[Pony]

Where is everyone?? It's been fairly quiet in here the last few days. So here I am left to talk to myself. Hmmm

Eating habits. In all our talk about losing weight and making better food choices, there has to be a change in our eating habits. I don't just mean about how much and what kind or when we eat. I mean how do we go about our meal time?? Is it on the run? How do we prepare our food and what do we do while we are preparing it? Where is our focus during our eating? Just some of the things that maybe we can discuss, that just may have an impact on our unhealthy or healthy eating habits. What have you noticed that has been become a healtier habit from when you began your journey?


Me: I am a snacker. I grew up with having three proper meals a day and maybe a snack when I got home from school, which was mostly likely fruit or celery/carrots. My mom was always watching her weight....she was on "Weight Watcher's" for most of my life, so I grew up knowing what the proper foods were and how much was allowed. I was still a heavy kid.....all of us were. Eventhou we knew what and how much, we still had bad habits that never changed.

I know that one of my biggest, which I learned from my mother, is to taste eveything that I was cooking. I mean, really, I had to know if it was good or not. And then I would sit down to eat the meal. In reality, all that tasting probably was the meal. Has anyone else been guilty of that. I am still guilty of that today. Although I am trying to change it, I still catch myself doing it...just from habit.

Another really bad habit, especially for mothers, is to eat what their children left behind, not really something I have done~ but have seen other mothers do it, and/or eating what has been leftover instead of putting it away for the next day. Now that one I have done. Maybe there was one piece of chicken left in the pan....instead of putting it away for a lunch, it became the after dinner snack. Very bad !!

Ok, how about you all?