1st day of the new plan

Wow, eating clean is tough, but eating only home-made cooked meals is like a daunting task.
I can already say that the kids and I are not going to be on the exact same page, because I already fed them raisin bread for breakfast.

What can I say, I'm not miss perfect-mom, never been, probably never will!

Breakfast: omelette with 2 eggs, a bit of milk, a bit of cheese. I also through in some capsicum left over from yesterday's Mexican themed dinner, and a bit of cooked ham.
Cheap, quick, healthy kind-of.
Snack: 2 squares of dark Lindt mint chocolate that I gobbled without even thinking twice. For no good reason except that the chocolate was left on the table that I was cleaning, and bad habits die hard!

Lunch: green juice (celeri, kale, mint, apple, cucumber ~600ml or 20 oz). Super yum, and ~200 kcal for this giant cup. Salmon sashimi (3 pieces), edamame, one miso soup (soy sauce! miso mix! fatgar!).
Snack: babybel.

Dinner: I made a vegetable mix as a spaghetti sauce for the family. Onions, sliced carrots and mushrooms, fresh tomatoes. I planned to use it as a side for my fish, then got lazy and had pasta too. On the bright side, I had only a little bowl of pasta, instead of my regular giant plate, and they were wholemeal if that matters. Fresh pasta are super easy to make and SO cheap, I'll be sure to post the recipe with pictures sometimes soon.

I recently started to get my groceries delivered instead of going grocery shopping. On the down side, it's difficult to chose fruits and veggies online, and I usually get delivered ripe ones that I need to cook asap and freeze if we want veggies for the week.
On the bright side, most shops offer free delivery if you reach a certain $ amount, and with a family of 4, it's easy to reach it for 10 days worth of grocery. If anything, we save money as I only buy things we need and often shop on the special offers page. Also, see below.
And I say YEAH to not taking the kids to the supermarket.

 

It seems that keeping a food diary might be a simple trick to curb my binge eating habits. I ate less today than on most Sundays.

The day is not finished, but I'm going to call it a day for this post, so that hopefully I'll limit what I eat tonight. I'm planning to be good: drink tons of tea if I feel like a sweet, instead of raiding the cupboard full of free-delivered snacks. Because yes, I decided that kids will be cut from sugar progressively and not cold-turkey as if they were willing adults!

Eating lite to live longer

Alright, I feel like I'm about to write what has been said for a while now.
Plain, non processed food, is a cheap and easy way to be healthy. It's a little more work, but it can be delicious for the entire family.

And if you're on a budget, it's the ONLY way to make it through the month. While pressing your own glass of orange juice is more expensive than buying one 1l of it, solid food items are way more expensive to buy than to make.

In the next few weeks, I'm going to post simple recipes of food I'm eating with my entire family. Skinny soups for the busy mom and hearty stews for the whole family, home made desserts and .
As we all get to understand:








Of course it is not entirely true. Eating fat will make you fat, clog your arteries and eventually make you die of a heart attack, I DO believe that sugar will kill us all faster, because there is more of it everywhere.

And carbs can be your best friend if you exercise, as they provide good energy.

There is good fat (think avocados) and good sugar (think apples) as long as we eat everything in moderation.  The enemy is Fatar, the fat sugar ;-) Think spreads (chocolate or peanut versions), industrial biscuits, cake, bread and cookies, factory yoghurts, and such. Fried dough, chicken nuggets.

As my friend says, you can never outrun a bad diet and she's right. As much as I love to exercise, when I eat half a pack of my favorite caramel cookies at close to 100 calories a pop (yes EACH!!!) in front of the TV or while working at night, I would need to exercise at high intensity for one full hour or more: go run at good speed (I usually last 25 minutes and I'm quite proud of it), or do hot yoga, zumba, rowing machine,...
For a handful of cookies. You get the idea: better to just exercise 20 minutes a day than to chug fast calories and then have to spend 2 hours in the gym, only to balance in and out, not even to lose weight. Anyway,  I have a full schedule and do not exercise on most days.

Get where I'm going?
I'm starting a journey on the path to whole food. I will exercise in moderation, eat in moderation, say no to crazy snacks, and monitor my progress here to see if it's working and stay accountable of my food journal. If I'm not too lazy, I'll try to post exercises and cooking videos. We'll see about that one... Any way, talk soon! xoxo