It has come to my attention that I am overweight (for those that know me, stop laughing). I have lost weight in the past, only to regain it and add a couple more pounds.
What to do? Adkins... no did that, now I am fatter. How about the southbeach diet? No, same deal. Hummm well since I am lazy I will need something easy.
I need something that I can do and fit into my lifestyle. So I thought, start small and easy, no fast food. Yep that was the start, I stopped eating fast food 3 months ago and have enjoyed loosing 5 lbs and a pant size. Ok, that's not to much, but I have not changed my life all that much. All I did was pass up on the Fast Food (watching Super Size Me [1] helps A LOT).
So now that I stopped eating fast food a couple side effects have happened I was not really expecting.
OK, so now that I am feeling better and lossing a little bit of weight my daughter tells me she wants to be a Vegitarian. My answer "of course" I say, but that is only on the condition you don't ask the rest of family to be one - she agrees. Now we will be working on plenty of dishes that we can ommit the meat in.
So now I have discovered that there are a couple ideas out there that categorize my families new way of eating.
The first is something called Meatless Monday [2] that is not only easy to do, but helps lower your carbon footprint.
The other is something call Flexitarian [3]. This is my next logical step in my decision to loose weight. I eat less or no meat in my meal now. This has not effected my hunger or my cravings for foot. The interesting part is that as I reduce my meat intake I also control our food budget a bit.
The future is uncertain, but I belive that this might be a great way to get started.
Links:
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Super_Size_Me
[2] http://www.meatlessmonday.com/about/
[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexitarianism