So today at Mom's Group we had a nutrition/wellness/fitness expert as our guest speaker. She was very good, but man, did she make me think about what kinds of food we eat at our house. I think I may be trying to justify things to myself, but I feel like we are somewhere in the middle. We don't eat horribly, but we could do much better. One of the speaker's biggest suggestions was to monitor the amount of sugar you consume. She talked about statistics that were pretty crazy- like how a kid on average eats 5 lbs of sugar in one week. It is hard for me to think about a 5 lb bag of sugar in the grocery store and how that could possibly fit in my kids. She said that first that monitoring sugar was the best way to lose weight but also talked a lot about how it affected your pancreas, etc. Kind of wild. She was very ANTI artificial sweeteners and seemed to focus on eating foods in their most natural state. So we should be eating raw fruits and veggies, brown grains, and use unprocessed sugar and salt in foods. That is easy with Griffin, but doing this with Gray should be a challenge. He is my "all carb" kid who loves to eat anything that is white or yellow. He kind of just spits out anything that looks healthy for you.
On a very random side note, anyone seen the Orbit gum commercial where the two ladies are fighting over the guy in his office? I love it. "Who you calling cootie queen? You lint licker". Followed by "Pickle me, you kumquat". Not sure why I find it funny, but I do.
2 comments:
It's because you have boys.
Maybe you could use some of these lines to help Griffin smile for pictures.
Oh well off to eat some ice cream!!!
By the way loved the email.
After hearing the speaker, I told Trent he and I need to give up our daily Diet Coke addiction! Kind of put the fear in me :-) I'm in the same boat with Ashe as you are with Gray, I figure at this age, we just need to feed them what they will eat so they'll grow...or maybe that's just my excuse for not always feeding him totally healthy stuff!
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