A New Year

2009 brought many changes and many blessings. I started the year off sick, and my main goal for the year was to get healthier. I changed my diet, went on new medication, paid off all our credit card debt, started to exercise regularly, made a decision about my future (career), and focused on being a better role model for the girls. Wow that was a busy year!

I think that I learned the most in the last month of 2009. Since it was the holiday season, I really let my diet slip. I ate breads (white) and just too many sweet things. I learned that although certain foods tasted good in my mouth for just a few moments, they made me feel horrible for several hours. I couldn’t even sleep good on Thanksgiving because I felt so bad from the food I ate. Is food really worth feeling bad over?  I know, easier said than done!

I also learned that raw vegetables, white bread, and too much dairy are not my friend. They do nothing good for me, in fact, they just make me sick! So I will stay away from them this year!

Because I strayed from my diet during the last month, I wanted to end the year and start the year off right.

This was my New Year’s Eve dinner:

(an organic steak, grilled shrimp, stemmed broccoli, mixed grains)

And this way my New Year’s Day Breakfast:

(steel cut oats with greek yogurt & flax seed, with a green drink: organic sprouts, romaine, celery, cucumber, and ginger). PS: ginger is my new best friend – love it!

I also went to the market yesterday to load up on good stuff and came home with this:

And my freezer just got filled with this:

That is 25 pounds of deer meat. Hormone/antibiotic free, lean meat that was processed by Jason. Doesn’t get much better than this!

Happy New Year!