Daily Post--6/18/08

What, if anything, do you do differently for your family since your surgery and weight loss? For example, I have quit buying most of those carbolicious snacks that they liked to have on hand. I have quit keeping things like rice and pasta (other than whole wheat pasta and the occasional rice dish) around. I don't make up a big ole bunch of potatoes when we're having potatoes--just enough for everyone to have a serving... Pretty much the only cookies I have here are the kind I make myself--with Splenda! If *I* shouldn't eat it, then neither should they!

I shop - I buy what *I* eat Hubby turned on me the other day and asked if there was anything NOT healthy in the house... lol I told him if he wanted to snack on crap to go buy it himself and keep it in his car.

For the most part I do not make any rice or pasta dishes for the family.

It's just DH and me at home now. He does most of the cooking so that I have time to workout after work without having to run home and make dinner, and he cooks healthy. We visit my Mom almost every weekend (she lives on a lake). I've started bringing up "my" food (Splenda, spray butter, spray salad dressings, skim milk). Now she's starting to use those types of food in her cooking too. In fact, I brought up a quart of skim milk for myself this past weekend, and my 15 yr. old nephews and their friends drank it all on me during the first meal! (I'm okay with that. First they're my nephews, so they don't do anything wrong , and second, I'm glad they're catching on to the healthy habits too!)

Juice boxes replaced by "water" type varieties. Smaller portions of everything. I buy the 100-calorie snack packs rather than the fat and calorie laden bigger bags. My son and daughter go on walks with me and the dogs..great family fun and excersize.

We don't do soda in the house, except for a very special treat once in a while and then it's diet/decaf. I still don't drink it, but this way is healthier for my family. Not much in the way of pasta, other than my shirataki noodles. Potatoes have been changed to sweet potatoes, and then not very often at that.

I don't do soda in the house either. I gave it up about 3 months before surgery and haven't had it since. I don't miss it because it's not in the house. I don't allow my kids to have it because it's so bad. My DH doesn't drink it either. Makes it rather easy. I also switched from juice to flavored water for the kids too. The calories and sugar that is in juice just blows my mind.

The only snacks I'll buy are the ones I won't eat. That way I'm not even tempted. If my son wants something else, he can buy it, keep it in his room and not eat it in front of me.

I buy better cuts of meat, and more fresh fruits and veggies. It is just me, so can get away with doing that.

I haven't made a lot of changes where my family's eating is concerned because with 2 little ones I started out feeding them healthy ~ the way I should have eaten growing up. I DO NOT want them to end up like me.