Angel Food (lowfat)

I’m too chicken to post my daily food diary on-line, but I’ve been very faithful the past few days recording what I eat, assigning accurate WW point values, and sticking to my points allotment. I’m remembering why I ultimately have been pretty successful on the points system - you really can eat “anything you want” and you learn reasonable portion sizes. One thing that can be tricky about counting points is that it is easier to rely on highly processed foods than to prepare fresh food because, in the U.S., processed foods have  nutrition info printed on their packages.  Looking at my food diary, I’m dismayed to realize that processed foods have been my primary sustenance these past few days. 

That said, I’m adding to my 2008 resolutions list. Currently, the list is two items long: (1) Be more active and (2) Communicate better with my sweetie (i.e., tell him when I’m upset).  My new item is (3) Eat fewer processed foods. (3) will take some work - I’ve got some groceries to eat my way through first. I want to be a good steward of my resources, so I refuse to throw away the refrigerated egg rolls I bought. (I was lured by the promise that they were pretty tasty and “only two points a piece!” I found them filling but soggy and incredibly salty. I’ll do my best to choke them down for one more meal.) I also will start working on new recipes that are healthy yet whole-food based. I’m looking forward to the return of fresh produce from a local community supported farm - the Davis Farms CSA in Roberta, GA. I’ll probably go visit my wonderful little brother more often, as he lives near a fabulous whole foods-minded grocery - the Dekalb Farmer’s Market. Finally, I plan to coax my parents into sharing a vegetable garden with me this spring and summer. With sleet forecasted for this afternoon, perhaps I’m crazy to be thinking about planting something. But, how wonderful it is to think that by mid-March, I might be ready to run a 5K and eating home-grown buttercrunch lettuce.