I MUST eat healthier. I NEED to eat healthier. I do not have a problem saying that I am overweight. Heck, I’m clinically obese! I’ve always wanted to change by bad eating ways. Now looking at my daughter I don’t want her to struggle like I do so I want to teach her healthy eating NOW so that she doesn’t struggle later.
I want 2009 to be the year I changed my life, the year I started eating healthier.
Finding healthy meals for breakfast and lunch are pretty easy for me. In fact I can stick to eating the same one or two things for a week or two; I enjoy breakfast and lunch being repetitive. Dinner time is when I struggle. I’ve come to rely a lot on microwaveable meals or easy heat and stir items. Night tem tends to be when I indulge in over snacking as well.
Emma right now is really enjoying lots of food now and she loves to all the things I [or anyone for that matter] is eating. Translation: she pitches a fit if you don’t feed her exactly what you are eating too! I see this as a great opportunity to change my bad eating habits and create some good habits for me and with Emma.
Starting this week I am creating family dinner time. As in we all sit down at the same time and eat together. I am thinking between 6:00pm and 6:30pm. I will also be keeping sweet fruit in the house, like apples, bananas, and grapes, for those nights when my sweet tooth strikes.
I’ve been considering meal planning. I think it’s a great tool in keeping on track with healthy eating habits. I honestly don’t know enough healthy meals to even make a meal plan! Seriously, I’m really bad at this.
Do you know a great healthy recipe that’s easy enough for a beginning cook?
I’m looking for recipes that make enough food for myself and a toddler to eat.
Have a recipe for me? Great! Please email me at thismilitarymama[at]yahoo[dot]com with Recipe in the subject.
I have to share the best cookbook I have ever owned: The Healthy Hedonist by Myra Kornfeld. I met Myra at a class I took at the Natural Gourmet Institute in NYC. The food was so good and the recipes so easy that my friends and I hired her for a neighborhood cooking party. We all still make everything she taught us. Not sure if she will let me reprint a recipe but I will ask. Worst case, try the cookbook – start with the turnip smash – a tasty and light play on mashed potatoes.
Good luck. I joined a healthy eating/weight loss support group today. I’m hoping they will give me the motivation I need.
It’s hard to eat healthy though when you are really just cooking for yourself b/c your other half is deployed. My kids don’t really like vegetables. At all. So I tend to cook whatever is easy and I know they will eat the majority of.
I have been doing better though and snacking on licorice instead of chocolate. Making more sandwiches with roasted vegetables for lunch instead of eating pastries or takeout and cooking a lot of fish and chicken for dinner which thankfully my kids love.
One of my healthy favorite is a mixed salad (green salad, cucumbers, corn, tomatoes, onions, carrots) with grilled chicken. I love warm chicken pieces, but cold leftovers a good, too.
Good Luck, I am trying to change my habits, too, but especially the evening snacking is hard so might have to go back to carrots and popcorn as snacks.
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I just started eating healthier too. I took out the pasta and replaced it with chicken, fish, veggies and fruit. Took out the coffee and soda, replaced with slimfast and water. Not sure how it will go but it is a start.
I’m starting a diet this month!!! The recipes are going to help me too, wish you luck!! xoxo