Baby Steps

So I've realized our last goals were a bit lofty. Trying to do too much at once always is. I don't know that Theron will be joining me much in the blog quest anymore but I would like a way to keep track of my progress.

So, to start (again):
I have few goals I am currently working on.

1. Eat no candy.
This came up because the holidays always bring around loads of sweets. Theron and I usually don't buy candy but living with parents one doesn't always get a choice of what's bought and not. That being said there has been loads of candy laying around the house that I have been gorging myself on. I can now say I have gone three full days without candy. I am currently allowing myself up to 1 ounce of dark, organic chocolate (Whole Foods has the best!) and baked sweets are still okay. It will be my eventual goal (hopefully by the end of the year) to cut out white sugar completely. I feel this is a good starting point.

2. Avoid high fructose corn sugar.
This one I generally try to do anyway however I am now making a concentrated effort to avoid it completely. This stuff is just crap! Why is the FDA allowing garbage and poisons like this into just about every product you can find in the grocery stores? I know why, it's because they spend money stupidly and allow for the subsidization of corn which means we overproduce something that they have to find a use for. They then end up feeding it to our livestock (which they aren't meant to eat), which gets passed on to us. They also find clever ways to put it into everything they possibly can which allows them to falsely bring down the price of food (because it's been subsidized by our taxed) which makes American's think they are getting their food cheaper but they are paying more just for a crappy product. Enough of that rant for now but anyone reading this blog should really watch "Corn King" and "Food Inc." (for starters).

3. Cut back on and eventually eliminate white flour.
I would really like to eliminate any flour that is not from the whole grain. I think that may take a bit of reading up on to see what I need to be looking for in food labels. Here is some food for thought: refined flour is so lacking in nutrition that even weevils (the little bugs you may find in your flour if you let it sit around too long) are not stupid enough to eat it. Think about it: have you ever found a weevil in your white flour? No--because there is not enough nutrition in there for them. What about your whole grain flour? Yes--there is actually something in there for a bug less than a cm long to munch on.

4. Avoid all dyes.
I'm talking about food here. I think it's disgusting to put dye into food. I mean, wouldn't you love to know what Red 40, Blue 25, and Yellow 30 are? More importantly why are they in our foods? It is not nutritionally necessary for them to be there so why are we eating them hand over fist?

I have many more I'd like to start but 4 seems plenty for now. I would love to give my baby a good start (I haven't done as well as I'd like during pregnancy) and teach her the importance of whole foods. Nature has done a perfect job of creating sustenance for all living things. I am constantly amazed that humans think we know so much more and know it so much better than mother nature. Seriously she's been creating our foods and environment for billions of years and we've been creating our crap for (well at least the crappiest of it) 200 years. Think about it.

Health to you!