Day 5: Feeling fruity & Vegging out

One of the key concepts of any balanced meal plan is including fruits & vegetables into your meals. They provide heaps of nutrients, they fill you up, and they make you feel good.

Eating fruits & veggies during the summer is easy. The colorful selection from peaches to berries to melons are fresh and easy to grab and fun to eat without much prep. However, come winter, the fruits are few and far between and the veggies take thought and preparation to be able to enjoy. I know there are some which I haven't tried--the standard grapes, pears, oranges get boring. And while I enjoy squash and all the ways you can use it, there's only so much I can eat before it gets old too.

Without fruit & veggies, my efforts at weight loss are futile--they are vital to maintaining a healthy way of life. But I need to find ways to fit them in all year long.

How do you make sure you have enough fruits & veggies all year long? What do you do in the winter? Any new ones you've discovered?

Until next time

Reflecting on mom's words of wisdom...

Finish your vegetables. Drink some water.

Mom was right. These things are good for you. And they're also the most difficult for me to get enough in my diet. I've never been much of a drinker between or even during meals. So fitting in my six to eight glasses a day was never really something I was successful at.

But in trying to get back the motivation I had when I first started WW, I've been packing in the fruits & vegetables. And although it's only been a couple of days, I now remember why I was all psyched about it before. They really fill you up but you don't feel weighed down with the heavy meats and breads.

Today's lunch for instance was a large helping of roasted zucchini and squash, a half cup of tomato basil soup, and a half turkey sandwich with a little cheese, mustard, lettuce, tomato on rye. Not a ton of food, but I definitely feel full. Oh, and I had some Baked Lays too. (yum). But with all those vegetables, plus drinking lots of water, I feel like I had a four course meal or something.

So overall I've been doing well with food this week. Next week I'm going to get my exercise back on and start walking before or after work. How I'm going to fit that all in with work & rehearsals, I have no clue, but I'm getting myself re-motivated & I'll find the time.

So I'm proud to say, mom, you were right. Not necessarily about how I look in certain clothes...or about that blind date...but about the healthy stuff. Yup.

Oh, and remind me to tell you about Bootcamp.

Until next time.