Eating hEaThLy STINKS!!

Well Howdy! I have been gone for a long time...I guess I just haven't had much to say...or don't think to blog about it if I do. So, I trying to eat healthier (I am NOT calling this a diet because I DESPERATELY want it to be a lifestyle and not a life long dieting battle) because my pants are fitting a bit tighter and I don't like it one bit. Plus I have someone special (not mentioning who for their privacy) in my life that is needing to eat healthy for more immediate health concerns and so I am trying my best to be supportive and bettering myself in the process as well. So anyways I am a VERY picky eater and totally love meat, cheese, potatoes, and any other sort of carb imaginable as well...those items do not result in a very healthy diet. So I have decided to try and reduce my carb intake, eat only 3 meals and 3 snacks a day, and try to eat well rounded meals and snacks. I started this on Wednesday officially I guess. I was talking to a good friend of mine and I was trying to think of how I was gonna conquer the evil of junk food and he suggested setting a small goal first...like not eating junk food until Sunday and then going from there. For the clarification purposes..Junk food is candy, chips, desserts, and pop (which thankful I rarely drink). This plan is working in that making it to Sunday sounds manageable but at times I just want everything under the sun like...Cinnamon Rolls, Dorritos, Chocolate, etc. I have great people in my life that I can complain to about my cravings and they will encourage me that I CAN do it!!!! Thanks! :) I have been making meals and freezing them for quite sometime and that seems to work well it just the eating in between my meals and late night boredom eating. Also, I make a lot of meals but when you don't like many foods, like me, it is very hard to make well rounded meals. My meals tend to be heavy in fat or choloesterol or carbs or all of the above...NOT GOOD! I did shop online the other day for a few reasons...1. so that I wouldn't "hunger shop" my whole life savings away..haha 2. because I wanted to be able to plan meals with items I had. This seems to be working well. PLUS....I don't to haul groceries out in the cold (although that would be exercise). Anyways that is enough blabbing about this topic! Any thoughts about eating healthy or picky eating or about meals that can be made in crockpot well and/or that freeze well...please leave me a msg it would be greatly appreciated!

A Plethora of Tangential Thoughts

So as most people that have known me for more than 5 minutes can tell you....I think a LOT...TOO MUCH usually but I think when I work nights I think even more. I have thoughts that run in every direction as this post proly will be testimony too! I will tell you that tonight I have a billion things on my mind but one of them is foster care and you might say what does a 23 yo unmarried female have to do with foster care? Well, I have always had a desire in my heart to do foster care and I recently found out you can do it even if you are unmarried so this stirred the burning desire in my heart for it. But, after thinking about it more I started to feel like it is not exactly what I should be doing at this time. I enjoy my freedom to run to Walmart anytime of the day and not bring anything but my keys and credit card with me and I enjoy being able to go home for the weekend and spend time running around with Jared or just laying around watching football and eating too many unhealthy foods. All these freedoms would be "modified" if I chose to do foster care. I think at this point I would be capable of handling the situations but eventually I would feel frustrated by it so it would be better to invest my heart into something else. I have not decided what exaclty that might be. I also have discovered that when examing my life and how much I enjoy my freedom I need to take full advantage of it while I can. Don't get me wrong...I want nothing more in life than to be a wife and mom and have billions of diapers to change and cupcakes to make but that is not where God has placed me in my life at this very second so I guess now is the time to celebrate what He has blessed me with at this time which include: a good paying job, a car that works (and will get me back to GF), a family that loves and misses me, sweet friends, a wonderful, loving boyfriend, a warm place to live and bed to sleep in, and soooo much more!!! I apoligize for the crazy bouncing around effect in this entry but I guess as I would chart this at work "Pt has tangential speech/thoughts"....just all over the map!!! HaHa!! Until next time! :)