new eating habits

So one thing I wanted to do this year was start eating healthy. Right after I returned back after my conference, my roommate announced she was going gluten-free again. She gets sick from it sometimes, and after a bad winter break, she decided she needed to cut the gluten out again.

My mom has cut almost all simple carbs and sugar (besides fruits) out of her diet. I'm not sure I could go quite that extreme but I know it's healthy. When I was sick, I stumbled upon a newsletter and some other healthy eating tips and guides. I was intrigued and thought about implementing some of these things into my own diet and some maybe slower than others.

Since all I could really eat when I was sick was juice and eggs, I thought it might be easy to make changes to my eating habits since I had a few days head start with no cookies, breads, sugars or other foods I get attached to. I knew it would be hard to cut all gluten and sugar out at the same time, so I thought I would start with gluten, with the help and support of my roommate and then possibly cut out sugar as well.

As I started though, I was still pretty congested from being sick, and milk products were making it worse, so I cut all dairy out too. Then I read about how dairy really isn't that good for you anyway, even the raw milk and such! Then I read about how soy and soy products are really bad for you. One lady suggested throwing out all processed foods in your house. Basically anything that has ingredients you can't pronounce. These mostly have high-fructose corn syrup or soy derivatives. I knew the dangers of high fructose corn syrup and she made a good point, that if your health is really worth it to you, then why not get rid of $10-25 of junk sitting in your cupboard. the $1 mac and cheese I hold on to really isn't worth it when you think of it as eating glorified plastic.

Plus I really wanted to make these changes really to help me to eat more vegetables. I like veggies, and I eat them all the time. I just don't like buying them ( they usually go bad) and cooking them ( I think it takes too much time, sometimes).

now that I don't have pretzels/chips, baked goods, and breads and pastas to fill up on, I fill up on veggies instead, and I know it's good for me, but I just needed a little help. So cutting gluten out, really helped me to make these changes. I might not keep gluten out of my diet forever, but just this semester at least to get used to snacking on healthier things and filling up on the good stuff, not the junk stuff, or whatever is "quick" and "easy"