Food Pics Photo Journal

What is Food Pics?

Food Pics Photo Journal

Food Pics is exactly what it sounds like: pictures of food. Each day, as I'm about to eat something, I take a picture of it and e-mail it to my Food Pics application, which then adds it to that day's Food Pics webpage.

Food Pics automatically organizes everything by day, archives everything, and presents an easy way to navigate from day to day, to see what I've eaten over time.

Why Food Pics?

Multiple reasons. Firstly, I can look back at what I was eating at any point in the past. I can spot trends in my diet, and I can try to correlate what I ate with how I felt in terms of running and training, or race performance of particular races.

Secondly, since I became vegetarian in February of this year, I've gotten a lot of questions about what I eat. With Food Pics, I can easily share what I'm eating with others, without having to describe my diet verbally--and I've found it's very hard to convey a sense of what I eat, over time, to others by talking about it.

Vegetarian? Are You Crazy?

It turns out, "no," vegetarianism is not crazy. I've experimented with multiple diets, and I have found that my best athletic performance (distance running) has come from eating vegetarian food.

I run faster, farther, more often, train harder, and recover more quickly than I did before--and I wasn't eating very much meat or dairy before, either. But It seems like cutting out meat (and as much as possible, dairy, too) is best. Maybe I'll write a full post about this topic later.

Posted by Joel Dalley on 2012-05-11 06:01:49.

2011: Year in Running

Created: 2012-01-07 16:52:49
Keywords: lost dutchman marathon, tucson marathon, mt lemmon marathon, saguaro national park labor day 8-miler, mizuno wave universe 3, barefoot shoes, marathon training

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Why I Run Barefoot

Created: 2011-08-29 20:08:54
Keywords: barefoot running, minimalist running, minimalist footwear, distance running, running form, mizuno wave universe 3, vibram fivefingers, born to run

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Bing Maps Cannot Locate Mount Lemmon

Created: 2011-07-16 16:27:47
Keywords: mount lemmon, santa catalina mountains, garmin connect, google maps, bing maps, topographical map, forest service

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