Eat less junk food

I found fat free potato chips and hot dogs at Walmart the other day. The chips taste normal, the hot dogs not so much, but they’re not bad...anyway, I’ve kind of decided they’re not junk food if they’re fat free and don’t have many calories. XD

Rather than writing down everything I have to eat for the day in a journal, I’ve began counting up my calories. It takes longer, but it works better for me: I pay more attention to the high calorie content of junk food. However, I need to remind myself to remember that not all high calorie foods are bad: carbs are good if I’m exercising every day, so I need to makes sure I’m eating enough of the good stuff.

It’s really difficult to eat healthy when everyone around you is eating junk food!

For example, my dad bought this ice cream pie at the grocery store…27 grams of fat per serving! Yikes!

Yesterday was a pretty good eating day for me, until dinner that is: healthy lunch, healthy breakfast, but pizza, chips and dip for dinner. I’m not concerned about the pizza; I only had two pieces and I put some veggies on it. But if I have leftover pizza for lunch today, I definitely don’t need the chips.

It’s so difficult to follow this goal when there’s all this Easter candy lying around! There are tons of chocolate eggs in my house, and they’re so tempting!

I’ve been lapsing on this a little lately…I need to get back on track. =/

One thing that helps me to stay away from the junk food is knowing that if I eat stuff that’s bad for me, it makes me feel bad. But eating good things makes my body happy. =D

I’m going to be home all this week, so it should be easier to eat healthier. Maybe not, though; perhaps the increase in sweets and snacks on hand will have a neggative effect on the plan? Only time will tell! =D

I didn’t have any chips with my dinner tonight, even though there were about five bags on the table and the rest of my family way happily munching away at them…

This is becoming easier…all I’ve had today was a Peanut Butter Ball (my grandmother makes them…they are like Heaven…plus peanut butter…plus chocolate…) It’s more difficult during the school week to pack all-healthy lunches, but I’m managing.

Today I had potato sticks (a heart attack waiting to happen) and a shortbread cookie. But whatever. All of those treats sitting on the counter look so tempting! And it’s too late to make a smoothie—my family has already gone to bed! Oh well. There’s always tomorrow…

Today went pretty well, actually. Mostly because, after adding this to my list on the site, I acknowledged it was a goal and therefore conciously made an effort to do it. Amazing how that works, huh? =D All I ate today for junkfood was some chocolate, and it’s New Year’s Eve, isn’t it? I even brought my own snack to the movies rather than eating popcorn or candy—I brought with me a bag of carrots and celery sticks to munch on. Pathetic? Yes. But at least I didn’t sit there for an hour and a half and stuff my face with junk.