Hi Peeps!
Sorry I haven't posted on here for a loooong time...I wish I had a plausible excuse but I don't.
This blog was set up so that I could record my adventure in switching to a whole food diet...and well, sometimes during adventures we stumble. And ok, I didn't just stumble, I fell off the wagon - and I didn't just fall off the wagon....I fell off the wagon, tumbled down a hill, plunged off a cliff, splashed into a huge lake, sank to the botttom and almost drowned! That's how far off the path to whole foods I got :) but I am happy to report that I am slowly swimming back to the top of the water again, and I will scale back up that cliff, walk back up that hill and climb back on that wagon again.
I am not so happy to report however that due to my inattentiveness (laziness) I am feeling like POOP! I am achy and tired and grumpy!!!!! AND I GAINED SO MUCH WEIGHT I AM DISGUSTED WITH MYSELF!!!!!!!
I also got really discouraged because whole food is STUPID expensive and I can't always afford the organic bananas at $1.29/lb when the non-organic variety is $0.79/lb! If I, as a single person making an okay salary can't always afford the best food - what the heck are families going to do? Or people who don't have the same grocery budget that I have...what are they going to do? I also found that I have had very little time to cook lately, and that is a huge problem when you're trying not to eat pre-packaged foods. So I am starting from scratch again. I am going to try to find a way to easily integrate a whole food lifestyle in with my 2011 self. I will buy the non-organic bananas and deal with it. :)
I hope you guys are doing well! There's a super YUMMY recipe for manicotti in this month's issue of clean eating magazine and I cannot wait to try it (even if it has FISH in it!)....that's step 1 of getting back on track!
Missed you!
Jeannette! We ALL stumble...but it's good of you to just deal with it and move forward. Thanks for being an inspiration. And YES, eating clean/well/organically is prohibitively (is that even a word?) expensive. I also find it brutally hard to eat the way I WANT to eat. Seems funny to me that the stuff that springs up from the ground is so expensive. I know all the arguments that go toward the expense, but at the end of the day when I go into a supermarket and a head of (NON ORGANIC) lettuce is $2.99 and it's sitting next to a bin of Kraft dinner - 99 cents a piece, I want to throw up. Sigh. Don't get me started....
ReplyDeleteWell, I just think it's wrong and in some ways I feel like perhaps this 'trend' is being exploited and people are just trying to make a quick buck! It's really really discouraging! And with ever increasing prices at the grocery store how are people supposed to afford to eat well when we can't even afford to eat? <> thanks for the vote of confidence! :)
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