Wellness

[Mom2Dogs]

My niece has crohns disease and has talked about eating clean, so I will be calling her today!

I am glad the weather is getting better as it will help the weight loss and sitting around doing nothing. I am an organization nut so my house is cleaned out and no extra stuff in drawers/closets because I would usually do cleaning out of my house in the winter months just to stay busy...I have offered to help friends do the same but no takers!!

AnnMarie=1 Thanks for the info on the apple blossoms, or maybe I should not say thank you, ha! Although I don't overeat never have, I just need to drink the water (which I don't like) and get moving.

I was thinking about purchasing a low end soda stream and then I could carbonate the water and add lemon or something that might make the water more enjoyable.

Have a great day.

[violann]

If you consider ""detoxing"" to mean ""not eating sugar"" then stop eating foods containing added sugars and limit fruits to a couple servings per day. Not rocket science.

[Mom2Dogs]

On 3/31/2014 violann said: If you consider ""detoxing"" to mean ""not eating sugar"" then stop eating foods containing added sugars and limit fruits to a couple servings per day. Not rocket science.

...I eat very little fruit or Pop (soda) but there is sugar added to lots of foods!!

[violann]

On 3/31/2014 momtodogs said:

On 3/31/2014 violann said: If you consider "detoxing" to mean "not eating sugar" then stop eating foods containing added sugars and limit fruits to a couple servings per day. Not rocket science.

...I eat very little fruit or Pop (soda) but there is sugar added to lots of foods!!

Absolutely right, sugar is loaded into ridiculous things. V-8 used to make a reduced salt version that I loved, and bought all the time. The last time I bought it, it tasted very different, and when I checked the label, they had added SUGAR! I contacted them and they said that since it was no added salt, they had to do something to make it taste better!

[QueenDanceALot]

The only way to stop eating sugar is to stop eating it.

I don't mean to sound simplistic, but it's the truth. You have to be aware of all the hidden sugars in foods in order to avoid it.

[Bird]

On 4/1/2014 violann said:

Absolutely right, sugar is loaded into ridiculous things. V-8 used to make a reduced salt version that I loved, and bought all the time. The last time I bought it, it tasted very different, and when I checked the label, they had added SUGAR! I contacted them and they said that since it was no added salt, they had to do something to make it taste better!

Makes sense. Salt, Sugar, Fat, the holy trinity of the Food Industry. I have the ebook of that title. It doesn't offer solutions, but just tells it like it is. Not a happy story for the unaware public. - Bird

[Bird]

...I eat very little fruit or Pop (soda) but there is sugar added to lots of foods!!

This is why you want to shop the perimeter of the grocery store, only. Especially the produce dept. If you eat bread, learn to make your own (it's easy if you have a food processor,) make your own pasta sauces (or, if you have a grocery like Wegman's locally, shop in their Natural Market area,) make oatmeal from real oats (again, avoid the middle aisles) sweetened with a chopped date and stoked with nuts and seeds, etc. Little by little you figure it out and learn to like real foods. Real, actual food. Not the food industry krap.

I started making changes like this, and, over a year's time of not watching the scale, was surprised when, on the morning of my anniversary in preparation for our night out, I tried on the usual same ol' same ol' outfit and it FELL OFF! I had to do an emergency shopping trip. - Bird