thrive

check this out - i was reading an article in Parent’s magazine about the sugar that kids eat on an average day. They followed this one family through the daily meals and then pointed out a very important bit of info. When you see grams of sugar on a nutrion label - read this - every 4g of sugar is one teaspoon - think about pouring 3 teaspoons of sugar on your kids cereal or waffles or whatever. Add to that a giant cup of juice or a chocolate milk a few times a day! Wowee! It’s every where. Take a look at your labels and watch out. Sugar definitely can take you on a ride…This morning I opted for a yogurt breakfast rather than cereal for the family - more protein and other nutriional value (calcium). Well, that stuff is also loaded with sugar. Now milk and fruit do have their own natural occuring sugar, which as I understand it is better than the refined stuff, plus you get the fiber in fruit, but oh my! Just paying more attention. I knew all of this but never looked as carefully at thenumbers as i will now.

Made some better choices this week. Not much exercise though, still working to plan that in. Last night was tough because friends brought a pecan pie over. That is my all time favorite pie and I can’t even remember wen I had some last. So i had a piece after dinner (ate a bit less dinner to have room), but then I had another piece. In cleaning the dishes I started snacking on the pie until finally I just threw it out so I wouldn’t eat the whole thing. Some things I just can’t have in the house!  At least not yet! I am okay with the one piece or maybe even two -but the noshing after that - it wasn’t just indulgent it was greedy.

Off to the Cape for the weekend with some friends, so had to use a weigh in from yesterday morning (didn’t weigh in this morning). Was down 2 - woo hoo!!

HAve a great weekend and Happy New Year!!!