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Last week I told you that two of my goals were eating more fruits and vegetables and dropping 20 lbs (though I stepped on the scale today and it’s more like 25! 
). Though I haven’t gone gung-ho and joined a gym or started running 10 miles a day, I have made some small changes over the last week that I think will help over time.
First, I started walking whenever I could. I’m fortunate to live in a small town where everything is in walking distance. I can walk to the post office, the grocery store, the library, and even Walmart (though that’s a bit of a hike).
On the not-so-rainy days, I’ve been trying to get out once a day to walk. I know it’s not exercise, but when I think back to the days when I could eat anything and not gain a pound, I realize I was a lot more active. So little by little, I’m trying to incorporate more activity into my life. As the weather gets better, that will get easier.
Also, I’ve been putting extra vegetables into my food. For Christmas I got the book Deceptively Delicious by Jessica Seinfeld. In it she talks about how she purees vegetables, and adds them to her meals, and her children don’t realize they’re getting the extra veggies.
Since my kids hate their vegetables, and I’m trying to get more into my own life, I thought I’d give this method a whirl. So far it’s not been too bad. My husband did wonder why the meatballs in the spaghetti pie were a little bit green (broccoli), but other than that, nobody seemed to notice anything. And we all ate some extra cauliflower, carrots, broccoli, and squash this week.
Hopefully by continuing to make small changes in my day to day routine, I can develop a more healthy (and hopefully thinner) lifestyle.
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Kristi says:
I have been meaning to do that for awhile. The problem is that I too, like my children, don’t really like veggies all that much. Maybe a puree would get us all eating better.
January 11th, 2008 at 9:21 am
Christine says:
according to WW, walking IS exercise, and according to me, it is exercise! Another tip, when I make spaghetti, I also make some steamed green beans and use half pasta and half veggies under my sauce…and I use ground turkey sausage, or ground turkey for the meat sauce.
I have been trying to sneak veggies into the kids food for a long time, but, I am lucky, they will eat their veggies on the plate…(as long as it is cauliflower, broccoli, green beans or corn)
Another sneak, make baked pasta with low fat ricotta and put a box of frozen spinach in the sauce and just bake it all together…
January 12th, 2008 at 6:47 am
Jennifer Partin says:
I’m right there with you. Ugh!
Hope you do better than me.
January 14th, 2008 at 6:18 pm