We’ve just returned from what has to be the most exhausting holiday I’ve ever experienced. So much for relaxation!
We actually paid money to:
a) hurtle ourselves down a mountain with a board strapped to both feet
b) have our dog returned to us in utter exhaustion
If you haven’t guessed it by now, we went on a ski/snowboard trip. It was fun! Really, it was! When we arrived we had zero knowledge of how to get ourselves from the top of the mountain on a board other than to sit on it. On our last day we had slightly more knowledge of how to throw ourselves fearlessly (or more accurately, terrorized) from the highest altitude down to the lowest. The difference in altitude is rather surprising. The one time I made it down the mountain in 7 minutes my ears actually popped.
2012
I am not into resolutions, rather into lifestyle changes. Healthy eating has been a gradual change over the years and we’ve really begun to take it seriously at the end of 2011 and hopefully this is a permanent lifestyle change. I’ll totally miss my nachos and cheese. I’ll continue to crave fancy chocolates and the french fries will continue to lure me at the food courts! However, my working out becomes so much harder when I eat poorly. Not that we ever did eat awfully but we were getting into the habit of dessert every day in England. Whoops. That explains why my pants didn’t fit.
What it’s NOT:
a) restrictive, there are no foods that we do not eat. Rather, we have a ‘choose rarely’ category in which the glorious foods live and we have a ‘choose often’ category for those greens, reds, yellows from the produce section live.
b) natural, organic, trendy, yoga, pilates, and whatever else is cool today! I’m not really convinced by the ‘organic’ produce. I will continue to wash my apples and tomatoes with soap and water… Our diets are clean, not organic/natural. A common misconception I hear today is, ‘Oh, it’s organic, therefore also healthy!’ What a way to get fat off of free range, organic pork sausages… and be completely dumbfounded as to why weight gain happened. It’s called a sensible diet of diverse, healthy choices.
My idea for eating sensibly will follow shortly in another blog post. Someday if I ever have the priviledge of doing rehab for overweight individuals, I would love to implement this idea. Watch for it!
