An all-American suburban mother's fight with the battle of the bulge. Come support, sympathize, criticize and voyeur along with me as I detail daily my Emotion, Food, Activity and life amongst the rest of the squirrels just trying to get a nut. Come take the journey along with me.
Thursday, September 14, 2006
power foods
Welcome to eFAT-Blog. This is a site where you can find the journey of an American suburban working mother of 5 children's journey to a healthy lifestyle.
Daily I will detail my emotions, food, activity and the like in the neverending battle of the bulge.
Come take the journey along with me.
Simplifying Life
I have been for years now – about 5, trying to wok on simplifying my life. Initially, I began these efforts with the goal of getting organized. Then it morphed into trying to reduce the stress in my life. Now, I want to live more simply so that I’m not overtaking the resources afforded to our wonderful world. Additionally, with that aspect in mind, I think I will be allowing myself and my family to live more healthily.
However, it seems I am thwarted at every turn. I’m trying to cut back the unnatural things that are in our diet. The goal being that if we eat more simply, we’ll be healthier, too. I discovered over the course of the last week that many of the items I assumed were healthy, i.e. Yoghurt, had additives in them that really made them unhealthy in one way shape or form.
Find yoghurt that does not have high fructose corn syrup in it. Find yoghurt that doesn’t have some other chemical sweetener in it. And find those simple foods at an affordable cost to sustain 7 people! Yowsa! I did find one at my local market – I prefer to shop in the town I live, because it makes sense – as oppose to driving 20 miles to the Super Wal-Mart. I save gas, time, and energy and support my own community financially. But because my hometown has less than 10k people in it, purchasing goods there costs an extra cent here and an extra cent there. But the cost of one 6 oz yoghurt that fit all the requirements I had (ingredients: Grade A Pasteurized Nonfat Milk, fruit juice, blueberries, tapioca, pectin, natural flavor, active cultures) & produced locally, was 69 cents – and that’s ON SALE. Oi! And some of the pals I’ve made here in the Seattle area would argue that the yoghurt I did purchase “Cascade Fresh,” is not as simple as it should be. If I had time to make my own yoghurt, I just might. But cut me some slack. I work full-time, spend a whole other work day in the car driving, and have 5 children to care for and a husband who I love showering with romantic attention daily. Making yoghurt kind of falls down the priority list. I’m going to let my dollars do my talking here, I guess.
But I noticed my grocery total was about $50 more than normal. Granted I had not done a thorough shopping trip in probably three weeks, so there was extra stuff to get – laundry supplies, toilet paper, paper towels, etc. But buying whole grain breads, purer yoghurts and other all-natural foods, upped my grocery ante. Oh well, my family’s health is definitely worth it.
In other diet news…I’ve been sticking to this Power Food plan for more than a week now. It feels good and is easy to follow. This is the first eating plan I’ve followed where the whole family can do it, as well.
Daily I will detail my emotions, food, activity and the like in the neverending battle of the bulge.
Come take the journey along with me.
Simplifying Life
I have been for years now – about 5, trying to wok on simplifying my life. Initially, I began these efforts with the goal of getting organized. Then it morphed into trying to reduce the stress in my life. Now, I want to live more simply so that I’m not overtaking the resources afforded to our wonderful world. Additionally, with that aspect in mind, I think I will be allowing myself and my family to live more healthily.
However, it seems I am thwarted at every turn. I’m trying to cut back the unnatural things that are in our diet. The goal being that if we eat more simply, we’ll be healthier, too. I discovered over the course of the last week that many of the items I assumed were healthy, i.e. Yoghurt, had additives in them that really made them unhealthy in one way shape or form.
Find yoghurt that does not have high fructose corn syrup in it. Find yoghurt that doesn’t have some other chemical sweetener in it. And find those simple foods at an affordable cost to sustain 7 people! Yowsa! I did find one at my local market – I prefer to shop in the town I live, because it makes sense – as oppose to driving 20 miles to the Super Wal-Mart. I save gas, time, and energy and support my own community financially. But because my hometown has less than 10k people in it, purchasing goods there costs an extra cent here and an extra cent there. But the cost of one 6 oz yoghurt that fit all the requirements I had (ingredients: Grade A Pasteurized Nonfat Milk, fruit juice, blueberries, tapioca, pectin, natural flavor, active cultures) & produced locally, was 69 cents – and that’s ON SALE. Oi! And some of the pals I’ve made here in the Seattle area would argue that the yoghurt I did purchase “Cascade Fresh,” is not as simple as it should be. If I had time to make my own yoghurt, I just might. But cut me some slack. I work full-time, spend a whole other work day in the car driving, and have 5 children to care for and a husband who I love showering with romantic attention daily. Making yoghurt kind of falls down the priority list. I’m going to let my dollars do my talking here, I guess.
But I noticed my grocery total was about $50 more than normal. Granted I had not done a thorough shopping trip in probably three weeks, so there was extra stuff to get – laundry supplies, toilet paper, paper towels, etc. But buying whole grain breads, purer yoghurts and other all-natural foods, upped my grocery ante. Oh well, my family’s health is definitely worth it.
In other diet news…I’ve been sticking to this Power Food plan for more than a week now. It feels good and is easy to follow. This is the first eating plan I’ve followed where the whole family can do it, as well.
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