The Diet, It Is A’Changing

Now that I have snuggled my way down into a pant size smaller than what I’ve been wearing, I feel wholly renewed in terms of diet modification and working out. I’m ready to “kick it up a notch”.

Which is where SuperFoods comes into play. I haven’t received my books in the mail yet (SuperFoods HealthStyle: Proven Strategies for Lifelong Health and SuperFoods Rx: Fourteen Foods That Will Change Your Life) but already I have started incorporating more fruits, vegetables and whole-wheat products into my diet. No more coke has been a big change and I’ve been doing well with that. In the morning now I have green or black tea instead of coffee and I’ve reduced my sugar intake from 6 tablespoons (yes, SIX) of white, refined sugar to one small packet of Sugar in the Raw and 1 teaspoon of honey. I still maintain that all that sugar is what makes me a sweet, charming Southern belle! Honestly! But, eventually, I hope to convert fully to just 1 tsp. honey and then to no sugars at all.

Last night I bought whole-wheat noodles instead of the regular ones and tonight or tomorrow night plan on making a dish with them. We’ll see what I manage to cook up.

Most importantly, though, I don’t discuss my diet changes with my family. There are those that only want to mock it and then there are those that say, “Oh, what diet are you on? I might want to do it with you.” In which case I tell them to get off their ass, TRULY assess what they are putting into their bodies and CHANGE it. That’s what I’m doing. They, like most Americans, want a “quick fix”, a ‘get skinny in 2 weeks’ kind of diet. But it just doesn’t work that way and they’re forever going to be fat because they won’t change their way of thinking.

Lunch for today consists of organic peanut butter and jelly sandwich on light honey wheat bread with an orange.

I get a feeling this might turn into a weight loss blog, hehe!

I’m also going to take a moment to mention that Justin Timberlake’s new song “Sexy Back” is going to be forever permanently stuck in my head. It’s a true travesty and it is driving me insane (“I’m bringin’ sexy baaaaaack”). I WILL refrain from dancing in the office. Honest, I will.

I’ll just sit on my feet.