Jessica Moe

So, it really didn’t take very long for me to realize that my husband was making me fat.

Let me clarify.

My husband LOVES food. At breakfast he is planning lunch, at lunch he is planning dinner…dinner he is playing out what kind of cereal he is going to eat before he goes to bed.

What’s worse, he hates to eat alone. So, he convinces me each and every single time to eat with him and sadly for me…I have no self-control. I smell a chili dog and go hog wild. Sure, I will take the 2 for 2.22! Anyways, at the end of the day I wind up feeling like the crap that I ate. While he goes and runs 6 miles and works it off–ending up looking better and feeling better!

So, now that he is at work I am able to pace myself and make smarter food choices.

I decided that I would offically make this a commitment to myself come Wednesday when I his the big 2-5. So, I went to the grocery store and I went SHOPPING. I took my time and went down every aisle. While most food experts suggest that you shouldn’t go grocery shopping while you are hungry, I disagree…because, you see…what ends up happening for me is that I think “Oh, I would eat this if I wanted a snack.”–like rice cakes…but no. They end up sitting there for ages and I wind up looking in my pantry thinking “Ugh, I don’t have anything–I guess I have to go out…”

So, I went shopping and I did it while I was hungry. Amazingly, I found things like wheat thins that sounded good…and I was careful to select things that were labeled “No trans fat”. Instead of pop tarts, I chose cereal bars…and instead of Nutri Grain, I chose the Quaker Oats brand because not only did they have a clear label marked “No Trans Fat” they were better in overall nutrition content. See this write up on that particular product comparison. I won’t run you through all of the choices that I made but one of them was a new yogurt by yoplait called Yo-Plus. It has the same pro-biotic formula as Activia but since this one was on sale and the fruit flavors were more appealing…

Anyways, I figured that if there were any benefit derived from their digestive enzyme thing that would be a bonus because at the very least having some yogurt in the morning would be good for me. So for the past three mornings (huge success–three days, I know…but it’s a start!) I have had yogurt (peach or vanilla–both are DELICIOUS and I am not a huge yogurt fan) and an apple…and a bottle of water and frankly I can go three hours before I am hungry again!

I feel lighter and not in a weight sense, in a functional and operational sense….

So, I have decided that this is my commitment to myself and my family for this year (and hopefully for a lifetime) I am going to make smarter food choices. It is remarkably easy when you realize how much better you feel when you do and you don’t do so by depriving yourself…you know? I mean, it’s easy to say you are going to try the lemonade diet but ICK…who REALLY wants to do THAT?

Anyways…to help me be accountable to myself for what I am eating, I am going to enlist the services of a website I sang the praises of on here some time ago www.fitday.com.  I am going to keep a food journal religiously and at the end of the month I will determine which vitamins I am lacking and find supplements that will fit the way that I eat.

I am really excited because this feels like a game to figure out how to feed my body the things that it needs…

Wish me luck!