I moved from the healthiest state in the nation to one of the least healthiest states in the nation, and my weight shows this. I have given myself permission to eat horribly for the last 4 years. This has affected my physical and mental wellbeing, and I keep growing out of all my pants. It’s unawesome for my self esteem.
I have made a decision to change my eating habits. I did watch Forks Over Knives which says that a plant-based diet is the healthiest, but I am not quite ready for that. Instead I’ve settled on ovo-lacto vegetarian eating Monday through Friday, the choice to eat meat Saturday and Sunday, and permission to eat anything I want for special occasions. Over time I hope to lessen my dairy intake, but to still be able to stomach meat and dairy. I expect to fail miserably at cutting out dairy, but I’ve gone long stretches without meat so I’m not even worried about that part.
I will be using the Forks Over Knives cookbook for loose inspiration, but I grew up in a place that taught me healthy eating, I’ve taken a nutrition class, my body tells me what’s good to eat vs. what’s not good to eat, I have a lot of vegetarian cookbooks and websites to refer to, and I just need to apply all these things to take back control of my life.
Healthy Poppy is around this corner…
You can DO it!!
I am so with you on this. Since my transplant I’ve put on a TON of weight (yeah I know its the drugs… but it doesn’t do squat for my self esteem). I’ve been working on it, I’m not going to ever be a workout queen, the fact I HATE “exercise” at all doesn’t help… but I’ll “work out” all day doing something I love (today building fence and cleaning stalls), just can’t be labeled “exercise”. I’ve been grilling veggies for dinner and am going to try cutting out dairy myself… (boo hiss, I’ve only been able to eat it again since surgery, sniff)
Keep in touch with me.. I’ll need support too!
Yay for Healthy Poppy! I cannot wait to see her in August (I will see you in August, yes?)
Taking back control was important for me too, and I did that in January. I feel a lot better than I did a few months ago, that’s for sure. Caring for your health is the best way to tell yourself you love it!
I will be in NYC during BlogHer and in Orlando during Star Wars Celebration VI, so I might see you TWICE!
Thanks, everyone. I love eating the right stuff, not sure why I let myself not eat the right stuff all this time.
Very awesome.
Your health is important and eating better is one way to eat healthier.
A couple of weeks ago, I started using this app called MyFitnessPal and started adding everything I ate in it. It’s helped me eat better (and the make the occasional sad face when I realized how much mayo, bleu cheese and ranch sauce are loaded with calories). It’s changed how I think about what I’m eating, that’s for sure.
I know this is like a week and a half late, and we already were emailing about it, but go you!