Friday, March 2, 2012

Eating and Drinking Healthy Stuff

One of my New Year's resolutions was to have more healthy stuff and cut down on the junk food.  I'm happy to report that it has been going (mostly) well.  I've been paying more attention to nutrition labels and drinking more water.  I even lost a few pounds (not intentionally, of course).  But there was a huge challenge that came with this.  I had to give up soda.
I think it's one of the hardest things I've ever done.  I love soda.  Pepsi is my favorite, and these past few weeks without it have become difficult.  I also went for sushi with my dad on Wednesday, and at the restaurant we usually go to, they serve a Japanese soda called Ramune (which comes in many different flavors, but the restaurant serves strawberry, melon, and the original flavor, which tastes like bubble gum).  I always had the melon Ramune while eating.  It tastes soooooo good.  It took me a lot of strength to order a water instead.
I quit drinking soda on February 16th.  I decided to stop drinking it for a year.  Hopefully, by the time my little soda break is over, I'll be so used to water and stuff and I'll think of soda as too sweet.  I believe it's been getting easier each day, but it's still difficult.  At the moment, there's Pepsi in the house, but I just had a smoothie, so my sweet tooth is satisfied.  But I fear that sometime, I'm going to snap and have a can.
It's been difficult to resist junk food, too.  If I have any, I manage to limit it to just a little, but it's better to have none.  The fact that it's not spring yet also sucks because fruit is out of season and a bit expensive.  I love fruit.  I don't know too much about bananas, but those are packed with protein and help boost your metabolism.  And the Doctor approves.  Bananas are just awesome.
Watermelon and peaches, however, are my favorite fruit.  Watermelon is the best summer treat ever.  Sinking your teeth into it and letting the juice drip down your chin is like heaven.  (Of course, the same can be said about corn on the cob, except it's more like letting the butter drip down your chin.)  I just love the flavor of peaches.  And the smell.  Which is why I love peach-scented stuff like lip gloss.  (I do have it, but it's missing.  Sadness.)
I've been trying to find new healthy foods and drinks to try to make.  The first one I tried that came from Pinterest was a Green Monster Spinach Smoothie.  The woman who created it said it did not taste healthy at all and that she loved to indulge in it.  So I tried it.  It tasted pretty good (it had bananas and peanut butter in it, though the spinach made it look like it belonged in a witch's cauldron), but I only wanted one glass, so I put the rest in the fridge to have later.  But when I came back for more, it just tasted like pure.  Liquefied.  Spinach.  It was disgusting.  I love spinach, but I learned that I preferred it in its solid form.  It was either because I let it sit in the fridge for so long or because I added so much spinach (four cups of it).  I'm guessing more of the former.
Eating healthier has been a challenge, but it's been rewarding.

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