I know, I know, I've been seriously neglecting my blog. I changed jobs and things are beyond hectic right now. I haven't been cooking anything new due to this crazy adjustment.
Promise I'll get back in the groove very soon... With healthy recipes too!
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Sunday, January 2, 2011
Resolution Solution
If you make New Years resolutions, I'd bet the ranch you made one that involved eating well or exercising. I'm 3 months shy of my 30th birthday and I have finally learned that putting "I'm going to lose (insert absurd number here) pounds this year", or "go on a diet" in my resolutions is an automatic FAIL.
Older and wiser. Ain't that something?
This year, I decided to dump the word "diet" on my laundry list of to-do's for 2011. Over the last couple of months I've adopted the Bethenny Frankle way of thinking, that diets don't work. Eating well is a way of life. Eating well is not a measurable number on the bathroom scale that you starve yourself to reach, then binge on celebration cheeseburger and fries. Limiting your eating to a "diet" will NEVER, I repeat NEVER create long lasting, healthy results.
So what's my food resolutions? Funny you ask...
1. Nix refined white things. Meaning white bread, pasta, flour, yada yada... Whenever possible choose wheat, whole grains, and high fiber.
2. Don't have a mini emotional breakdown every time I eat white refined things. I need to give myself a break with the guilt trips. I really do.
3. Forgive myself for the 7 pounds I put back on over the holidays and get my pants fitting comfortably loose again (instead of slightly snug). I mean it happens, I don't need to keep beating myself up over it. Gah.
4. Work on my portion sizes. Like most Americans, I eat ridiculously inflated portions size of everything. To tackle this one, I'm going to buy smaller dinner plates. I've read several articles that say huge dinners plates are part of the problem. If you're not part of the solution, you're apart of the problem.
5. Last but not least. Consciously work to make each meal healthy for me. I reliaze that's a pretty broad statement. I'm cutting myself a break. Not adding in numbers, weight, or calorie limits. I just want to make each meal healthier. Pure and simile. I think this will pay off by making a lifestyle change in the long run. Well, that's the plan anyway.
To show my dedication to my plan, I just turned down my husbands offer to pick me up food on his annual Taco Bell Sunday run. I started temptation right in his pretty baby blues and said, "No thanks, I"ll have my leftover healthy soup".
Victory dance ensued.
Older and wiser. Ain't that something?
This year, I decided to dump the word "diet" on my laundry list of to-do's for 2011. Over the last couple of months I've adopted the Bethenny Frankle way of thinking, that diets don't work. Eating well is a way of life. Eating well is not a measurable number on the bathroom scale that you starve yourself to reach, then binge on celebration cheeseburger and fries. Limiting your eating to a "diet" will NEVER, I repeat NEVER create long lasting, healthy results.
So what's my food resolutions? Funny you ask...
1. Nix refined white things. Meaning white bread, pasta, flour, yada yada... Whenever possible choose wheat, whole grains, and high fiber.
2. Don't have a mini emotional breakdown every time I eat white refined things. I need to give myself a break with the guilt trips. I really do.
3. Forgive myself for the 7 pounds I put back on over the holidays and get my pants fitting comfortably loose again (instead of slightly snug). I mean it happens, I don't need to keep beating myself up over it. Gah.
4. Work on my portion sizes. Like most Americans, I eat ridiculously inflated portions size of everything. To tackle this one, I'm going to buy smaller dinner plates. I've read several articles that say huge dinners plates are part of the problem. If you're not part of the solution, you're apart of the problem.
5. Last but not least. Consciously work to make each meal healthy for me. I reliaze that's a pretty broad statement. I'm cutting myself a break. Not adding in numbers, weight, or calorie limits. I just want to make each meal healthier. Pure and simile. I think this will pay off by making a lifestyle change in the long run. Well, that's the plan anyway.
To show my dedication to my plan, I just turned down my husbands offer to pick me up food on his annual Taco Bell Sunday run. I started temptation right in his pretty baby blues and said, "No thanks, I"ll have my leftover healthy soup".
Victory dance ensued.
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