go for 2&5

To coincide with returning to weight watchers… I went to the fruit shop today. I spend $40 there… so now, I have no excuse for not eating fruit & vegetables!

Weight Watchers has a “Points Tracker”, with a little section in the corner to tick off if you’ve eaten your recommended daily intake of important things. When you tick off enough of a certain thing, a little smiley face appears. That little smiley face motivates me to get more fruit and vegies. I find that the easiest ones to tick off are dairy (I love milk and cheese…), and oil.

Today- I ticked off 2 servings of fruit, and 5 servings of vegies. I actually ate more than 5 types of vegies (carrot, broccoli, cauliflower, lettuce, tomato, cucumber, onion, sweet potato, and potato), but only 5 “servings” worth.

I’m impressed with myself- today I ate good food AND went to the gym! Perhaps after a few months on weight watchers, I’ll be able to mark this goal as “done”.

For the first time since I added this goal, I have actually succeeded!

• rockmelon and strawberries for morning tea
• potato, leek and bacon soup for lunch
• beans, carrots and mushrooms with my dinner

I’m not sure if the serving sizes were quite right to meet this goal, but I did eat 2 different fruits and 5 different vegetables! That is an achievement.

There is a first time for everything.

I really love the fruit shop.
It’s nice to look around at all the stripes of colour made up by the different fruits and vegies.

• onions
• broccoli
• celery
• lettuce
• beans
• mushrooms
• rockmelon
• strawberries
• apples
• mandarins

And the plan is to eat them!

I haven’t been eating very well over the last few weeks, and I haven’t been feeling too great either (I imagine there’s a correlation!). So, I’m making an effort to eat a healthy variety of foods, and buying them was the first step!

you would think that with all the fruit and veggies growing on our patio currently, that i would be all up on top of this, but sadly, no. tonight, i had to sneak green beans into the rice cooker, just to ensure i had something green today. the only fruit i had was 3/4 of a tiny jar of baby food peaches that esme did not like at all.
tommorrow i will surely take an apple for lunch. does tofu count as a veg? if it does then that is even better as i’m taking home made tofu burger also.

‘go for 2&5’ means “try to eat 2 servings of fruit, and 5 servings of vegetables each day”.

Over lunch today, we were discussing our vegetable eating habits, so I thought I would look on the internet and see what the recommended daily intake of vegetables actually is.
Apparently it’s 5 servings per day! That’s a lot!
So I thought I would try it for 2 weeks, and see if I can do it.

For more information, you can look at the go for 2&5 website

James, I dare you to try to eat 2 serves of fruit each day for 2 weeks! If you take up this dare, I will give up coke for 2 weeks!

I wonder what the harder task would be- me drinking less coke (I too admit to being a coke-a-holic) or James eating FRUIT!!