Thursday, February 7, 2019

A new hobby

My husband is tired...just really, really tired of hearing me go on about how delicious food is.  He and I are not wired the same.  He sees food as functional necessity.  Not me.  I love the smell, the texture, the taste of different flavor combinations, the experience, the feelings and so on.  So on February 22nd, 2017 I decided to switch my approach to food moving from junk food junkie to healthy foodie.  It has been one wild ride.  When I started, I hated anything green.  Just ask my friends.  I loved sweets even though I was a type 2 diabetic.  I even had a stroke in 2013 and then I proceeded to pout for four years about how unfair it was instead of doing something about it.  I became resolved.  Didn't have the vaguest idea on how I was going to do it but I knew I wanted to give up the whites:  white flour, white sugar and white pasta.  I was also going to give up soda...I had a 2 Route 44/day addiction at that point.  Not going to lie, it was hard and I had relapses now and then.  Holidays and special occasions sometimes tripped me up and triggered old behaviors but now I just forgive myself and hop back on the wagon.

Anyway, that's enough reminiscing for now.  I learned so much from trimhealthymama.com  These two sisters have three different books that literally retrained me from being a convenience queen to a pretty decent cook.  I have enjoyed the journey of retraining my thinking and my tastebuds:  that my health is something to invest in and that real food is delicious even the green stuff.

So I'll be sharing foods I enjoy, recipes I've found on the internet and ones I totally make up.  I hope you'll follow along.

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