I had a bunch of blog posts ideas for this weekend and here it is--5:30 on Sunday night and not one of them is up. That is because I spent most of yesterday laying around reading this, by Jillian Michaels. I picked it up on sale at Costco a few weeks ago and actually didn't know what to expect. But, low and behold, she is simply advocating a whole foods diet which I have been trying to convince myself to adopt for this last year. It really really is so worth the work. Here is the brief: the environment we live in is so increasingly toxic. The animal protein sources we eat are full of antibotics (and a whole host of other crap) and the processed food we buy at the store are full of chemicals that the body cannot even read. So what we eat is killing the good biotics (probiotics) we have so we are generally sicker. Then the chemicals aka high fructose corn syrup and hydrogenated oils enter our body and our metabolism says, "what is this? is this food? I don't know what to do with this." So it converts the food directly to stored fat AND even worse, your body still thinks it is hungry because it still thinks it has not been fed!
Anyway, I took a few whole foods cooking classes last year from my friend Des at Unconventional Kitchen. But, my family is not a fan so I went back to cooking easy, unhealthy food that made my family happy. But, I have been chronically feeling crappy. So, I cleaned out my fridge and cupboard yesterday just getting rid of the HFCS and the hydrogenated oils. Here is the proof! Such a bummer because a lot of the food was not even opened yet! Such a waste of money. But, I want to feel good and healthy again.
Anyway, I took a few whole foods cooking classes last year from my friend Des at Unconventional Kitchen. But, my family is not a fan so I went back to cooking easy, unhealthy food that made my family happy. But, I have been chronically feeling crappy. So, I cleaned out my fridge and cupboard yesterday just getting rid of the HFCS and the hydrogenated oils. Here is the proof! Such a bummer because a lot of the food was not even opened yet! Such a waste of money. But, I want to feel good and healthy again.
Another interesting thing I learned from JM, did you know that your hormones are your metabolism??? So when we are feeling hormonal crazy our metabolism will slow down and we will have a harder time losing weight! Anyway, more info to come on this as I finish the book.
What do you think?? Yea or nay?? My always cynically hubby says he doesn't buy it. But again, he loves to be the cynic. And I believe almost anything. Anyone else willing to clean out their cabinents? What I was most surprised by: the All-Bran cereal! The first three ingredients are as follows: Bran, sugar, high fructose corn syrup. Can you believe that!?! WHY do they have to follow sugar with HFCS as ingredients 2 and 3??
Sadly, even the chocolate milk i was so stoked to buy (and didn't) because it's such a great after run drink; the very first ingredient is HFCS! DANG it! I seem to go in circles. I do really well at eating better, more veggies, less sugars, using healthy substitutes. Then I get discouraged by the lack of support from the people I'm trying to help be healthy and I slip for a while. I've had to learn to be very sneaky and slowly introduce things like ground flax in the cookies that i used honey instead of sugar in. Or slowly adding a little quinoa to the rice once in a while til finally I can do at least half and half with no complaining! It's hard too that the things that are just so bad for our bodies are the things always on sale at the grocery store. And the things that are most healthy and beneficial for us are often quite expensive. Baby steps. Educate. Experiment. We'll get there!
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