{"id":21748,"date":"2011-08-23T12:01:58","date_gmt":"2011-08-23T19:01:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=21748"},"modified":"2011-08-25T10:43:30","modified_gmt":"2011-08-25T17:43:30","slug":"eat-real-food","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.110pounds.com\/?p=21748","title":{"rendered":"Eat Real Food"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nThe hardest part about relearning how to eat right was portion sizes. I used to eat Lean Cuisines because the portions were measured for me and it was a finite amount of food–no risk of gorging myself. Every night for dinner I ate a Lean Cuisine\/Smart One with a salad. I’d mix things up once in awhile and eat fresh fish with a salad or use my George Foreman Grill to cook chicken but for the most part I ate processed foods because I knew how many calories I was eating.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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\nThis worked for me. I learned portion sizes. I learned to STOP EATING<\/strong>\u00a0when the food was gone. I lost the weight. After keeping the weight off for about a year I starting eating Real Food. I moved in with Michael and no longer ate the Lean Cuisines for dinner. Instead I ate them for lunch at work and then Michael and I ate Real Food for dinner together. We practiced trying new recipes and mastered homemade pizza.<\/p>\n

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\nAs time went on and the more I read about processed foods, cancer, unhealthy eating, etc the less I wanted to eat food out of a box. This REALLY changed once I started training for big events (like the Portland Century) and I started growing my own vegetable garden.<\/p>\n

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\nWhen I saw the above photo about Real Food on a friend’s Facebook profile I loved it. It’s so simple. It’s how I strive to eat. Less processed food. And less drinking my calories. No sodas–even diet, sweetened iced tea, no juice.<\/p>\n

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\nMy body just feels better now that I eat Real Food. And I found that I really like cooking.\u00a0 Another reason I ate so much processed food was because I thought I hated cooking. I didn’t like the work that went into it, nothing ever tasted good. All I needed was some guidance from some good cooks (like my friend Star and Michael) and lots of practice.<\/p>\n

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\nSo what is real food?<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Have you noticed that food in grocery stores are no longer selling “food”? Now they sell buzzwords.<\/p>\n