Weight Loss Tip #3

Weight Loss Tip #3 I took a good hard look at what I was cooking (and what I was not cooking) and made some changes.


Well after yesterday's post, which probably shouldn't have been labeled "Weight Loss Training Tip" but more like "Brooke's Spiritual Wake Up Call", todays tip is more about the food.  We had alot of processed food on our menu.  We still have processed food on our menu but I can say that I have claimed at least a portion of it back in the name of Homemade Goodness.  I talked with friends and began looking through the cookbook with one goal in mind and it didn't have anything to do with cutting calories.  GOAL-I wanted to provide healthier eating for my whole family.  I love to cook!  I like lots of colors, and smells and flavors and I certainly like learning how to put them all together. 

Joey sits in front of multiple computers all day long and comes home in the evening looking washed out and lathargic. He works hard (and he loves his job) but he needs good healthy food and good healthy exercise.  The most dangerous fat is the fat around the belly and it has become my goal to make sure to keep that stuff away.  Andrew and Alora are growing and teaching them at home has shown me a whole lot.  There are certain foods, that I can peg as being foods that cause lack of focus, exhaustion and hyperactivity.  Foods that are good brain foods and foods that are not.  For me, I just needed to cut back on all of it so I began looking for foods that I could make homemade and replacements for some of the processed things we were eating.

I had a whole cooking day with my friend, Holly. We had a blast as she taught me how to make all kinds of things: breads, muffins, granola--and  much more.  I make alot of things homemade now, (I already did before) but I have really taken the cooking to a new level paying attention to what is good food for my whole family.  Not everything I make is healthy but I have really cleaned up my act a good bit.  But ask me who baked those Toll House Cookies on the counter right now?  Of course, I did. But, I promise, I didn't eat but one tiny little cookie. : )  There is definitely not time in our busy schedules to bake everything homemade, however, I challenge you to do what I did and take a good hard look at what is in the pantry and see what might could give--even if its just a few things.