Eating Healthy is No Fun

Friends from Morningstar Church have embarked upon the Six Pack Abs program, a healthy eating/exercise initiative. Jason and I have gotten sucked into the foray, and decided that we should change some of our rather junky eating habits. Not that we're chowing down on Dairy Queen Oreo Blizzards every night (we wish), but we could do with some changes. Due to our desk jobs and creeping ages, we've noticed a bit more of the squish. "Squish" is what I call areas of the body that aren't hooked up with your metabolism anymore.

More fresh fruits and veggies have made their way into our house. I'm generally eating 2 vegetarian meals a day, with chicken or fish thrown in for dinner, for protein. Our grocery bill has skyrocketed with the cost of fresh foods, but it's cheaper than a hospital bill due to heart disease or diabetes, yes?

The hardest part for me has been cutting out sweets. Oh how I love you, 3 Musketeers. How I miss you, York Peppermint Patty. With a few "cut me some slack" moments, I've managed to stave off processed sugar.

A colleague at work pointed me to a terrific calorie and nutrition tracking site (free, bonus!) called Nutrition Data. This week I'm shifting my meal tracking from a notebook to this site.

With this has been a pretty hefty exercise routine. I've started doing an athelete "boot camp" on Saturday mornings, which kicks my butt from here to the moon. Jas is running nearly a 5k every other day (to the public library and back) and his legs look great! I'm puffing through 2 miles of run/walk in addition to weight lifting. So far I haven't noticed quite the physical change that Jas is experiencing, dang that testosterone! It's so unfair.

So, as long as we can keep it going, it'll become a habit. I know we're feeling more energized and sleeping better at night. It's all worth it in the end.