Surviving NJ

I've been buried in catalogs this season. I feel bad for our mail carrier, and am glad he gets a mail truck. He'd throw out his back carrying all those suckers this year! Do you know how many are tossed before looking at them? If you guessed about 90%, you'd be right!

Otherwise, the other change going on, is I'm on a 3 day course to eat clean and healthy. That means limiting the amount of preservatives in the food I'm eating. I've been given the ok to use cheerios in place of some of the other choices I have, along with eggs, and a 7 multi-grain bread that has 3 grams of fiber. Otherwise, it's "nature's food" and no boxed, canned, bagged or other goodies I'm used to.

Yesterday, I almost went into a full-fledged panic at the thought of certain foods not making the list of approved foods. My trainer reminds me, 80% of my battle is the food choices I make. I can work out, and build muscle, but until I get my eating in line, I won't get to my goal.

Change scares me sometimes, and in this case, it hit me like a fly hitting a windshield at 50mph.

Now? You want me to start now? Can't I have three days and three boxes of treats to think about it? Nope....I'm starting now.  The goal is to get into a pattern of clean eating all the time, but because I need to do things in babysteps, 3 days on, 1 day off is the deal we've made.