Hmm...What's for Dinner

I typically have a very difficult time deciding what to eat.

It's really bad, just ask my husband.

I can be known to skip a meal simply because I'm not in the "mood" for anything. However, I am realizing that I really don't need to eat according to my moods or according to my cravings. I must eat to get my body through the day. It's like the fuel we put in our cars, it's what makes the cars run. Of course we need to put the right fuel into our cars, and in the same respect into our bodies. The car doesn't think "hmm...what fuel should I put in today". No, we put in the fuel that is recommended to make the car run most efficiently. Thus, is why I am on this new healthy-eating kick. I am trying to gain a different/healthy perspective on eating.  I sure have a lot to learn and will still ponder occasionally what's for dinner, yet I am excited about all the resources out there that provide yummy recipes to try!

Recently, I stumbled upon a lovely website with all kinds of fabulous recipes (all low calorie!). So, I decided to try the recipe for Meatball and Spaghetti Soup from Skinny Taste.

Of course, mine doesn't look as fabulous as it does on the website...but it was so GOOD! I highly recommend. :)

I altered the recipe slightly by using wheat pasta and a little more spaghetti sauce.

Next time I am pondering what's for dinner, I am going straight to my bookmarks/pins and looking up something new and exciting. It's fun to try new recipes and it feels good to know that I found a healthy alternative to my good ol' fashioned pack-on-the-pounds recipes.

It Takes Work & Lots of It!

I am currently reading a book called Made To Crave by Lysa Terkeurst. (I very highly recommend it!)

 

Anyway, in the third chapter, Lysa describes her feelings after seeing the garden of a neighbor. She writes: "I saw this man's flowers and wished for my own-without a clue about all the work that had gone into producing them. I want(ed) the flowers but not the work."

Wow. It's amazing how much this story describes my weight loss journey to a "T". I can truly look back over the years and see myself sitting there wishing to be skinny. It happened many nights while watching the Biggest Loser (and eating some sweet snack-that-should-not-be-eaten) that I would sit there and wish I could lose weight like "them". All the while thinking to myself, "If I could only go on the Biggest Loser" or "Man, wish I could lose weight that fast". 

Reading Made To Crave at the laundry mat.

The thing is, I've never really tried. In the past when I have lost weight, it's always been easy and due to circumstance. When I moved to Russia and was forced to eat whatever foods I could find, then walk up and down five flights of stairs to my apartment everyday, and walk everywhere else, for that matter; that is when I was able to lose a lot of weight by doing nothing. Then when I returned to the States and gained all the weight back, I have wondered what was wrong that I couldn't lose weight anymore.

The reason all along was that I didn't want to put the work in, but I definitely wanted to see the results. I have realized that there is no wishing the weight away. It's going to take a lot of work. And, it's not going to happen overnight. It took a long time to get where I am right now, and it will take a while to get it off.

Walking with the hubby to get Subway. (Total walking distance - 1 mile)

I am going to work hard from now. I'm committed.

It felt good to get the walk in last night. The air is cold, but I hardly noticed!

Week 1- Six pounds down!

 

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover" -Mark Twain

 This quote is one of the reasons that I have decided to do this. It inspires and motivates me that now is the time. I can do this! The next 20 years of my life aren't going to be like the first 29. Of course I wouldn't trade those years for anything because they are a part of me, but I want to live more fully than I have been.

Last week was my first week on this new journey. I just got up one day and decided, this is it. I think with my birthday (and turning 29), it wasn't a very difficult decision.

My 29th Birthday. Hanging out with my Hubby.

Now I am SIX pounds down!

In all honesty, those were the easiest six pounds I have ever lost. I am motivated right now, but fear if/when I lose that motivation. Which, is in big part why I've decided to start blogging. This will hold me accountable each day to keep on track.

 This is going to be a good year! :)