Healthy Food CAN Taste Good. Who Knew!

Our new healthy living style is going really well. I'm super proud of us.

John and I are (were) really unhealthy eaters. I mean, the stuff we were eating had little to no nutritional value or it would be really fatty. We would eat things like hot pockets, ramen noodles, and bean burritos for lunch; we would have alfredo pasta pretty often for dinner, store bought pizzas, or caseroles filled with cheese (cheese is our weakness).We would snack all the time on really fatty foods (like hangover nachos aka: nacho cheese doritos with cheddar cheese melted on top), and our portions were way too big (like Costco sized muffins). But today I went grocery shopping and got the stuff we had run out of, but as I looked at my cart I thought, "Wow! Look at me!" I had spinach, fruit, fat free yogurt (yoplait has really stepped up their game), 100% wheat bread, corn tortillas, fat free turkey breast, dark chocolate almond milk, fruit snacks (aka: gushers, yummy)....the list could go on cuz my cart was stacked, but 6 months ago I wouldn't have thought that I would be pushing that cart. While I was standing in line at the registers, the couple in front of me had food that we used to buy; I was looking for anything healthy in there and thought, "That's really unhealthy"....guys, I am not that person, or I wasn't that person. It made me realize how much my thought process has changed with food and I'm pretty darn proud.

Tonight at dinner it hit me again. I made tacos and a salad tonight...pretty typical right? But our meat was turkey burger, our tortillas were corn, my sour cream was actually fat free greek yogurt, and our salad was a spinach salad with dried berries and a vinaigrette. For a little dessert I had a Fiber One 90 calorie brownie. I'm not sure when the switch turned in my head, but I don't even really have to think hard about eating healthy anymore. Don't get me wrong, sometimes a king size kit kat bar looks and sounds amazing, but then I go home and eat chocolate pudding (fat free/sugar free) and I'm totally fine.

I'm glad we've finally learned how to eat healthy AND still have it be really delicious.