Just in case this pregnancy nonsense pans out, I’m eating more roughage. I watched this documentary called, “Fat, Sick and Nearly Dead.” This guy drinks juice, and only juice, all day every day for 60 days. It sounds crazy, but the whole premise was that he is nursing his body back to health and drastically switching from a meat and potatoes guy to a “stuff that is green” guy. What got to me wasn’t the incredible weight loss, but a look at the average American dinner plate. It’s 50% meat, 25% vegetable (maybe) and 25% starchy white potatoes or some kind of white bread. And I wash it all down with a couple of sodas.
I don’t really mind fruits and vegetables. My Dad, for example, could never do the juice thing, because he doesn’t really like carrots – much less carrot juice. I like carrots, well, at least I can tolerate them.
Okay, so, for breakfast today and yesterday, I had Kashi Something-Or-Other cereal. You know? That hippie cereal with all the good crap in it? I threw in a handful of blueberries. I did have a burger yesterday – but I didn’t want to throw it out. It was leftover from my birthday lunch. Tuesday and Wednesday I had a big ol’ honkin’ salad with dark leafy greens. The Tuesday one also had cucumber and green pepper in there.
Wait, wait, let me do it this way:
Tuesday: Huge salad w/ green pepper, pear, cucumber. Cereal with blueberries. Chicken spaghetti
Wednesday: Cereal with blueberries. Big dark green salad. Banana. Carnitas burrito from Chipotle
Thursday: Cereal with blueberries. Banana. Corn on the cob (x2).
Plus, I’m drinking water. I’m sipping a soda right now and it’s very, “meh.” Alright, so the diet’s not perfect. Basically, it’s what I normally did, one meal a day at dinnertime, plus some healthy stuff. But, I can’t go wrong cutting out the soda. I can’t go straight to juice. Pregnant people are supposed to do a lot of milk, right? Don’t they say that? So, I’m trying to do milk daily. And eat something for every color of the rainbow everyday.
I don’t like bananas… but I’m willing to suffer through it. I also think my lack of eating vegetables has to do with my skin burning so easily. I forget the connection, but the guy in the movie said something about how the green stuff helps turn sunlight into something. Tom and I both at one point during the movie looked at each other and were like, “why are they talking to us like we’re 5? Oh, right, because we never learned this stuff.”
So, on today’s menu… I need to add something red, and something green. An orange wouldn’t hurt, although oranges and yellows are kind of grouped together. ( http://jointhereboot.com/reboot-program/simple-eating-guidelines/ ) How many servings of fruit and vegetables are you supposed to eat per day? I have no clue. I’ll have to look into that. I feel like it was 5 or 6. Ok, i Googled it and it’s 2 – 4 fruits, 3 – 5 veggies.
It felt good to go shopping in the produce section and no where else. It’s like… man… why haven’t we been doing this all along? Why am I surprised that a diet of processed foods from boxes have left me feeling as bland as their cardboard packaging? And my addiction to soda is downright scary.
I’m thinking about a salad with pears and strawberries. Maybe some walnuts, too. It’s nice to feel excited about this stuff. No weight change. I don’t really care. I will eventually join a pool or something to lose weight. But, even if I’m fat… can’t go wrong eating all this green stuff, right?
Another thing that sticks out in my mind is:
“Use Sparingly: Refined Grains—White Bread, Rice, and Pasta; Potatoes; Sugary Drinks and Sweets; Salt”
Sparingly. That blows my mind. Sparingly. Sparingly is just a tiny pinch, right? So, no more Velveeta Shells n’ Cheese every night. No more chugging Cherry Coke. I’m avoided stuff in boxes. The less processed the better.
Exciting!
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