Thoughts about shopping healthy.

After writing yesterday, I began to think about how one can say. It's difficult to eat healthy because everything is so expensive. To a certain extent it is true, but you can find some deals if you just look for them. I went to Whole Foods a few days ago because I find if I buy my "steel cut" oats there it cheaper. Here in FL I saw the price of $1.29 per lb. When I went to check out the lady weighed my oats it turned out that there was a sale and it was $0.79 a lb. I got my 1.35 bag of oats for $1.07. THAT'S A DEAL!


Today, I went to a regular grocery store (will not mention which store i'm sure you'll figure it out) and found a price tag of $4.09 for Quaker Steel Cut Oats. I didn't take the picture of the Organic Oats that you get in the other section where they want $5.99! Why is steel cut oats so expensive? It makes no sense but I guess if you want quality oatmeal you have to pay for it when you go to your local grocery store. I vow from now on I will continue to go to Whole Foods to buy my oatmeal there because it honestly is CHEAPER to get it there.


I also found out that some things aren't always what it seems. I use to eat Cheerios because it says "Whole Grain Guaranteed" on the top of all their boxes. What I realized and from hearing a lot about reading the labels. You come to find out that sometimes things aren't what they always are cut out to be. This bothers me alot. What in the heck is Whole Grain Corn? If you never watched the movie Food Inc. I recommend you to watch this movie if and when you are ready to make a change in your eating habits. This label purely proved to me that what these people are saying about how everything is being made out of corn is possibly true. What else bothered me is that the 2nd and 3rd ingredient were Sugar, and Corn Syrup. Why both?
If you continued to read it you see they also put dried corn syrup and corn bran. If Cheerios is suppose to be good for you then why does it contain so much corn syrup? This specific Cheerio's brand was the Chocolate Cheerios. I must say some of the Cheerio's boxes do have Whole Grain Flour. I just wanted to make sure you all know that sometimes you just have to read the label to know what your putting in your body. Again I repeat i'm no expert but if you are trying to be healthier putting corn syrup and whole grain corn is not going to help you get there. But that's just me. "I'm just saying!"

Yesterday, someone emailed me about what I wrote about potatoes. I want to make sure that it's the "White" potatoes is what I'm talking about. They are not as nutritional as the sweet potatoes. This is what I have read in the "Top 10 Most Nutritionous Vegetables" on Healthmad.com:

"A cup of baked sweet potatoes with skin is an excellent source of vitamin A in the form of beta-carotene as it contains 13107 IU of this powerful antioxidant. It is also a very good source of manganese and vitamin C and a good source of vitamin B6 and the minerals copper, fiber, potassium and iron. Purple-fleshed sweet potatoes are rich in anthocyanins and have the highest antioxidant activity among sweet potato varieties."

If you would like to see this article copy and paste this link.

http://healthmad.com/nutrition/10-most-nutritious-vegetables/#ixzz1CufuAkF3


So if you are eating Sweet potatoes that look like these! Your GOOD!

That's all I have for today. Stay tuned for more of me blogging about "why is it so hard to be healthy."

Why is it so hard?

I'm writing because I keep seeing people who make the "New Year's" resolution to get healthy and we fall off the wagon so quickly. Why is that? Is it because we have no will power or is it we just think it should be easy and we can just buy a "pill" and everything will be okay? I have borderline diabetes and although I have not been diagnosed with it. I'm very scared that if I don't take care of myself. I'm going to eventually get this terrible disease. Doctors say "it's in your family, so you will eventually get diagnosed." Now how horrible is that to know that no matter what I try to do that at some point diabetes will get the best of me.
I started to do some research on what other methods I could try to kick this habit. I have read about the "Raw Diet" where you go without eating any animal protein (All meat from any animal) and do this for 30 days and it could reverse your diabetes. Which I believe it could do it but if you are a meat lover. You will end up eating meat again so would it really be beneficial to do this? I wonder? I realize that in order to get control of your body you have to understand what is going on with it and what makes it react. Everyone is different. So my method of controlling maybe different for someone else.
I decided to put this out because there are many people probably wondering the same thing. "I'm overweight. I need to get healthier. Why do I always get sick? etc" What can you do? Well if you really want to try to save yourself and make that effort. I'm here to tell you. You have to make a commitment to really change your eating lifestyle. You have to give up certain things. My 5 things I literally had to give up 100%.

- Eating things that contain corn syrup, sugar, Malodextrin, Dextrose, Sucralose, Glucose. These are things that are listed in the ingredients section on everything you buy. (Fresh Fruits and some veggies will have some type of sugar but I will provide a guide so you can see what is best for you)
- Any type of soda, diet, flavored. The only exception would be Soda water and you can add a lime or lemon to add flavoring if it's the carbonation that you miss. That is what I did to help me get through it.
- The "Whites"- White rice, potatoes, sugar, dairy products, pasta, bread. All of these are refined and for someone like me these items just turn into pure sugar and then becomes fat in my body. GIVE THEM UP!!! I can give you some "sweet options" on what will not affect your sugar level if you use them sparingly for your sugar fits.
- Wheat products, need to read the labels and see what you are actually eating. I will go over this at a later time. You can have sprouted wheat grains but this is a once a week type of deal. I will tell you why soon.
- Last but not least, Fruit Juices that you buy "ready to drink". If you want fruit juice. Get a juicer and make your own! You'll know it's 100% pure JUICE.

If you think about all of this I haven't even gotten to the meat part of things but I'll be coming back again to go over that. If you thought it was hard. See if you can give up all those things I that I did in my list. Try it for 5 days... You will hurt and your body will beat you up mentally... Try it. You'll start to understand and maybe you'll want to continue to read my blog. Feel free to share this.

Please consult your physican if you are attempting to lose weight or anything health wise. This is only my experience and I cannot speak for anyone else. This is a blog to express ideas, and options for those who would like to make a change in their eating lifestyle. :)

Enjoy your day!

J