giving up on White...

( The picture doesn't have much to do with the blog, I just like it)

Don't get your panties in a bunch.

I am blogging about giving up on edible whites.

As every Monday, I find myself yesterday coaching

into the fact that this Monday will be the one that I:

"Change my eating habits"

"Not diet but change my way of life"

"give up the desserts and sweets"

"Eat healthy and exercise"

Yeah, yeah, Yeah, just like many of us

I always have to begin my positive life on a Monday.

Usually by Oprah time I am done but not this week.

I am more determined than ever.

My niece, Lisa sends me this awesome, easy to follow

food plan. Six pages of simple to follow rules

that has helped her change her eating patterns.

It is simple, nothing that any of us have never heard before,

yet when put together in 6 pages it is like an AHA moment.

As I read, I think

"Well, I can do this"

Then I begin to really read:

IF IT IS WHITE YOU CANNOT HAVE IT

What no white to the potato queen of Golden Meadow?

Everyone knows that creamed, fried, au'gratin...

potatoes, they are my favorite!!!!!

Okay so maybe I can do it for a week.

Wait... no rice?!!! Rice is the staple of a Cajun life.

What is beans without rice, oh and I can't have beans either...

Fricassee' without white rice....

Oh on to the fruits...

at least I can have some fruits, I like me some watermelon...

Yet what are the fruits to avoid?

"NO BANANAS, MANGO'S, GRAPES, OR WATERMELON"

Ugh, there goes my very favorite ones...

I write this all jokingly because what Lisa gave me is

a little gemstone. Six pages of something that any of us can do

with a little will-power and just like

it takes two weeks of continuous doing to make a habit,

it takes two weeks of not doing it to break that same habit.

I began yesterday by making a trip to the grocery store.

I leave my favorite Evangeline Maid white bread on the

shelf and substitute with 100% wheat.

I pass the vegetable crates filled with my potatoes

and place the vegetables that are recommended,

cabbage and cucumbers.

I then go to the rice aisle. The brown rice goes in

and I pet the white morsels I am so used to.

Yesterday was a good day and what did I find out?

Brown rice is not really any different than my favorite white.

Really, when eating the low-fat pepper steak I made for supper

I could not tell that there was no white rice in there.

What else?

Wheat bread still is good, especially when I spread my

favorite protein, peanut butter on it.

I am happy with the way I have done these last two days.

It really isn't so hard until nighttime comes and I crave

my oreos and milk....

but I know two weeks without it and the habit should be

broken.

Thanks Lisa, for the simple explanation of how I should be eating.

Now if i could just make the E word (exercise)

part of my new habit...