What the heck is going on at the grocery store? Part 1
So as many of my family and friends know, I am on a mission to get "me" back... physically. I have over the past few years used the "I am a mom and had kids" excuse as to not being the weight that I should be. As I get older I am discovering that the creaking in my lower back and the cracking in my hips and knees when I get out of bed in the morning is completely unacceptable. No more.
I don't care that I am over 35 (shhhh don't tell anyone please!) So in addition to the writings, poems, observations, and soap box rants that are customary on this blog, I am going to include a bit of my own journey.
Your choice to read or not; But I should give you fair warning... humor, stubbornness, bitterness, and down right attitude are going to be making a definite "outburst" throughout this process. There are just some traits I have that will not go away (nor would I want them to.) I have invested in my face cream for years so that no one would know my real age, however being overweight adds age to a person and it is time to look under 35 rather than closer to … you know.
For starters... this entire concept of eating healthy; I would love some advice from real people that I know please. Real people who have children and a very tight fixed income. (And when I say tight income I mean that in the most realistic manner possible) Not advice from skinny pixie stick who has unlimited resources to grocery shop... which brings me to my main thought of the day...
Why is healthy food so much more expensive than all the other crap out there? (Be quiet now - for those of you who don't know me well enough to know I was being rhetorical...seriously... just be quiet)...
As if there isn't enough other things to balance in the world, I now, after making this hardcore commitment and have publicized it to the world (which means I cannot back down) have to decipher using ancient AND futuristic methods to determine what groceries can cost, be good for me, oh yeah... and that my growing 2 boys will eat - remember fixed tight income.
Now don't go all "this is how you do it" --- anyone who starts like that either A: doesn't have children B: have 2 nannies to assist them C: is on enough medication to make them brain damaged. Children don't naturally eat healthy food. I am fortunate that my boys refuse to drink pop and that they will generally choose a granola bar over cookies... however the idea of them voluntarily eating all the healthy things on the dinner table (things that I need to eat to stay with my commitment)... a definite catastrophe will ensue without a doubt.
Last night I had hotdogs and Mac n cheese... only one bowl. 5 hours prior to going to bed and after a 20 minute cardio workout. Today I feel guilty about eating that one bowl. But it is what was made for the boys and I didn't want food to go to waste. So. (re-reading it sounds like a HUGE excuse right!!???) Sad... so...
Tonight shall be boiled chx breast sliced on top of spinach/greens salad with carrot slices, red and green peppers, and some type of homemade dressing (which I will find online today - one that will be healthy!)Now as to the matter of price fitting into accountability... this we shall see about and report on later.
I shall fill you in tomorrow how successful eating and working out today was. I have an hour boxing session today, 30 minutes of Wii fit, and have had a "recommended" serving size of sunflower seeds (gross) and 2 cups of coffee (with my creamer... I haven't given that up yet!)...
Have a great day! (Oh and by the way - my boys will be having wheat bread from now on and each night a new veggie... fun and exciting!
Can't wait to see their faces!!!...) Hope you got the sarcasm on that last comment!
DevinAnne
I don't care that I am over 35 (shhhh don't tell anyone please!) So in addition to the writings, poems, observations, and soap box rants that are customary on this blog, I am going to include a bit of my own journey.
Your choice to read or not; But I should give you fair warning... humor, stubbornness, bitterness, and down right attitude are going to be making a definite "outburst" throughout this process. There are just some traits I have that will not go away (nor would I want them to.) I have invested in my face cream for years so that no one would know my real age, however being overweight adds age to a person and it is time to look under 35 rather than closer to … you know.
For starters... this entire concept of eating healthy; I would love some advice from real people that I know please. Real people who have children and a very tight fixed income. (And when I say tight income I mean that in the most realistic manner possible) Not advice from skinny pixie stick who has unlimited resources to grocery shop... which brings me to my main thought of the day...
Why is healthy food so much more expensive than all the other crap out there? (Be quiet now - for those of you who don't know me well enough to know I was being rhetorical...seriously... just be quiet)...
As if there isn't enough other things to balance in the world, I now, after making this hardcore commitment and have publicized it to the world (which means I cannot back down) have to decipher using ancient AND futuristic methods to determine what groceries can cost, be good for me, oh yeah... and that my growing 2 boys will eat - remember fixed tight income.
Now don't go all "this is how you do it" --- anyone who starts like that either A: doesn't have children B: have 2 nannies to assist them C: is on enough medication to make them brain damaged. Children don't naturally eat healthy food. I am fortunate that my boys refuse to drink pop and that they will generally choose a granola bar over cookies... however the idea of them voluntarily eating all the healthy things on the dinner table (things that I need to eat to stay with my commitment)... a definite catastrophe will ensue without a doubt.
Last night I had hotdogs and Mac n cheese... only one bowl. 5 hours prior to going to bed and after a 20 minute cardio workout. Today I feel guilty about eating that one bowl. But it is what was made for the boys and I didn't want food to go to waste. So. (re-reading it sounds like a HUGE excuse right!!???) Sad... so...
Tonight shall be boiled chx breast sliced on top of spinach/greens salad with carrot slices, red and green peppers, and some type of homemade dressing (which I will find online today - one that will be healthy!)Now as to the matter of price fitting into accountability... this we shall see about and report on later.
I shall fill you in tomorrow how successful eating and working out today was. I have an hour boxing session today, 30 minutes of Wii fit, and have had a "recommended" serving size of sunflower seeds (gross) and 2 cups of coffee (with my creamer... I haven't given that up yet!)...
Have a great day! (Oh and by the way - my boys will be having wheat bread from now on and each night a new veggie... fun and exciting!
Can't wait to see their faces!!!...) Hope you got the sarcasm on that last comment!
DevinAnne
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