Food to feel good

Back on an airplane means another blog post!

One thing I've struggled with in my efforts to get healthy is making the right food choices. I LOVE food, more specifically I love food that tastes good. My most favorite thing to do is find new recipes and try new things, healthy or not. I love a good salad but present me with something deep fried and I am a happy girl! In my efforts, I haven't taken the feeling of being deprived well at all! I get discouraged, feel hopeless and then binge on everything I've been withholding and then feel worse about myself. I'm fairly confident that pretty much EVERY dieter has had this problem and I'm sure that what I'm about to share is in no way shape or form revelatory but I'm going to share it anyway! :)

As I've yo-yoed back and forth between hard lined healthy and binge on whatever I want, I've come to realize that really probably isn't the best plan (Duh!) I wrote about this same thing last year after our Disney trip but really didn't change any of my habits even though I experienced the benefits of having good habits! I have decided that an addition to my yearly goals and that's a new mantra of "food to feel good"!

I was in Colorado this week on business and decided I was going to make a conscious effort to really think about what I was eating. To pick food that made me feel good. I actually did a fair job and I could tell that I just felt better. I skipped McDonald's breakfasts in favor of a oatmeal breakfast bar I'd brought with me, I packed snacks of dried fruit, nuts, granola bars and trail mix and I just put thought into what I was eating.  Not to say that I was a saint in anyway shape or form but I made an effort.  I decided that one of the nights out I was going to spurge. I got a green chile cheeseburger and dug in...... And after about 1/2 ended up feeling not good at all. Another not so subtle reminder that food that's not good for me doesnt make me feel good. I keep trying to remind myself that our bodies adre pretty amazing machines that need the proper fuel to function at their best. And I just don't want to feel crummy all the time for sake of eating a cheeseburger.

So I'm going to try to put a real focus on eating to feel good in these next couple months, I feel so much better when I am putting good things into my body. Not to say that I'm not going to splurge, as the ice cream in the airport proved today. I am just going to work on finding that balance of eating what I want and eating to feel good. :)

What are your tips for fueling your body? Favorite healthy snacks? I've got a great snack post coming up! 20 days until I check in for our flights to Florida!!!! We can do this!