Day 13: Blow Pop

Name: Cherry Blow Pop

Total Ingredients: 10

Why Unhealthy: Sugar

Personal Justification: It was incredibly colorful.

Enabler(s): Kaplan, who was handing them on campus out to students looking to take a GRE prep course. Naturally, I took two since I already took the GRE's.

Personal Pledge: Probably don't need one, since I think having so much sugar free gum over the past few years has turned me off permanently to sugary gum.

Day 12: Cannoli

Name: Cannoli

Total Ingredients: 12

Why Unhealthy: Saturated Fat, Cholesterol

Personal Justification: The Italian side of my family may have failed in forcing me to eat lots of meat-oriented dishes, but they scored a direct hit in hooking me on pastries at an early age.

Enabler(s): Fresh Market.

Personal Pledge: Just got the one. Doubtful that will take off more than a day or two of life.

Day 11: Popcorn

Name: Popcorn

Total Ingredients: 3 (I think)

Why Unhealthy: Salt

Personal Justification: About to suffer through a movie that is the sequel to a pretty awful original (Angels & Demons). Popcorn could be the saving grace here.

Enabler(s): AMC Theatres.

Personal Pledge: Gonna go with the kids pack. I get a candy and soda also, but at least it's a small popcorn.

Day 10: Yellow Cake w/ Chocolate Frosting

Name: Yellow Cake w/ Chocolate Frosting

Total Ingredients: 13

Why Unhealthy: Eggs, butter, Chocolate, etc.

Personal Justification: How could I pass up a personal delivery? Plus I had eaten Pad Thai and salad for lunch, which felt like it balanced it out.

Enabler(s): The lovely Ms. Meghan and the lovely Ms. Rebekah.

Personal Pledge: Next time I'm in Publix food shopping, I'll avoid the baked good section. (No I won't).

Day 9: Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Name: Chocolate Covered Strawberries

Total Ingredients: 1 plus however many ingredients are in chocolate.

Why Unhealthy: More bad karma than unhealthy. I took them from the table marked for only 'lactose intolerant' guests at the function, which I am not. Pretty sure there is dairy in chocolate though.

Personal Justification: Come on, there was a strawberry in there.

Enabler: My boss' boss' boss? Who I assume made the menu.

Personal Pledge: The pledge came in beforehand, when I pledged not to eat 2 dozen.

Day 8: Cookie Brownie Bar

Name: Cookie Brownie Bar

Total Ingredients: 20 (est.)

Why Unhealthy: Mixing brownies, cookies, and chocolate chips.

Personal Justification: At any and all office functions, you're allowed to eat whatever you want, in excess. That's my rule, and it is copyrighted.

Enabler: Billy the Baker.

Personal Pledge: No pledge necessary. I ate a grilled portobello and grilled pineapple also, so I feel like that easily balances out the cookiebrowniething. Right? Right?? Whatever.

Day 7: Twix Peanut Butter

Name: Twix Peanut Butter

Total Ingredients: 30

Why Unhealthy: Bad is the fact that it is a candy bar. Worse is the fact that it was probably around 1 1/2 years old.

Personal Justification: Each time I've tried one of these, I've disliked it, but feel like I probably should like it. Let's chalk it up to competitive spirit.

Enabler: Dani Su, who brought Twix to campus last year as a corporate sponsor, who then gave out many, many boxes of Twix.

Personal Pledge: Throwing out the leftover candy bars this week. Probably.