Recently (in the last 4 months, give or take) I have decided to make an active effort to read the labels of foods that I bring into my house. More specifically I have been focusing on high fructose corn syrup and keeping it out of our home. {image source}This is some nasty stuff, and it is really in EVERY.THING. I have found a few little tidbits about it for your reading pleasure~HFCS and cane sugar are NOT biochemically identical or processed the same way by the body. Despite what ... Continue Reading...
Weekend Update!
The weekend is finally over! The weekend is T.H.E. Hardest time for me, food wise. This weekend I did pretty good up until Sunday. It was my father-in-laws birthday party and let me tell you my MIL can COOK! I got home and entered in all my calories into MyFitnessPal, every single one (it was painful). I was over by 142 calories, this was just not going to work for me, so I put in a P90X DVD and went to work.I really just wanted to plop down and watch Drop Dead Diva, ... Continue Reading...
Food Diary 7/6/2012
Every once in awhile I will do posts about what I ate during the day. I figure this will help me because let's be honest I do not want to post pictures of my Jack in the Box run, so I will (hopefully) eat healthier. One tool that has been very helpful to me is using My Fitness Pal. I have the app on my iPod touch, and I know they have an Android app as well. It has the calories for just about everything, it also has the calories lost by doing different exercises. I downloaded the app, put in my ... Continue Reading...