so shine a light & guide me home.
Healthy eating-ish update! Hopefully y'all will start seeing a lot more of these.
I made a mini-grocery run the other day to stock up on a few essentials: some more fresh fruit, fresh mushrooms, and olive oil. I can't stand cooking in anything other than olive oil anymore. I've been trying hard to stay away from butter, although we had skillet corn the other night that I know my mother cooked in butter. That's the hardest thing - living in a house with three other people, all who have or have had their own weight issues. The South loves to deep fry things, or just generally indulge in good ol' comfort food, and the problem is, I love some of that stuff, too. But it doesn't love me back.
Just since I started eating healthier, I FEEL so much better. My stomach isn't upset like it was when I was eating junk, I'm tired at a decent hour again, and for the most part, waking up much earlier than I was before. It's weird in a nice way to be ready for bed at 10:30 or 11 instead of 1am, and waking up at 7:30 or 8 is nice. I'm working on training myself to get up earlier than that, and hopefully I will be soon.
I had two cups of coffee this morning but that was all I wanted. I have had my coffee with sugar in it once or twice in the last week and a half, but mostly I'm putting honey in it. I may start trying it black slowly so I'm not dealing with sweetener at all, since I know even honey isn't perfect. I got rid of my Splenda, and I WANTED to try Agave, but didn't want to spend the money on it and not be sure if I'd like it.
I had sweet tea the other night at dinner and it was okay - too sweet, really. I keep meaning to make some for the family, then I don't. I haven't had soda in a week and truthfully, I haven't missed it AT ALL, which is amazing for me. I don't think I'll have any problem just making it an every once in awhile treat. So basically my ONLY caffeine recently has been my morning coffee, but it's good knowing that I'm not depending too much on caffeine.
That's it for today, I think. I've been helping can and bag/freeze veggies all day; now we're making pickles, then I HOPE I have time to go for a swim.
I made a mini-grocery run the other day to stock up on a few essentials: some more fresh fruit, fresh mushrooms, and olive oil. I can't stand cooking in anything other than olive oil anymore. I've been trying hard to stay away from butter, although we had skillet corn the other night that I know my mother cooked in butter. That's the hardest thing - living in a house with three other people, all who have or have had their own weight issues. The South loves to deep fry things, or just generally indulge in good ol' comfort food, and the problem is, I love some of that stuff, too. But it doesn't love me back.
Just since I started eating healthier, I FEEL so much better. My stomach isn't upset like it was when I was eating junk, I'm tired at a decent hour again, and for the most part, waking up much earlier than I was before. It's weird in a nice way to be ready for bed at 10:30 or 11 instead of 1am, and waking up at 7:30 or 8 is nice. I'm working on training myself to get up earlier than that, and hopefully I will be soon.
I had two cups of coffee this morning but that was all I wanted. I have had my coffee with sugar in it once or twice in the last week and a half, but mostly I'm putting honey in it. I may start trying it black slowly so I'm not dealing with sweetener at all, since I know even honey isn't perfect. I got rid of my Splenda, and I WANTED to try Agave, but didn't want to spend the money on it and not be sure if I'd like it.
I had sweet tea the other night at dinner and it was okay - too sweet, really. I keep meaning to make some for the family, then I don't. I haven't had soda in a week and truthfully, I haven't missed it AT ALL, which is amazing for me. I don't think I'll have any problem just making it an every once in awhile treat. So basically my ONLY caffeine recently has been my morning coffee, but it's good knowing that I'm not depending too much on caffeine.
That's it for today, I think. I've been helping can and bag/freeze veggies all day; now we're making pickles, then I HOPE I have time to go for a swim.