On a personal front, I am struggling with portion control, portion control, portion control. My other big challenge to tackle; moving more. No matter how healthy the foods that I'm eating are - I still desire balance.
This tasty granola, made at my favorite local coffee shop, Thatcher's, is so good, but 1/4 cup is the typical serving for granola. Does anyone really eat 1/4 cup?! I am finding that with granola, I can't stop until the bag is gone. While eating a bag of granola is improvement over a bag of chips, or a pint of ice cream - there is still work to be done...
We finally "bit the bullet" and bought a small dining room table. Graham and I have lived together close to two years and have eaten at a table in our home three times. That's just not right - it's been a pleasure to set a table, and act like adults.
Lemon ice water in a stemless wine glass; gotta love the simple things!
I finally got to New Season's today to do some grocery shopping and thought I'd try a new gluten free pizza, though it was tough since I LOVE the "Against the Grain" one I normally buy. If it ain't broke...
This pizza cooked very strangely - where the toppings immediately bubbled up in the oven and resulted in this outside edge being much more done than the center. I wouldn't buy it again - I found the crust to be okay, the flavor was just not what I was looking for - AND it had a whole paragraph of ingredients. However - even bad pizza is good pizza and I scarf it down with no regard to serving size. This one serves "2" according to the box, and 1 according to my lack of portion control. It's very challenging to summon the willingness to share my struggles on here - as this is my business, and I know better. But I believe in the power of being myself, and being completely transparent. There are a lot of things that have led to my struggle with weight - two of the things that I struggle with - that are actually within my control are;
1) how much/what I eat
2) how much(or how little) I move
I refuse to perpetuate the myth that health professionals are all perfectly healthy and without their own struggles; it's just not the case. I share my journey - the good and the bad - not to be judged, but to offer others with similar struggles a sense of normalcy. I want to combat the shame of feeling as if you are the only one... you aren't. I also want to challenge the idea that only the perfectly healed(there is no such person) can help others overcome struggle. Who better to help than someone who has been there - and who understands the fight?! Even the "healthiest" individual has battles, and health is an ever changing dynamic in all of our lives.
