It's one week after the New Year- and what a week it has been. While I didn't make any "official" New Year's Resolutions, our family has recently begun making healthier choices. It's a bit eye opening when my eight year old said to me, "Mom, some day I want to be healthy like dad."
GULP. "Like dad??"
Not "like mom?"
She was right. While I have lost a fair amount of weight, I'm still not all that healthy. Josh has always been the healthy one..... and our eight year old knows it!
So with that in mind, we thought it a perfect opportunity to grant Hailey her wish sooner rather than later. She has asked that I make her eggs in the morning. While the thought of getting up 1/2 hour earlier than I already do wasn't a bit appealing, the thought of Hailey eating eggs as opposed to Pop Tarts is very exciting to me! So all last week we ditched the Pop Tarts and ate eggs and toast... and some days eggs with fruit smoothies. It makes me feel soooooo good to be helping Hailey be healthier!!
In the meantime, this past week I decided to eat eggs/toast/smoothies right along with Hailey, which meant I needed to ditch the morning Mountain Dew and Panera "Breakfast of Champions" (i.e. scones, crumb cake and/or bagels with cream cheese) I am normally accustomed to. Unfortunately, any caffiene-a-holic understand that when you STOP drinking it, a cruel headache will follow. Like clockwork, I had a four day headache. I had never experienced anything quite like it - I even tried a variety of drugs to kill the pain. Nothing worked. I am happy to report that 6 days later I have reached the threshold and no longer get a headache from not drinking the Dew.
I am truly thrilled about this because I do not want to be in bondage to anything or anyone!!! While drinking Mountain Dew is not terrible in and of itself, RELYING on it too much is! For my body to be addicted to it - IS terrible and certainly not something that I want to be a slave to.
So I'm happy to report that because of reducing my Dew intake (NOT eliminating), I too am eating healthier! Our family is getting healthier one day at a time... one food choice at a time! I'm THRILLED about this! We will press on and continue to make eating healthier a lifestyle for us all!
This is one step to being the ME I was meant to be!
2 comments:
That's awesome! Food is fuel for your body, so your choices do matter. Glad you've decided to make the change and hope you'll be feeling (& enjoying) the results of that soon.
Thanks Megs! Indeed I am already feeling and enjoying the results!!! I know that Hailey will too!!!
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