Happy Foods!

[windinthemaples]

Two weeks ago, Daniel and I committed to losing weight and eating better together. We are using a calorie-counting food logging app called Lose It! on our iPhones. Dieting together means that nothing high-calorie even comes into the house and we encourage each other to keep going, even if we fall face first off the wagon and into a 500 calorie plate of pasta. :D Mostly, though, it has translated into us both living our food values. At night, we are shoulder-to-shoulder, companionably chopping and rinsing the ingredients for colorful salad plates and scouring the produce stands and farmer markets for new, fabulous crops. :)

In that time, I've felt healthier than I've *ever* felt. I've lost 7.6 pounds so far, but that in no way accounts for the drastic changes in the way my body looks and feels to be in. I didn't know it until I was eating better, but I was bloated like crazy and now I'm slimming down and feeling more "me" than I've felt since I first met Daniel eight years ago. It is visibly reversing the signs of aging I'd been so bummed about.

So yeah, fruits and veggies for the win! :D

Today, for brunch, I had a slice of handmade sourdough bread with thin slices of organic apple and a hearty pile of clipped pea sprouts. It tasted like heaven. :)

Comments

[radshaun.livejournal.com]

Awesome! Congratulations. I know what you mean about feeling better. We're just not meant to live on all this processed junk companies throw at us.

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

Michael Pollan (is that his name, the author of In Defense of Food) has a new book out with rules for eating. I think rule number one is, "Eat Food." And by that he means *real* food, not manufactured food approximations.

:D

I've had somewhat of a minimalist day, but I've only eaten a bread with about five or six ingredients, pea plant, carrot, apple, and garbanzo beans. Like, that's it. No HFCS or other crazy food additives here! :D

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

Oh, and a Bumble Bar, which has another six or so ingredients, all organic.

I shudder to think what I was eating a month ago without reading the label or really caring.

[deadskream.livejournal.com]

That's freakin awesome :) I wish my husband would get on that kick with me. It would make it so much easier for me. I really do want to do that for myself but with him eating the things he does, all i want is what he's got! haha

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

That's my problem, too! In the past, when Daniel just eats junk food in front of me while I'm nibbling on a carrot? I wanted to kill him. :D (And steal his food.)

[rubymulligan.livejournal.com]

I eat too much processed junk and the result is my fat ass. I need to stop being a junk food vegan and start pillaging Mamaw's garden. :////

[sugarmaplelife.livejournal.com]

It becomes a million times easier in these summer months when the produce department is so cheery and overstuffed. Plus, it is hot enough we really look forward to eating cold, fresh fruits and salads and things.