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