I am trying to do the exact opposite. I am on an un-diet. I'm trying to make sure I'm not losing weight.

Now before everyone gets all mad at me, it's not actually as cool as it sounds. Evidently, all my running has a big payoff: it burns lots of calories! But apparently my body needs those calories back for energy or something lame. And not only do I have to make sure I'm getting enough calories, I have to make sure it's healthy calories! No fun at all.

So as you sit there reading this, living your non-Nutritional-Facts-reading-calorie-logging-lives, think of me munching on my apple (1 small, raw, unpeeled = 55 calories) and feel sorry for me. Even just a little bit.