The Plan

For awhile now, I've wanted to lose weight and get healthy.  At 32-years old and 100+ pounds overweight, this needs to be done.   For over a year, my 4-year old will ask me why I’m fat and I tell him that for awhile Mama didn’t take such good care of herself to which he responds, “how do you get ‘un-fat’”?  I tell him exercise, put healthy food into your body, and take care of yourself.  Simple really.  But, for some reason, since having my first son 4 years ago, it has seemed ridiculously hard.  Which diet do I follow?  How do I fit exercise into my life with 2 small kids + work + home, etc.?  Do I follow a diabetic, vegan, or high protein lifestyle? 

All that changed a few weeks ago when I simply thought, if I had to post a picture of each meal I ate, three times a day, every day, would I eat this?  And, if the answer was no, it became simple – I didn’t want the food I had previously coveted.  No feelings of deprivation, no need to draw on a stockpile of will power.  Just the idea of telling the world that I ate a huge bowl of macaroni and cheese for lunch with no vegetables or fruit on the side (while my children ate a balanced lunch), made me rethink it and eat something healthy.  Maybe it stems from knowing that no matter what I tell myself, I am the example my boys see on how to be healthy, or perhaps it was knowing that what I put in my body is really how I feel about myself (put crap in, feel like crap, etc.), or maybe it’s just good ol’ peer pressure.  Whatever it is, I’ve lost 10 pounds with 110 left to go.  Wish me luck.

Forgot to take my first blog photo, before I ate! This was a work breakfast today: steel-cut oatmeal topped with Nature’s Path organic pumpkin flax granola and a tablespoon of almond butter.  Water on the side.  Ecco Caffe organic coffee with half & half at home this AM.