Healthy Body 2014

Alrighty, so I mentioned my new years resolution with Lizzie to eat more moderately and such. Here is what we've come up with:

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RULES:

1. Breakfast and lunch are whole foods

2. Go out to dinner only once a week

3. Small healthy treats are permitted once a day (no replacing meals though)

4. Small sugary treats are permitted once a week

5. Report every breakfast, lunch, and treat eaten to partner with pictures.

NOTES:

Whole Foods: Whole grains, fruits, veggies, no dairy, no processed foods

It is okay to go skip a day on holidays. Try to keep it to just one day.

If you go out to lunch or breakfast with a friend and can’t eat whole foods, try to make up for it at dinner and eat whole foods then. If this isn't possible, don’t guilt yourself, the majority of the time you are on track! It’s okay to not be perfect when we are eating moderately.

Remember that eating moderately is the way of the Lord and we will be healthiest and least stressed eating this way. It might not shed the pounds like a crazy diet, but it will help our body and soul be at peace and feel its best. We will feel closer to the spirit and be beautiful because of it.

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Now you may be wondering, "What is a healthy treat?". Well if you are a freak like us, you have tried many forms of natural sweeteners such as dates, coconut sugar, raw honey, pure maple syrup, etc, in order to sweeten things without using poison sugar. Because we have been so NOT moderate, we try these things to help us eat treats without the guilt...so anyway, we have decided that treats used with natural sweeteners, and no white flour are okay to eat in small amounts each day. 

We are on day two of this so far so good. ha! Hopefully we keep it up. I've also exercised everyday this year :)

We (Lizzie) are trying to get a good solid list together of ideas for breakfast and lunch that are whole foods. It's harder than it seems! So far we've done oatmeal, smoothie, soup, salad. 

Here's to a Healthy Body in 2014!

PS- My dear family...just doesn't understand hashtags. I will try to explain them. Hashtags are when you put the pound sign (#) infront of a phrase or word. When you do this, the REAL purpose behind doing this is to group like things. Group pictures, group phrases, etc. So my purpose on instagram for using the hashtag #healthybody2014 is that I can click on that hashtag and see all the pictures I have tagged. So all my "healthy" pictures having to do with this resolution, are grouped in that one spot and not jumbled through all the rest of my pictures. ALSO, other people can use that hashtag and add pictures to the group. So if you took a picture on instagram of say, a smoothie, and said, "Oh I love starting my day out right! #healthybody2014" Then your picture of your smoothie would show up in the same group as my healthy pictures. It's just a way to group things.

That being said, that isn't what a lot of people use hashtags for. They often use them in replacement of sentences just for fun or whatever...it's completely defeating the purpose. But the original purpose is to group like things, as I am doing :)

So hopefully that clears THAT up.