MMMM Fried Food....how I miss you

It’s not until you give up something that you notice how much you use it or want it. Its been one week and I have not had any fried food, and I know that this was going to be a hard challenge but damn how I want to stick my head in a bag of Lays sour cream and onion chips and just Hoover them down…num, num ,num. Or dive in headfirst and swim around in a pool full of French fries, or to just have a thing of cheese sticks.  Just thinking about all of this is making my mouth water. MMMMM fried food, because you know everything is always better battered and fried or at least that’s what I thought. Now here I am a week into this no fried food kick and although I do miss those foods I’m finding that there are better things out there that can replace everything fried, and I’m going to let you in on a secret this shit taste good who would have thought. Healthy food can taste good if not better then the fried stuff for example I love fries, I am a burger and fries kind of girl.  Yet this is what I have found, one I can make a very good hamburger at home, not that pre-pressed crap but taking the time to make hamburger patties and its grilling season, time to bust out and put them on the grill. The nice thing about doing this you can flavor your food however you want and to supplement the fries I have found that white sweet potatoes are my new friend, little salt, little olive oil and bake away, shit is good and I’m not a sweet potato girl…well until now I love it. Or those great pop-in chips they are not too bad and have great flavor to them as well. Basically I’m finding that you can have any food you want that was fried but find away to bake it and make it just as great, because lets face it eating is about how things taste and if you can make it taste great then why not eat healthy.

I will say this, the hardest thing about this challenge, is not so much the giving up food but its trying to explain to people what you are doing and why. When you tell someone that no you don’t eat fried food or no you don’t eat fast food you get this look of “I don’t get it” (a valley girls voice), and the truth is most people won’t get it, and when your answer is I’m doing it because I want to be healthy and stop eating that’s when you get the blank look…they still don’t get it. So now if I have to tell someone, and they ask why, my answer I’m a little crazy felt like doing something different in my life. They seem to understand that a little bit more, which makes me wonder how many people think I’m a little off my rocker and are ok with that.

Over all my goal of not eating any fried food is going well, challenging but good and as for the losing 5 pounds this month, well I will find out how I did with that when I weigh myself in at the end of the month. No matter stay positive and keep pushing to accomplish the goal.

Tell next time; keep pushing to accomplish your goals

Fat girl out.