I often complain we don't eat as healthily as we should. The truth is, we don't eat badly. At least, not that badly. However, we, like most good Americans, had an orgy of food over the past week. Cream cheese in multiple appetizers, fried stuff with cheese, and crap topped with goodness. Velveeta? I may have had to ask where to find it in the store, but heaps of globs sure were delicious. Today, today I can feel it. Oozing out of every pore, stomach aching for release, headachy and bloated. Honest to goodness not doing well. I welcome beans and fruit and vegetables back with open arms.
My question is this. How do people (and we all know there ARE people) eat this way on a continual basis? Processed this and fried that and handful over fistful of gross? Just a few days and my body is reeling, begging me for some nutrition. I'm just not used to eating like that! I have pounds I know I should lose, but overall I'm healthy and strong. I got my cholesterol numbers back the week before Christmas and they were ridiculously good. Blood work was great. My ab muscles are there and strong, under the layer of baby (toddler) fat. That made me feel great! I'm not doing terribly! But, oh, how I'm missing my healthy food.
I finished reading The Omnivore's Dilemma this weekend, after picking it up on and off for several months. It did nothing but reaffirm the steps I've been taking for the past couple of years are the right ones. Local, grass fed beef (YIKES! about the corn fed ones!), local dairy, hormone free and delivered. A steady diet of local grown veggies, making my own bread. All steps in the right direction and ones I only want to grow and enhance this year.
The only song I can do today:
(mystify, inxs)
sadly, the count for witty comments will still be at zero after this one.. ha ha.
ReplyDeleteSort of related, we were driving last night and Brooke looks over and says, "ah, that makes sense".. I say, "what" she says, "oh, that lady has an In-N-Out sticker on her car and she's really chubby". ouch. Although I appreciate her observation, I noted that she should probably not share that with others..
While MAYBE not sharing, you are at least teaching her healthy habits and consequences of bad ones. So that's good, right?
ReplyDeleteIn related news, we're making an IKEA trip this weekend and I REALLY want to see if the new In-N-Out's line is worth going, yet. I need to finish my cleanse so I can go!
There was a time when we ate pretty poorly. Not so much fast food but just whatever was cheapest which was usually not the healthiest.
ReplyDeleteI know people in a certain geographic region who eat that way every day of their lives still.
I think they just don't GET that the food is making them feel that way. They think it's their age, diabetes, high blood pressure, arthritis, etc, etc, etc that is making them feel so crappy. They fail to go one step farther back to what causes all that.
JMTC
I was at the grocery store the other day and I saw a couple who were filling their cart with "stuff" - pizza rolls, processed this and that and yeah, I had to wonder how they felt. I think you are completely right.
ReplyDeleteT-did you see they've announced another one for the north end of SLC? I want to say Kaysville, but I might be remembering that wrong
ReplyDeleteIn-N-Out? Yeah. And a possible one in Layton, as well. Yay! I think I read that when they are done, there will be 4 or 5 in SL / Davis counties.
ReplyDeleteWe passed it twice over our travels, both on our way to NM and on our way back, the one in SLC. Didn't get to stop either time. But the lines were not bad, 3 or 4 cars there both times.
ReplyDeleteI made a goal of healthy eating several months ago. It takes more planning and preparation, and, at first, it wasn't as satisfying. Then I started to love my new habits. Not enough to stick with them through the holidays, however. So now I'm starting over.
ReplyDeleteI have noticed for the first time how much better I feel when I eat lots of vegetables, and less sugar. For years I didn't even realize that my lack of energy and vitality had anything to do with my diet! I like your sidebar menu planner. Thanks for the ideas.
IKEA trip---taking an 18 wheeler ?
ReplyDeleteSadly, not this trip. It'll be a very small "things they didn't have last time" trip. Maybe once the other house sells I'll go the 18 wheeler route again! I'm sure I can come up with SOMETHING.
ReplyDeleteVelveeeta-goodness. I'm feeling ya on the thorny road back to healthy living. The first days are always the hardest though. The sugar-gods call out my name and ask why I have given up paying hommage... so hard to ignore but worth it right. on good news, David and I fought over the remains of the vegetable platter. we ended up splitting it.
ReplyDeleteIsaac was begging for steamed veggies last night...
ReplyDeleteMy body always lets me know when I've gone terribly awry. I think some people just bust their little internal sensor doohickey thingymajoos.
ReplyDeleteSteamed veggies sound goooood.
Oh how I miss MH and his see through shirts...
WV: sessentu. I don't know what it is, but it sounds sessexy!
Oi. MH is SOOOO sessentu!!!
ReplyDeleteI second the MH is SOOO sessentu. The first clip I found was of JD Fortune staggering around on stage. So I quickly found this one to make me happy!
ReplyDeleteI spent the entire 2009 year purging my house of sugar and refined and processed foods. I got new cookbooks, new habits and new clothes because I lost 20 lbs. I did eat some of the "goodness" this past season. The first thing I did when I walked in Mom's house was to eat a yummy, melt in your mouth piece of praline candy.
ReplyDeleteAnd I enjoyed every minute of every piece I ate while there (and I ate it till it was gone). But I enjoyed my beet/cucumber/apple/orange fresh from my juicer drink this morning.
Brandi was telling me about a kid in school. They have a new student in her class so the class had to introduce themselves and say one thing they like. This kid said, "My name is____ and I like donuts."
then Brandi looked at me and said, "Not to be rude, but he looks like he likes donuts."
See, Michelle? My niece could be Brooke's friend!
ReplyDeleteUmm, I just ate a bowl of homemade peppermint ice cream. Guess who got an ice cream maker for Christmas. At least I know what's in it.
ReplyDelete1. YUM.
ReplyDelete2. There is still peppermint ice cream in my freezer. You know, for hot chocolate. As soon as I right the balance again!
It took me a minute to remember who JD Fortune is. He does not mystify me. At least not in the preferable ways.
ReplyDeleteI love peppermint ice cream.
Oh, I try to forget him, too...
ReplyDeleteI sure did love that show though...
ReplyDeleteMe too. I wonder what happened to Marty Casey?
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