But also because I have also been working extra hard to make healthy choices.
Pregnancy appetites are rough, yo! I've waddled into a very gray area of health lately. Technically, the food I am eating is healthy. It's mostly organic, definitely all natural, and my calories are more or less prudent for an active pregnant woman (it's hard to tell if I am eating too much or too little these days). But my diet has been sooo bread-heavy, and a lot of it has been bars. Sugar bars. Clif bars, granola bars, fig bars...if it's held together with honey, I am all over it. It's been driving me batty! I haven't had a vegetable in months and it's really wearing on me.
As someone who just a few months ago lived almost exclusively on vegetables, fruit, chicken, and oatmeal, this is new territory. I can't even look at a piece of chicken these days...unless it is covered in cheese and wrapped in a tortilla!
So I am making choices. My sweetened Chobani yogurt is now plain and sweetened with blueberries. My granola bars are back to being oatmeal with walnuts. I haven't made sweet potato fries in two days. Two days! I'm having to be very strict with my tastebuds and sweet tooth and they are not happy about it not one little bit no siree.
These are choices I make today, but also for the future. I want a healthy baby, and I want a healthy me. I want to be able to keep running, lifting weights, and swimming all the way to the end. So when I face a case of the grumpy pants about the whole deal, I remind myself:
Health is a choice, and the choice is mine. I choose it today so I will have a choice later.
Are the decisions you make each day towards health or away from it?
Towards your goals or away from them?
Are you limiting your choices in the future because you choose the path of least resistance today?
Make healthy choices with me...or risk the resentment and wrath of a pregnant woman who wants a fig bar. I'm looking at you!
Go out there and be healthy!
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