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Time to get serious

Let's get serious, I'm starting right now. I know everyone gets on the nutrition exercise bandwagon come January, but I am starting right now. It is time to get serious. For too long my toddler has been fed junk just to get through the day. He has been given whatever food he wants, even candy and sugary drinks. For a long time I have given myself permission to eat whatever I wanted because I was pregnant or a tired mom. Those are not excuses. I am young, I have the knowledge and I want to live the best life I can live and have no limitations. My hobby is exercise and nutrition, I used to push myself whenever I could, experiment on what made me more fit and what made me more healthy and feel better. I have some tricks up my sleeve, I know my body and I know what works for me. So why don't I do it? I have been very very LAZY. To me, that is exactly what eating unhealthy is, laziness or lack of knowledge (or lack of motivation to get the knowledge) to eat healthy and live a healthy lifestyle. Every year around this time I gain weight, it is SO easy. The baking the cozy hot chocolate (I had 3 cups yesterday at work...NOT KIDDING) the lazy cold evenings at home. It's time to get serious. This isn't about just me anymore. I want to set a good example for my kids. I want my toddler to start eating healthy again. Ideally I would go vegan but I live in a small rural town where there isn't access to the best fruits and veggies, by that I mean fresh and tasty, because if you don't get it fresh and you get what our IGA has to offer more than likely you will be turned off from eating fruits and veggies. I would like to stop eating so much meat and cook at home more. I will take baby steps and it's going to take a lot on my part but eventually it will become a habit and become second nature to me and won't be such a chore. I will log my journey here (or try to as much as possible)to keep myself motivated and also to remember what foods my family ate and whether they liked it and what I can do differently. This will be a LIFESTYLE CHANGE not just a fad diet or a new years resolution idea, I will change my families eating habits and we WILL be healthy and happy. That's all I want, to have my energy back and to be ready for whatever life throws my way, when I eat healthy I am overall more positive and happier, when I work out there's just no stopping me. So here I am making the commitment. I actually started this blog post in November and put it in my drafts. It's scary. I know this small blog doesn't hold me accountable, but I'm going to try to make it hold me accountable, I may even throw some pictures in here. Okay so until next week.
-B

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