Rebooting

Can you re-boot your brain, or really, your taste buds? Dr. Oz says you can and Bob Greene says you can.

Here is what Bob actually had to say..

Each person has the power to adapt their taste to healthier foods, Bob says. "Your tastes adjust. We habituate and we do it both ways," he says. "If you start cutting out the sugars, cutting out the sodium, you will taste the natural flavors of the foods."

I'm a firm believer that you can really change your tastes. We have given up white rice, white pasta, white bread and as much high fructose corn syrup that we can. We started doing this about 5 years ago and it worked, or maybe whole wheat products have gone way tastier. But we have done it. I also was a non-tomatoe eater for many, many, many years. But now I love tomatoes. Maybe our taste buds change as we get older too.

If I only knew then (in my 20's) what I know now. But this is a process, a sometimes very slow process, but a forward moving process none the less.

I am thinking about trying and giving up my sweetner. I don't use sugar, mainly splenda, but that is like 700 times sweeter that sugar, so my taste buds have gotten used to it. I say thinking about it because I can't quite talk myself into it yet. I am on the verge, but not over the line yet.

So who know, that might be my next goal. I have actually done really well at giving up the diet sodas.

Pre-baby after Picture and Current Before Picture

I have always struggled with my weight, but it is a moving target so to speak. When I was in high school, I thought I was "so fat" when I weighed 132. But then again everyone else around around me weight about 105. Then in college I dated a guy who was more obsessed with my weight than I was. I bought into his line of crap and lost it for him...not me. I went from about 150ish to my lowest ever of 127 (or the lowest I can ever remember weighing as an adult and i was only 19 at the time). Then a short time later he broke up with me. I think I remember weighing that 127 a whole 1 day.

More recently I weighed 165 when I got married. Here is the pre-baby after pic.

This is circa summer 2003 and I had lost about 15 to 20 lbs on the South Beach diet. I think I weighed about 167 in this picture. This is when my healthy eating lifestyle started. I started to learn more about eating right. Eating more fruits, veggies and whole grains.

I gained a few pounds after the wedding, you know, wedded bliss and a good honeymoon. Then 1.5 years later I get pregnant. I only gained 33 lbs of "baby weight" but your body is just not in the same shape after that little one is finished with you, ya know?!?!

So here I am at my new before of 188lbs, Christmas 2006. I am 11 months post-pregnancy.
So that is where this blog comes in, it is me and my blogging buddies, holding myself accountable to keep a healthly lifestyle going. We are trying to get pregnant again, but that doesn't mean the healthly lifestyle goes out the window. I will still try and exercise and eat healthy, but weightloss will not be my focus if I get pregnant. But after #2 is here, there is no holding me back. I am going for it. My goal weight will be 145, give or take alittle ; )