Teeco, you’re too funny!

I pop two dark pieces of dark chocolate a day… It’s like taking a vitamin for me. I have adopted my mom’s habit, which is exactly this… two little pieces of some kind of chocolate (think the little Dove individually wrapped ones with messages inside!) per day.

This way I can have chocolate in my house and know that I won’t eat too much.

However. I don’t buy chips, cookies, baked goods, ice cream. Unless it’s for a party. I *would* sometimes be tempted to eat them… and I just really love how I FEEL when I am eating healthy (how I look is a bonus of course too when eating healthy… but I just hate how I feel after eating tons of sugar or junk!).

My trick is to stock my fridge and pantry JUST with healthy stuff – veggies, fruit, legumes, whole grain breads.

Of course I don’t have kids yet and I realize that can change the pantry equation somewhat! Will tackle that when I get there…

p.s. and Kim do remember to do the healthy habits just for YOU – so you feel good. Take good care of you. You are SO worth it!!! (and reward yourself for the healthy days, forgive yourself for the slips-up – eating and being healthy is a lifelong journey. One step and day at a time!).

Rachel, yes it’s true about Halloween candy. I never touched the candy, only the chocolate. It would be hard to have junk food at the office. So easy to eat the wrong things when it’s right in your face!

I try not to have sweets in the house because it is a problem for me, but there doesn’t seem to be anything I can do about the donuts they have every day at work. Or the candy the guy across from me keeps putting up right where I have to walk by it. I really do think I would do better with my eating if we could get the junk food out of the office.