For this nerdy curvy mama there is a constant war that is waged in my daily life….
vs.
Cupcake vs. Carrot… It's a winner take all… battle royal between what I want and what I need.
As you can tell by the blog title, more often than not the cupcake is the winner. Even after deciding to make healthy decisions, my motivation seems to leave me, and here I sit again with crumbs on my shirt and the taste of sugar on my lips. ?!??!!!????!?!?!? …. All expletives aside, how does a person make healthy resolutions and stick to them with such tempting confections in this world?! I think that for me it all falls down when I don't pre-plan. My day will start out great at work. Whole wheat bread with peanut butter, a salad for lunch with chicken and guacamole, and a snack of yogurt, granola, and raisins…. At this point everything is going great. I'm not hungry or anything. However, the minute that I get home I seem to inhale a garbage plate with extra fatty fatty fat fat on it. This is the result of four adults in a house and not one of them liking to cook! The best part about take out is the fact that there is no clean up! When you cook you have to take the food out, prep it, prepare it, serve it, and then clean up after the meal. That is way longer than I want to spend dealing with dinner after a full day at work. Especially when I can pick up the phone and magically food will appear at my front door. It's never healthy food though. Healthy food doesn't do delivery. Instead of being easy, healthy food taunts you from pages of a magazine… "Spend $45 on ingredients for a meal for one person and 2 hours preparing it and you can eat something delicious and good for you…"
Now let's say that magically healthy food was easy to make, the next challenge is picky eaters!!! I have friends whose children eat fish, vegetables, rice… and LIKE it!!!! My kids are 4 and 3… I really think that if I even tried to put salmon down in front of them for dinner they would just laugh at me…. "hahahaha…. Have you lost your mind?! This isn't made of carbohydrates or processed meat… it's not even fried!!! And where's the toy that should come with every meal?!?!" (Thanks for that one McDonalds). My kids eat from the following four food groups: Candy/Gummies, Hot Dogs, Fruit, and McDonalds… Not Wendy's, not Burger King. My kids are fast food snobs and will only dine off the finest processed chicken nuggets from McDonalds. I've tried to make them better eaters. I've tried "if you don't eat what I make then you don't eat," I've tried adding vegetables where they wouldn't expect it or making vegetables fun, i.e. ants on a log (which they just licked out the peanut butter), and I've tried rewards for eating new foods. They couldn't care less. And yes I know that I'm not doing my kids any service by acquiescing to their little terrorist demands. However, some days it is so much more fun to be able to just say yes and sit down to a crappy meal together, as a family!
Excuses aside, I do know that I need to find a secret weapon in order to win the war on cupcakes. You'd think the fact that my pants unzip when I bend over would make me hate myself enough to change something. However, I've found that a piece of chocolate when that happens helps to make the pain go away. In all honesty though I know that it is time to get this figured out. It's awesome to be a curvy mama, but not when you are losing the curves and becoming just plain round!
In order to get stuff under control I need a plan. So, here it is. Weight Watchers, Shakeology, and PiYo. I'll tell you what works and what doesn't, and hopefully with a little bit of thinspiration I'll be able to find something sweeter than a cupcake.
Sandra :o)
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