A Bad Day, Yet a Good Day

Today, we buried my husband's Uncle Tom. He was an amazing man. It's so good to go to funeral's like that. One where the deceased had lived a life pleasing to God and you heard it over and over again from so many different people. What a privilege we had to be able to know him as part of our family.

After the burial, we returned to the church for the meal they had prepared for us. I took one look at the table full of food and told Doug that we would just have to forgo our new healthy eating stance. So, we piled our plates with a ton of food and I had two desserts. When I got done eating, I looked at Doug and said I feel sick. He was like, yeah, me too. This is why we're making this change. You should finish eating and feel great, not like crap! What a great reminder. We've only been working on this for 2 weeks and we can tell a difference. I can't imagine what it will be like once we're completely free of processed foods and free for a long time. What a great thing to look forward to!

On another exciting note, I'm visiting my first ever healthy food store tomorrow. I have a stack of coupons to use at Earth Fare. So excited to get my feet wet in this area. Next on my list is Trader Joe's. Living outside of Indy, I'm sure there will be plenty of more I can try out. I'm hoping to get a list of the best deals at each store and then rotate when I go to each store to stock up. Being on a tight budget is going to make this change hard, but I am determined to make it doable!

The beginning....

Every year, one of my New Year's resolutions is to start eating better and every year I don't follow through. I'm not sure why this year is different, but it is. I think I'm just ready. The good thing is that my husband, Doug, is ready as well. As I started looking into eating healthier, I came across several other blogs and articles on getting rid of processed foods. After reading very briefly some of the issues a lot of processed foods can cause, I decided this is definitely something I wanted to do. After talking it over with Doug, we both decided to try to weed out processed foods over the next month and to hopefully be 90% processed free by February 1st.


We're a couple of weeks in and we've shopped for groceries once. I have now decided to start documenting our journey. Plus, this will keep me accountable and hopefully on track. Our family has horrible eating habits, so this is going to be a big change for us. One of the first things I've done is cut back to one soda a day and now I'm to one soda every other day. After February 1st, I won't be buying soda anymore. Yay! I'm really excited that I've made it to one every other day. This is a big step for me!


The one huge challenge to this will be budget. We have very little, if any extra, so changing to organic and not processed will be very difficult. I'm going to do my best though.


Another challenge will be my knowledge, which is very limited. But, I plan to learn a lot along the way!


So, join me on my journey. I'm excited to see where it takes me and my family!