January 4, 2017

Happy New Year!!! My last post in this blog was exactly two months ago today.  Incidentally, it was the two months of the year that represent complete dietary mayhem for me, that I quit blogging about striving for a healthy BMI.  Why?  Well I guess I did not feel like announcing that I was making holiday cookies and eating them as if there is no consequence…making homemade pumpkin and apple pies and eating a slice or two a day.  Yes, folks I have skills in the kitchen that are fully utilized in the months of November and December.  Besides, have you heard the expression “never trust a skinny cook?” 

This all may very well sound like regretful words that I have spouted out throughout last year of this blog (camping diet blunder ring a bell)?  However, it is definitely not!  I have grown confident in my healthy lifestyle and know that I have truly enjoyed eating all the delicious foods while getting closer to an overall better health status.  Being ready to lose weight for your health, does not have to mean you will never have birthday cake, or Christmas cookies again.  In fact, that is a large part of why I am working on my BMI now…before I have to manage health conditions which do not permit eating certain foods at my own free will. 

Therefore friends, I invite each of you (if you are like me and have to work at dietary health) to join me in facing the post-holiday music.  Because I am buying what I’m selling, I have already done this.  The morning of Thanksgiving I weighed 138 pounds.  I currently weigh 144, a gain of six pounds to show for all my effort.  Also, I have stopped running because it turns out, I am a fair-weather fan of running and plan on resuming my hobby in the late winter/early springtime. 

Honestly, I am happy about this.  Last year, I began this blog twenty pounds heavier than I currently am.  My goal this year is to lose ten pounds, with a healthy BMI category only eight pounds away from my grip.  I hope each of those struggling to be healthy because of dietary or BMI related behaviors will take care of themselves to the best of their ability in 2017.  We all deserve the very best.  It is time to begin viewing our food for what it really is, a substance that has the potential to make us very healthy and happy!  Choose wisely!

Today’s dietary outline for Krista, complete analysis in supertracker.gov below:

Breakfast	Lunch	Dinner
Oatmeal w/ brown sugar & banana	Garden salad w/ goddess dressing and peanuts	Open faced lentil based “snobby joe” with baked potato on side

As you can see, I am not getting overly strict on basically the first day of counting calories in a while, also some people would critique my protein for the day, or lack there of...