Healthier Living Support Thread: PART TWO!

deb, mom didn't raise any overweight kids either. good for you. we weren't allowed too many unhealthy snacks. i did hate her military "eat your vegetables" style and it was always canned peas and corn which i hate. what would have been wrong with something i liked like salad, spinach or green beans?

renee, your gs is typical of americans, we're setting them up for chronic illness in adulthood which are coming at younger and younger ages because of overweight and sedentary childhoods.

so true tweety. mom did raise all overweight children. we basically ate whatever was on sale at the supermarket which was usually processed foods, empty cals and junk. we did get fresh veggies from the farms when they would allow the residents have the second harvest for free but it was only at certain times of the year.

i have to do a research paper for nutrition soon and i think i'm interested in childhood obesity

i am down another lb this week. i've eliminated my white rice from the pantry and filled it with brown. got me many different kids of dried legumes and am putting my slow cooker to use. i have also been eating meat only 1-2 per week but eatinf sufficient protein from other sources.

have a happy valentine's day everyone! :roll

i am joining a workout group at my local hospital

Meg good for you. Let us know how it goes!!!

Jess, sounds like you're doing well. Kudos!

Deb, my mom made us sit at the table until we were done too. She'd yell and scream at us. The problem was not that I didn't have an appetite, peas and corn made me gag I hated them so much. Dinner time was not happy time. It was sad, because when we grew up later as teens and sat down for dinner it was silence and no communication because dinnertime was not family happy time. While she raised skinny healthy kids that didn't get sick, she alientated us. Sad.

Deb that's a good approach. Hopefully your kids won't grow up to have issues with food, weight or anorexia. Also, it's a good time to talk to your kids, find out what they are thinking, what's going on and listen.

I agree Steph, I can tolerate fresh peas if I have to, but to this day refuse to eat canned peas. I've been known to pick them out of soups and other dishes but have relaxed about that. Corn on the other hand I've grown to like as an adult, especially fresh corn on the cob. It made me gag as a child.

I'm off to work here soon. I'm starting with a healthy breakfast of poached organic eggs and whole grain bread, with fresh papaya.

good morning healthy eating peeps!

as long as we eat healthy foods the majority of the time, it's all good.

i agree that mealtime should be relaxing, fun, entertaining, and filled with positive conversation. i raised my children in the same atmosphere. dinner time at our home was fun! i gave the kids "healthy foods and snacks" to choose from. they could pack their own lunchbox for school choosing whichever "healthy foods & snacks" they wanted...not what mom wanted them to eat. i don't remember hearing them bawk about it either. :)

not the same when i grew up as our father insisted on "quiet and good table manners" -- our mother never once sat at the table with us while eating breakfast, lunch, or dinner. i guess she was too stressed to sit with her kids and husband. my father always sat at the dinner table with us...breakfast, too, on his days off work. i always wondered why our mother never sat at the table to eat with us. hmmm...guess i'll ask her one of these days as i've never asked her before.

my parents are small, and come from small stock. not one of my siblings or i were overweight. if the weight came over us, it was after that exciting age of "midlife". my parents are still small. can't say the weight was inherited if any of us sibs are overweight.

my three children ate healthy when being raised. one out of three of my dds struggles with a "genetic inheritance" of being overweight from her father's side of the genetic tree. he is small, but his two siblings are not. they, like my dd, have struggled all of their lives with weight issues.

not all overweight people are overweight due to excess eating or bad food choices or lack of exercise because my children all ate healthy, stayed active all their lives, and only one of them ended up with genetic factors that attribute to her weight. however, that same dd is the "healthiest eater" of all my girls. she is very active to this day...works out all the time...and sees to it her children (all tiny by the way) eat healthy and remain active.

life isn't supposed to be centered around the food we eat...negative or not. food is a substance in which to keep the body nourished to enable us to do a day's task. it was never meant to be an emotional crutch for any of us.

Hi all! Well, I am feeling good today. We FINALLY have a date and a reception location. WOOHOO!!! That's a load off... of course that means time to pick a new detail to worry about. But at least I feel like we're making progress.

You know, being engaged is much different than either FH or I expected. I think we both viewed it as just a holding period until the "big day," merely the time it would take to plan a big party. Ah, but this is no ordinary party. I have a tendency to pride myself on being unflappable, not making a big deal out of things. I have been cynical since I could talk (I'm not making this up, my relatives confirm that I've always had a sarcastic sense of humor). So I went into wedding planning thinking, eh, no big deal, just some shindig to shut up the relatives who feel they're entitled to be there. HAH! Well this past month and a half a lot of feelings have surfaced that have surprised me. One being that I'm *gasp* excited to be a bride. That some of those traditions I actually want. Of course on the flip side there are some things that FH either wants or thinks are "the way it's done" or "no big deal" that ARE in fact a big deal to me or that I take exception to.

We're beginning to realize exactly how important the engagement process is to our future relationship. The way we work out these details now, regardless of whether we disagree or agree with each other, are important to establishing how we will handle things in the future. We met with our minister last night and she was really helpful in affirming what we are going through noting that it is, in fact, a transformation that we are going through. Hmm...

Other than that. FH's parents are back from their vacation so we are settling back into our routine. Eating and exercise habits haven't been the best during our house-sitting time, so we need to get back into that. I am still struggling with how to lose this weight... seeing as I've tried the things that have worked before and they no longer seem to be working. Frustrating. All we can do is keep striving, though.

Hope everyone here is doing well!