Prince Fielder is NAKED!

To start: every year ESPN the magazine has a body issue. They take super-arty (technical term) pics of athletes in a variety of sports. This year all the chatter is about Prince Fielder. Used to love him when he played for the Tigers, but he wasn't my favorite because I thought he had an attitude. Which is why I don't like one of his pictures, because he looks like a snob. But this picture:

dem legs.

I like this picture. This picture is blowing up the internet. There's a lot of hate going around about it because uuuuuugggggggh, he's sooooooo faaaaaaaaat.
Barf.
Whatever.

I have some things to say.

1. Before he was injured, he was paid to do one thing: hit baseballs a really long way. His body has been trained to do exactly that. Yes, he also played first base, but of all the positions in baseball, first is one of the least physically demanding. The dude hits baseballs.
2. He is paid, despite injury, $24 million a year to hit baseballs. Until 2020.
3. 1 in 6 players drafted make it to the majors. (Source) 17.2% of those good enough to even make it to the draft.
4. 1% of high school ball players will make it to the majors. (Source)

Whether or not you think Prince Fielder is hot, he's been hired to do a job that is almost entirely manual labor. Yes, he has to think about which pitches to hit and all that, so I didn't say it's entirely manual labor, but almost. You could be smart as hell and still not able to hit a home run. You gotta have the body to back it up. Anyway, Fielder hits baseballs, and until an injury that could happen to anyone, he did a fanfuckingtastic job of it. So go ahead and give him shit for how he looks, but I'm pretty sure he gives exactly zero fucks about what you think.

Egg Muffins

Last week's body image post has led to this one: even if I don't lose weight, I'll be damned if I'm not trying to eat healthfully.

Does that mean I didn't drink beer last weekend at the beer festival I worked at? Heck no. I had 3. 

I will share with you now the deliciousness that I just made for lunch. I've been eating more eggs- they're full of protein & all that. More accurately, I've been eating more egg whites. And I work at home, so I have occasion to mix stuff and bake it while I work. If you don't have that time, you could always spend a wee bit of time on the weekend & make some of these to reheat through the week.  Update: These are even better on day 2!

Also, if you're on weight watchers (again) these have 2 points each according to the new points plus (tm and all that). 

Thereby, I present to you: Egg Muffins!

• 6 whole eggs- I used large. They were on sale, 2 doz. for a dollar at Food Lion. Yay!
• 6 egg whites... let me give you a recommendation- separate the egg whites first. If you have any mistakes, you can just toss it in and count it toward the egg count. You probably already knew that, though. 
• 1 Tablespoon flour- I don't know why, but I read that about it in a recipe at Polyface Farms website I guess it holds stuff together.
• 1/4 cup milk
• Salt & pepper
• 1 cup feta cheese - I used reduced fat- if you use regular, make sure you account for it if you're watching that sort of thing.
• 3/4ish cup cooked spinach which started out frozen
• 1 tomato, chopped up

1. Preheat oven to 350
2. Pop frozen spinach in microwave
3. Whisk together the egg whites & eggs, milk, flour, salt & pepper.
4. Cut up the tomato & mix in gently
5. Allow the spinach to cool a bit & add that in
6. Add in feta
7. Spray muffin tin with cooking spray & pour in mixture
8. Cook at 350 about 35-40 minutes!
9. Eat your healthy AND delicious meal!

After I made these, I realized a few things....

• Full-fat feta would probably work better. Either that, or more low-fat feta. Because more cheese always = more delicious.
• Next time I'm probably going to cook up some turkey bacon and dice it up and put it in. Because mmm, bacon.

I love my body?

Yes, a question mark. My body does amazing things. Things it couldn't do a few years ago. For example:

• 15 push ups on my toes (probably more, the truth is, I haven't tried).
• Hold a plank on my toes for 1 minute 15 seconds.
• Skate 25 laps in less than 4 minutes.
• Squat, squat, do more squats, and then squat more.
• Carry Agent N on my back (he is about 70 lbs!)

But I am still a big girl.

When I joined roller derby, I saw it as a place where big girls were GOOD. Big was beneficial. Basic physics says that force = mass x acceleration. I have more mass than you and I have decent acceleration therefore I have more force.


But the more I play, the more I see these teeny tiny players getting amazing and I'm still a thorn in their collective sides, but.... but I don't know. I'm fast. I'm the fastest blocker on my team. I'm faster than some of our jammers. I'm proud of this! I am! But damnit if I don't want to look like them.

I want to fit in a smaller size. That's all. It's vanity. It's self doubt. It's not accepting who I am right now. If I died tomorrow, they wouldn't say "she was fat" at the funeral. Right? I mean, please tell me they wouldn't. They would say that I was a mom, a teacher, a derby girl. That I gave 100% in everything I did (except cleaning the house). That sometimes I got angry when other people weren't willing to believe in themselves.

Oh. hey. Let me think about that one.