So for the new year, Ben and I have decided to get healthy as a family. Although this has always been a struggle for me personally, we have really great motivation. We have a baby now who is starting to eat food, and I don’t want her to grow up with the same unhealthy eating habits I have. I want to be able to be confident that the foods that Ben and I eat are healthy enough for Addy to eat as well. As a mom, the nutrition of my family is my responsibility, and I don’t take that lightly at all.
That means that we need a complete overhaul of our diet. To start, we are doing one week of a “kick start diet.” It designed to help you break your addiction to carbs and kick start your weight loss. While doing this, you only eat meats and green veggies as well as 2 oranges per day. It is pretty awful while you are doing it, but after 4 days I have lost 7 lbs, so I would say it works. Besides, it is only one week (just a very LONG week). Anyway, so after this is over, we will just be focusing on counting calories and making healthier choices (and resume eating carbohydrates).
My goals for the rest of the month include: Using brown rice instead of white rice, using sweet potatoes instead of white potatoes, eating fish twice per week, trying to use as many different kinds of vegetables as I can, and making a new recipe every day for the rest of the month. While doing this we are also tracking our calories each day, and I am giving up sugared soda (just for this month—I’m not ready to give up my coke completely).
So I decided that as I experiment with different recipes, I will blog about them and share what works and what doesn’t and how our lifestyle change is working for us. I will also include recipes so that anyone who wants to try them can.
We end our kick start diet at the end of the week, so Saturday starts the experiment. I have researched lots of recipes, and I am excited to try them all. I am also excited to eat bread.
