Chicago

Chicago

Land of deep dish pizza

The mecca of hot dogs

A drinking town with a sports problem 

Beer, Baseball, Da Bears

and my home for 3 of the next 5 days

Fun Fact about Chicago... Its also the location of United Airlines headquarters. 

I will be going for work and I am uber excited, I have never been before and I can hardly stand it. 

I will be going for a menu presentation, this is my first one and I am not sure what to expect but it sounds dangerous. My boss has assured me that we won't be doing a tasting but I am still a little wary. It's not like being paid to eat food made by great chefs would be the worst thing in the world but its a little hard to tell an executive chef that you are trying to stay away from cheese or that you don't like seafood. In my experience they take this as a challenge... "well that's because you haven't had my orange roughy in a tangy mango and passion fruit glaze with a side of  blah blah blah" and they are usually right but it makes an awkward situation when they aren't and you are looking for a potted plant to spit out the monstrosity that is assaulting your tongue... Not that I have ever tried to spit my food in a potted plant, I wrap it in my napkin (like a lady). 

This also means I will be away from the gym, there should be one there but I tend to push working out to the back burner when I am out of town. I could also run outside but I tend to turn into a scared white girl from Mesa when I run by myself in an unfamiliar place. I once convinced myself that Heather had been beaten, killed, and probably thrown in a bush when  I lost her on a run, turns out she got lost in a neighborhood. There was also a javelina that I thought was a dog. Don't pet javelinas... but that's a story for another day.  

Where was I?

Oh right, making myself workout is not always easy. It's even harder when I am out of town. 

I have an itinerary but I am not sure yet when I will be able to work out. We will be going out to dinner both nights we are there and leaving the hotel early to get to the office. 

There is always the option of squats, burpees, and pushups in my room though, right? 

Yep. Lets go with that. 

My plan is to eat as clean as possible when it does not mean eating to earn a paycheck. 

This kind of seems like an insult to one of the top culinary citites but it seems like kind of an insult to my goals as well. 

This won't be easy but it's not really hard either. Just deciding what I want more. 

I want authentic deep dish pizza that gives me heartburn for days. 

dammit. 

What I meant to say was... I want to be fit and healthy. I don't want to be upset by my pant size when I go shopping. I want to run for fun. I want to be ridiculously confident naked (sorry, TMI). I want to be proud of a rockin body that I know I have put my best into. 

I guess that means I better go eat some kale while doing squats and holding our fridge or 

something... 

also...

Go Bears!