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Nutrition

I am blessed with an incredible variety in our church family who have many talents, skills, and careers whom we can turn to in times of need. A wonderful woman at church is a nutritionist and is offering her assistance in my weight loss journey! We met together yesterday to discuss where I am coming from, what my goals are, and what our days look like so that she could put together a meal plan for me that I feel is going to be realistic to maintain through this journey so that I will continue to eat the same way when I reach the maintenance stage of my journey.

It was a good reality check for me to use the correct terms when we discussed our struggle. Yes, our, she has wrestled with food addiction too! What?! A nutritionist who struggles? Yeah, no one finds it easy to trek through nature's valley (haha, see what I did there?) ;) We discussed the fact that food is our "drug of choice." Using those terms and understanding the celebratory milestones of one's anniversary of weight maintenance, as the Half Size Me community creator calls out, helps me to think more correctly about food and my relationship with it.


When she asked me about my goals for a meal plan, I froze, though. I realized I have been avoiding committing to a meal plan because 1. I have a fear of commitment and 2. because I am too scared to give anything up. It is overwhelming to think of a lifestyle change that I will stick to the rest of my life and it is too hard for me to think that I will never eat a cookie again because, well, I like cookies! (And brownies, and cupcakes, and chocolate and... well, I think we see what my problem is!)

Okay, okay, no one (not even my nutritionist) expects me to cut myself off from any of those things for the rest of my life. However, I expect for me to change my habits and get creative with some of the things that I would like to enjoy on a regular basis. For example, if I like to have hash brown casseroles for breakfast and that is my go to for brunch potlucks, perhaps I can bake a sweet potato hash casserole with ingredients that I make instead. Or if I like to buy a package of pastries for a dinner potluck for dessert, maybe I grab a fruit platter instead. We get it, right? I can make something more nutritionally sound or even buy something that is better for us than pastries.
http://www.thehungryhutch.com/sweet-potato-chorizo-breakfast-hash-recipe/

I am so grateful and excited for even more support in this journey and the opportunity to try new things and test out meal plans and exercise routines that I don't have to commit to all at once.
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