Eat Smart!

I mentioned yesterday in my blog that Matt and I were starting a diet....  Well, it started out as a diet and has since turned into a little "get healthy" project.  I've always wanted to be one of those people that does all their shopping at Whole Foods, and while there, orders a healthy chicken salad sandwich on some sort of very healthy bread, with a fruit or salad on the side for lunch.  Instead, like a true American, I crave McDonald's or Burger King, or something of the fast food variety and stuff my face with burgers, grease and all.  We, unlike your average dedicated dieters, cannot starve ourselves in order to get "healthy" and lose weight.  So we're taking on a new approach and a new outlook on our way of eating.  We have no intentions of becoming vegan's or anything to that extreme, (since I only know a very small handful of people that are vegan's and they seem to be sick more than they are heatlhy) we're just going to adopt new ideas on what we need to eat, versus what we crave.  We made a list of YES and NO foods.  The big "no" we're going to really stick to is High Fructose Corn Syrup.  This stuff is bad bad bad, and there is no reason for it to be in our diet.  The reason this is our big "no," is because it's in a bunch of crap we shouldn't be eating anyway!  And when I say everything, it really is in everything!  So, since Monday we have consumed little, to no high fructose corn syrup (I didn't realize until this morning that in our name brand, supposed to be healthier for you, fat free salad dressing, also contained high fructose corn syrup) and we are admittedly experiencing some food/sugar withdrawal.  Our diet has consisted mostly of lean proteins, eggs, fruits and veggies....  We are SOOOO not used to this.  Don't get me wrong, Matt and I are not completely unhealthy.  We rarely eat at fast food restaurants, and will try to go out to eat at a nicer restaurant on Friday nights for dinner.  I always cook at home, and we take our breakfast and lunch everyday.  However, the food we're eating might be considered healthy by most, but is full of so many bad things, that it's not healthy at all.  To avoid getting preachy, I'll stop there.  This is going to be one of the hardest things we've ever done, because we've had bad eating habits for all 27 years of our lives, but will also be so rewarding...  Today for lunch I made a healthy chicken salad.  We ate it on Whole Wheat bread, with flaxseed and olive oil.  The Chicken Salad consisted of Chicken, Olive Oil Mayo, Greek Yogurt, Walnuts, Grapes, Green Onions and Salt and Pepper...  I toasted my bread and it is soooo yummy!  I decided to take a picture before I finished scarfing it down:



Looks tasty, huh?



So I'll periodically update how our food lifestyle change is going, but won't bore you every post on us being healthy snobs....  C-ya!