Beginning the New Year

An important fact I've learned:
Your worried for the rest of your life you'll be fighting just as hard to say no to that fourth doughnut let alone limiting your donut consumption to maybe one a month (my food weekness used to be doughnuts)
What I've found is slowly as you make good food choices, your mind and body begin comunicating better about what you need to be eating. At this point in my health, the thought of four doughnuts makes my stomach sick, I could go a month without eating one but if I do have one, I know I can stop at that. Your body will help you make good food choices once you've given it a head start by making those choices with your head and determination. I've come to a point where I look forward to eating salad and vegetables. In fact if  go a couple days eating junk food and few veggies, I got a little lazy in December, I start craving vegetables and feel a need to fill my fridge and dinner plate with them. I stay motivated because I know how good it makes me feel.

An important fact I've learned:
Fad dieting doesn't make you healthy. Harshly limiting diets that substantialy narrow the selection off foods your able to eat and the amount of food you eat isn't healthy and won't help in the long run for example, the grapefruit diet, the onion diet, the cabage soup diet. Fad dieting will often encourage weight loss, fad dieting does not nourish greater health. Healthy eating is a constant journey of learning about the foods your eating and what their doing for you. My interest in staying informed about food stays on the backburner as I go throughout my day leading me to read articles and page through books to expand my knowlege. Sometimes when I find a good book it becomes prominent and I dedicate some extra time to reading and digesting the information. I'll ocationally share a food fact or other health tips throughout my blog.

A helpful tip:
Search for inspiration. I like to read about what keeps other people motivated and assimilate what resonates with me. Often I'll have a couple sentances I use at various times to motivate me to overcome a challenge. For example I read "break through barriers physically and mentally" and throughout my day if I was confronted with apple pie and ice cream I'd repeat that sentance to myself and think of it as a barrier. Find what works for you.

The Abs Diet

It's a very good book for learning what to look for and watch out for on nutrition labels, learning how to space out your meals to optimize their benefit to you, and developing a well rounded basic workout routine. The only downfall I found is preference for chemicals in place of natural fats, for example I don't eat margarine or low fat mayonaise as sugested, and I buy 1 or 2 percent yogurt, milk, and cottage cheese and regular mayonaise because small amounts of the natural fats are a necessary part of healthy eating.

I read the Abs Diet in 2007 and learned a lot, in fact it's one of the things that helped keep me at my prepregnancy 155 lbs, unfortunately I've been maintaining my healthy weight so long I don't know how to loose weight. The change of lifestyle that came with having a newborn has me at 177 lbs that's overweight and unhealthy.

My plan is to read the abs diet again, in the back of my mind I sort of thought I'm still incorporating the ideas from the book into my life, but if I'm honest with myself I know it's not true, my diet and lifestyle needs an examination and redirection. I don't think ten oreo cookies, or ten christmas goodies, or fifteen chocolates throughout my day on a regular basis where a part of the plan.

So, to some extent I followed the eating plan today. Exept for the Trix I had for breakfast... but that's not super bad cause I didn't eat a lot and I've been eating good portions at the right times the rest of the day. I need to do food shopping again soon so I'll be getting all kinds of good supplies for healthy eating on this plan.