Eating healthy is easy.. if you make it.

I am getting a little out of order in my post, but I just had to make this happen today!

People in general think that Luis and I only have diet shakes all day long.  While on Take Shape For Life, you have 5 meals supplied by TSFL - including shakes, but there is TONS of other food options.  I cook one lean and green meal a day (while in weight loss).  We do not only eat salads.  I have always been able to cook, just now I have to think outside of my normal cooking recipes and methods.  Not a real hard thing to do once you do it for a little while.  Now that Luis and I are in "transition" we eat 2 snacks a day supplied by TSFL, but we have  a all wheat cereal with 4 oz of fruit for breakfast, lunch 4oz of meat and veggies, and then the same for supper.

We have pizza, stuffed mushrooms, stuffed peppers, steak, brasied cabbage, ect.  I could go on and on.  But recently at work, 2 coworkers said to me " OMG you are eating REAL food finally"  My reply was, what do you mean "real food"  I have always ate real food.  That particular day I had brought stuffed peppers from the night before.  Still confused, I asked again.  And they both replied that this "ACTUALLY LOOKED GOOD"  so therefor was "real food".  I usually don't get too bothered with comments like this, but that day was an off day I suppose!  I explained to them both that it was not a typical fattening food that they would expect real food to be like.  These two particular people enjoy eating fast food everyday, so I have to show them.  Then I explained to them the recipe, and of course they say its gross.  Which it is not.

The key to losing weight and keeping it off is being accountable for what items you shovel into your mouth the entire day.  If you eat 3 mini candybars - you have already ate 3 times the amount of refined sugar you should eat.  That doesn't even count if you drink sodas or sweeten teas, or in their case fast food.

Bottom line, eating healthy is easy if you embrace it.  You have to use your mind and you cannot always get something healthy through a drive thru.  There are times you can splurge, but you cannot make a splurge into a splurge week, or a splurge month.  If you do that, you will end up having a splurge year.

Be accountable and accept your faults.  Then you will be stronger!