Healthy Diet for a New Year
Today marks day one of my month long diet. I was feeling rather down about myself and decided to splurge one day at the grocery store on Whole Living Magazine. I bought the issue because it featured juice recipes, a favorite of my husband. When I got home and read through, I discovered that the juices were part of an entire diet plan that looked like something I could get behind. All the recipes are whole foods, winter friendly and already the kinds of foods I like to eat. The main point of the diet is elimination. I've eliminated alcohol and sweets from my diet. (Granted I do have some dark chocolate Lindt bars int eh pantry should a month be too long to go without just a taste of chocolatey goodness. However, I'm aiming to not touch the stuff. At the very least I cannot justify buying it.) I've also decided to go all the way and take coffee out of my diet. For those who have met me in person, you might recall that I am always drinking coffee. I can drink an entire 32oz cylinder a French pressed coffee a day. Not to go cold turkey, I've simply switched to tea for the month. I bought a lovely white rose tea at Whole Foods last night and I already adore it. (I made macarons for a babyshower while I was drinking the tea so I pretended I was at Ladurée.)
Speaking of Whole Foods, I decided that I should probably buy my produce there since I will be eating so much of it raw and their produce is generally better than my local grocery store. I was worried that this diet would be crazy expensive, but my total at the checkout was actually less than what I usually spend not counting the $18 I spent on tea. (We went a little crazy on the tea. Everett wanted some licorice tea and I wanted green and white teas. I think we have about 250 bags of tea in our pantry now. That should last a month, right? haha) We are eating a vegan diet for the first week and then we will add fish next week. I am looking forward to the fish, but the trail mix I made of walnuts, dried cranberries and cherries, sunflower and pumpkin seeds is pretty tasty.
Here goes nothing!
Speaking of Whole Foods, I decided that I should probably buy my produce there since I will be eating so much of it raw and their produce is generally better than my local grocery store. I was worried that this diet would be crazy expensive, but my total at the checkout was actually less than what I usually spend not counting the $18 I spent on tea. (We went a little crazy on the tea. Everett wanted some licorice tea and I wanted green and white teas. I think we have about 250 bags of tea in our pantry now. That should last a month, right? haha) We are eating a vegan diet for the first week and then we will add fish next week. I am looking forward to the fish, but the trail mix I made of walnuts, dried cranberries and cherries, sunflower and pumpkin seeds is pretty tasty.
Here goes nothing!