*celery
*carrots
*cucumber
*broccoli
*noddles
*olive oil
*cream of broccoli/celery
*lettuce
*green beans
*wheat thins
*sausage patties/links
*English muffins
*bagels
*yogurt
*red/yellow/orange peppers
*apples
*bananas
*corn flakes
*grapes
*chili
*salad dressing
(there may be more, but that's off the top of my head.)
My thought is to put together a few salads a week.. in baggies or containers, that have lettuce, and some veggies... maybe grab a banana or some grapes, throw it all in a bag or lunch pail and take it to work for the days I have lunches... That will save me money on not buying food, have it ready a head of time so I don't get flustered at the last minute trying to make a lunch, and have me eating healthier to improve myself.
Two of my biggest problems are eating too much, and not eating often enough. I think what happens is- since I don't eat often enough (meaning every few hours, at least having a snack) I am really hungry by the time I do eat something. Which causes me to over eat. Then I feel really sick to my stomach... Like today for instance.. my mom and I had breakfast at about 10am and then we didn't really eat again (I had some skittles... I'm sorry) until 6pm when we had dinner. and I'm still over full from dinner at 11:30 at night.
I have noticed a huge difference in drinking water though. I feel better already- even though I haven't made all the drastic changes that I need to make. I was starting to get really bad charlie horses, or what I could feel were becoming of them. And I was also starting to get bad cramps in weird places in my body. Its been nice to attempt to flush out my system a bit, and get more water flowing through it.
About four or five years ago, I started a routine every day- well, every week day. I was up at I think it was 7:30 on the dot every morning.. I had my clothes/socks/shoes ready the night before, so when I got up, I got dressed and went out for my exercise right away. I would go down to our local track and do somewhere between a mile or two- walking and jogging, depending on how I felt, and then I would come home, have a bowl of cereal, a whole bottle of water, and then take a shower and start my day. On the weekends I would go to a local school or field, and kick around a soccer ball or run some lines or something to get me going. I stopped one day, and then never started back up. It was one of my personal biggest mistakes. The only bad part then, was that I was doing the exercising, but I wasn't keeping up with the food part. Now I need to find that balance. I don't know where I'm going to fit it in, because at the time before, I wasn't hardly working.. and now I'm working two jobs. But I will find time. I have to find time.
Anyways- I'll post pictures later of different things I make and/or create, and how they turned out...
I got a magazine called "Cooking Light" so hopefully it will have some good ideas in it as to simple things I can make.
Wish me luck! :)
-larissa
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